Rutakko-kirjastot

Venäjän kirjallisuuden sapekkaimpiin kuuluva satiiri Pimeyden Ruhtinaan vierailusta 1930-luvun Moskovassa. Saatana saapuu Moskovaan on venäläisen kirjallisuuden sapekkaimpia satiir ...

Lohja-sarjan toisessa osassa Hännisten, Julinien ja muiden paikkakuntalaisten tarina jatkuu rikkaana ja riemastuttavan elämänmakuisena. On kohennuttu kansalaissodan kurimuksesta ja ...

Nuoren rakkauden ja mustasukkaisuuden tragedia. Kaunis Marjatta on työläinen, johon insinööriksi opiskeleva Pauli ihastuu. Marjatta ja Pauli pyrkivät yhteiskuntaluokat ylittävällä ...

Konsta Pylkkäsellä on erikoisen mallinen pääkallo ja harittavat silmät, joilla näkee sekä lähelle että kauas. Hän rekisteröi penkin alta ryömivän torakan ja kuvittelee itselleen ta ...

TYYLITAITURIN KLASSIKKOROMAANI VUODELTA 1893. Siitä on nyt viisi vuotta, kun Olavi Kalm vieraili Ellin kotona muutaman kesäisen päivän. Yhtä kauan on Elli ollut naimisissa Mikkonsa ...

JUHANI AHON MESTARITEOS VUODELTA 1885Elli on vaatimattoman maalaispappilan tytär, haaveileva luonne, joka on pienestä asti halunnut ylös, katolle ja puun latvaan asti, mistä voi nä ...

RAKKAUDESTA TOIPUVA MIES, VILISEVÄ PARIISIYksin kuuluu impressionistisen tyylinsä kirkkaudessa Juhani Ahon kestävimpään tuotantoon. Romaanissa sykkii maailmannäyttelyään juhliva, ...

On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by eith ...

Detective Ferguson is on the case when a man masquerading as a burglar suddenly dies in jail. Through entertaining twists and turns, this classic mystery from 1920 will keep you g ...

After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attr ...

Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls’ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aun ...

"I returned to the City about three o’clock on that Monday afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it." So opens ...

"Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down." A rich, old man has been mysteriously stabbed, and ...

Inspector T.B. Smith of Scotland Yard has got a lot on his plate. Two men are found shot to death outside the door of a millionaire, who happens to live just a few doors down from ...

What seems at first sight to be just another murder mystery is quickly revealed to be of international importance. Bio-terrorists threaten the release of an agent that will destroy ...

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly from a heart attack, a rumour of a deadly, supernatural giant dog, who may have been persecuted for generations, begins to circulate in t ...

Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock’s talent for solvi ...

Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, ...

Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private d ...

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an ...

'Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive...' When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesom ...

The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gry ...

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy thes ...

"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is ...