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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Confession

Mary Roberts Rinehart is claimed to have invented the «Had I but known» mystery genre. When Agnes Blakiston rented the old parsonage at Miss Emily's request she soon came to regret it. Was the house haunted? Did Miss...

Wina Hathaway 3 hours 16 minutes

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Anna Maynard Barbour - At the Time Appointed

«Those who remember that excellent detective story, That Mainwaring Affair will expect to find plenty of mystery and exciting incidents in A. Maynard Barbour's latest novel, called At the Time Appointed , and they...

RoseA and 10 more 11 hours 43 minutes

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Fred M. White - Mystery of the Four Fingers

A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers. It originally belonged to an Aztec tribe, and its location is known to one surviving descendant. Surprises,...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Flower of the North

Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he thought he knew. However, tucked in among the rocks and hills lies an...

Roger Melin 8 hours 25 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Millionaire Baby

A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six-year-old daughter, Gwendolen, missing since the afternoon...

Dawn Larsen 7 hours 29 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Madame Midas

Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr James Hume. At the age of three his father emigrated with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand. He was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. Shortly after graduation he...

Lucy Burgoyne 13 hours 17 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - No Name

The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it...

SilverG and 14 more 29 hours 40 minutes

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Stillwater Tragedy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor. Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi-autobiographical novel, The Story of a Bad Boy and his collection of short...

J. M. Smallheer 6 hours 1 minute

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Sax Rohmer - Bat Wing

Private detective Paul Harley investigates a mysterious case involving voodoo, vampirism, and macabre murder in the heart of London. The first book in the Paul Harley series, written by Sax Rohmer, author of The...

Mark Nelson 9 hours 13 minutes

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Thomas Peckett Prest - Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

This is volume 3 of 3. — Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula , which it heavily...

TriciaG and 20 more 23 hours 8 minutes

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Marcel Allain - Fantômas

Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless thief and killer, a bloodthirsty successor to LeBlanc's Arsène Lupin. The first...

Alan Winterrowd 10 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Missing: Page Thirteen

Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The futures of several people, including an eccentric misanthrope, a chemical...

Bev J Stevens 1 hour 33 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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