The Man with the Clubfoot


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The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams




The Man with the Clubfoot


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The Man with the Clubfoot By Valentine Williams I turned away with rage in my heart. What a cursed fool I had been not to wire from Groningen! I had fully intended to but the extraordinary conversation I had had with Dicky Allerton had put everything else out of my head. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.







The Red Mass


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"The Red Mass" is a riveting political thriller set in the time of the French Revolution. It follows the daring exploits of a spoilt young man recruited as an English spy and sent to France on a mission. Hector Forthingray after arriving in France, manages to get himself in some trouble by insulting a powerful French nobleman, being challenged to a duel and finally throwing a glass of wine in the face of the Prince Regent – George the Fat. He is then sent off on a mission which he goes to together with his fiancé. Things don't go as planned and he is then arrested and put in prison awaiting his death sentence. But on his way to the dreaded guillotine, he manages to pull a fast one...







The Yellow Streak


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Courier to Marrakesh


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An Outcast of the Islands


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Running Away Doesn't Always Remove the Problem “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” - Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands This second novel of Conrad details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughter.