Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-03-01 | Author:Victor Hugo

5 SUNDRY THUNDERBOLTS FALL UPON MA‘AM BOUGON NEXT DAY, Ma‘am Bougon,—thus Courfeyrac designated the old portress-landlady of the Gorbeau tenement,—Ma’am Bougon—her name was in reality Madame Bougon, as we have ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Dennis Lehane

“I’m dead too.” “I know. I’m sorry about that.” “You didn’t stop her.” “What could I do? By the time I reached her, she’d already, you know...” “Oh, boy.” “What?” ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-03-14 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART After the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externally the same, was really of another character than it ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Ellis Peters

* * * The Third Day of the Fair * * * Chapter One EMMA AROSE WITH THE DAWN, stole out of the wide bed she shared with Constance, and ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Kane, Ben [Kane, Ben]

Chapter XII AN HOUR AFTER the sun had risen, Spartacus came trotting up the path to the crater. There had been no sign of any Romans on the plain and ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-21 | Author:Ben Kane

Chapter XI WHEN THE TIME came that day to search out a suitable place to set up camp, the pair were nowhere near a village, or even an inn. Carbo ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-02-26 | Author:Anne Perry

That evening Pitt telephoned Jack’s political offices to find out where he was going to speak, and on being informed of the place, he set out to join him, first ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Jones, Sadie [Jones, Sadie]

Chapter Eight The summary hearings were held immediately, within forty-eight hours of the crimes being reported. Both Colonel Burroughs’s and Hal’s offices were too small to hold all the people ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Anne Perry

7 EMILY WAS APPALLED when she came into the library in answer to Albert’s summons and saw Pitt standing there. Thank heaven the circumstances had given him little time to ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1970-11-01 | Author:Agatha Christie

"We will agree it is nothing. But let me hear what it is." Slowly, unwillingly, Peter Lord allowed the story to be dragged from him - that scene of Elinor ...
( Category: Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-03 | Author:Charles Palliser

6 o’clock. [A passage in Greek letters begins here. Note by CP.] Shameful. I was thinking about Guinevere while she was doing it—imagining her delicate little white hand on my ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1992-10-23 | Author:Edward Rutherfurd

That evening a family conference was held between Nikita and his son, together with Andrei and Pavlo. As Nikita truly said, he needed any good advice he could get. And ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-04-12 | Author:Anne Perry

8 PITT ATTENDED THE funeral, but at such a discreet distance that he was sure none of the family saw him. Afterwards he followed them back to Cardington Crescent and ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Kamila Shamsie

19 He called three times before she was the one to answer the phone instead of her mother. ‘Hello, Fatima?’ she said when she picked up. ‘I have those notes ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Anne Perry

AN HOUR LATER Gracie was back in her best uniform with clean and starched white lace-edged cap and apron, and lined up with the other servants for Mrs. Newsome to ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )