Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 1972-01-02 | Author:John Edward Williams [Williams, John Edward]

IV. Letter: Mevius to Furius Bibaculus, from Rome (January, 38 B.c.) My dear Furius, I really have not the heart to write you at any length about that disastrous evening ...
( Category: Literary February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Day, Sylvia [Day, Sylvia]

“Angel.” Gideon’s voice was a warm rasp in my ear. “Wake up.” I moaned, squeezing my eyes shut tighter and burying my face deeper in his neck. “Leave me alone, ...
( Category: Contemporary February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Day, Sylvia [Day, Sylvia]

I woke to darkness and the scent of Gideon’s skin, the lights and sounds of the city shut out by soundproofed windows and blackout drapes. Gideon slid over me, a ...
( Category: Contemporary February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Day, Sylvia [Day, Sylvia]

13 MAYBE IT WAS because I’d just gotten laid myself that I saw the signs on Megumi. Or maybe my sex radar, as Cary called it, wasn’t on the fritz ...
( Category: Contemporary February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

The door was opened to Miss Marple by “Gladdie,” looking more depressed than Miss Marple had ever thought possible. In the sitting room (a quarter of the late drawing room, ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

A month later Jane died. It was influenza, followed by pneumonia. She made Alan Everard her executor and left all she had to Winnie. But it wasn’t very much. It ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-15 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

Afterword ‘The Lonely God’ was first published in the Royal Magazine in July 1926. It is one of Christie’s few purely romantic stories and she herself considered it to be ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 1934-01-02 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

II The convoy for Baghdad started at seven o’clock in the morning. There was a party of twelve. Mr Parker Pyne and General Poli, Miss Pryce and her niece, three ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 1923-01-01 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

V It was a quarter of an hour later. A recherché little supper had appeared; and Poirot, beaming all over his face, was dispensing hospitality and answering our eager questions. ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

II A duchess greeted M. Hercule Poirot in fulsome tones. “So you could manage to come after all, M. Poirot! Why, that’s splendid.” “The pleasure is mine, madame,” murmured Poirot, ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-22 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

Chapter 11 The Sunningdale Mystery ‘Do you know where we are going to lunch today, Tuppence?’ Mrs Beresford considered the question. ‘The Ritz?’ she suggested hopefully. ‘Think again.’ ‘That nice ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 1934-08-04 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

At twelve o’clock on Christmas Day, Edward Robinson strode into the tiny drawing room of a house in Clapham, with the customary greeting of “Merry Christmas.” Maud, who was rearranging ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

Chapter 11 There was an awkward pause after the police officers had left the room with Jan. Then Starkwedder remarked, ‘Well, I suppose I’d better go and see whether they’ve ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last … I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 1924-01-01 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

Seven SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE “Sing a Song of Sixpence” was first published in Holly Leaves (published by Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News), 2 December 1929. Sir Edward Palliser, ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )