mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-10-29 | Author:Mike Ashley

THE MOTOR BOAT Jacques Futrelle One of the many tragedies linked with the sinking of the Titanic was the death of author Jacques Futrelle (1875–1912). Futrelle was the creator of ...

epub |eng | 2007-10-01 | Author:Joanne Fluke & Leslie Meier & Laura Levine [Fluke, Joanne & Meier, Leslie & Levine, Laura]

Chapter Seven I woke up the next morning, still recuperating from my encounter with Angel Cavanaugh (or, as I was now calling her, Rosemary’s Other Baby). I’d staggered home from ...

epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * IV. For six or seven months I saw no more of Mr. Slinkton. He called once at my house, but I was not at home; and he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Steven Saylor [Saylor, Steven]

Savage, sullen boy, whelp of a lioness, Stone-hearted and scornful of love, I give you a lover’s ring—my noose! No longer be sickened by the sight of me; I go ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Steven Saylor [Saylor, Steven]

The next morning I rose early and put on a red tunic, as the ransom letter had specified. Before I went downstairs to the tavern I told Belbo to find ...

epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

* * * VII THE RING OF THOTH Mr. John Vansittart Smith, F.R.S., of 147-A Gower Street, was a man whose energy of purpose and clearness of thought might have ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER VI. ALL human penetration has its limits. Accurately as Captain Wragge had seen his way hitherto, even his sharp insight was now at fault. He finished his cigar with ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER I. One night, during the period of the first French Revolution, the family of Francois Sarzeau, a fisherman of Brittany, were all waking and watching at a late hour ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER XXVI. MORE OF MY OBSTINACY. ARIEL was downstairs in the shadowy hall, half asleep, half awake, waiting to see the visitors clear of the house. Without speaking to us, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER XXXIII. An unusually long day's work at the office had fatigued good Mr. Mool. He pushed aside his papers, and let his weary eyes rest on a glass vase ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

Chapter 11. "Still at work!" Crayford exclaimed, looking at the half-demolished bed-place. "Give yourself a little rest, Richard. The exploring party is ready to start. If you wish to take ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2003-07-10 | Author:Dennis Lehane

Theo put his hands on his knees and looked at Jimmy until Jimmy raised his head and met his eyes. "How you handling this so far?" Jimmy shrugged. "It hasn't ...

epub, mobi | | 1974-06-14 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

Afterword This story first appeared in the July 1973 issue of El-lery Queen's Mystery Magazine, under the title I gave it. In the magazine the story has a slightly different ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-11-08 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

TRIPLE DEVIL I t was not surprising that at this particular banquet of the Black Widowers, the conversation turned on the subject of self-made men. After all, Mario Gonzalo, host ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Jackson, Melanie [Jackson, Melanie]

Chapter 3 “Good God,” Mary whispered. I was glad she stopped there. Our wine-soaked brains couldn’t absorb any more. I’m sure Brandy struck everyone as being an airheaded material girl ...