Don W. Jenkins

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Detective Fiction

467

Fergus Hume - Crimson Cryptogram

Young Dr Ellis, a struggling new physician, is enjoying a quiet evening smoking and enjoying conversation with his journalist friend Cass, when their mysterious neighbour, Mrs Moxton, bursts in upon them with...

Don W. Jenkins 6 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

451

Fergus Hume - Spider

Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be...

Don W. Jenkins 10 hours 7 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

439

Elliott O'Donnell - Sorcery Club

Leon Hamar and his friends were out-of-work and starving in San Francisco after the firm they worked for went out of business. Leon acquired a strange book and some cash in a trade for his watch-chain, one of his last...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 39 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

417

Sax Rohmer - Brood of the Witch Queen

A swan suffers a mysterious death, its neck wrung by apparent supernatural forces. A young woman dies alone in a hospital room, apparently strangled by mysterious means. Sir Michael Ferrara is found strangled in his...

Don W. Jenkins 7 hours 6 minutes

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Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West

Action & Adventure Fiction

434

Frank Norris - Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West

This collection of Frank Norris' stories was published after his death in 1902. These stories range in topic from the machinations of the commodities market in Chicago in «A Deal in Wheat» to a desperate race for love...

Don W. Jenkins 5 hours 4 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

434

Finley Peter Dunne - Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin Dooley, «doctor of philosophy.» Mr. Dooley was a saloonkeeper with opinions...

Don W. Jenkins 4 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

475

Jack London - Dutch Courage and Other Stories

Jack London was quoted as saying, «I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!» After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection...

Don W. Jenkins 3 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

505

Jack London - When God Laughs, and Other Stories

This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, to the trials of life and travel on many frontiers, to an allegory about a...

Don W. Jenkins 5 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

549

Jack London - Daughter of the Snows

In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, «a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie,» who heads to the Yukon gold fields after creating a stir in her hometown...

Don W. Jenkins 8 hours 34 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

512

Jack London - Tales of the Fish Patrol

Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again...

Don W. Jenkins 2 hours 56 minutes

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Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas

Humorous Fiction

491

F. Anstey - Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas

F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pieces for Punch and humorous novels. Mr. Punch's Model Music Hall is a...

Don W. Jenkins 4 hours 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

423

F. Anstey - Voces Populi

F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pieces for Punch and humorous novels. Voces Populi, a collection of his Punch...

Don W. Jenkins 4 hours 48 minutes

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New

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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