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Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, has finally met his equal. A crime is committed at the home of Deputy Daubrecq, and two of Lupin’s accomplices are arrested and sentenced to death by the guillotine. Daubrecq is cunning and menacing, and he foils Lupin at every step. Can Lupin save his honor, as well as his friends from death?
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A quiet cathedral town in England, a hotbed of local gossips, and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery, including a man apparently thrown from the cathedral to his death. Pemberton Bryce, a character you’ll love to hate, investigates the mystery in hopes of winning over young Mary Bewery’s hand in marriage. Is Mary’s guardian and the village doctor, Dr. Mark Ransford, the murderer?
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America’s Sherlock Holmes (Craig Kennedy) and his Dr. Watson (Walter Jameson), make their thrilling debut in this classic volume of mind-boggling mysteries. Each volume contains three short stories about Kennedy, a chemistry professor by day and sleuth by night, and Jameson, a newspaper reporter and Kennedy’s roommate. The stories were originally published in Cosmopolitan magazine and were some of the most popular detective stories of the early 20th century.
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Mr. Cole falls in love with Eva Denison, a beautiful and accomplished young woman, while traveling to England. As the story takes a twisted turn, the events lead to the discovery of a horrible conspiracy and then to an adventure that may cost Cole his greatest love. |
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Arsène Lupin, the renowned gentleman thief and detective, uses the alias Prince Rénine in this series of eight short stories, The Eight Strokes of the Clock. With his beautiful companion Hortense Daniel, he travels across France solving a series of mysteries, some involving the disappearance and murder of women. When Hortense herself goes missing, the clock is ticking as he attempts to save her life. Romance, mystery, and crime—these stories have it all! (Four stories per volume)
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A late-night stroll turns up a shocking discovery when a pedestrian finds an older man bludgeoned to death in the close-knit Middle Temple community in London. A single clue is found near the body. A young journalist, Frank Spargo, senses the scoop, but Inspector Rathbury of Scotland Yard doesn’t. They’ll join forces to solve this intriguing mystery.
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A newly married woman has been found shot to death in an empty mansion she inherited as a child—a mansion known for three previous untimely deaths. Although first the investigation concludes it was a suicide, until a young detective proves the woman was killed, and her newlywed husband, who is rumored to have loved another woman, and his sister are primary suspects.
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The Last Stroke was published in 1896 by Chicago socialite Emma Murdoch van Deventer, under the pen name of Lawrence L. Lynch. This detective story opens with the mysterious disappearance of a small-town schoolmaster, Mr. Charles Brierly, who is later found shot to death, devastating his fiancé and brother. He appeared to have no enemies, so who killed him? A professional detective from Chicago named Francis Ferrars is on the case.
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Jean Briggerland, a mysterious and ruthless criminal mastermind known as "The Angel” is a captivating and enigmatic woman who uses her charm and cunning to carry out a series of daring crimes. She faces the lawyer Jack Glover, who tries to do everything to protect her latest target, the helpless and hopeless Lydia Beale. One person is telling the truth and another wants to murder her. Will justice be served?
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A group of five young people gather in a Merchester house to take part in the annual lawn tennis tournament. The summer is miserably hot, tempers fly, and suddenly one young woman dies in her bed from poisoning, ostensibly from some Chinese herbs Dr. Wallace has in the house. Is he the murderer, or is it the housemaid, the cook, or one of the other young competitors? This 1920s detective story is the first of six mystery novels by Francis Everton, and has all the charm of the time, including intricate plotting and the clever deduction of clues by local detectives from Scotland Yard.
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In this debut novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, she introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey, a nobleman who solves mysteries as a hobby. In this novel, Lord Wimsey investigates the discovery of a mysterious corpse who has been found in a bathtub of a local architect who has no idea who the dead man is, or how he got into the house, let alone the tub.
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This delightful Christmas collection includes stories by O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery. L. Frank Baum, Saki, and the classic poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” by
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Charles Dickens is known for the greatest of all Christmas stories, A Christmas Carol. But he also wrote other stories about Christmas, including those collected in this volume: “A Christmas Tree,” “What Christmas is as We Grow Golder,” “The Poor Relation’s Story,” “The Child’s Story,” “The Schoolboy’s Story,” and “Nobody’s Story.”
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A Christmas Carol, In Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is the original name of what we now simply call A Christmas Carol. It was written by Dickens in 1843, and tells the tale of transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly man visited by ghosts.
