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Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…

A Passage to India

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E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates…

Martin Hewitt, Investigator

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Arthur Morrison

Here are seven mystery stories featuring Martin Hewitt, Detective, and narrated (of course) by his (nameless) sidekick. Arthur Morrison cert…

The Incredulity of Father Brown (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton

These eight Father Brown mysteries depart from Chesterton’s two earlier Father Brown collections – The Innocence of Father Brown, and The Wi…

The Bartlett Mystery

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Louis Tracy

This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") characters, a solid plot, no che…

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

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George Gissing

George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…

Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizab…

Clouds of Witness

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Dorothy L. Sayers

While Lord Peter Wimsey is on holiday in the wilds of Corsica, his brother Gerald, Duke of Denver, is charged with the murder of their siste…

From The Temple

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George Herbert

George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert com…

Unnatural Death

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Dorothy L. Sayers

This is the third book in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series.* As the story opens, a country doctor is telling Lord Peter Wimsey about the…

The Secret of Father Brown

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G. K. Chesterton

This is the fourth collection of mysteries featuring the very smart and even more devout catholic priest, Father Brown. (It follows The Inno…

The Benson Murder Case - A Philo Vance Story

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S. S. Van Dine

The Benson Murder Case – A Philo Vance Story is the first of a series of twelve popular mysteries set in New York during the Jazz Age. S. S.…

The Red House Mystery (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne

Author A. A. Milne is best known to the world as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Yet Milne was versatile, having written dozens of plays, h…

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

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Louis Tracy

At the country estate of Mortimer Fenley, artist John Trenholme works at an oil painting of Sylvia, the financier’s beautiful ward. She has …

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

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Dorothy L. Sayers

The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the Great War, begins with the discovery of old general Fentiman’s body sea…

The Dinner Club

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Sapper

Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…

And Even Now

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Max Beerbohm

This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Sh…

Stories by English Authors: London

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F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill

This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

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