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John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

Chapter XXXIV. Violence It had been arranged at Folking, before Hester had started, that Caldigate himself should drive the waggonette into Cambridge to take her back on the Wednesday, but ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2010-02-14 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XXVI. THE KESWICK POET. Infinite difficulties were now complicating themselves on the head of poor Daniel Thwaite. The packet which the Countess addressed to him did not reach him ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
Marmion by Sir Walter Scott
epub |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CANTO FOURTH.—THE CAMP. I. Eustace, I said, did blithely mark The first notes of the merry lark. The lark sang shrill, the cock he crew, And loudly Marmion's bugles blew, ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki
epub |eng | 1995-05-01 | Author:Saki [Saki]

THE FEAST OF NEMESIS “It’s a good thing that Saint Valentine’s Day has dropped out of vogue,” said Mrs. Thackenbury; “what with Christmas and New Year and Easter, not to ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton
epub |eng | 2004-08-31 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

Miss Thackeray, who was of the party, delighted Browning beyond measure by calling the sleepy old fishing district "White Cotton Night-Cap Country." It was exactly the kind of elfish phrase ...
( Category: British & Irish December 17,2017 )
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography by Nicholas Rennison
epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Nicholas Rennison [Rennison, Nicholas]

CHAPTER TEN ‘I THEN PASSED THROUGH PERSIA…’ WHY THE AMBAN MADE HOLMES’S journey possible and what the two men discussed during the detective’s sojourn in the Tibetan capital are matters ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 16,2017 )
Serious Sweet by A L Kennedy
epub |eng | 2016-05-18 | Author:A L Kennedy [Kennedy, A L]

A woman sits in a café on a not unpleasant day. There may be rain later, but it’s gentle now and quite mild for October. She sits by the window ...
( Category: British & Irish December 16,2017 )
Sleep in Peace Tonight by James MacManus
epub |eng | | Author:James MacManus

10 Harry Hopkins landed in New York four days after leaving England. He had changed planes in Lisbon, flying on a Pan Am clipper south to Portuguese Guinea and then ...
( Category: British & Irish December 16,2017 )
Agatha Christie - Tommy and Tuppence 02 - N or M? (1941) by Agatha Christie
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

WE HAVE GOT YOUR CHILD IN SAFEKEEPING. YOU WILL BE TOLD WHAT TO DO IN DUE COURSE. IF YOU GO TO THE POLICE YOUR CHILD WILL BE KILLED. SAY NOTHING. ...
( Category: Mystery December 16,2017 )
Haweswater by Sarah Hall
epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Sarah Hall [Sarah Hall]

Jack Liggett holds the warm, dry body on the dark lunar banks of the river. He is remembering the importance of money, has devoted much of his life to it, ...
( Category: Contemporary December 15,2017 )
Pharaoh by Wilbur Smith
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-07-22 | Author:Wilbur Smith [Wilbur Smith]

Listening to the inane and ridiculous assertions of the chorus I felt my rage and my hatred flaring afresh for the monster who now ruled Egypt. His madness was enhanced ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense December 15,2017 )
04. A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
mobi |eng | 2008-11-29 | Author:Raymond E. Feist

Martin sat resting against a tree. He kissed Briana’s hair as she sank deeper into his arms. She stared off into some unseen place. Before them a small brook wound ...
( Category: Fantasy December 15,2017 )
A Dying Light In Corduba by Davis Lindsey
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Davis, Lindsey [Davis, Lindsey]

I managed a grin, then followed it with a compromise: ‘I need you! You’ve been summing up my job for me pretty accurately. How about being poked on to a ...
( Category: Mystery December 15,2017 )
A Darkness at Sethanon by Feist Raymond E
epub |eng | 1986-02-01 | Author:Feist, Raymond E. [Feist, Raymond E.]

Martin sat resting against a tree. He kissed Briana’s hair as she sank deeper into his arms. She stared off into some unseen place. Before them a small brook wound ...
( Category: Fantasy December 15,2017 )
A Famine of Horses by P. F. Chisholm
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:P. F. Chisholm [Chisholm, P. F.]

“There’s no other way ye’ll get off this tower still breathing, lad, so ye’d best think about it now and right hard.” It was in fact perfectly true that Carey ...
( Category: Mystery December 15,2017 )

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