Earl Derr Biggers eBooks
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The house without a key. E-book. Formato EPUB Earl Derr Biggers - Librorium Editions, 2024 -
Miss Minerva Winterslip was a Bostonian in good standing, and long past the romantic age. Yet beauty thrilled her still, even the semi-barbaric beauty of a Pacific island. As she walked slowly along the beach she felt the little catch in her throat that sometimes she had known in Symphony Hall, Boston, when her favorite orchestra rose to some new and unexpected height of loveliness.It was the hour at which she liked Waikiki best, the hour just preceding dinner and the quick tropic darkness. The shadows cast by the tall cocoanut palms lengthened and deepened, the light of the falling sun flamed on Diamond Head and tinted with gold the rollers sweeping in from the coral reef. A few late swimmers, reluctant to depart, dotted those waters whose touch is like the caress of a lover. On the springboard of the nearest float a slim brown girl poised for one delectable instant. What a figure! Miss Minerva, well over fifty herself, felt a mild twinge of envy—youth, youth like an arrow, straight and sure and flying. Like an arrow the slender figure rose, then fell; the perfect dive, silent and clean.Miss Minerva glanced at the face of the man who walked beside her. But Amos Winterslip was oblivious to beauty, he had made that the first rule of his life. Born in the Islands, he had never known the mainland beyond San Francisco. Yet there could be no doubt about it, he was the New England conscience personified—the New England conscience in a white duck suit."Better turn back, Amos," suggested Miss Minerva. "Your dinner's waiting. Thank you so much."
Charlie Chan Collection. E-book. Formato EPUB Earl Derr Biggers - Librorium Editions, 2021 -
1. The House Without a Key 2. The Chinese Parrot 3. Behind that Curtain 4. The Black Camel 5. Charlie Chan Carries On 6. Keeper of the Keys
Le Perroquet chinois. E-book. Formato EPUB Earl Derr Biggers - Librorium Editions, 2021 -
De la rue brumeuse, Alexandre Eden pénétra dans le vaste hall aux piliers de marbre où la firme Meek et Eden offrait à sa riche clientèle ses collections de bijoux et d’orfèvrerie. Derrière les vitrines où étincelaient pierres précieuses, argent, platine et or, quarante employés solennels se tenaient rigides comme des soldats au garde-à-vous. Le revers gauche de leurs jaquettes de coupe impeccable s’ornait d’un œillet rose aussi frais que s’il venait de s’épanouir sur leur boutonnière.