The Man Who Was Thursday

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

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, an...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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...

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.

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

by Agatha Christie

MR. Morley was not in the best of tempers at breakfast.

The Secret of Chimneys

by Agatha Christie

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

Whose Body?

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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...

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

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 Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Žmonės, geižiantys įgyti valdovo palankumą, paprastai stengiasi jam įsiteikti tuo, ką turi brangiausia, arba tuo, ką, jų...

Bill

by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.

Cover Her Face

by P. D. James

The Red Thumb Mark

by R. Austin Freeman

CONFLAGRATAM An 1677. Fabricatarn An 1698. Richardo Powell Armiger Thesaurar." The words, set in four panels, which form...

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.

A Mind to Murder

by P. D. James

Dr. Paul Steiner, consulting psychiatrist at the Steen Clinic, sat in the front ground floor consulting-room and listene...