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Lord Peter Wimsey receives news that his sister Mary's fiancé has been found shot dead outside the Wimseys' shooting lodge at in Yorkshire. The Duke of Denver, who happens to be Lord Peter’s brother Gerald, has been arrested for the murder and put on trial. Lord Peter and his close friend Inspector Charles Parker search the lodge’s grounds to clear the Duke’s name. But will the clues clear him, or condemn him? The second in Dorothy L. Sayer’s Lord Peter Wimsey series.
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From Dorothy L. Sayers, the mistress of the Golden Age of mystery, comes the third book featuring the brilliant and debonair detective Lord Peter Wimsey. A wealthy old woman dies much sooner than her doctor expected. Was it a sudden illness—or was it murder? And if murder, whodunit—her nurse or her niece in charge of her care, or? Wimsey is joined by Miss Climpson, a chatty spinster with a knack for asking the right questions, to solve the case.
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Mr. Gillespie has collapsed and died, and is determined to have been poisoned. Before his death, he sends a letter to Arthur Outhwaite, a lawyer, via his young granddaughter, implicating one of his three sons. Anna Katharine Green’s famous Detective Gryce and his assistant Sweetwater investigate the case with Outhwaite. This is a tale of love, betrayal, and the complexities of family dynamics set in New York City.
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"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse.” Thus begins this story, where Rita Van Ardsdale, a high society New Yorker, is proposed to and a beautiful woman is murdered, perhaps by Rita’s fiancé. Can Rita prove her fiancé is innocent? Or was this plain Jane duped, and why? |
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Dr. David Stone was once a police surgeon—that is, until he lost his sight. But he hasn’t lost his mystery-solving abilities. With his seeing eye dog Lady, and helped by his young nephew Joe, the trio takes on mysterious incidents in their small New Jersey town, crimes ranging from fraud to murder. |
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Michael Lanyard is an international jewel thief, nicknamed "the Lone Wolf" by the authorities. After a successful heist in England, Lanyard is approached by four criminals calling themselves "the Pack,” who want Lanyard to join them. He makes enemies of them when he says no. In the meantime, he falls in love with a young American woman, Lucy, who works for one of the criminals as his nurse. He vows to straighten up his life for her, starting a series of events that lead to him being framed for murder, nearly murdered himself, at risk in a car chase, and finally in a near deadly biplane adventure, as he and Lucy try to escape to France to start a new life. This is the first of eight books which were made into 24 films between 1917-1949.
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In the second of eight Lone Wolf novels, Michael Lanyard is seeking revenge for the death of his wife and child in the early days of WWI, leaving him bitter about the Germans, and one spy in particular. He boards a ship to America and finds himself embroiled in espionage and intrigue involving German agents and a mysterious woman named Cecelia Brooke. Lanyard races against time to fulfill his promise and exact revenge, ending in final encounter in New York City.
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The third book in the Lone Wolf series finds Michael Lanyard leaving the British Secret Service and wandering around Southern France, where he meets a woman who has been victimized by a crime organization. Lanyard’s attempts to right the wrong take him from France and across the Atlantic on ship filled with dangerous rogues and a beautiful woman who promises romance.
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The Whispering Pines country clubhouse in upstate New York is the scene of the murder of Rosamund Trent, and the main suspect—at least in the beginning—is her fiancé Oliver Donaldson, who is in love with Rosamund’s sister. Detective Ebenezer Gryce is called in to investigate the case, and his discoveries lead to a long-standing family feud and several other potential suspects, including Rosamund’s brother and a mysterious man who’s been lurking around the family’s estate.
A well-respected businessman is killed in his own bedroom. A blind doctor confesses that he was the murderer, but how could he have shot his neighbor so cleanly through the heart? He offers to shoot a small clock from a distance, proving he can kill by sound alone. A young Detective Gryce is on the case, and must determine not only if the doctor had the means to kill, but a motive.
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There’s an impenetrable vault inside Mr. Stoughton’s business filled with important goods—and while no one knows how to access it, once a day somebody mysterious does. When a plot to steal the vault’s contents is revealed, what does the young and attractive Grace Lee, Mr. Stoughton’s personal assistant, know about it? Is she involved with the criminals, or can she thwart the devious crime?
