Download or read book The Mystery of the Blue Train written by Agatha Christie and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-01-01T17:31:37Z with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery of the Blue Train revolves around a set of fabulous rubies, said to have been worn by Catherine the Great, now purchased by an American millionaire as a gift to his daughter. When she takes them with her on a luxury train to the Riviera, she is unaware that among her fellow passengers are her unfaithful husband, his not-so-secret mistress, a quiet Englishwoman who believes that nothing exciting ever happens to her—and the famous retired detective Hercule Poirot. And, possibly, a murderer. Despite positive critical reception of this entry in the Poirot canon, Christie described this as the least favorite of her own novels. However, this is almost certainly due to the events in her personal life during that time: the death of her mother, followed closely by the discovery of her husband’s affair and his request for divorce. Suffering from what appears to have been a nervous breakdown, Christie famously disappeared for over a week in December 1926, triggering a nationwide search before she was discovered to have checked into a hotel under an assumed name. This novel was written in part during a three-month convalescence following those events. The book is dedicated to Christie’s secretary Charlotte Fisher and her pet terrier Peter, calling them “distinguished members of the O.F.D.” The “Order of Faithful Dogs” was Christie’s name for her circle of closest friends. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Download or read book The Mystery of the Blue Train written by Agatha Christie and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling journey aboard the luxurious Blue Train bound for the French Riviera, a beautiful heiress, a precious collection of rubies, and a love triangle form the backdrop of Agatha Christie's fifth Hercule Poirot novel.

Download or read book The Mystery of the Real written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands their common master, Edward Hopper. Colville's works are in many museums in Canada and Germany. He has affinities with Max Beckmann and appeals to the German "secondary virtues": cleanliness, punctuality, love of order. In a long life he resolutely opposed the fashionable currents of abstract and expressionistic art. In contrast to Jackson Pollock's wild action painting, Colville created paintings of contemplation and reflection. As Jeffrey Meyers writes: I spent several days with Colville on each of three visits from California to Wolfville. I received seventy letters from him between August 1998 and April 2010, and kept thirty-six of my letters to him. He sent me photographs and slides of his work and, in his eighties, discussed the progress and meaning of the paintings he completed during the last decade of his life. His handwritten letters, precisely explaining his thoughts and feelings, provide a rare and enlightening opportunity to compare my insights and interpretations with his own intentions and ideas. He also discussed his family, health, sexuality, politics, reading, travels, literary interests, our mutual friend Iris Murdoch, response to my writing, his work, exhibitions, sales of his pictures and of course the meaning of his art. His letters reveal the challenges he faced during aging and illness, and his determination to keep painting as health difficulties mounted. He stopped writing to me when he became seriously ill two years before his death. In this context the late paintings, presented in colour in this book, take on a new poignancy.

Download or read book The Mystery of the Downs written by John R. Watson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a classic mystery fiction with the clever detective, the mysterious woman and the shady lover. The competition between police and amateur detective is vicious with tension. There are lots of twists and turns with occasional asides with humor, which makes it a page-turning novel.

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Download or read book The Taken A Missing Persons Mystery Adventure written by A.J. Scudiere and published by Griffyn Ink. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stay quiet Don’t leave tracks Don’t ask the wrong questions… When Sarah goes missing Cage and Joule know they have to do everything to find her. But in the tiny town of El Indio, no one wants to answer their questions, and everyone is hiding something. Sarah went missing in the desert at midnight… but what was she even doing there? And why are there tracks that lead to and from the last place she was seen. The twins will have to find her without falling prey themselves. And nothing in the desert after dark is as it seems. The world won't let them rest. Cage and Joule are back in the fray. Is Sarah even still alive? Humans may be the worst disaster yet. The Taken is the fifth book in the fast-paced Black Carbon apocalyptic thriller series by USA Today bestselling author A.J. Scudiere. While this book can be read as a standalone, the Black Carbon series is a must-read for fans of resourceful heroes and impossible odds.

Download or read book Last of the Blue and Gray written by Richard A. Serrano and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting away; an era was ending. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie.

Download or read book The Duane Rimel Noir Crime MEGAPACK TM 4 Classic Mystery Novels written by Duane Rimel and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-05-03 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duane W. Rimel (1915-1996) was an American poet and an author. He published not only under his own name, but the pseudonym "Rex Weldon." His friend and mentor H.P. Lovecraft helped him write his first fantastic stories and poems in the 1930s. After Lovecraft's death, Rimel published four noir crime novels, all of which are collected here: THE JURY IS OUT MOTIVE FOR MURDER THE CURSE OF CAIN THE RIVER IS COLD If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 200+ other entries in the series, covering science fiction, modern authors, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!

Download or read book Septimus and the Danedyke Mystery written by Stephen Chance and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverend Septimus Treloar, retired as Chief Inspector of the CID after thirty years service, is now country parson of the seemingly sleepy St. Mary's Danedyke. But the rural calm of his and the villagers' lives are thrown into chaos when mysterious happenings cause them to suspect the haunting of a fabled ghost within the dark recesses of their church. But can this really be a case of supernatural spirits? Or are Septimus's suspicions of thieving mischief closer to the truth? If so, what could be the object of all this criminal plotting? Septimus must use his detective know-how to find the answers on a mission that will lead him to the secret of The Danedyke Cup, a silver gilt relic supposedly once belonging to Our Lady... The first in Stephen Chance's classic series about Reverend Septimus, 'the one and only beatified bobby,' Septimus and the Danedyke Mystery (1971) has everything: treasure hunts, ancient clues, rollicking humour and quick-witted suspense. It has been described by Philip Ardagh in the Guardian as 'truly marvellous.'

