Classics
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Elias

FIFTEEN DAY 5: MONDAY The phone woke them early the next morning. There was only one extension in the house and that was downstairs. “You get it,” Jacobus shouted hoarsely ...
( Category: Mystery August 15,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-07-08 | Author:Rumer Godden

9 For a time the sun seemed to have disappeared in continual rain and the Abbey was dark and chill. Dame Agnes had turned the central heating off long ago ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 1962-08-14 | Author:H. Beam Piper [Piper, H.]

VICTOR GREGO REPLACED the hand-phone. “Leslie, on the yacht,” he said. “They’re coming in now. They’ll stop at the hospital to drop Kellogg, and then they’re coming here.” Nick Emmert ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Morley Callaghan [Callaghan, Morley]

TWO FISHERMEN The only reporter on the town paper, The Examiner, was Michael Foster, a tall, long-legged, eager fellow, who wanted to go to the city some day and work ...
( Category: Contemporary August 14,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Joost Zwagerman

3 So what is it about remembering the dead? Yes I know, I won’t get an answer to that, nor to the question I really want to ask, which is, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Michael Zimmer

Chapter Ten Leaving the sheriff’s office, Ethan returned to Carver’s snug little home on the edge of town. Claudia met him at the door, ushered him inside with a finger ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Donald Keene & Peter MacMillan [Keene, Donald & MacMillan, Peter]

24 The Bow of the Crescent Moon Despite the somewhat far-fetched ending, Episode 24 is one of the most poignant of the Tales. Like Episode 23 (see the commentary above), ...
( Category: Poetry August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-08-14 | Author:Twain, Mark

Chapter 10 THE MORNING of the trial Tom’s aunt Polly stopped him and warn’t going to let him go; she said it warn’t any place for boys, and besides, they ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1974-08-14 | Author:Jane Austen

* On the third day after the ball, as Nanny at five minutes before three, was beginning to bustle into the parlour with the tray and the knife-case, she was ...
( Category: Classics August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-14 | Author:Adriana Locke [Locke, Adriana]

Lincoln “HEY, G.” I STRIP THE sheets off my bed and toss them to the floor. Balancing the phone against my bare shoulder, I find a clean white set in ...
( Category: Contemporary August 14,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1988-02-15 | Author:Raymond Chandler

26 The Max had a black and white checked sport shirt, heavily pleated black slacks without a belt, two-tone black and white buckskin shoes, spotlessly clean. His thick black hair ...
( Category: Mystery August 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-18 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I think I stood stunned for some moments. Then I have a confused recollection of snatching at a paper. of the remonstrance of the man, whom I had not paid, ...
( Category: Mystery August 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

and by five, south by two and by two, west by one and by one, and so under.” ““What shall we give for it?” ” “All that is ours.” ““Why ...
( Category: Mystery August 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A very placid and respectable lady, who seemed quite innocent of any secret, and a portrait which showed me that she had two younger sisters. It instantly flashed across my ...
( Category: Classics August 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

front of the altar. I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced ...
( Category: Mystery August 14,2017 )