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Elizabeth Bonhôte - Bungay Castle: A Novel

Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family at Bungay Castle in Suffolk. Two young members of the family, Roseline and Edwin,...

Patti Cunningham 9 hours 8 minutes

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Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

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Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

«In this early detective novel, the detective is Hilda Wade. She is a very capable nurse, but there is something mysterious about her from the moment she arrives at the hospital. Upon meeting her, Dr. Hubert...

Anna Simon and 1 more 10 hours 13 minutes

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Donald McGibeny - 32 Caliber

A suspicious accident reveals itself to be a murder! Our story is narrated by a lawyer who turns detective in order to uncover the real murderer, and leads us on a chase through Bolshevik headquarters, country clubs,...

Dawn Larsen 4 hours 13 minutes

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Window at the White Cat

When a clumsy, well-meaning lawyer gets involved with a pair of delightful old maids and a beautiful girl, he must acquire some of the skills of his friends the detective and the newspaperman to solve the puzzle of...

Robert Keiper 6 hours 50 minutes

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Barton Wood Currie - Officer 666

Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rather than thwart the planned burglary, he borrows a police uniform from a...

Roger Melin 7 hours 51 minutes

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Paul Thorne - Sheridan Road Mystery

A shot rings out in the middle of the night in a quiet Chicago neighborhood. Patrolman Murphy is directed to an apartment where a man says the shot came from. The apartment is locked and apparently empty. Was there a...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 40 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

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...

Jc Guan and 10 more 10 hours 29 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Mark Twain - Double Barreled Detective Story

A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes,...

John Greenman 2 hours

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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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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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