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American author Anna Katharine Green is credited with being one of the earliest writers of detective fiction. However, her early writings crossed many genre boundaries, as this eclectic collection of short stories demonstrates. Ranging from gothic fiction to romance, and also including one of her earliest detective tales, this book is an important and compelling introduction to Green's work.
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Set in Baltimore in the days of Abraham Lincoln's presidential election, a man who’s fascinated with a lovely young woman who lives in his same block of apartments responds to her cry for help. She claims that a robber has stolen a ring from her finger and asks the man’s help in recovering it. He steps in to lend a hand in this engrossing mystery with a twisted ending.
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After the theft of $25,000 worth of Mrs. Winchester’s diamonds is reported to the police, a detective is tasked with finding them within 48 hours. With pressure mounting, and the clues and suspects expanding, will the detective find the thief in time? The dark secrets of a rich family come to light in this thrilling page-turner.
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In Silas Blackburn’s eerie and isolated country estate, there’s an abandoned room that everyone avoids because of its troubling history involving the deaths of family members. When Blackburn is found dead—locked inside the room—the most obvious suspect is his grandson Bobby, who has a motive for murder—his grandfather had recently threatened to cut him out of his will. But Bobby remembers nothing of the night.
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When the wealthy Phil Ocumpaugh’s beloved six-year-old daughter Gwendolen goes missing from his New York home without a trace, he offers a staggering (for 1900) $5,000 reward for her return, dead or alive. Detective Ebenezer Gryce investigates the case and tries to find the stolen girl, along with amateur sleuths Mrs. Butterworth and Violet Strange, two of Anna Katharine Green’s most beloved characters. Was she kidnapped? Did she drown? What does the suspicious widow next door have to do with it?
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When a millionaire American capitalist is found dead in his English country house garden, amateur detective Philip Trent is sent by a London newspaper to investigate. Why did the dead man rise in the middle of the night and venture outside without his false teeth? Why is his young widow seemingly unaffected by his death? Will Trent fall under her spell before he can solve the case? |
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The small New York town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder, and a local inn-keeper is convicted and hanged. Twelve years later, "a woman in purple" who was married to the executed man shows up at the house of the judge who had sentenced the inn-keeper to be executed, convinced that he husband wasn’t guilty, but the judge isn’t having it. The woman takes a job as a maid and secretly uses her position to get proof of her husband’s innocence—but the evidence points her in a troubling direction.
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Green's last published detective novel, The Step On the Stair is typical of her earlier mysteries. Quenton is in love with Orpha, and thinks their marriage has been approved by her guardian. Imagine his shock when her engagement to Edgar is announced. Jealousy rears its ugly head. But then Quenton is made aware of gossip and superstition, which may affect his position in the household. Finding the lost will after their uncle's death could answer all their questions.
The Adventures of Dora Bell, Detective was originally serialized in twelve parts in the South Wales Echo on Saturdays, beginning January 6th, 1894, and was written by an English feminist, journalist, and novelist Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett.
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A famous Italian opera singer’s five-year-old daughter has been kidnapped by a gang of Mafia criminals. After he informs the police, someone tries to kill him. Detective Craig Kennedy is on the case, looking for the mastermind behind the “Black Hand.”
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The night before his birthday, Francis Raven wakes up and sees a woman trying to stab him, but he’s not sure if she’s real or a dream. Years later he marries Alicia, a woman with a strong resemblance to the mysterious visitor. After she attacks him on his birthday and vanishes, the question becomes, is Francis’s wife a ghost, a demon, or a living human being? And will he live to see another birthday?
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Margaret Odell is the “Canary” in the title, a beautiful scheming showgirl, nightclub singer, and lady of the night who has been found murdered in her apartment. Her enemy list is long—many men had reason to want her dead. Amateur detective and New York dandy Philo Vance is on the scene, bringing his trademark grasp of the intricacies of human nature to solve the crime. This is the second book in the Philo Vance series.
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Roger Sheringham is a crime columnist for the Daily Courier newspaper. When a woman dies after being pushed off a Hampshire cliff-top, Sheringham’s editor sends him to investigate. He takes his young cousin Anthony with him, who promptly falls in love with the chief suspect. Sheringham is determined to solve the case before Scotland Yard can—but then there’s a second murder!
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A lovely young heiress drops dead in a New York hotel. The police only find a small hole and her letter opener. The coroner rules it suicide, but her father doesn’t believe it, and hires Inspector Gryce and his assistant, Sweetwater, to solve the case. Among her belongings—letters signed with initials only, O.B. Who is O.B., and what, if anything, does he have to do with her death?
