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The Abandoned Room - A Mystery Story
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This is an enjoyable old Locked Room mystery puzzle. The story becomes increasingly puzzling as it moves along. There are two locked room murders, a main suspect (who is also the main character) who cannot remember what he was doing the night of the murder, and suggestions of supernatural activity.
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Charles Wadsworth Camp |
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Ebook
Free PDF - 516 KB |
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The Accused
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the accused, Alvin Morlock, is charged with the ultimate crime, the crime of murder. It is the intention of the State to demonstrate, in the course of this trial, that he is guilty and that the degree of his guilt, which it will be your function to fix, demands the ultimate punishment by law. In other words, we charge him with murder in the first degree. Murder calculated. Murder premeditated. Murder ruthlessly and heartlessly committed on the person who had every reason to expect nothing but a cherishing affection from the accused.
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Harold R. Daniels |
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Ebook
Free PDF - 556 KB |
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The Adventure of the Dying Detective
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Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long- suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life which must have sorely tried her patience. His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
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After Dark
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A series of tales supposed to be told to a portrait-painter by his sitters; the framework tells us how he came to think of publishing the stories thus collected; the introductions describe the circumstances under which the tales were told. These portions have a delicate every-day interest. The tales are stories of adventure, well varied, and often striking in the incidents, or with thrilling situations; and are as pleasant reading as a novel reader could
desire.
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Wilkie Collins |
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Free PDF - 1.08 KB |
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The Almost Perfect Murder
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The almost perfect murder: more Madame Storey mysteries, published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1933.
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Hulbert Footner |
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Ebook
Free PDF - 608 MB |
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Alias - The Lone Wolf
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The Lone Wolf is the nickname of the fictional character Michael Lanyard, a jewel thief turned private detective in a series of novels written by Louis Joseph Vance (1879–1933). A large number of movies based on and inspired by the books have been made. The character also appeared briefly on radio and
television.
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An Antarctic Mystery
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No doubt the following narrative will be received: with entire incredulity, but I think it well that the public should be put in possession of the facts narrated in "An Antarctic Mystery." The public is free to believe them or not, at its good pleasure. No more appropriate scene for the wonderful and terrible adventures which I am about to relate could be imagined than the Desolation Islands, so called, in 1779, by Captain Cook. I lived there for several weeks, and I can affirm, on the evidence of my own eyes and my own experience, that the famous English explorer and navigator was happily inspired when he gave the islands that significant
name.
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An Historical Mystery
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The story, near as I could tell, revolves around several people who are opposed to the Emperor Napoleon at the start of his reign. A good half, or better, of the story is background to the action, and once it begins the characters are confusing and the plot doesn't make much sense either. Various policemen and officials of the Emperor's government intervene to stop the traitors from further undermining Napoleon's
government.
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Author |
Honoré de Balzac |
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Ebook
Free PDF - 800 KB |
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The Avalanche
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A Mystery Story. Atherton, was an American Feminist and writer of social and historical fiction, much of it set in California. Although her reputation is founded primarily on her California fiction and essays, as well as her biography of Alexander Hamilton, Atherton also produced a number of Gothic stories, some of them, such as The Bell in the Fog, were considered significant achievements in the Gothic/supernaturalist tradition. The Avalanche begins: Price Ruyler knew that many secrets had been inhumed by the earthquake and fire of San Francisco and wondered if his wife's had been one of them. After all, she had been born in this city of odd and whispered pasts, and there were moments when his silent mother-in-law suggested a past of her own. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger
Publishing.
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Author |
Gertrude Atherton |
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Ebook
Free PDF - 416 MB |
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The Bat
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Mary Roberts Rinehart created a costumed supercriminal called "the Bat", who was cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for his "Batman."
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