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The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER XXVI. MORE OF MY OBSTINACY. ARIEL was downstairs in the shadowy hall, half asleep, half awake, waiting to see the visitors clear of the house. Without speaking to us, ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Heart and Science by Wilkie Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER XXXIII. An unusually long day's work at the office had fatigued good Mr. Mool. He pushed aside his papers, and let his weary eyes rest on a glass vase ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER THE THIRTY-THIRD The Day Between THE interval-day before the second appearance of Herr Grosse, and the experiment on Lucilla's sight that was to follow it, was marked by two ...
( Category: British & Irish March 25,2014 )
The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

Chapter 11. "Still at work!" Crayford exclaimed, looking at the half-demolished bed-place. "Give yourself a little rest, Richard. The exploring party is ready to start. If you wish to take ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Basil by Wilkie Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

* * * With sensations of horror which I could not then, and cannot now analyse, I turned to the next day's paper; but found in it no further reference ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 25,2014 )
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 2009-03-13 | Author:James Ellroy

o o o I came to thinking I'd been knocked down in a third Bleichert-Blanchard fight, wondering how much hurt I'd put on my partner. I babbled, "Lee? Lee? Are ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-11-15 | Author:Margaret Atwood

I swam, the sea was boundless, I saw no shore. Tanit was merciless, my prayers were answered. O you who drown in love, remember me. —INSCRIPTION ON A CARTHAGINIAN FUNERARY ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
The help by Kathryn Stockett
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Kathryn Stockett

We lay the battered raw chicken on the rack. Then I have to remind the ding-dong for the bobillionth time to wash her hands before she kills us both. I ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
mobi, epub, azw, pdf | | 2009-09-14 | Author:Dan Brown

The secret hides within The Order The secret hides within The Order? At first glance, the inscription appeared to be stating the obvious—that the letters on the pyramid were out ...
( Category: Conspiracies March 25,2014 )
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
mobi, epub | | 2009-07-29 | Author:Dan Brown

CHAPTER 55 Seated on the divan beside Langdon, Sophie drank her tea and ate a scone, feeling the welcome effects of caffeine and food. Sir Leigh Teabing was beaming as ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw
epub |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * ACT III Still the library. Ten minutes later. Julia, angry and miserable, comes in from the dining room, followed by Craven. She crosses the room tormentedly, and ...
( Category: British & Irish March 25,2014 )
The Doctor's Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw
epub |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * ACT IV The studio. The easel is pushed back to the wall. Cardinal Death, holding his scythe and hour-glass like a sceptre and globe, sits on the ...
( Category: British & Irish March 25,2014 )
An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw
epub |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

CHAPTER XI Brandon Beeches, in the Thames valley, was the seat of Sir Charles Brandon, seventh baronet of that name. He had lost his father before attaining his majority, and ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
The Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw
epub |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * The Man of Destiny from http://mc.clintock.com/gutenberg/
( Category: British & Irish March 25,2014 )
Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) by George Bernard Shaw
epub |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * THE SECOND SCENE The Empress's petit lever. The central doors are closed. Those who enter through them find on their left, on a dais of two broad ...
( Category: Americas March 25,2014 )

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