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S. S. Van Dine created an influential 12-novel crime series starring amateur sleuth, art connoisseur, and New York dandy Philo Vance. In this first book, Manhattan high society is abuzz after playboy stockbroker Alvin Benson is found dead in his mansion, a bullet hole in his head, in a room locked from the inside. Ballistics experts and detectives can’t solve the crime, but Vance is on the case. This is the first book in the Philo Vance series.
Lucy Holmes, a beautiful but distressed woman, walks into the office of a detective with a mystery. Her husband went away on a business trip, and sends her a note telling her he’ll be back the next day. But when that day arrives, she wakes to find a newspaper story saying he had died—two days before the note he sent her. The detective suspects the killer is walking the streets of New York City, as he homes in on a likely suspect. Is he the solution to the difficult problem of Lucy’s missing husband?
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In this twisted gothic tale, a young and rather selfish girl named Juliet draws the attention of multiple boys and men in her small village, including a rich Colonel who loves her madly and builds her a stone house, and Orrin, a fiery, unstable man. Which one of them will come to a rather gruesome end, and at whose hand?
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Miss Saunders is hired by the mayor of her town to become a companion for his wife, who is terrified by some unnamed fear, while he goes out of town for two weeks. The house they are renting is known to be haunted, with secret rooms and a secret code, and a past that includes a death and lost money. And what about those two kooky old sisters who live next door?
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In 1915, Anna Katharine Green invented the “girl detective” in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth. Violet is hired by a police chief who knows she can solve mysteries involving “high society” in New York City, since she mingles freely with its the wealthy and powerful citizens. Violet appears in nine linked short stories.
A detective stumbles onto a murder at a masquerade ball as he’s searching for clues about a ring of counterfeiters who
address their letters to X Y Z. The family patriarch of a prominent town in Massachusetts has been poisoned, leading the detective to sort through family rumors, secrets, and mysteries in order to solve the crime. |
A vial of deadly poison found in an amethyst box goes missing on the eve of Sinclair’s wedding. The groom suspects the poison belongs to either his fiancé or her cousin, his friend Worthington’s girlfriend. Can they recover the box before the poison can be administered—and to whom?
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Was there a murder in Room Number 3 of the Three Forks Tavern, or is it only the delusion of a crazy woman, a beautiful young woman whose mother was just found dead in a forest? The Tavern’s landlord and clerk deny her story that she and her mom had rented rooms there, but Sheriff Hammersmith believes her, because other odd things had happened at that very tavern.
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In this chilling tale that takes place in the dark and foggy streets of Victorian London, the respected scientist Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that allows him to separate the good and evil sides of a personality, thus creating the evil and murderous Mr. Hyde. How will Dr. Jekyll now stop the monster he’s created?
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The Call of the Wild, considered to be Jack London's greatest novel, tells the story of a heroic dog named Buck who is stolen from his owner in California and put to work as a sled dog in the Canadian wilderness. He must learn to adapt to survive the brutality of his new life and eventually rise to the position of leader of the pack.
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A museum director discovers a teenage girl dead with an arrow through her heart. The only witness to the crime? An older woman who hovers over her, whispering in the girl's ear and offering nonsense answers to the director's questions. All the museum’s visitors are locked inside while the case is investigated. A strange twist—why are the victim’s relatives sacrificing so much to protect the murderer? Detective Gryce, now in his 80s, is on the case.
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The Circular Study is the 10th book featuring New York detective Mr. Gryce and the 3rd and last book featuring spinster-turned-sleuth Miss Amelia Butterworth. A man is found brutally stabbed to death in his NYC house, yet lovingly placed by someone on the floor of his study. A talking caged bird offers a puzzling clue, but the butler who witnessed the crime has been driven mad and is now mute. The duo discovers a motive that spans generations and the passions of two families.
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Arsène Lupin is France’s version of Sherlock Holmes, except he’s a gentleman thief full of charm and wit who loves to outsmart his weathly victims—and the police, including his archnemesis, Detective Ganimard. This short story collection contains nine of Lupin’s heists, each one full of twists and turns--and extraordinary adventures.
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The French gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin once again meets his enemy, the English detective Holmlock Shears and his assistant, Wilson (based of course on Sherlock Holmes and Watson, names Leblanc changed for copyright purposes). This mystery involves a blonde lady, a stolen desk, a winning lottery ticket, and a show-down between Lupin and Shears.
