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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

1920 1091 ed.
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

DUSK-of a summer night.

1900 210 ed.
The Seven Dials Mystery
The Seven Dials Mystery

by Agatha Christie

That amiable youth, Jimmy Thesiger, came racing down the big staircase at Chimneys two steps at a time.

1920 91 ed.
Tales of Terror and Mystery
Tales of Terror and Mystery

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical j...

1963 168 ed.
Murder in Mesopotamia
Murder in Mesopotamia

by Agatha Christie

IN the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.

1936 108 ed.
The Mysterious Stranger
The Mysterious Stranger

by Mark Twain

IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old ...

1916 82 ed.
The Big Four
The Big Four

by Agatha Christie

I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...

1927 121 ed.
Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder

by Agatha Christie

Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side.

1940 117 ed.
Appointment with Death
Appointment with Death

by Agatha Christie

"YOU do see, don't you, that she's go to be killed?"

1938 111 ed.
The Moving Finger
The Moving Finger

by Agatha Christie

and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life.

1942 115 ed.
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

ERANO LE CINQUE di una mattina invernale, in Siria.

1933 247 ed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

1892 1132 ed.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

1855 639 ed.
Flatland
Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...

1884 584 ed.
Dracula
Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....

1897 736 ed.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

1895 1146 ed.
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

1887 1447 ed.
Catch-22
Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

It was love at first sight.

1961 134 ed.