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The Mystery of the Hidden Room

The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey

The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey

A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a mystery for very long as the book progresses. Written in the first person, the husband of his (Carlton Davies) former lover is found dead one night at the stroke of midnight, and Davies finds his ex-lover standing over the dead body immediately after the shot was fired, with a gun in her hand. It was no secret that she never truly loved her husband, who had blackmailed her into marrying him. The jury ships Ruth to prison, and the stage is set for Davies to locate the right detective for the case, and for a series of events with twists and turns and surprises that will keep the reader guessing who was responsible for this murder.

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Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Modern English

Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Modern English by The Lock and Key Library

Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Modern English by The Lock and Key Library

In the six volumes of the Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript.

In the second volume, we find stories written by English and Scotch authors.

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Miss Maitland Private Secretary

Miss Maitland Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner

Miss Maitland Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner

Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on Long Island. Before Molly can crack the case, a more shocking crime is perpetrated and more mysteries develop, presenting a baffling jumble of clues for Molly to unravel. At the center of the intrigue is Esther Maitland, the family’s competent but mysterious private secretary. What is she hiding? Is she really as trustworthy as the family believes she is?

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The Charterhouse of Parma

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

This book is more often called The Charterhouse of Parma in English, because “Charterhouse” is the English word for a Carthusian monastery, whereas “Chartreuse” is the French word.

The book tells the life of a Lombard nobleman, born soon after the appearance of Napoleon’s army in Italy. He has many adventures in love, war, politics, and the Church. The politics and the Church part of his life result from his doting aunt’s becoming the Prime Minister’s mistress, and the power behind the throne, in the Duchy of Parma.

The Prime Minister is a wish-fulfillment depiction of the author. Although nobody lives happily ever after, it is a happy book to read, quite unlike “The Red and the Black”.

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Devlin the Barber

Devlin the Barber by B. L. Farjeon

Devlin the Barber by B. L. Farjeon

The stabbing death of a beautiful young woman in a London park at night and the disappearance of her sister; a shocked and heartbroken young suitor; a terrified landlady and her simple husband; a recently unemployed man, the narrator, who is requested to investigate the crime; and the mysterious title character who, as his name suggests, has a devilishness about him in his psychic ability to read minds and to perform other supernatural acts. These are some of the individuals in this inventive, absorbing mystery by the prolific and popular British author, B. L. Farjeon. There are really two mysteries here: the murder and the strange – person?

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The Camera Fiend

The Camera Fiend by E. W. Hornung

The Camera Fiend by E. W. Hornung

A London schoolboy playing hooky is drawn in to the clutches of a creature evil beyond imagining

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The Riddle of the Purple Emperor

The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew and Thomas W. Hanshew

The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew and Thomas W. Hanshew

Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance of the family jewels. The Cheyne jewels include a pendant featuring the Purple Emperor, a priceless jewel looted from a temple during the Indian Mutiny.

During her time at school in Paris, Lady Margaret has met and fallen in love with Sir Edgar Brenton, the son of an old flame of her aunt and a neighbour in the village of Hampton, where Cleek’s adored Ailsa Lorne has also taken up residence.

Lady Margaret’s return leads to a mysterious and sinister chain of events, which Cleek and Superintendent Maverick Narkom of Scotland Yard attempt to unravel, with, of course, the help of the irrepressible and ever-hungry Dollops, Cleek’s cockney sidekick.

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Numbacruncha

Numbacruncha by Rigby Taylor

Numbacruncha by Rigby Taylor

“The tale begins with a chilling peek into the near future, when Sebastian and Jarek, now in their eighties, confront a particularly vile religious autocrat, whose reign of terror has led to the destruction of their laboratories, but not their secret weapon.

We then take a thousand year leap to a future city-state in which the human aptitude for duplicitous and unjust social schemes has reached its logical culmination in Oasis, a flesh-crawlingly evil dystopia ruled by the most unpleasant gang of conmen and women you’re ever likely to encounter.

A couple of young scientists who have recently invented a new means of transport, begin to question the morality of the Oasis social order, and decide to do something about it.

Meanwhile, back in the forest, Sebastian and Jarek’s secret weapon are waiting.”

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The Tower of Dago

The Tower of Dago by Mór Jókai

The Tower of Dago by Mór Jókai

This is the story of Feodor von Ungern, who, betrayed by his brother Zeno, installs himself with his son and a group of his most trusted men in a dark tower on the island of Dago. Sheltered in this tower, he terrorizes the seas, until, one day, his brother falls into his hands.

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The Red Inn

The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac

The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac

Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution.

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