When the formidable Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond places an advert in the paper, hungry for adventure following the First World War, he embarks on a career as the invincible protectorate of his country. His first reply comes from a beautiful young woman, who sends him racing off to investigate wha[...]
Everyone knows that Dicken's "Bleak House" is a literary classic. But how many know it was the first detective novel too? Introducing "Crime Classics", from Atlantic Books.Jarndyce versus Jarndyce - a dispute over a vast fortune left by an intestate miser - has occupied the Court of Chancery for yea[...]