Category: Mystery & Suspense

The Thirty-Nine Steps [Large Print]

The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Complete & Unabridged Large Print Classic Edition
by Sir John Buchan

If you know The Thirty-Nine Steps from the movie version, you don’t know the real story…

Published in 1915, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic espionage thriller, complete with secret codes, ruthless foreign agents, unexpected coincidences and chance encounters, in which “ordinary guy” Richard Hannay finds himself embroiled in an effort to thwart a network of German spies on the eve of WWI. The first in a series of novels featuring Hannay, who would soon be pitted against the Turks during World War I in “Greenmantle” (1916) and gangsters in subsequent tales, Alfred Hitchcock directed a well-known film adaptation in 1935 but was forced by Britain’s political stance at the time to scrub all references to Germany, substantially altering the original story. Continue reading “The Thirty-Nine Steps [Large Print]”

The Wisdom of Father Brown

The Wisdom of Father Brown
Father Brown Mysteries
The Wisdom of Father Brown: The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by G. K. Chesterton

This premium quality edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of The Wisdom of Father Brown, including twelve stories featuring G.K Chesterton’s mystery-solving priest, printed on heavyweight 60#, bright white paper in a large 6″x9″ format, with page headers and a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design. Continue reading “The Wisdom of Father Brown”

The Innocence of Father Brown

The Innocence of Father Brown
Father Brown Mysteries
The Innocence of Father Brown: The Complete & Unabridged Classic Edition
by G.K. Chesterton

Mystery fans unfamiliar with Father Brown may find Chesterton’s stories a bit different. Many of the stories don’t quite fit either the standard (“Whodunit?”) or inverted (“Howcatchem?”) styles common to the mystery genre, and Father Brown is frequently less concerned with the apprehension of the wrongdoer than with getting him to understand, and admit, the error of his ways. Continue reading “The Innocence of Father Brown”