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A Bubble Burst How A Stock Exchange Scare Dislocated The Life Of The Empire For Two Days
[english | ]Fred White
Excerpts: [... in the history of commerce. It was the golden hour of the promoter. Yet, for the most part, the schemes promised well. There was, however, an enormous ...... Ericsson yesterday had been waiter in an unimportant restaurant. Today he had a fine set of offices and a small mansion at Hampstead. He had arrived ...... that Bertha has lost her aunt, and the water has been packed in the ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 328
Hard Pressed
[english | 1919]Fred White
Excerpts: [... she was quietly dressed and wore no ornaments except flowers, nevertheless a good many women envied May Haredale for the box belonged to Raymond ...... hard school of adversity, and he began to realize that he had about him the means to secure a considerable sum of money. Despite the dust and gloom and ...... tell Miss Haredale that Mr. Field is here. She expects me, because-. ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 318
The Crimson Blind
[english | ]Fred White
Summary: [I enjoyed this very much. It is a well-told complicated mystery that keeps you interested until the end.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 124
The Doom Of London
[english | 1903]Fred White
Summary: [The Doom Of London by Fred M White. The Doom of London 1903 is a collection of six loosely connected short stories all based on the near destruction of Great Britain s major city and does share some common characters. In the first story a killer smog encompasses the city and in the next story a severe diphtheria plague kills hundreds of the city s inhabitants. In the third story a massive ...]
Genres: [short story collection | science fiction] Downloads: 377
The Dust Of Death
[english | ]Fred White
Excerpts: [... dining out. In the studio. . . . Oh, please come! Hubert asked no unnecessary questions. He knew Fillingham, the great portrait painter, ...... long, shuddering sigh. The heart was beating more or less regularly now. Fillingham opened his eyes and muttered something. Ice, Hubert snapped, ...... seediest of dress coats welcomed Hubert with a smile. So, my young friend, Label said, ...]
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The Dust Of Death The Story Of The Great Plague Of The Twentieth Century
[english | ]Fred White
Excerpts: [... by sight also, for Fillingham's house and studio were close by. There were many artists in the Devonshire Park district - that pretty suburb which ...... was still breathing. Hubert stripped the shade from a reading lamp and held the electric bulb at the end of its long flex above the sufferer's mouth, ...... of the way to cure Fillingham. Did you bring any of that mucous here? ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 403
The Four Days Night
[english | ]Fred White
Excerpts: [... wind pressure, the weight of atmosphere and the like. Hackness trusted before long to be able to foretell a London fog with absolute accuracy, which, ...... Alpine ranges piled one on the top of the other. The spectacle was not only grand, it was appalling, awful. Do you happen to recollect what ...... fog came now it meant a terrible disaster for London. Further out in the country,...]
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The Four White Days
[english | 1903]Fred White
Excerpts: [... Four White Days. by Fred M. White. A Tale of London In the Grip of an Arctic Winter-Showing the Danger Any Winter might Bring from Famine, ...... cried. Gough came tumbling in, a sheaf of flimsies in his hand. Brett's burst, he gasped. It's a real godsend, Mr. Fisher. I've got enough here ...... the east, and almost immediately snow had commenced to fall. But as yet there was no ...]
Genres: [non fiction | nature] Downloads: 319
The Invisible Force
[english | ]Fred White
Excerpts: [... as an express train takes between London and Swindon. The pleasing paradox of a man living at Brighton because it was nearer to his business than ...... like a polished, hollow needle, lighted here and there by points of dazzling light. It was so quiet and deserted that the falling of a big ...... had cut the bottom of creation, light and gaiety ceased to be, and darkness fell like ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 340
The Mystery Of The Four Fingers
[english | 1908]Fred White
Summary: [Good sea story. Some interesting twists and turns and terrific characters.]
Genres: [mysterydetective | pulp | occult] Downloads: 46
The River Of Death
[english | 1904]Fred White
Summary: [The River Or Death by Fred M White. o The first Kindle version of The River of Death for sale on Amazon. o THE sky was as brass from the glowing East upwards a stifling heat radiated from stone and wood and iron--a close reeking heat that drove one back from the very mention of food. The five million odd people that go to make up London even in the cream of the holiday season panted and gasped ...]
Genres: [short story collection | fiction and literature] Downloads: 101
The River Of Death A Tale Of London In Peril
[english | ]Fred White
Excerpts: [... only to put him off. Is it possible these confounded pressmen have got hold of the story already? With just a suggestion of anxiety on his ...... excitement. His dark eyes fairly blazed behind a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles. Well, he gasped, I suppose it's come at last? ...... to say that this sample came from- The Thames? But I do. Ashchurch drains directly into the river. And ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 210
The Romance Of The Secret Service Fund
[english | 1900]Fred White
Excerpts: [... the very first to see it, considering that the gun and its sectional plans have been stolen.. Newton Moore smiled. He knew now why he had been sent ...... very well, but well enough to have no doubt as to his identity. Naturally, Parkinson is fearfully upset over the business indeed, he seems ...... ago, who saw the thing nearly complete, but he is dead.. Your partner might have ...]
Genres: [pulp | adventure | espionage] Downloads: 203
The Slave Of Silence
[english | ]Fred White
Excerpts: [... of it now as she hated the sight of anything that suggested wealth and money. With a firm resolve in her mind, Beatrice turned into a large jeweller's ...... the room, the door of which was locked. Imagine our astonishment when we found that the body of the poor gentleman had vanished. In all the extraordinary ...... He had no pleasant vision of Beatrice being cross-examined by ...]
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