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Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 2)

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Maurice Leblanc - Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 2)

This collection of independent stories first published between 1905 and 1907 in the magazine Je Sais Tout recounts the tales of Arsène Lupin, the famous gentleman-burglar: the first story marks the introduction of the...

Leni 6 hours 2 minutes

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J. S. Fletcher - Borough Treasurer

Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasurer of the borough. But when an ex-detective moves to town, 30 years of...

MaryAnn 7 hours 56 minutes

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E. W. Hornung - Shadow of a Man

Set in rural Australia, this mystery novel follows a pair of newlyweds who are determined to make their improbable marriage work, no matter the odds. But little do they know exactly how high the odds are stacked...

Brendan Nelson-Weiss and 11 more 3 hours 50 minutes

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R. Austin Freeman - Vanishing Man

A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in which a man has vanished. Perhaps he has died; perhaps not;but the issue is...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 50 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Amiable Charlatan (version 2)

A lively adventure of a father-daughter con team enjoying themselves in Edwardian London. — Summary by Cate Barratt

Cate Barratt 6 hours 19 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Red Window

Two former school friends, now both military men, meet again and discover both are trying to lose themselves to public gaze. Dick West has inherited the family estate, but is out of favor. «The Red Window» was used...

Lynne T and 8 more 8 hours 24 minutes

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A. E. W. Mason - Watchers

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a...

Jacquerie 6 hours 7 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Bishop's Secret

Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What...

David Wales 12 hours 41 minutes

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Gertrude Atherton - Mrs. Balfame

Enid Belfame: 42 years old, 22 of them as a married woman; eminently respectable; founder of The Friday Club; small town dignitary; a paragon of virtue. But does she have what it takes to commit murder? And will the...

Lynne T 9 hours 32 minutes

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Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service

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Laurence Clarke - Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service

What has Manton gotten himself into? His impersonation has broader implications — and more dangerous ones — than he had imagined. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 10 hours 8 minutes

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B. L. Farjeon - House of the White Shadows

Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a...

Roger Melin 16 hours 47 minutes

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Roy J. Snell - Secret Mark

Student Lucile Tucker works part-time at the library of the large university she attends in Chicago to help pay her tuition. One night, while closing the library for the evening, she glimpses a small child – a girl –...

Lee Ann Howlett 4 hours 10 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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