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Dinosaur Discovery written by Helen Moss and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Scott, Jack and Emily stumble upon some bones in the quarry above Castle Key, they're convinced they've discovered the gruesome remains of a murder victim! But the bones turn out to be much, much older than that - could they be dinosaur bones? Or are they the last earthly remains of a real dragon? Rival scientists fight to prove each other wrong, while the friends are determined to uncover the truth - with a little help from Drift the dog, of course!

Download or read book WILLIAM LE QUEUX 100 Mystery Espionage Thrillers Illustrated Edition written by William Le Queux and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 16736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. William Le Queux (1864-1927) was a famous and incredibly visionary writer who wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage. Novels The Great War in England in 1897 The Invasion of 1910 Guilty Bonds Zoraida The Temptress The Great White Queen Devil's Dice Whoso Findeth a Wife The Eye of Istar If Sinners Entice Thee The Bond of Black The Day of Temptation The Veiled Man The Wiles of the Wicked An Eye for an Eye In White Raiment Of Royal Blood Her Majesty's Minister The Under-Secretary The Seven Secrets As We Forgive Them The Sign of the Stranger The Hunchback of Westminster The Closed Book The Czar's Spy Behind the Throne The Pauper of Park Lane The Mysterious Mr. Miller Whatsoever a Man Soweth The Great Court Scandal The Lady in the Car The House of Whispers The Red Room Spies of the Kaiser The Great God Gold (Treasure of Israel) Hushed Up! A Mystery of London The Death-Doctor The Lost Million The Price of Power Her Royal Highness The White Lie The Four Faces The Sign of Silence The Mysterious Three At the Sign of the Sword The Mystery of the Green Ray Number 70, Berlin The Way to Win The Broken Thread The Place of Dragons The Zeppelin Destroyer Sant of the Secret Service The Stolen Statesman The Doctor of Pimlico Whither Thou Goest The Intriguers The Red Widow (The Death-Dealers of London) Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo This House to Let The Golden Face The Stretton Street Affair The Voice from the Void Short Story Collections Stolen Souls The Count's Chauffeur The Bomb-Makers The Gay Triangle

Download or read book The Secret House written by Edgar Wallace and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the gripping world of "The Secret House" by Edgar Wallace, a thrilling tale of mystery, suspense, and intrigue that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Prepare to be captivated by Wallace's masterful storytelling and spellbinding plot twists as you unravel the secrets hidden within the walls of the titular house. Join Wallace as he leads you on a pulse-pounding journey through the shadowy corridors and hidden chambers of "The Secret House," where danger lurks around every corner and nothing is as it seems. Through his vivid descriptions and taut pacing, readers are plunged into a world of suspense and danger where the stakes couldn't be higher. Themes of deception, betrayal, and redemption permeate "The Secret House," offering readers a thrilling exploration of the human psyche and the dark underbelly of society. Wallace's sharp characterizations and twisty plotlines keep readers guessing until the very end, making this novel an unforgettable rollercoaster ride of suspense. Characterized by its relentless tension and relentless pace, "The Secret House" grips readers from the opening pages and never lets go. Wallace's skillful manipulation of suspense and his knack for creating unforgettable characters make this novel a timeless classic of the mystery genre. Since its publication, "The Secret House" has enthralled readers with its blend of action, intrigue, and psychological depth. Wallace's exploration of the darker aspects of human nature and his unflinching portrayal of the consequences of greed and ambition continue to resonate with audiences today. As you delve into the pages of "The Secret House," you'll find yourself drawn into a world of danger and deception, where nothing is as it seems and trust is a luxury few can afford. Wallace's electrifying tale is a reminder of the power of suspense to hold readers captive until the very last page. Don't miss your chance to experience the thrilling suspense of "The Secret House" by Edgar Wallace. Let this pulse-pounding mystery sweep you away on a whirlwind adventure filled with twists, turns, and unexpected revelations. Grab your copy now and prepare to be spellbound by one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.

Download or read book Hidden Secrets written by Janet Sketchley and published by Janet Sketchley. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST IN THE 2020 WORD AWARDS (SUSPENSE CATEGORY) Past secrets. Present threats. And a woman committed to uncover the truth. Landon Smith is in over her head. After returning to the Green Dory Inn, the twenty-four-year-old trauma survivor is horrified to find her place of refuge threatened by an online vendetta. With motherly innkeeper Anna Young near the breaking point, Landon jumps in to stop the anonymous campaign before it drives the inn out of business. Fearful for her friend’s mental state, Landon chases clues and digs up rumours of a secret tunnel and a decades-old scandal. But when her sleuthing leads to physical threats, she blames herself for putting Anna’s life in danger. Can Landon unmask the enemy in time to save the inn—and its owner? Hidden Secrets is the intriguing second book in the Green Dory Inn Christian mystery and suspense series. If you like characters who don't quit, faith-filled fiction, and a killer hidden in plain sight, then you’ll love Janet Sketchley’s satisfying novel. Buy Hidden Secrets and check in to the Green Dory Inn today! Discussion questions included. Scroll down for series info. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Welcome to the Green Dory Inn, a fictional bed & breakfast set outside the real town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Meet Landon, a young Christian woman with a traumatic past. And Anna, recently widowed, who owns the inn. Meet Roy, their wisecracking elderly neighbour, and his adult grandson Bobby, who writes space novels. And meet the cats, fastidious Timkin and the battle-scarred marmalade stray. Come for the clean, faith-based mysteries. Stay for the characters. TITLES IN THE GREEN DORY INN MYSTERY SERIES: Unknown Enemy (novella length) Who is the secretive prowler harassing innkeeper Anna? Hidden Secrets (novel length) What secrets has the inn's original owner left behind, and how far will Anna's enemy go to find them? Bitter Truth (novel length) Who would want Ciara dead? And why? And more TBA... If you like clean Christian mystery and suspense, visit the Green Dory Inn today!

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