This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Penelope Wells is a beautiful 29 years old woman who is married to a drunken brute. There is a prophecy that the country will be plunged in a great war (WW1) and curiously enough Penelope's fate is horribly tied to what is about to happen. The only time she finds love in a man is not propitious but evil because there is a deadly strain of plague that has something to do with either of the two. According to the author, the novel is largely based on truth and developed from Penelope's diary and other eye-witnesses' accounts. The episode that is explained by waves of terror passing from one apartment to another and separately affecting three unsuspecting persons is not imaginary, but drawn from an almost identical happening that he, himself, witnessed in Paris, France. Read on!
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Victory is a futuristic war novel set in USA, 1921, where America is overpowered by European powers like Germany. The subtitle of the book claims to be based on the extracts from the diary of James E. Langston who was a war correspondent of the «London Times.» Moffett was concerned with the military unpreparedness of America in the face of growing suspicions about the German army and hence wrote this cautionary tale in the era where future war stories were hugely popular. In this book the hero is Thomas Alva Edison who must save the America from the impending threat of the Great War. Will he or won't he? Read on!
Cleveland Moffett is most famous for his mystery story «The Mysterious Card» ((included in this volume, along with its sequel), but he also wrote true crime and more traditional mysteries. Also included here are the long novel THROUGH THE WALL and a collection of true crime stories, TRUE DETECTIVE STORIES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE PINKERTONS. Enjoy!<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!
This volume collects Moffett's classic «riddle stories.» In the first, a card given to the narrator seems to bring about catastrophic events. The second story offers an explanation of paranormal interest.