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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...
A Caribbean Mystery
by Agatha Christie
"Take all this business about Kenya," said Major Palgrave.
Towards Zero
by Agatha Christie
The man in the Hospital bed shifted his body slightly and stifled a groan.
The Mystery of the Blue Train
by Agatha Christie
IT was close on midnight when a man crossed the Place de la Concorde.
Crooked House
by Agatha Christie
I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.
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.
Death on the Nile
by Agatha Christie
"Linnet Ridgeway!" "That's her!" said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.
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...
The Hollow
by Agatha Christie
AT 6:13 A.M. on a Friday morning Lucy Angkatell's big blue eyes opened upon another day, and as always, she was at once ...
The Murder at the Vicarage
by Agatha Christie
It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon a...
The Sittaford Mystery
by Agatha Christie
Major Burnaby drew on his gum boots, buttoned his overcoat collar round his neck, took from a shelf near the door a hurr...
The Haunted Hotel
by Wilkie Collins
In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point.
Murder in Mesopotamia
by Agatha Christie
IN the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.
Five Little Pigs
by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.
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His Last Bow [8 stories]
by Arthur Conan Doyle
I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...
Cards on the Table
by Agatha Christie
"MY dear Monsieur Poirot!" It was a soft purring voice used deliberately as an instrument-nothing impulsive or unpremedi...