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The novel takes place in rural Kent during the hop-picking season. A burglary takes place and the complex circumstances surrounding it led to Sergeant Wragge of the local force calling in Scotland Yard. It is only through the deductions of Priestley, however, that...
The old ferryman had caught many strange fish in his time, but none so strange as the body he fished out of the harbour one summer evening as the tide was on the turn. To his horror he saw at once that it was Captain Stanlake, the local harbour master. In the few months...
In The Mysterious Suspect, wealthy industrialist Peter Horningtoft is found dead in his study after apparently drinking poison from a bottle sent to him as a rheumatism treatment. Jimmy Waghorn is called in and blunders through the case initially until assisted by Dr...
At the London service flat where she lives with her husband, dies after eating a meal which later analysis shows was infused with digitalis. Scotland Yard at first suspect her husband, who had been called away by a telephone call of murdering her. However, with...
The book starts with the gruesome discovery of the dismembered body of an unidentified man in a milk churn outside the premises of a suitably surly farmer. He denies all knowledge of the headless corpse or the churn and Arnold and Merrion set off on the trail, which...
Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and… murder. The Astonishing Adventure ofJane Smith, the first of Patricia Wentworth's mystery...
First published in the original German in 1927, this translation first published in the US by Harper and Row Publishers in 1962, public domain. "What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the...
The true story of two great Asiatic lovers, Jahangir, despot of the richest court in the world and Nur Mahal, the beautiful Persian girl who ruled his empire for him.
Primarily known for historical novels in the Crusader and Cossack series, this time Harold Lamb in “A Garden to the Eastward” features a hidden tribe living in a volcano in Kurdistan.
First published in 1929. A young man is stabbed in the back with a stiletto dagger while waiting in the queue for standing room at one of the final West End performances of a hit musical comedy. None of those near him in the queue noticed him until he collapsed, or...
First published in 1930. A charming memoir of the high Victorian-into-Edwardian epoch. Benson writes from the perspective of the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, moving in elite circles since his adolescence, and also his successful career as a novelist. He aims to...
This is a thrilling courtroom mystery exploring the bitter effects of murder and its aftermath on the accused and those closest to them.
In this volume the Provincial Lady comes to America on a literary tour, visiting New York Chicago, Cleveland, Boston and other cities. A delightful see-yourselves-as-others-see-you view that challenges the American sense of humor.
First published in 1929, public domain. A collection of eight short stories featuring Gabriel Gale, an eccentric poet and portrait-painter. Gale’s madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen.
In ''Sandow on Physical Training: A Study in the Perfect Type of the Human Form,'' Eugene Sandow delves into the principles of physical training and the ideal human physique. Written in a clear and concise style, this book provides detailed instructions on exercises,...
First published in 1929, now public domain, ''Hitty: HerFirst Hundred Years'' is the classic tale told from the point-of-view of an inanimate doll named Hitty, who was constructed in the 1820s and traveled around the world, through many different owners. From...
The story is set around a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers. It focuses on the eccentric collection of summer residents, mostly there to try and recover their health, overseen by the domineering former Indian Army Colonel Chase. According...
Earl Derr Biggers' mystery ''The Black Camel'' was first published in 1929. The death of Hollywood actress Shelah Fane in her Waikiki beach house brings Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police to seek the identity of the killer. The story behind her murder is linked with...
First published in 1929, now public domain, this is a classic Hallowe'en mystery from pullitzer-winning Frances Noyes Hart. It's Hallowe'en, 1928. A group of friends gathers at the country home of a rich young widow, somewhere near Washington. At first, it seems that...
A shipwreck brings many interested people to a hamlet. What is on the wreck that is so important? As dead bodies show up and a cach of dynamite is discovered on the wreck, some romance blooms. Eventually the various people are sorted into insurance investigators,...
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