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Anna Katharine Green created the first female detective in American fiction—the spinster sleuth Amelia Butterworth. When her next-door neighbors are away on vacation, a mysterious man and a woman enter the house late one night. Butterworth sees the man leave later that night, but the woman does not. Curiosity gets the better of her, and she enters the house the next day, only to find the woman dead, crushed by a cabinet. Green’s famous Detective Gryce is on the case, but Miss Amelia can’t help herself, rivaling with Gryce to solve the crime.
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Four international super-scoundrels are plotting to dominate the world. On their way to doing so, they engage in theft, kidnapping, and assassination. Hercule Poirot and his twin brother Achille travel the globe, risking their lives to stop the shadowy organization known as “The Big Four” and save the world. |
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes gathers together the final 12 stories (out of a total of 56) in the Sherlock Holmes’ series. In the Preface of Volume 1, Doyle writes, “And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes!” and states his hope that the Holmes’ stories have provided a distraction from the worries of life.
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Father Brown is a Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton between 1910 and 1936. He’s known for solving mysteries using his intuition and insight into human nature. These stories are included in the collection The Innocence of Father Brown.
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Father Brown is a Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton between 1910 and 1936. He’s known for solving mysteries using his intuition and insight into human nature. These stories are included in the collection The Wisdom of Father Brown.
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These stories of adventure, suspense, terror, the supernatural, mystery and crime by the author of the Sherlock Holmes series are meant to be read “round the fire” on a cold winter night, which Doyle called “the ideal atmosphere for such stories”--though he also hoped they would “give pleasure to any one, at any time or place.” |
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The Leavenworth Case (1878) is the first known detective novel published by a woman, American Anna Katharine Green, who later inspired Agatha Christie. When retired merchant Horatio Leavenworth is found shot dead in his New York mansion, his nieces are the prime suspects. Green introduces us to detective Ebenezer Gryce, who will feature in a series of novels to follow.
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From Anna Katharine Green, “the mother of the detective novel,” comes this gothic murder mystery. At a little abandoned inn in upstate New York, Edwin Urquhart took his bride on their honeymoon, staying only one night. Sixteen years later, her corpse is found at the inn. What happened during that night? |
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A Strange Disappearance is the second novel in Green’s Mr. Gryce series. After a young sewing maid goes missing from a Manhattan residence owned by bachelor Holman Blake, Mr. Gryce assigns rising young detective Q to the case. The housekeeper is sure the maid has been abducted, and blood on the windowsill points to struggle. But the maid turns out to have secrets of her own...
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The spinster sleuth Miss Amelia Butterworth is back! After her success in solving a crime in That Affair Next Door, New York detective Mr. Gryce calls upon her help to discover why several people have vanished into thin air while walking on the same country road. The plot is full of twists and turns, with a very satisfying ending.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a beloved American gothic ghost story which tells the tale of a haunted valley called Sleepy Hollow. The “Commander-in-Chief” of all the ghosts is the Headless Horseman. Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane disappears one night after riding through the Hollow--was it the Headless Horseman, or his romantic rival who killed him?
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These short stories come from the collection His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr. Watson tells the reader by way of an introduction that Holmes has retired, he thought permanently, but the German war caused him to come out of retirement to solve a few last cases.
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Guy de Maupassant is a 19th century French author known for his mastery of the short story format, having written over 300 of them. “The Necklace” is one of his most famous, and is widely read in high school and college literature classes all over the world.
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This collection includes eight of the most beloved short stories by William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry. The author is famous for his surprise twist endings, including the one in his most renowned story, “The Gift of the Magi,” which tells the tale of three valuables: Della’s hair, Jim’s gold watch, and the love between the young husband and wife.
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This is the first novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1887, featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, one of the most famous crime-solving duos of all time. The title comes from something Holmes tells Watson: “There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
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The Sign of the Four (1890) is the second of four Sherlock Holmes novels. Mary Morstan (who ends up becoming Doctor Watson’s future wife), contacts the detective duo after the mysterious disappearance of her father. The plot involves a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards, a stolen treasure, a peculiar map, six mysterious pearls Mary receives in the mail, and murder by a poisonous dart.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) is the third of four Sherlock Holmes crime novels and considered by many to be the best of the four. The giant hound is a diabolical beast, a local legend and the stuff of tall tales, until Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, the footprints of the giant hound near his body. Holmes and Watson soon discover that nothing is quite what it seems as they attempt to solve the crime.
