Download or read book British Mystery Megapack Volume 3 written by Agatha Christie and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate British Mystery Megapack FIVE MYSTERIES FOR ONE LOW PRICE! THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES By Agatha Christie Agatha Christie introduces the world to her detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot in this 'cozy mystery' classic. 'Styles' was Christie's first published novel, introducing not only the Belgian super-sleuth but also Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. When we first meet Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, he is settling in England near the home of Emily Cavendish, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When a woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. THE SECRET AGENT By Joseph Conrad Few people realize that Joseph Conrad invented the terrorist-spy genre in 1907 with his novella The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. The Secret Agent was one of the “the three works of literature most cited in the American media" around the two weeks following September 11, 2001.” The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy. 'The Secret Agent' is notable as one of Conrad's later political novels, which move away from his typical tales of seafaring. The novel deals broadly with the notions of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism and depicts the type of anarchist and revolutionary groups which sprouted up before many of the social uprisings of the early twentieth century. Recently, 'The Secret Agent' was ranked the 46th best novel of the 20th century by Modern Library. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING By Rudyard Kipling Billy Fish: “He wants to know if you are gods.” Peachy Carnehan: “Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing.” Rudyard Kipling's 1888 novella 'The Man Who Would Be King' is an under-rated gem. The powerful story of lost treasure, love and human weakness was adapted into a Best Picture nominated movie in 1976 but has largely been forgotten by today's generation. A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY By Baroness Orczy A Five Part Lady Molly Mystery! From the author of The Scarlet Pimpernell, comes a story featuring one of literature's first female detectives. Molly Robertson-Kirk a.k.a. Lady Molly shares the same mental prowess as C. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes but brings a woman's wit to the table making for a formidable crime buster. Join her as she solves the murder of Major Ceeley on Christmas Eve in Inverness, Scotland. THE DEAD SECRET By Wilkie Collins The secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamund Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact the illegitimate child of her servant Sarah Leeson by a local miner (Mrs Treverton's motive was to provide her husband with a child, being apparently unable to bear children herself). Sarah writes down the details of the secret from the words of the dying Mrs Treverton, and hides the paper bearing the message in an unused room at Porthgenna. Much of the novel is set in Cornwall, one of Collins' favourite English counties, which also features in his early melodrama 'Basil.'

Download or read book British Mystery Megapack Volume 7 written by E. W. Hornung and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of British Detective fiction are in for a treat with Volume 7 of British Mystery Megapacks - The Detectives. Sixteen classic mysteries from British authors E. W. Hornung, Arthur Griffiths, Baroness Orczy and G. K. Chesterton. THE DETECTIVES Original armchair detective THE OLD MAN appears in The Fenchurch Street Mystery, The Liverpool Mystery, The Edinburgh Mystery and The Dublin Mystery by Baroness Orczy. FATHER BROWN stars in four cozy mysteries by G. K . Chesterton -- The Blue Cross, The Secret Garden, The Queer Feet and The Flying Stars. French detective M. FLOÇON must figure out who was murdered on a train bound for Paris in the brilliant Agatha Christie-esque mindbender The Rome Express by Arthur Griffiths. Feminist crime-buster LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD is featured in a trio of suspenseful Scottish crime capers by Baroness Orczy -- The Bag of Sand, A Christmas Tragedy and A Castle in Brittany. Cricketer and amateur thief A. J. RAFFLES stars in The Ides of March, A Costume Piece, Gentlemen and Players and Le Premier Pas by E. W. Hornung. Five classic characters in sixteen suspenseful tales. A must-read for fans of BRITISH MYSTERIES.

Download or read book British Mystery Megapack Volume 10 written by Robert Barr and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired insurance investigator with an itch, an adventurer from China, a curious lawyer, an opera buff and a Sherlock Holmes emulator are the stars of the following five mysteries which make up British Mystery Megapack Volume 10 - British Super Sleuths: Hunted Down by Charles Dickens. Lady Alicia's Diamonds by Robert Barr. Dead Men's Money by J. S. Fletcher. The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Melville Davisson Post. The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace.

