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The Phantom of the Opera

The lights of the Paris Opera House dim and a lovely singer holds the audience spellbound with her enchanting voice. Two men are rivals for her love: one of them the beloved friend of her childhood — and the other the terrifying «opera ghost» who haunts the theater and wields a strange power over the performer.This thrilling novel and its many adaptations have beguiled the imaginations of countless audiences throughout the twentieth century. A gripping tale of longing passion, fear, and violence, the mystery classic will hold readers captive as it weaves its way toward a shocking and tragic conclusion.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Boasting some of Sherlock Holmes's finest adventures, this classic 1894 collection was originally written in serial form. Eleven of the most popular tales of the immortal sleuth include «Silver Blaze,» concerning the «curious incident of the dog in the night-time»; «The Greek Interpreter,» starring Holmes's even more formidable brother, Mycroft; and «The Final Problem,» the detective's notorious confrontation with arch-criminal Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.Holmes and Dr. Watson remain history's greatest detective team, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's portrayals of male comradeship, the thrills of the chase, and the misty precincts of Victorian London remains unmatched in detective literature.

The Haunted House

Charles Dickens

Revered as one of the greatest writers in the English language, Charles Dickens is celebrated for his masterful storytelling, comic genius, and remarkably memorable characters. His early novels, such as The Pickwick Papers and The Adventures of Oliver Twist, were originally published in monthly installments, capturing a growing audience that quickly spread from England to America. Two centuries later, his popularity endures as readers revel in the warm humanity of his tales of self-discovery—and delight in the annual tradition of revisiting his holiday stories.Following the tremendous success of A Christmas Carol in 1843, there was great demand for more tales of ghostly visitation, and the great Victorian storyteller happily obliged with spellbinding tales such as The Haunted House. The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal?

All-Time Favorite Detective Stories

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In 1950, experts at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine voted on the best detective stories ever written, and the result was this dazzling dozen. Two of the choices—Edgar Allan Poe's «The Purloined Letter» and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's «The Red-Headed League»—were regarded by their authors as their finest short stories. The remaining tales offer similarly high levels of excitement and mystery. Featured stories include G. K. Chesterton's «The Invisible Man,» from The Innocence of Father Brown; «Suspicion» by Dorothy L. Sayers; Aldous Huxley's «The Gioconda Smile»; and «The Hands of Mr. Ottermole» by Thomas Burke. Additional tales include «The Avenging Chance» by Anthony Berkeley; «The Absent-Minded Coterie» by Robert Barr; Jacques Futrelle's «The Problem of Cell 13»; Melville D. Post's «Naboth’s Vineyard»; «The Yellow Slugs» by H. C. Bailey; and E. C. Bentley's «The Genuine Tabard.»

The Guardian of Detritus

Chuck Snearly

The Guardian of Detritus is about a failed rock musician and disgraced reporter working in pubic relations in Detroit. On the far side of middle age and the brink of divorce, Will Harkanen sees an obituary for an old friend and decides to quit his job and pursue the dreams of his youth. Hustling between the icons of Detroit's glorious past and the wreckage of its gritty present, Will begins unraveling a mess of blackmail and corruption that may have led to his friend's death. As he chases his dreams, he realizes too late that his dreams are chasing him.

The Coast of Chance

Lucia Chamberlain

Flora Gilsey stood on the threshold of her dining-room. She had turned her back on it. She swayed forward. Her bare arms were lifted. Her hands lightly caught the molding on either side of the door. She was looking intently into the mirror at the other end of the hall. All the lights in the dining-room were lit, and she saw herself rather keenly set against their brilliance. The straight-held head, the lifted arms, the short, slender waist, the long, long sweep of her skirts made her seem taller than she actually was; and the strong, bright growth of her hair and the vivacity of her face made her seem more deeply colored. She had poised there for the mere survey of a new gown, but after a moment of dwelling on her own reflection she found herself considering it only as an object in the foreground of a picture. That picture, seen through the open door, reflected in the glass, was all of a bright, hard glitter, all a high, harsh tone of newness. In its paneled oak,…

In the Fog

Richard Harding Davis

The Grill is the club most difficult of access in the world. To be placed on its rolls distinguishes the new member as greatly as though he had received a vacant Garter or had been caricatured in "Vanity Fair." Men who belong to the Grill Club never mention that fact. If you were to ask one of them which clubs he frequents, he will name all save that particular one. He is afraid if he told you he belonged to the Grill, that it would sound like boasting. The Grill Club dates back to the days when Shakespeare's Theatre stood on the present site of the "Times" office. It has a golden Grill which Charles the Second presented to the Club, and the original manuscript of "Tom and Jerry in London," which was bequeathed to it by Pierce Egan himself. The members, when they write letters at the Club, still use sand to blot the ink.

The Black Bag

Louis Joseph Vance

Upon a certain dreary April afternoon in the year of grace, 1906, the apprehensions of Philip Kirkwood, Esquire, Artist-peintre, were enlivened by the discovery that he was occupying that singularly distressing social position, which may be summed up succinctly in a phrase through long usage grown proverbial: "Alone in London." These three words have come to connote in our understanding so much of human misery, that to Mr. Kirkwood they seemed to epitomize absolutely, if not happily, the various circumstances attendant upon the predicament wherein he found himself. Inevitably an extremist, because of his youth, (he had just turned twenty-five), he took no count of mitigating matters, and would hotly have resented the suggestion that his case was anything but altogether deplorable and forlorn. That he was not actually at the end of his resources went for nothing; he held the distinction a quibble, mockingly immaterial,—like the store of guineas in his pocket,..

The Silver Butterfly

Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

Hayden was back in New York again after several years spent in the uttermost parts of the earth. He had been building railroads in South America, Africa, and China, and had maintained so many lodges in this or that wilderness that he really feared he might be curiously awkward in adapting himself to the conventional requirements of civilization. In his long roundabout journey home he had stopped for a few weeks in both London and Paris; but to his mental discomfort, they had but served to accentuate his loneliness and whet his longings for the dear, unforgotten life of his native city, that intimate, easy existence, wherein relatives, not too near, congenial friends and familiar haunts played so important a part. On the journey from London he had felt like a boy going home for the most delightful holidays after a long period in school, and to calm and render more normal his elation, he told himself…

Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart (21 books)

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Mary Roberts Rinehart Table Of Contents The After House THE AMAZING INTERLUDE BAB: A SUB-DEB The Bat THE BREAKING POINT THE CASE of JENNIE BRICE THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE THE CONFESSION DANGEROUS DAYS K KINGS, QUEENS AND PAWNS LONG LIVE THE KING LOVE STORIES THE MAN IN LOWER TEN MORE TISH A POOR WISE MAN SIGHT UNSEEN THE STREET OF SEVEN STARS TISH WHEN A MAN MARRIES WHERE THERE'S A WILL