Friday, July 30, 2010

The Hundredth Chance online at Google books

Hehe, I no sooner said it than I found it  :-) 

http://books.google.com/books?id=EJQOAAAAIAAJ

Links to other free Ethel Dell stories

Death's Property
Eleventh Hour, The
Experiment, The
Her Own Free Will
Knight Errant, The
Looker-On, The
Nonentity, The
Place of Honour, The
Question of Trust
Return Game, The
Sacrifice, The
Safety Curtain, The
Swindler's Handicap, The
Tidal Wave, The
Without Prejudice
Woman of His Dream, The

http://www.classicreader.com/author/334/

I don't see a link to The Hundredth Chance... I'd like to read that one.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

link to GREAT scanned dust jackets!

There's a whole BUNCH of them here!  Cool! 

http://www.ladybluestocking.com/List%20of%20Jackets/Unrestored%20Jackets.html

And one "restored" of Rocks of Valpre...

http://www.ladybluestocking.com/List%20of%20Jackets/njv/Rocks%20of%20Valpre%20DJ.html

Way of an Eagle - Cartland edition

Greatheart cover

Found on Google images... there's a nice large view of the same dust jacket! 

The Lamp in the Desert cover

Knave of Diamonds (Barbara Cartland edition) cover

This is the only Dell story that I didn't like...

Peggy By Request cover

It was called "Peggy by Request" when it was published in the United States.  This was the most on-point cover that I could find.  That's what I'm currently reading!  I found a copy on Ebay for $4, quite beat up, but I just wanted to read it because I was VERY interested in how the Noel Wyndham romance would go  :-)

In Keeper of the Door, the heroine for a short time is interested in Noel Wyndham instead of his older brother Max.  Noel Wyndham's a very good sport-- at the end of the story he's still cheerful, and playfully consenting to marry a girl who's very much in love with him and has been following him around through the whole book-- beautiful blonde Peggy, then six years old!  Ethel Dell was besieged with requests from readers to know what, if anything, happens with these two once Peggy grows up!