Download or read book The Secret Rooms written by Catherine Bailey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants’ quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What she discovered was a mystery: The Duke had painstakingly erased three periods of his life from all family records—but why? As Bailey uncovers the answers, she also provides an intimate portrait of the very top of British society in the turbulent days leading up to World War I.

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Hidden Room written by Marion Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Library of the World s Best Mystery and Detective Stories written by Julian Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Vanished Victim written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange bird leads Gully to a bloody mystery at the United Nations Gully Queen is lounging around the apartment of his uncle, the world-famous sleuth Ellery Queen, when a knock comes at the door. It is Ellery’s neighbor, a harmless old man, with a beautiful mynah bird perched on his shoulder. He wants Ellery to find out where the bird came from, but Ellery is out of town, so the case falls to his nephew Gully. The bird says but one thing: “Katal! Katal!” Gully is baffled— until he learns that an Indian diplomat’s bodyguard has vanished from his hotel room, and that in Hindi, katal means “kill.” Searching for the bird’s owner takes Gully to the United Nations, where two Indian boys join the hunt for the missing guard. Together, they will find themselves in the thick of an adventure faster than you can say katal! Ellery Queen is one of the world’s finest detectives, but his adventures are nothing compared to the Ellery Queen Jr. Mystery Stories. Join Queen’s nephew, Gully, on adventures filled with danger, suspense, and thrills. The Mystery of the Vanished Victim is the eleventh book in the Ellery Queen Jr. Mystery Stories, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Download or read book An Adele Sharp Mystery Bundle Left to Lapse 7 Left to Vanish 8 and Left to Hunt 9 written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of books #7 (LEFT TO LAPSE), #8 (LEFT TO VANISH), and #9 (LEFT TO HUNT) in Blake Pierce’s Adele Sharp Mystery series! This bundle offers books seven, eight, and nine in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. In LEFT TO LAPSE, when a body turns up on a high-speed train passing through France, Germany and Italy—clearly the work of a serial killer—authorities wonder: whose jurisdiction is it? FBI Special Agent Adele Sharp—triple agent of the U.S., France and Germany—is called in as the only one capable of maneuvering the layers of authority and of tapping her brilliant mind to stop the killer. But as more victims turn up—on other trains, in other countries—the case grows increasingly complex. Can this all be the work of one serial killer? And if so, where will he strike next? In LEFT TO VANISH, when a seemingly unconnected string of murders occurs in vacation homes scattered throughout the French countryside, many involving American, German and Italian expats, FBI Special Agent Adele Sharp—triple agent of the U.S., France and Germany—is called in to cross borders and use her brilliant mind to figure out who is behind it. Are the murders coincidental? Or are they the work of a single, deranged serial killer? And can Adele stop him before he strikes again? In LEFT TO HUNT, when masked victims turn up dead at midnight balls in Venice, FBI Special Agent Adele Sharp—triple agent of the U.S., France and Germany—is summoned to find the killer before he can strike again. As Adele navigates the historic canals of Venice in her hunt for a killer, she wonders if there is an unseen pattern to the murders. Is it a nod to history? Or merely the work of a deranged mind? An action-packed mystery series of international intrigue and riveting suspense, the ADELE SHARP mystery series will have you turning pages late into the night. Books #10-#13 are also available!

Download or read book The Mystery of The Yellow Room written by Gaston Leroux and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous French author Gaston Leroux's present novel 'THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM' is a mystery novel which was first published in the year 1907. It is famously known as one of the first locked-room mystery novels and marks the genius of the author in this genre.

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