Download or read book British Mystery Megapack Volume 9 written by Ernest Bramah and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 9 of the British Mystery Megapacks is devoted to a forgotten mystery franchise, The Max Carrados Mysteries. Ernest Bramah's mastermind detective, a criminologist who happens to be blind, was featured in The Strand magazine alongside Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Detective Carrados may not have had the longevity of Holmes, but in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction he often outsold Doyle's super-sleuth and new stories received billing over Holmes in many Strand issues. Bramah is an interesting author, one who had success across multiple genres, including fantasy and science fiction. He was influential on George Orwell who said, of The Max Carrados Mysteries, that they "are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading." British Mystery Megapack Volume 9 presents the following Carrados stories: The Coin of Dionysius The Knight's Cross Signal Problem The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor The Tilling Shaw Mystery The Comedy at Fountain Cottage The Game played in the Dark

Download or read book British Mystery Megapack Volume 1 the Good Soldier Haunted Hotel and the Red House Mystery written by Ford Madox Ford and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of traditional British mysteries are in for a treat with this British Mystery Classics three pack: THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford In 'The Good Soldier,' Ford Madox Ford paved the way for over a century of thriller writers and film-makers who would go on to use the idea of the unreliable narrator to create mystery and suspense. Events in the story unfold just before World War I and chronicle the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel opens with the famous line, “This is the saddest story I have ever heard.” The narrator explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Ashburnham and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany. As it turns out, nothing in the relationships or in the characters is as it first seems. Florence's heart ailment is a fiction she perpetrated on John to force them to stay in Europe so that she could continue her affair with an American thug named Jimmy. Edward and Leonora have a loveless, imbalanced marriage broken by his constant infidelities (both of body and heart) and Leonora's attempts to control Edward's affairs (both financial and romantic). Dowell is a fool and is coming to realize how much of a fool he is, as Florence and Edward had an affair under his nose for nine years without John knowing until Florence was dead. 'The Good Soldier' is a masterpiece of early twentieth-century fiction. HAUNTED HOTEL by Wilkie Collins The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work? Wilkie Collins's little known horror-ghost story of 1878 recalls his two prior triumphs 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone' with its use of detective procedures and mystery-genre plot twists that made those two earlier novels so popular with Victorian readers. THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY by A. A. Milne The Red House Mystery is a "locked room" whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel. Mark Ablett has disappeared, so Tony Gillingham, a stranger who has just arrived to call on his friend Bill, decides to investigate. Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound. In his introduction to the 1926 UK edition, A. A. Milne said he had "a passion" for detective stories, having "all sorts of curious preferences" about them: though in real life the best detectives and criminals are professionals, Milne demanded that the detective be an unscientific amateur, accompanied by a likeable Watson, rubbing shoulders with an amateur villain against whom dossiers and fingerprints are of no avail. This was Milne's first and final venture into the detective and mystery genre, despite its immediate success and an offer of two thousand pounds for his next mystery novel. Milne lets his readers inside the head of his amateur detective, disregarding the clichéd romance or violence of other detective novels, as the mystery becomes a puzzling sort of parlor game for the novel's characters and readers alike. Alexander Woollcott called 'The Red House Mystery' "one of the three best mystery stories of all time."

Download or read book The Solve It Yourself Mystery MEGAPACK written by Austin Ripley and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Solve-It-Yourself Mystery MEGAPACK® presents 123 Mysteries you can read in a minute (or two) -- and try to solve yourself! (Just turn to the next page for the solution.) Hours of great fun for the mystery buff! If you enjoy this volume of classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns -- and much, much more!

Download or read book The Arsene Lupin MEGAPACK written by Maurice LeBlanc and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 3129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsene Lupin who, in French-speaking countries, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. This volume collects 11 books: ARSÈNE LUPIN, by Maurice Leblanc THE HOLLOW NEEDLE 813 THE CRYSTAL STOPPER THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSÈNE LUPIN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE THE SECRET OF SAREK THE TEETH OF THE TIGER THE EIGHT STROKES OF THE CLOCK If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the more than 180 other entries in the series, covering science fiction, modern authors, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!

Download or read book British Mystery Multipack Vol 14 The Fleming Stone Collection written by Carolyn Wells and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society sleuth Fleming Stone is an expert at solving the most baffling of locked-room mysteries. The young detective and his associate Fibsy assist authorities in unsolved homicides on the Upper East Side. British Mystery Multipack Vol. 14 - The Fleming Stone Collection presents the four best Fleming Stone whodunits - which includes the classic golden age detective mystery The Clue. British Mystery Multipack Vol. 14 - The Fleming Stone Collection The Clue by Carolyn Wells. The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells. A Chain of Evidence by Carolyn Wells. Vicky Van by Carolyn Wells.