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The Valley of Fear (1915) is Doyle’s fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel. The story is loosely based on the 18th century Irish secret society, The Molly Maguires. Part I explores a mysterious murder at a remote English estate, and Part II is set in the Midwest of the US, and brings Holmes face-to-face with his nemesis, the infamous evil Professor Moriarty.
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In the 1880s, the Paris Opera House is haunted by what some think is a ghost or a phantom, but who turns out to be a masked figure who lives below the theatre in the catacombs. What happens when he falls madly in love with Christine, an innocent and young soprano?
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Black Beauty was composed in 1877 by English author Anna Sewell in the last years of her life. It was an immediate best-seller, and in its lifetime, has sold over 50 million copies. Told from the perspective of the horse, Black Beauty, it was written to introduce kindness, sympathy, and understanding for animals.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 stand-alone stories published in 1893-94. Doyle intended this would be the last of the Sherlock Holmes stories and killed off the detective in the last story of this series, but he resurrected him when fans clamored for more.
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“The Door in the Wall” is considered by critics to be H. G. Wells’ finest short story, a tale of a man obsessed by a vision of an enchanted garden he knew as a child. The collection also includes the stories “The Star,” “A Dream of Armageddon,” “The Cone,” “A Moonlight Fable,” “The Diamond Maker,” “The Lord of the Dynamos,” and “The Country of the Blind.”
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For over 200 years, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has captured the attention of readers all over the world. This masterpiece of gothic fiction was conceived by Mary Shelley when she was only 18 years old, and completed when she was 20. Originally published anonymously, her name soon became known, and forever remembered.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the United States in 1885, and is considered an American classic. It was also one of the first novels to be written in vernacular English, the local dialect of the South. The novel tells the story of a young runaway, Huckleberry Finn, and the people and places he visits along the Mississippi River, including, for a significant part of his journey, a runaway slave named Jim.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 stand-alone stories published in 1903 and 1904 in the United States and Britain featuring Sherlock Holmes and his crime mystery solving sidekick, Dr. Watson.
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Mansfield, Cather, Chopin, Wharton, Gilman--five of the most important woman writers of the 20th century--all gathered here in one place, featuring five of their most important and timeless short stories. |
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Horne Fisher is the man who knew too much. These eight short stories follow Horne and his partner, a political journalist named Harold March, as they solve high profile crimes often involving murder in British high society. |
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In an English country house, Mark Ablett is throwing a party for his guests, when his long-lost brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, returns and joins the festivities. Robert is soon found dead, a bullet shot through his head, and Mark has disappeared. A friend of one of the guests arrives, and what follows is a witty murder mystery, the only one A. A. Milne ever wrote.
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The Clue of the Twisted Candle tells the story of John Lexman, a famous mystery writer, who is drawn into a real-life murder plot. Lexman is betrayed and sent to prison, only to escape. Excitement, intrigue, and a series surprises made this book immensely popular during what was known as the Golden Age of detective fiction.
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These three short stories by American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) were his very first published works. Originally published in 1923, they were all that remained of his early works after his suitcase containing his original writing was stolen. These three still remain some of his most beloved and popular short stories. |
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The Story of My Life, published in 1903, is Helen Keller’s autobiography of the first 22 years of her life, particularly her relationship with Anne Sullivan, the teacher who helped Helen, struck deaf and blind at 19 months of age, unlock language and communicate with the world.
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In 1865, Englishman Lewis Carroll published this story which centers on Alice, a young girl who falls asleep in a meadow and dreams that she’s led by the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole. She has many bizarre and absurd adventures down in this wonderland with a crazy cast of characters including some very strange creatures. |
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Jack Knox, attorney-at-law, falls in love with his newest client, the beautiful Margery Flemming, who hires him to find her missing father, a crooked politician. When Margery’s elderly aunt disappears, leaving only a bloody handprint behind, Knox looks to Margery’s suspicious fiancé. Can Knox find her missing relatives and win over her heart?
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring detective Sherlock Holmes, and told from the point of view of Dr. Watson, Holmes’ best friend, assistant, and housemate. The stories take place in Victorian London, and center around social justice issues.
