Brace yourself for a barrage of belly laughs when you dig into to Lunatic at Large by renowned humor writer J. Storer Clouston. Good-natured (and only slightly mad) protagonist Francis Beveridge slips unnoticed from the mental institution he calls ho...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.It is only with the politest affectation of interest, as a rule, that English Society learns the arrival in its midst of an ordinary Continental nobleman; but the announcement that the Baron Rudolph von Blit...
In this satirical novel from Scottish writer J. Storer Clouston, cranky old lawyer J. Heriot Walkingshaw has had it with the young people in his family. He doesn't understand their quixotic decisions and fickle ways. But when a mysterious medicin...
Clouston came from an old Orkney family and in addition to writing numerous novels he was a respected historian, founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society and author of a detailed history of the island. This humorous novel...
If any one had been watching the bay that August night (which, fortunately for us, there was not), they would have seen up till an hour after midnight as lonely and peaceful a scene as if it had been some inlet in Greenland. The war might have bee...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "My God," said Rutherford, "the cable has broken " In an instant I was craning over th...
J. Storer Clouston first introduced his quick-witted but understated detective Mr. F. T. Carrington ("Inquiry Agent") in the mystery novel Simon. A well-respected man is murdered, and the shadow of guilt may hamper a romance. Carrington's investigati...