To Sherlock Holmes, the big financial tycoon Neil Gibson, nicknamed the Golden King, is asking for help. Gibson’s wife was found in a park at the entrance to the Torsky Bridge, dressed for dinner, with a shot through the flight head. Near the corpse, no weapons were found. Suspicion fell on governess Gibson’s children, Miss … Read more
Nicholas Erfa was born in 1927 in the family of a brigadier general; after a brief service in the army in 1948, he entered Oxford, and a year later his parents were killed in a plane crash. He was left alone, with a small but independent annual income, bought a second-hand car – among the … Read more
The leader of the northern nomads brought to the Great Wall a hundred thousand soldiers to call himself a tribute to the Chinese sovereign, to whom he sent an ambassador. with rich gifts. The ambassador must also ask the Chinese princess to marry a nomadic ruler. In the meantime, the cunning and treacherous dignitary Mao … Read more
LF Baum The Amazing Wizard of Oz The girl Dorothy lived with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the Kansas steppe. Uncle Henry was a farmer, and Aunt Em was farming. In these places, hurricanes often raged, and the family escaped from them in the cellar. One day Dorothy hesitated, did not have time to … Read more
Andrei Erin, a carpenter of a small workshop, decided. Arriving home, he tells his wife Zoya that he lost money – one hundred and twenty rubles, for which it was planned to buy jackets for children. Having received such unpleasant news, his wife grabs a skillet and starts to fight and swear with her husband. … Read more
“The Tale of the Barrel” is one of the first pamphlets written by Jonathan Swift, however, unlike the “Battle of Books” that was created around the same period, where it was mainly about subjects of literary character, “The Tale of the Barrel,” with its relatively small volume, contains, as it seems, practically all conceivable aspects … Read more
In the small town of Oldershote, where the military unit is quartered, Colonel James Barclay, a valiant veteran who began serving as an ordinary soldier, was killed and was promoted to officers for bravery. In his youth, he married the daughter of a sergeant of his regiment, Nancy. After living for thirty years, the couple … Read more
Ruprecht met Renata in the spring of 1534, returning after ten years of service to the Landsknecht in Europe and the New World. He did not have time to reach Cologne before dawn, where he once studied at the university and near which was his native village Lozgeym, and spent the night in a lonely … Read more
“All the mathematicians with whom I had to meet at school and after school were people who were sloppy, weak-spirited and quite genius.” But one mathematician in our school was different from all the others. He was neither weak-willed nor slovenly. “His name was Harlampy Diogenovich, like Pythagoras, he was of Greek origin.” He appeared … Read more
BI Balter Goodbye, boys! That spring we finished the ninth grade. Each of us had plans for the future. I (Volodya Belov), for example, was going to become a geologist. Sasha Krieger was supposed to go to the medical institute, because the doctor was his father. Vitka Anikin wanted to become a teacher. Sasha and … Read more