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a New Zealand-born short story writer, poet, essayist, and journalist, and considered one of the most important and influential writers of her time. The fifteen stories in this collection were written near the end of her tragically short life, when she died at the age of 34 from tuberculosis. |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish author best known for his classic detective fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes, but he also wrote short stories full of mystery and terror, known for their slow build-up and/or unexpected changes that lead to surprising and sometimes horrific conclusions. |
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Four of the best short stories by the beloved 20th-century American author Willa Cather:
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Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is best known for her stories about the inner lives of women and their outer societal constrictions. Her short stories were well-received during her lifetime and were published in prestigious American magazines such as Vogue and The Atlantic Monthly.
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FOUR OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’S MOST FAMOUS AND FRIGHTENING SHORT STORIES
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FIVE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’S MOST FAMOUS AND FRIGHTENING SHORT STORIES
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This classic novel begins at the ocean in Grand Isle, an upscale vacation spot near New Orleans, where Edna Pontellier is summering with her husband and two children. There she meets a charming young man who begins her psychological, social, and sexual awakening, putting her at odds with the oppressive roles for women in the American south in the 19th century. |
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Elizabeth Wheeler is a quiet girl living a small-town life, until she meets Dr. Dick Livingston, a successful young doctor. They fall in love and become engaged, but their relationship is thrown into disarray by Livingston’s amnesia of events that happened ten years earlier. Is he really Jud Clark, who is wanted for questioning about a homicide that happened exactly ten years ago?
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Attorney Lawrence Blakely is carrying important documents in a criminal case when he is framed for the murder of a man sleeping in the “lower ten” aboard a train—the room where Blakely was supposed to be sleeping. The train crashes, and most of the passengers are killed. He meets and falls in love with a fellow survivor—or is she involved with the murder?
This volume collects five of Agatha Christie’s short stories published between 1922 and 1924. The first three stories feature one of her most popular characters, the detective Hercule Poirot. “The Wife of the Kenite” is a story of revenge that takes place in South Africa on the Veldt. “The Red Signal” refers to a character who gets warning signals when danger is immanent--and it is.
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In the 1920s when Agatha Christie was publishing her short stories in The Blue Book Magazine, it was considered one of the “Big Four” pulp magazines in the United States. “The Mystery of the Hunter’s Lodge” was published there in June of 1924; “The Missing Will” was published there in January of 1925; and “The Plymouth Express Affair” was published there in January of 1924.
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Anne of Green Gables is considered a classic children’s novel enjoyed by people of all ages. The novel tells the story of 11-year-old orphan Anne Shirley sent to live with two middle-aged siblings. The novel has sold over 50 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 36 languages.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was considered the American Agatha Christie, publishing murder mysteries alongside short stories such as the seven collected in Love Stories. These stories are heartfelt, witty, fast-paced, romantic, and at times mysterious. Some are hospital stories, and draw upon Rinehart’s training as a nurse.
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.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is Christie’s third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. Poirot has retired to a village near Roger Ackroyd, but when his friend is murdered, Poirot leaves retirement behind to solve the case. Some reviewers consider this Christie’s best novel, a masterpiece with a twist ending.
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During a business trip to Transylvania where he stays at the castle of Count Dracula, solicitor Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, sees Dracula transform into a bat, and finds bite marks on his own neck. He escapes the castle after finding out that Dracula is a vampire. Dracula goes on a rampage, thus beginning a frantic hunt to kill him.
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Ernest Hemingway’s first major novel tells the story of a group of young American and British disillusioned expatriates in Europe in postwar 1920s. War veteran Jake, his former love Lady Brett, and friends travel from Paris to Spain where relationships get complicated in Pamplona as they watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was considered the American Agatha Christie, and The Circular Staircase was her first bestseller. It tells the story of spinster Rachel Innes, who along with her adopted niece and nephew, are challenged by strange crimes, including murder, in a house they have rented for the summer.
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Originally published in 1911, The Secret Garden tells the story of the selfish and entitled ten-year-old orphan Mary Lennox, who is transformed after her discovery of the secret garden at Misselthwaite Manor through the healing power of nature and friendship.
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Jane Austen's 1815 classic story of Emma Woodhouse, a clever and quite precocious twenty-year-old woman who fancies herself quite the matchmaker--until she gets caught up unexpectedly in her own machinations!
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This is the second book after Anne of Green Gables, and follows Anne Shirley from age 16 to 18 during the two years when she serves as the sole school teacher at Avonlea. Her ideals get tested as she seeks to improve her students, and her village.
