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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.
Tom Sawyer, Detective
by Mark Twain
Well, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaw...
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.
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...
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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 ...
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 ...
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.
Sleeping Murder
by Agatha Christie
Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side.
Appointment with Death
by Agatha Christie
"YOU do see, don't you, that she's go to be killed?"
The Moving Finger
by Agatha Christie
and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life.
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
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...
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...
Преступление и наказание
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
No início de julho, ao entardecer, sob um calor intenso, um jovem saiu do cubículo que sublocava na travessa S.
Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown
O maior estabelecimento de pesquisa científica do mundo – Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) –, na Suíç...
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...