Download or read book The Horse Story Megapack written by Mark Twain and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it's no surprise that writers throughout history have featured the horse prominently in their fiction. Here are 25 stories and 5 poems of equine fiction and literature, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty to classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, and many others! Included are: Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell The Man from Snowy River, by A. B. Paterson [poem] Chu Chu, by Bret Harte John G., by Katherine Mayo Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, by Jonathan Swift How the Old Horse Won the Bet, by Oliver Wendell Holmes [poem] A Horse's Tale, by Mark Twain The Talking Horse, by F. Anstey Samuel Cowles and His Horse Royal, by Eugene Field A Horseman in the Sky, by Ambrose Bierce The Dun Horse, by George Bird Grinnell The Enchanted Horse, by Amy Steedman At Galway Races, by William Butler Yeats [poem] A Ride with a Mad Horse in a Freight-Car, by W. H. H. Murray Buying a Horse, by William Dean Howells Skipper: Being the Biography of a Blue-Ribboner, by Sewell Ford The Instinct of Animals: Horses, by Thomas Bingley A Night Among the Horses, by Djuna Barnes He Walked Around the Horses, by H. Beam Piper The Horse of the Invisible, by William Hope Hodgson Miles Keogh's Horse, by John Hay [poem] The War Horse of Alexander, by Plutarch, edited by Andrew Lang Heads and Tales: The Horse," edited by Adam White Heart Bar Johnny, by Mary Wickizer Burgess Lady Clare: The Story of a Horse, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen Zadig: The Dog and the Horse, by Voltaire My First Horse Surgery, by Mark E. Burgess Silver Blaze, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Ballad of the Drover, by Henry Lawson [poem] Horse Latitudes: Return to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, by Robert Reginald And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in the series, covering everything from animal stories to classics to science fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories...and much, much more!

Download or read book A Treasury of Sayers Stories written by Dorothy Leigh Sayers and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACK 4 Great Mystery Novels written by Howard Mason and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACKTM presents four classic mysteries by top crime writers. Here are: The Red Bishop, by Howard Mason ... A wild chase through Europe...a castle on the Rhine...some very fancy corpses...a racing columnist who suddenly finds himself a Peer of the Realm... These are the unlikely ingredients that make this book at once hair-raising and light-hearted! Reclining Figure, by Marco Page ... Lucas Edgerton, arbitary and capricious eccentric, brings in Ellis Blaise, a young New York art dealer, to sell some of his art collection for tax purposes. Thefts from the collection, the sensational forgery of a priceless Renoir, and the puzzling murder of Lucas's son force Blaise into a perilous investigation! The Case of the 16 Beans, by Harry Stephen Keeler ... Why did old Balhatchet Barkstone, on dying, leave his nephew 16 beans? And why did Boyce Barkstone, his heir, hold on to the beans? Why did Hu Fong, a Chinese detective, come to the conclusion that a poverty-stricken hermit was murdered for an article of great value, and what might that article be? These are only a few of the seemingly insoluble riddles which Keeler answers in his own inimitable manner! The Girl Who Had to Die, by By Elisabeth Sanxay Holding ... 19-year-old Jocelyn is convinced she's going to be murdered, and accuses John Killian, a young man she met on a cruise ship, of throwing her overboard. But there are a lot of people who seem to hate Jocelyn...and Killian starts to wonder if he'll be the next victim instead! If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 250+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Constable. This book was released on 2009 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski presents this year_s must-have collection of British mystery fiction.This latest volume of the acclaimed annual collection presents 35 short stories of murder mystery, selected from the very cream of new British crime fiction.Contributors include John Mortimer, Alexander McCall Smith, Colin Dexter, Christopher Fowler, Robert Barnard, Anne Perry, Peter Lovesey, Ken Bruen, and many more.It_s ideal for anyone who has ever enjoyed a good murder-mystery. A page-turning compendium of British talent to capture the imagination of readers around the world.

