Bøger af Harold Piffard

"Zoraida" is a tale of a romance in the harem and the adventures in the great Sahara desert. "The Great White Queen" - Scars is a young boy who gets sent to a boy''s preparatory school outside London where he befriends Omar, a strange kid from Africa. When Omar is called back home by his mother, Scars decides to join him on what he thought it would be a great adventure. "The Eye of Istar" - Zafar-Ben-A''Ziz, called by some El-Motardjim or the translator, has spent a couple of years in London. Upon his return from the land of infidels, Zafar becomes a dervish in the service of Mahdi. "The Veiled Man" is an account of the adventures and misadventures of Sidi Ahamadou, Sheikh of the Azjar Maraude. William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French writer who mainly wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage, particularly in the years leading up to World War I. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy "The Great War in England in 1897" and the anti-German invasion fantasy "The Invasion of 1910."

When Mr. Thomas Tennant got on a train from Brighton to Victoria he was unpleasantly surprised to see Nelly, a woman that tricked him thousand and one time, and whom he thought she was dead for seven years. They struggle in a carriage and the woman falls through the door and out of the train. Still confused with what happened, at the next station Tennant meets a certain detective who is looking for a missing woman named Louise O'Donnel. Tennant chooses not to share the story of his incident, believing Nelly is now really dead. But is she?

Madge and Ella are two young ladies who have taken up residence at Clover Cottage, the former home of Tom Ossington, a house that has long stood empty with a bad reputation for being haunted. Not believing in such things, Madge and Ella rented it and lived there for about six weeks, when a strange woman showed up claiming that the house belongs to her, and that her husband, the landlord, is a ghost.