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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 1999-03-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

* * * VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
epub |eng | 2007-02-14 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

* * * 1 (Return) The Bulletin des Lois publishes the following decree, dated the 27th of March:— "Considering the law of May 10, 1838, which classes the ordinary expenses ...
( Category: Europe August 23,2017 )
Fire and Sword by Harry Sidebottom
epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Harry Sidebottom

CHAPTER 22 Rome The Praetorian Camp, Eight Days after the Ides of April, AD238 On the battlements above the gate Timesitheus watched and waited. Smuts of soot drifted on the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 23,2017 )
Heaven's Edge by Romesh Gunesekera
epub |eng | 2002-08-23 | Author:Romesh Gunesekera

The next morning the sun was a smoky grey. I made my way on to the main factory floor. The place was gutted. All the machines had been removed, but ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 23,2017 )
The Linz Tattoo by Nicholas Guild
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Guild

“See the first violins?” he asked, pointing to the top line of the string section. “Just like I remembered, an octave lower than the oboe. And there I was down ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 23,2017 )
Listening in the Dusk by Celia Fremlin
epub |eng | 2014-08-23 | Author:Celia Fremlin [Celia Fremlin]

Chapter 17 During her years of teaching Alice had, of course, found herself at times the recipient of confidences from one or another of her pupils, and intractable though the ...
( Category: Mystery August 23,2017 )
The Silvers by J.A. Rock
epub |eng | 2016-02-21 | Author:J.A. Rock [Rock, J.A.]

The anger comes later. “Do you like living with me?” B asks. He has just come home from work, bringing with him a hard, frantic energy. “Yes,” Imms says. “Except ...
( Category: Architecture August 23,2017 )
Oathbreaker, Book 2: The Magus's Tale by McComb Colin
mobi |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:McComb, Colin [McComb, Colin]

How did it come that the taking of a tower is met by a picked band of apprentices and one or two assistants, instead of armies? The knowledge hidden in ...
( Category: Fantasy August 23,2017 )
Wild Ride (Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club) by Chantal Fernando
epub |eng | 2016-07-10 | Author:Chantal Fernando [Fernando, Chantal]

She fits on the back of my bike like she’s meant to be there. With her arms around me and her cheek pressed against my back, we ride to the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 23,2017 )
Oathbreaker: The Knight's Tale by Colin McComb
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-02 | Author:Colin McComb

On the side of the hill, just off the road, the lights of a tavern blazed into the early spring night. The dull murmur of a hard-working crowd crept through ...
( Category: Fantasy August 23,2017 )
Feast by Jeremiah Knight
epub |eng | 2016-06-05 | Author:Jeremiah Knight [Knight, Jeremiah]

21 During his life, formerly as a Marine, and recently as a survivor of the ExoGenetic apocalypse, Peter had made a good number of tough calls. Sometimes people died as ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
Gladiator by E. L. Todd
epub |eng | | Author:E. L. Todd

Chapter Ten Wilder kept his distance for the following few days. He was constantly in his office, and he didn’t even come out for food. Judy walked across the lawn ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense August 23,2017 )
Infidels by J. Robert Kennedy
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:J. Robert Kennedy [Kennedy, J. Robert]

Red Sea Coast, Saudi Arabia “I spy with my little eye, something that is blue.” Atlas looked at Jimmy, who motioned with his chin to look ahead. Atlas took a ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 23,2017 )
Sudden--At Bay (A Sudden Western #2) by Frederick H. Christian
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick H. Christian

Chapter Twelve Doc Hight had watched Sheriff Parris like a hawk from the moment he heard the three warning shots echo flatly across the town. The old man had given ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 23,2017 )
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-08-23 | Author:Ann Radcliffe

CHAPTER XII ‘Then, oh, you blessed ministers above, Keep me in patience; and, in ripen’d time, Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up In countenance.’ SHAKESPEARE[Measure for Measure]1 Annette ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )

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