Once you've purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the wonderful world of public domain, Creative Commons and free e-book promotions opens up to you. This regular Kindle Reader feature points you to a few of the most interesting new free (or very cheap) e-books available for download from the web. Frugal e-book selections for this week include old-time pulp fiction featuring Dr. Nikola, criminal mastermind, A.E.W. Mason's epic war saga The Four Feathers, science fiction from Harry Harrison and William W. Stuart, a brace of classic whodunits and a collection of literary essays.
The Adventures of Dr. Nikola, Criminal Mastermind, by Guy Newell Boothby. MYSTERY. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.99.
"This collection of 5 novels, features the 'anti-hero' Dr Nikola, a master of 'occult powers,' seeking immortality and world domination. Dr Nikola was a master criminal. Charming and genial in person, Nikola was gifted with great intelligence. He was also incredibly strong and a master of disguise. A potent mesmerist, he is capable of hypnotising the strongest mind, and can fool people into seeing anything he wants. He has created a variety of mutant creatures which do his bidding." - Amazon. Included: A Bid for Fortune, Dr. Nikola Returns, The Lust of Hate, Dr. Nikola's Experiment and Farewell, Nikola.
The first Dr. Nikola book (A Bid for Fortune, or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta) is available as a free download from Manybooks.net.
The Four Feathers, by A.E.W. Mason. NOVEL. Download site: MobileRead. Format: Kindle (.prc). Price: Free.
In 1898 Sudan, Harry Faversham, a British officer, resigns his post right before a battle against rebels, prompting his fiancée and three friends to give him four white feathers - a symbol of cowardice. To redeem himself, Faversham embarks on an even more daring mission as an undercover operative behind enemy lines. The Four Feathers was brought to the screen five times between 1915 and 2002, with the latest version starring Heath Ledger as Faversham and Kate Hudson as his fiancée.
The Real Hard Sell, by William W. Stuart. SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: Free.
"Naturally human work was more creative, more inspiring, more important than robot drudgery. Naturally it was the most important task in all the world ... or was it?" - Manybooks.
The Ethical Engineer, by Harry Harrison. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: Feedbooks. Format: Mobipocket/Kindle. Price: Free.
"That mores is strictly a matter of local custom cannot be denied. But that ethics is pure opinion also? Maybe there are times for murder, and theft and slavery..." - Feedbooks.
If you can't get enough of Harry Harrison, consider The Harry Harrison Collection: Nine Novels and Short Stories for $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle Bookstore. Includes The Ethical Engineer (part of Deathworld) plus Planet of the Damned, Arm of the Law, The K-Factor, The Misplaces Battleship, Navy Day, The Repairman, Toy Shop and The Velvet Glove.
Murder at Bridge: A Mystery Novel, by Ann Austiin. MYSTERY. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.prc). Price: Free.
"Special Investigator Bonnie Dundee digs into the mystery of the 'death hand' dealt in a game of Bridge, while the inhabitants of the small town of Hamilton joke about being the dummy for fear of being murdered..." - ManyBooks.
At the Villa Rose, by A.E.W. Mason. MYSTERY. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle. Price: Free.
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, otherwise known as A. E. W. Mason, was born in England in 1865. He wrote more than twenty books, including the much-filmed novel The Four Feathers for which he is best known in the U.S. He died in 1948. In this mystery a gruesome murder takes place at a country house. Another case for Mason's sleuth Inspector Hannaud. But will he catch the culprit?
By-Ways in Book-Land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects, by William Davenport Adams. ESSAYS. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle ).azw). Price: Free.
"In the following pages, the writer for the most part deals with small subjects in an unelaborate manner. He leaves the highways of literature, and strays into the fields and lanes, picking here a flower and there a leaf, and not going far at any time." Originally published in 1888. Twenty-eight essays including Paper-Knife Pleasures, Shakespeare's England, Don Quixote in England, Bedside Books, English Epigraphs, The Outsides of Books, Nonsense Verses, etc.
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Thank you. Sheila's book, Love Knot, has 2 five star reviews on Amazon.
Thank you for the list. I like the whole idea that there are actually free and you have worked hard to make the list available. Keep on updating us on any new issues with Kindle.
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