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  • The Chase of the Golden Plate

    Jacques Futrelle

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 4, 2016)
    Cardinal Richelieu and the Mikado stepped out on a narrow balcony overlooking the entrance to Seven Oaks, lighted their cigarettes and stood idly watching the throng as it poured up the wide marble steps. Here was an over-corpulent Dowager Empress of China, there an Indian warrior in full paint and toggery, and mincing along behind him two giggling Geisha girls. Next, in splendid robes of rank, came the Czar of Russia. The Mikado smiled.

  • The Chase of the Golden Plate

    Jacques Futrell

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 26, 2018)
    Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The Chase of the Golden Plate was Jacques Futrelle's first published book-length story featuring the arrogant, cocaine-taking, large-headed Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, nicknamed 'The Thinking Machine'. A high-society fancy-dress party falls victim to a robbery - confusions of identity, long-held grudges, romance and honour all appear in the excitement that follows.

  • The Golden Pony

    Catherine Rix

    (Independently published, May 11, 2020)
    Emma has always longed for a pony of her own. but the closest she could get was a weekly riding lesson. During a holiday with her parents, Emma spends her days painting and dreaming of horses. A chance encounter with a runaway pony leads to friendships and unexpected adventures.

  • The Chase of the Golden Plate

    Jacques Futrelle

    Paperback (Hesperus Press, May 2, 2012)
    Jacques Futrelle's first published book-length story featuring the arrogant, cocaine-taking, large-headed Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, nicknamed "The Thinking Machine" A high-society fancy-dress party falls victim to a robbery—confusions of identity, long-held grudges, romance, and honor all appear in the excitement that follows. Jacques Futrelle was an American journalist and detective-story writer and Van Dusen was his most famous detective character, appearing in a number of his works.

  • The Golden Pear

    Helen Ward

    Hardcover (Ideals Childrens Books, Oct. 1, 1991)
    A lonely wizard follows a stolen golden pear, until he finds the island of the golden pear trees and friendship with a group of fishermen

  • The Golden Gods

    Wil Adams

    language (, Nov. 25, 2009)
    14 Year old Gwyn Turberville and her family find themselves thrust back into the Aztec Empire, where they are recieved as Gods by Chief Moctezuma and his people. Slowly they come to understand that the role of Gods among the Blood-thirsty Aztecs is a perilous existance indeed.

  • The Golden Gate

    Alistair MacLean

    Hardcover (Collins, March 15, 1976)
    Physical description; [5], 246 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; NOT price clipped. Subjects; Fiction in English. English fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. Genre; Fiction.

  • The Golden Gate

    Alistair Maclean

    Paperback (Fawcett Crest, March 15, 1976)
    Paperback Book

  • The Golden Gate

    Alistair Maclean..

    Paperback (Harper Collins Publishers UK, March 15, 2005)
    Good reading copy

  • THE GOLDEN GATE.

    ALISTAIR. MACLEAN

    Paperback (P/B, March 15, 1985)
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  • The Golden Gate

    Alistair MacLean

    Hardcover (Doubleday, Aug. 1, 1976)
    An ingenious, puzzlingly motivated megalomaniac and his hand-chosen, professional cohorts hold the President of the United States, two Arab potentates, and a motorcade of reporters in the middle of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, demanding an exorbitant ransom

  • The Golden Gate

    Alistair Maclean

    Hardcover (Compass Hardcover, May 1, 2001)
    Travelling from San Fransisco, the Presidential motorcade is waylaid by an unusual criminal in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. A reign of civilised terror follows, the kidnappers hoping to collect a king's ransom for the president of the US and the two visiting Middle Eastern heads of state. The world watches the drama via a comandeered TV network as the kidnappers wire explosives to the towers of the bridge to stage their second threat: plunging the Golden Gate into the deep waters of San Francisco Bay.