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Sinclair Lewis - Willow Walk

As featured in The Best Short Stories of 1918, The Willow Walk is a trenchant tale of an elaborate heist by a dissolute man who gradually loses his mind in the process. The twist ending also should have won Lewis an...

VfkaBT 1 hour 24 minutes

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J. S. Fletcher - In the Mayor's Parlour

“Rotten borough” is a term that goes back to the 18th century, and it used to mean a parliamentary constituency in which a few property owners, or sometimes a single one, could choose the local member of parliament....

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 49 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Mill Mystery

In the quiet New England village of S--, a young and beloved minister is found dead, ignominiously drowned in a dye vat in a dilapidated mill. Almost immediately, rumors of suicide begin to circulate. But was it...

Jacquerie 7 hours 43 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Silver Bullet

Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the lights in the house are on and all of the doors are open. While trying to find...

Richard Kilmer 12 hours 14 minutes

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Arthur Machen - Red Hand

Two London gentlemen ponder the evolution of humankind as they investigate a modern-day murder committed with an ancient tool. — Summary by Wanda White

Wanda White 1 hour 6 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Lady Jim of Curzon Street

Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, and with no friend to assist, she resorts to committing crimes. Fergus Hume...

Jim Locke 15 hours 8 minutes

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J. S. Fletcher - Ravensdene Court

Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court on the Northumbrian coast. There, Francis Raven, the owner, recently retired...

Nicholas Clifford 8 hours 43 minutes

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G. A. Henty - Dash for Khartoum

When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid returns, intent on using the boys to get money. When the boy she chooses...

deongines and 2 more 13 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

431

Guy Boothby - Dr. Nikola’s Experiment

Guy Boothby's fourth novel of five about the svelte mysterious anti-hero Dr Nikola sees him progress further on his search for immortality. Here we find him deep in the wilds of Northumbria conducting an experiment of...

Peter John Keeble 5 hours 15 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Thou Art The Man

Sibyl married after assuming that her cousin, with whom she was in love, died. However, said cousin, who suffers from epilepsy, found himself near a murder scene and had no idea what happened. Fearing the worst, he...

beyondutopia 17 hours 6 minutes

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Andy Adams - Hawaiian Sea Hunt Mystery

Adventure series in exotic locations. This adventure is set in the exotic Island of Hawaii and involves the search for a missing sloop and the whereabouts of a valuable mine. Biff Brewster, his father and friends...

Peter Thomlinson 3 hours 37 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Evil Shepherd

A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows, but he is saved by brilliant defense attorney Francis Ledsam. It is a...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 26 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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