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The Clue Of The Twisted Candle
The Clue Of The Twisted Candle
Edgar Wallace
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Detective Classics presents you The Clue of the Twisted Candle in a fantastic ebook edition. ? The Urbane T.X. is back in this locked-room mystery by British master storyteller Edgar Wallace. ? The renown mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to prison. His friend T.X. Meredith, employed by Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence. ? A good "room locked from the inside" who and how dunnit. It has everything - mystery, adventure, a villain, love, a new romance, revenge, a gentleman detective, a one armed man, small handguns and long knives galore and of course cellars and locked rooms.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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This unique edition of Great Expectations from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.
The Haunted Hotel:A Mystery Of Modern Venice
The Haunted Hotel:A Mystery Of Modern Venice
Wilkie Collins
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Detective Classics presents you The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice in a fantastic ebook edition. ? Lord Montbarry breaks off his engagement to Agnes Lockwood to marry the Countess Narona.? The couple end a continental tour in Venice where they live reclusively in a large, decaying palace.? They are accompanied by Baron Rivar, brother of the Countess, and by Ferrari, their courier. ? Agnes learns from Montbarry's brother, Henry Westwick, that Mountbarry, whose life was insured for ?10,000 in favour of his wife, has died of bronchitis.? The courier has disappeared without trace although Ferrari's wife receives an anonymous note containing ?1,000.? The insurance companies carefully investigate but find no evidence that Mountbarry died other than by natural causes. ? The palace is refurbished as a fashionable hotel, and the Westwick family arrange to meet there.? Without realising that they are sleeping in the room where Montbarry died, three of his family separately experience insomnia, nightmares or nauseous smells.? Agnes awakes in the night to see a disembodied head descending from the ceiling.? A real head is discovered the next day decomposing in a secret compartment in the room above.? Henry finds a set of gold false teeth which are later confirmed as Montbarry's by his dentist. ? The Countess has also come to Venice, compelled by Destiny.? She writes a ghost story in the form of a play which is in effect a confession of Montbarry's murder by herself and the Baron.? Ferrari, dying of bronchitis, had agreed to assume the identity of Montbarry to perpetrate an insurance fraud in exchange for the ?1,000 sent to his wife.? Montbarry's body was disposed of by acid but the head hidden in the secret compartment.? Agnes and Henry return to England and are married privately.? They never discuss details of the confession.
The Schoolmaster And Other Stories
The Schoolmaster And Other Stories
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of his widespread popularity, Chekhov amassed a vast collection of short stories displaying an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty nature and humanity. This edition contains many stories, including "Enemies," "In the Dark," "A Mystery," "Joy," "A Peculiar Man," "The Album," "Overdoing It," "In the Graveyard," and "In a Strange Land."
Short Stories of Various Types
Short Stories of Various Types
J M Barrie
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You will find that the stories in this collection are of different types with settings that take you in imagination all over our own country and into foreign lands. Try writing a story with a surprise ending like "The Gift of the Magi," a character story with the theme of unselfish love, and its setting in a big city. Again, "John G," the story of adventure with an animal for the hero, might suggest to you an adventuresome incident in your own experience. If you have a vivid imagination, it might be interesting to write a fanciful story like "Feathertop." All of you have heard of true and thrilling incidents of the recent Great War. Try to weave one into a good war story as did Daudet or Mrs. Andrews. Almost every young person loves nature or the open country. After you have read Mr. Garland's, "The Camping Trip," see how well you can tell a story of your own experience in the out-of-doors. Or, best of all, see if you can equal the great Conan Doyle in a detective story.
Heart Failure: A Short Story
Heart Failure: A Short Story
Diana Deverell
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Heart Failure: A Short Story
芥川龍之介 ザベスト:鼻、蜘蛛の糸、桃太郎、羅生門、藪の中: Ryunosuke Akutagawa the Best
芥川龍之介 ザベスト:鼻、蜘蛛の糸、桃太郎、羅生門、藪の中: Ryunosuke Akutagawa the Best
芥川 龍之介
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芥川龍之介 ザベスト:鼻、蜘蛛の糸、桃太郎、羅生門、藪の中: Ryunosuke Akutagawa the Best
3rd Class in Indian Railway
3rd Class in Indian Railway
Mahatma Gandhi
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3rd Class in Indian Railway
夢野久作 ザベスト:瓶詰地獄、ビール会社征伐、ドグラ?マグラ、死後の恋、少女地獄
夢野久作 ザベスト:瓶詰地獄、ビール会社征伐、ドグラ?マグラ、死後の恋、少女地獄
夢野 久作
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夢野久作 ザベスト:瓶詰地獄、ビール会社征伐、ドグラ?マグラ、死後の恋、少女地獄
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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Heart of Darkness
The Black Cat
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Black Cat
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
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The Einstein Theory of Relativity
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton
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The Man Who Was Thursday
Louis Philippe
Louis Philippe
John Abbott
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Louis Philippe
Peter the Great
Peter the Great
Jacob Abbott
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Peter the Great
Rainbow Valley
Rainbow Valley
L.M. Montgomery
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Rainbow Valley
The Call of the Canyon
The Call of the Canyon
Zane Grey
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The Call of the Canyon
Castle Richmond
Castle Richmond
Anthony Trollope
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Castle Richmond
The Gospel of Nietzsche
The Gospel of Nietzsche
John Figgis
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The Gospel of Nietzsche