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My Ántonia tells the story of immigrant Ántonia Shimerda and Virginia-transplant Jim Burden, both of whom find themselves uprooted to start new lives in the difficult plains of Nebraska in the late 19th century. Published in 1918, it is Cather’s most famous novel.
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The Darling children have adventures with Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up. He and his fairy Tinker Bell take the children to Neverland where they live with the Lost Boys and battle Captain Hook. |
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The Secret Adversary is Agatha Christie’s second novel, published in 1922. After the Great War, Tommy and Tuppence fall in love and start their own business as The Young Adventurers. Their first mystery? Find out what happened to the mysterious missing American, Jane Finn, who is thought to have survived the sinking ship RMS Lusitania four years earlier.
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The Inimitable Jeeves is a collection of short stories that’s now considered the first of the Jeeves novels. Jeeves is the butler of young Londoner Bertie Wooster. Most of the stories involve Bingo Little, a friend of Bertie’s, who is always falling in love.
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First published in 1925 and set on Long Island during the Jazz Age, this novel tells the tragic story of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsessive pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles is British author Agatha Christie’s first published novel, written in the middle of World War I in 1916. It introduces Hercule Poirot, who is called in to solve the poisoning death of rich elderly Emily Inglethorp, the owner of Styles Court estate.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the few surviving slave narratives written by a woman. It tells the story of Harriet Jacobs, born in 1813, who lived a life of servitude in North Carolina until she was set free and reunited with her children in the North. After writing her book, Jacobs continued to help those left behind by slavery, including founding two schools for black students.
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When rich Mr. Dashwood dies, his second wife and their three daughters are left poor as his estate is passed down to his son from his first marriage. They rent a modest cottage, and the two older girls come of age and experience love and heartbreak under trying circumstances.
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The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories is a collection of 13 vintage short stories by British author P. G. Wodehouse, first published in 1917. It contains Wodehouse’s comedic fiction, as well as several more serious stories.
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A murder takes place at a weekend party hosted at Chimneys, the home of Lord Caterham. Can Scotland Yard solve the crime? Christie’s 1925 novel has been called “a first-class romp,” “a romance,” “a treasure hunt,” and “a thriller,” in addition to being a classic murder mystery.
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The Man Upstairs is a collection of 19 short stories by English author P. G. Wodehouse, first published in 1914. Most of the stories, which were first published in magazines, concern love and romance.
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Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a twenty-seven-year old Englishwoman whose family is forced for financial reasons to rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. The twist? Seven years ago, Anne broke off her engagement to the wife’s brother. Will love bloom again?
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Lucy Maud Montgomery, born in 1874, is best remembered for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, but she was also published over 500 short stories before her death in 1942. Her stories range the gamut from chilling, romantic, whimsical, and humorous.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery, born in 1874, is best remembered for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, but she was also published over 500 short stories before her death in 1942. Her stories range the gamut from chilling, romantic, whimsical, and humorous.
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Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent letter from South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, who claims his life is in danger. But when Poirot arrives, he finds the man stabbed to death on the golf course. A second body will soon be discovered stabbed with the same weapon. Kidnapping, blackmail, forbidden love, and a long-buried secret—Poirot is on the case!
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Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published 1924. In the eleven stories, her famously clever detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving spies, thieves, kidnappers, and murderers.
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This American fairytale was published in 1900, and tells the adventures of a young girl from Kansas who is swept up in a cyclone with her dog Toto and finds herself in the magical Land of Oz. Scarecrows, witches, lions, tin men, flying monkeys, munchkins, and the Wizard are among the main cast of characters. |
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This collection of short stories features 7 classic Wodehouse tales across many genres, including “Death at the Excelsior,” a thrilling murder-mystery with the author’s signature comedic flourishes. Two of his most famous characters, Jeeves and Bertie, are also featured in some of the stories. |
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This beloved novel tells the story of Oliver Twist, a boy who lives in an orphanage from birth with too many children and too little food. He eventually runs away and joins a gang of young pickpockets before his fate changes dramatically.
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This novel published in 1847 tells the story of Jane Eyre, including her growth to adulthood and her love for her employer Edward Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall, who is harboring a terrible secret.
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Anne Beddingfield is young, beautiful, and on her own, and she’s on the hunt for adventures in London. At the tube station, a man falls and gets electrocuted on the rails, and a mysterious man in a brown suit examines the body before sprinting off, leaving behind a cryptic clue. Can Anne find him, and the killer?
