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Thomas W. Hanshew - Riddle of the Purple Emperor

Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance of the family jewels. The Cheyne jewels include a pendant featuring the...

Ruth Golding 8 hours 19 minutes

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Earle Ashley Walcott - Blindfolded

Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. Dudley answers the summons, only to find himself immediately wrapped in the...

Roger Melin 10 hours 57 minutes

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J. S. Fletcher - Chestermarke Instinct

Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank’s vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have unaccountably refused to call in the police to investigate the theft from...

MaryAnn 7 hours 21 minutes

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Man in Lower Ten

Someone had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKnight's turn to go, but he was bagging off because he wanted to spend the...

MaryAnn 6 hours 15 minutes

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R. Austin Freeman - Mystery of 31 New Inn

Jeffrey Blackmore suspiciously made two wills, both deceptively alike, but still, in a cunning way, completely different. John Thorndyke, equally cunning and smart, smells something fishy. With stylish cool and logic,...

BrandonM and 7 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Godwin - Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary....

Bev J Stevens 16 hours 53 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Francis Marion Crawford - Man Overboard

Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin...

Roger Melin 1 hour 46 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Valley of Fear

Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are preceded by either a murder or a suicide. A secretive organization lies culprit...

Katie Riley 6 hours 22 minutes

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Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

A kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create a horrifying conundrum. Who was the...

Nathalie J. 6 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sax Rohmer - Hand of Fu-Manchu

Further adventures of Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie as they continue their battles against the evil genius, Dr Fu-Manchu. (summary by Elaine Twiddle)

laineyben 6 hours 32 minutes The Fu-Manchu Series by Sax Rohmer

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Thomas W. Hanshew - Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces

Meet Hamilton Cleek — man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do. Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but the book is enormous fun. The goodies are good and the baddies are...

Ruth Golding 13 hours 25 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Jim Jacobson and 10 more 10 hours 55 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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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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