Download or read book Write A Book Now The Busy Writer s MegaPack written by M. R. McAlister and published by Blue Gem Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am a great fan of Marg McAlister's work and have been for over 10 years. Everything she writes is simple to understand, and it works if you work it!” Grace Lee Patrick The Busy Writer’s MegaPack was compiled in response to many readers who asked for the entire Busy Writer library in one collection. You’ll find a ton of information here to get you well on the way to publication. To successfully write and publish a book, you need to have these things in place: # A step-by-step program to get you out of the gate and running: a take-no-prisoners Kickstart Program for writers. # A sound knowledge of the genre in which you want to publish. # Interesting, vibrant characters that readers will enjoy and want to get to know # A well-paced plot that keeps the reader turning pages, eager to find out what happens next # A comprehensive set of checklists to ensure that you’ve left nothing out (characters, plot, pacing, dialogue, and more) This full collection of Busy Writer books provides you with the tools for every item on the list above, plus a sound basis for popular genres with the addition of Writing for Children, Writing Romance, and Writing Mystery, Crime & Suspense. Many genres have some of those elements: characters are caught up in a romance or trying to solve a mystery. Writing for children can encompass anything from simple picture books right through to young adult books. With the Busy Writer’s MegaPack by your side, you’ll be up and running in no time!

Download or read book The Fant mas MEGAPACK written by Pierre Souvestre and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fantomas books, created and written by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, form one of the longest-running and most famous crime series in France. Fantomas first appeared in 1911 and was featured in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11 volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre's death. The character was also the basis of various film, television, and comic book adaptations. In the history of crime fiction, he represents a transition from Gothic novel villains of the 19th century to modern-day serial killers. This volume collects the first 5 books in the series: I. FANTOMAS The Adventures of Detective Juve in pursuit of a master in crime. II. THE EXPLOITS OF JUVE In this continuation Fantomas appears as the leader of a gang of Apaches, and as a physician of standing. Juve tracks the criminal to his secret hiding-place, but Fantomas escapes. III. MESSENGERS OF EVIL Filled with hair-raising incidents this tale is a fascinating recital of remarkable happenings in the life of the master-criminal of Paris. IV. A NEST OF SPIES In this volume Fantomas is an ambassador for a foreign power engaged in Paris in obtaining important military secrets for Germany. Detective Juve unmasks him, but the criminal again escapes. V. A ROYAL PRISONER This volume tells of the daring exploits of Fantomas in his attempts to get possession of the King of Hesse-Weimar’s famous diamond. If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 290+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Download or read book The Fredric Brown MEGAPACK written by Fredric Brown and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric Brown (1906-1972), one of science fiction's greatest masters from the Golden Age, is famous for his many classic short stories -- quite a few of which are presented here, including "Arena," "Knock," "Earthmen Bearing Gifts," "The Star Mouse," and many more. The 32 tales of science fiction and fantasy assembled in this massive volume include: ARENA EXPERIMENT KEEP OUT HAPPY ENDING HALL OF MIRRORS EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS IMAGINE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN RECESSIONAL EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK PUPPET SHOW NIGHTMARE IN YELLOW JAYCEE PI IN THE SKY ANSWER THE GEEZENSTACKS KNOCK REBOUND THE STAR MOUSE ABOMINABLE LETTER TO A PHOENIX NOT YET THE END ARMAGEDDON OF TIME AND EUSTACE WEAVER RECONCILIATION NOTHING SIRIUS PATTERN THE YEHUDI PRINCIPLE COME AND GO MAD SENTRY ETAOIN SHRDLU THE END NOW AVAILABLE: The Second Fredric Brown Megapack! (Search this ebook store for the companion volume, with another great set of Fredric Brown tales!) And don't forget to search this ebook store for ʺWildside Press Megapackʺ to see more entries in this great series (including "The Second Fredric Brown Megapack"), covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!

Download or read book Man Size written by William MacLeod Raine and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Man-Size" by William MacLeod Raine. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Lon Williams Weird Western Megapack written by Lon Williams and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lon Thomas Williams (1890 - 1978) was an American author best known for publishing a large number of traditional and weird western stories in the pulp magazines. One of Williams' most popular series featured Deputy Marshal Lee Winters (a series of ""weird westerns, "" containing fantastic or outre elements) which are collected in this volume. Included are:KING SOLOMON'S THRONEFOUNTAIN OF YOUTHSATAN'S WOOL-MERCHANTMASTER OF INDECISIONA DESERT HIPPOCRATESTHE HAUNTED TOWNPHANTOM CARGOWIZARD OF FORLORN GAPA PORTION TO SEVENMARK OF THE WAMPUS CATGOLDEN CITYLONG LIVE THE KINGLANTERN IN THE SKYTHE SAL.