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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Wyllard's Weird

A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary...

Lynne T 17 hours 19 minutes

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John D MacDonald - Bullet for Cinderella

HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY… But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like...

Winston Tharp 5 hours 40 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Red Money

Greed and lost love collide to create dark secrets. Through twists and turns, corrupt aristocrats let family and honor overshadow love and true happiness. In the end, evil passes and good endures. (Summary by Sharon...

Sharon Kilmer 9 hours 49 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead Men's Shoes

Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her...

Michele Eaton and 8 more 19 hours 11 minutes

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Unknown - String of Pearls (dramatic reading)

Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett; Todd's barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St....

11 hours 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

530

Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth The Wanderer

One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, he wanders around the world in search of someone who would replace him and...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 28 hours 39 minutes

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Gertrude Atherton - Avalanche

Price Ruyler has been sent to San Francisco from New York to salvage the family business after the 1906 earthquake. His success makes him one of the city's most eligible bachelors but he resists the machinations of...

Lynne T 4 hours 14 minutes

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J. S. Fletcher - Herapath Property

Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet wound to the head. An allegedly forged Will deepens the mystery. An intriguing...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 22 minutes

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Cradock Nowell Vol. 3

Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who, at the end of Volume 1, is...

Lynne T 8 hours 14 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Golden Web

Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. A former acquaintance from his days in...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 28 minutes

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories that were originally illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first set of short stories that were published and followed the publishing of his...

David Clarke 10 hours 56 minutes

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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - Dead Letter

Published in 1866, «The Dead Letter: An American Romance» written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Regester, is credited by historians of popular literature to be the first full-length...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours 39 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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