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Detective Fiction

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Fred M. White - Corner House

A deserted house with a troubled past. A mysterious countess who captivates everyone with her wealth and beauty — well, almost everyone. An equally mysterious derelict who holds a secret to the countess's past. A...

Jacquerie 7 hours 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

425

William Le Queux - Stolen Souls

This is a collection of 14 of William le Queux' best mystery stories. (Summary by Carolin)

bala and 10 more 7 hours 11 minutes

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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

Medical

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Anonymous - Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital...

Ruth Golding and 3 more 6 hours 58 minutes

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Detective Fiction

388

Anna Katharine Green - Circular Study

In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in...

Jacquerie 6 hours 15 minutes

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Detective Fiction

507

Burton Egbert Stevenson - That Affair at Elizabeth (version 2)

A bride-to-be vanishes and mystery is born. Before it is solved, its pursuers uncover madness, treachery, and a grave in a cellar. Summary by Jacquerie

Jacquerie 6 hours 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

550

A. E. W. Mason - Watchers

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a...

Jacquerie 6 hours 7 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

466

Richard Marsh - Datchet Diamonds

Oh dear! The Duchess of Datchet's diamonds, worth a quarter of a million pounds, have been stolen. Just as Mr. Paxton, a ne'er do well gambler planning to leave the country to escape his losses, reads this news item...

Jacquerie 5 hours 32 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

470

Grant Allen - Recalled to Life

A woman is haunted by a terrible event she witnessed in her youth but is unable to make sense of — a murder, the sight of which is so traumatic that it drives every memory of life up to that moment from her mind. The...

Jacquerie 5 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

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Zona Gale - Miss Lulu Bett

Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight. She is, uncomplainingly, «the family beast of burden,» living in the background...

Jacquerie 4 hours 39 minutes

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Religious Fiction

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Zona Gale - Christmas, A Story

This is a gentle Christmas story, whose message is that if we didn't already have Christmas, we'd find a way to invent it. It's hard times in Old Trail Town as the Season of Giving approaches. The factory that employs...

Jacquerie 3 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Great Shadow

Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore...

Jacquerie 3 hours 52 minutes

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Romance

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Wilkie Collins - Miss or Mrs.?

Natalie Graybrooke is in love with her cousin Launcelot Linzie, but engaged to Mr. Turlington, an older man who covets her fortune and whom she detests. Turlington is the executor of Natalie's father's estate. When...

Jacquerie 3 hours 28 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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