Found 1,727 results for "Intrigue, fiction"
Les Trois Mousquetaires
by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.
A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
“We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
THE weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, w...
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
Just before dusk in the late afternoon of June 16, 1832, I found myself walking along the crowded docks of Liverpool, En...
Contact
by Carl Sagan
By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world.
Jumanji
by Chris Van Allsburg
"Now remember," Mother said, "your father and I are bringing some guests by after the opera, so please keep the house ne...
London Bridges
by James Patterson
COLONEL GEOFFREY SHAFER loved his new life in Salvador, Brazil's third-largest city and some would say its most intrigui...
A Man Lay Dead
by Ngaio Marsh
Nigel Bathgate, in the language of his own gossip column, was "definitely intrigued" about his week-end at Frantock.
The Man with the Golden Gun
by Ian Fleming
The Secret Service holds much that is kept secret even from very senior officers in the organization. Only M. and his Ch...
Quentin Durward, or, The fortunate Scotsman
by Sir Walter Scott
THE latter part of the fifteenth century prepared a train of future events, that ended by raising France to that state o...
