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Joanna E. Wood
Mina the daughter of an unholy union a mermaid taken by one of the evil Dark Ones. Helping save the Commander-in-Chief of the Legion John, she showed herself to be a potentially dangerous weapon susceptible to darkness in her own blood. Now, for the common good, Jonah has angels watching her...
Edgar Wallace
Thomas Maple lives on Crystal Palace Road with his niece Verity. He works for a firm of bank note engravers. However, the dollar bills he shows Wentworth Gold are forgeries perfect except for the missing Treasury sign. When Verity meets her new employer she develops serious misgivings, and arriving back home she can hear a menacing voice. "A Debt Discharged" is a novel about forged dollar bills and a young girls investigations into her suspicious new employer. These were largely adventure narratives with elements of crime or mystery, and usually combined a bombastic sensationalism with hammy violence.
A Desert Bride. A Story of Adventure in India and Persia
Hume Nisbet
Ronald Makivor and Jack Bangles decided to find the peacock throne of Shah Jehan, who, as they say, Nadir Shah took away from Delhi. Their adventures begin with fleeing wide legs from the rebellious sepoys. Over time, they enter the service of the Afghan prince a model of knightly honor who must have been very unlike his compatriots, unless they are greatly offended by the general message. In his company, they go through amazing experience and see that they are fighting enough to satisfy the most warlike taste.
Dick Donovan
A Detectives Triumphs (1891) by Dick Donovan eleven intriguing detective short stories including: The Mystery of Surgeon-Major Palmer; The Great Ruby Robbery; The Abduction, etc. Dick Donovan is the pseudonym of British author James Edward Preston Muddock (28 May 1843 23 January 1934) who created a private detective, also named Dick Donovan, in the 1890s. Dick Donovan achieved an international reputation as the master sleuth, and is reputedly responsible for American detectives being known popularly as Dicks.
A Difficult Problem and Other Stories
Anna Katharine Green
Originally published between 1894 and 1900, A Difficult Problem is a collection of ten short works of mysterious fiction by Anna Katharine Green. These ten short stories include the mystery and crime stories as their basic theme. This whodunit collection brings to you some of Greens finest crime mysteries to keep you at your toes: The gray madam, The bronze hand, Midnight in Beauchamp Row, The staircase at the Hearts Delight and others. Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called the mother of the detective novel.
Rudyard Kipling
Despite the fact that, as the name implies, they are diverse in nature, most of these stories are affectionate satires with the participation of the social strata into which he belonged and who knew best of all a class of officers from a public school. The Honor of the War was a funny story of hooliganism in which Kipling seemed to fully endorse this practice; Regulus removes the lid from the can; while the Marines were a carefully crafted soldiers practical joke involving a horse and some fireworks
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Mark Twain
A wealthy young woman is abused, humiliated, and abandoned by her new husband, Jacob Fuller, whom she married against her fathers will. Young Fuller takes offense at the fact that her father rejects and rejects him as deliberate, and decides to take revenge on him by mistreating his new bride. After leaving her, she gives birth to a son whom she calls Archie Stillman. When the child gets older, the mother discovers that he has an incredible sense of smell, like bloodhound.
A Duet. With an Occasional Chorus
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1899. The novel features the story of a happily married couple which is threatened by a previous lover of the husband. Also, the novel tells the adventures of a young couple, starting from their wedding preparation and ending with the birth of their first child. They are funny and cute, love each other, passionate and want always to be together. They make rules for family life, travel, keep the house and just live. The novel, set in Conan Doyles own time, written partly in the epistolary form he sought to revive after a century of disuse and which was also related to the self-conscious textuality of the late-Victorian urban Gothic.