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Bobby Brown's grandfather is murdered and no one knows how did the killer enter the locked room? Excerpt: "The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companionships which recently had angered his grandfather to the point of threatening a disciplinary change in his will. As a consequence he drifted into that strange adventure which later was to surround him with dark shadows and overwhelming doubts."
The Footsteps That Stopped (Musaicum Murder Mysteries)
The night Mrs.Tangye committed suicide with her service-revolver, the maid heard footsteps in the garden which suddenly stopped when she switched on the light! Whose footsteps were they? Did Mrs.Tangye actually commit suicide or, was she murdered? Excerpt: "They were talking of the death of Mrs.Tangye who had been found, yesterday afternoon, sitting dead beside her tea-table, with a service-revolver lying on the floor beside her, and a bullet from it through her heart. The Webley was a souvenir of her days as an officer in the Waacs during the last year of the war, and was kept on a bracket in the room. Her husband had explained to the Coroner that his wife had recently spoken of having her initials engraved on it. He suggested that she must have been looking it over with that in her mind when she had met with her fatal accident."
The Religion and Folklore of Northern India
This 2-volume study examines the reality of Hindu worship in northern India from the perspective of its popular manifestation. In rural areas, practical Hinduism differed dramatically from organized Vedic Hinduism and included cult worship of a multitude of local deities which were not formally recognized by the Vedas but exerted a greater influence on the rhythms, meanings and decisions of day-to-day life. Crooke's study may have been the first to look at the religion through eyes other than those of missionaries or the Hindu elite, seeking to fill a gap in European intellectual knowledge of India by documenting living traditions in a serious and accessible manner. Volume 1: The Godlings of Nature The Heroic and Village Godlings The Godlings of Disease The Worship of the Sainted Dead Worship of the Malevolent Dead Volume 2: The Evil Eye and the Scaring of Ghosts Tree and Serpent Worship Totemism and Fetishism Animal-Worship The Black Art Some Rural Festivals and Ceremonies
Youth (Sci-Fi Classic)
Two children chance upon a mysterious creature and soon find out that it is none other than an alien from another planet! Hiding it from their parents and trying to keep him safe, will the children be able to help him go back home? Excerpt: Red kept to his croaking whisper, «Quiet! You want to wake somebody?» Slim noticed all at once that the sun scarcely topped the low hills in the east, that the shadows were long and soft, and that the grass was wet. Slim said, more softly, «What's the matter?» Red only waved for him to come out. Slim dressed quickly, gladly confining his morning wash to the momentary sprinkle of a little lukewarm water. He let the air dry the exposed portions of his body as he ran out, while bare skin grew wet against the dewy grass. Red said, «You've got to be quiet. If Mom wakes up or Dad or your Dad or even any of the hands then it'll be 'Come on in or you'll catch your death of cold.'»
The Little Huguenot (Historical Novel)
The Little Huguenot is a tale of Lieutenant de Guyon, member of the king musketeers on a challenging mission for his master, King Louis XV of France, known as Louis the Wellbeloved. Accompanied by six men, De Guyon sets forth to the forest of Fontainebleau to find the notorious Gabrielle de Vernet, known as «the Little Huguenot,» and to lure her back to Paris. After meeting an unfriendly priest who tries to scare them away, de Guyon begins to wonder whether all the gossip and tales of intrigues he has heard of «the Little Huguenot» are true and he is about to find that out as his company moves deeper in the forest.
The Cruise of the Midge (Historical Novel)
"The Cruise of the Midge" is a tense naval adventure that features the perils of the colonial Caribbean, offering an interesting autobiographical portrait of Jamaica in the 1820s. Excerpt: "We stood in, and as we approached I went aloft on the little stump of a mast to look about me. The leaden-coloured sea generally becomes several shades lighter in tropical countries as you approach the shore, unless the latter be regularly up and down, and deep close to. In the present instance, however, although it gradually shoaled, the blue water, instead of growing lighter and greener, and brightening in its approach to the land; became gradually of a chocolate colour, as the turbid flow of the river feathered out like a fan, all round the mouth of it. But as the tide made, the colour changed, by the turgid stream being forced back again, and before it was high water, the bar was indicated by a semicircle of whitish light green, where the long swell of the sea gradually shortened, until it ended in small tumbling waves that poppled about and frothed as if the ebullitions had been hove up and set in motion by some subterraneous fire. But, as yet, the water did not break on any part of the crescent-shaped ledge of sand."
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins
"A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins" is one of the best-known works by the German scientific author Johann Beckmann in which he relates the origin, history and recent condition of the various machines, utensils, etc., employed in trade and for domestic purposes. This work entitles Beckmann to be regarded as the founder of scientific technology, a term which he was the first to use in 1772. Volume 1: Italian Book-keeping Odometer Machine for noting down Music Refining Gold and Silver Ore by Quicksilver Cold or Dry Gilding Gold Varnish Tulips Canary Bird Archil Magnetic Cures Secret Poison Wooden Bellows Coaches Water-clocks, Clepsydras Tourmaline Speaking-trumpet Ananas, Pine-apple Sympathetic Ink Diving-bell Coloured Glass, Artificial Gems Sealing-wax Corn-mills Verdigris, or Spanish Green Saffron Alum Falconry Turf Artichoke Saw-mills Stamped Paper Insurance Adulteration of Wine Artificial Pearls Paving of Streets Collections of Natural Curiosities Chimneys Hungary Water Cork Apothecaries Clocks and Watches Quarantine Paper-hangings Kermes, Cochineal Writing-pens Wire-drawing Buck-wheat Saddles Stirrups Horse-shoes Floating of Wood Lace Ultramarine Cobalt, Zaffer, Smalt Turkeys Butter Aurum Fulminans Garden-flowers Volume 2: The Steam-Engine, and Discoveries of J. Watt Lending and Pawnbroking Chemical Names of Metals Zinc Carp Camp-mills Mirrors Glass-cutting, Etching on Glass Soap Madder Jugglers, Rope-dancers, Automata… Artificial Ice. Cooling Liquors Hydrometer Lighting of Streets Night-watch Plant-skeletons Bills of Exchange Tin. Tinning Sowing-machines Manganese Prince Rupert's Drops, Lacrymæ Vitreæ Fire-engines Indigo Vanes, Weathercocks Gilding Fur Dresses Steel Stamping-works Kitchen Vegetables Knitting Nets and Stockings, Stocking-Loom Hops Black Lead Sal-Ammoniac Forks Lottery, Tontine Bologna Stone Foundling Hospitals Orphan Houses Infirmaries, Hospitals for Invalids, Field Lazarettos Cock-fighting Saltpetre, Gunpowder, Aquafortis Book-censors Exclusive Privilege for Printing Books Catalogues of Books Ribbon-Loom Guns, Gun-Locks
The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
Jane Smith is a feisty young woman but looks a lot like her dear cousin Renata Molloy. One day, while sleepwalking, Molloy reaches where she shouldn't—in the den of Number One, the most notorious mind behind a secret organisation. Now it is up to Jane to protect her cousin and don on the mantle of a female spy to thwart Number One's plan and save the day! Excerpt: "The air was heavy with the smoke of bad tobacco and the fumes of a very indifferent gas fire. There was a table in the middle of the room, and some dozen of the men were seated at it. The rest stood in groups, or leaned against the walls. Of the four who formed the Inner Council three were present. Most of the Delegates had expected that the head of The Council, the head of the Federated Organisations, that mysterious Number One whom they all knew by reputation and yet had never seen in the flesh, would be present in person to take the chair…"