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  Tender is the Night - Book 3...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age a term he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.BOOK 3: Frau Kaethe Gregorovius overtook her husband on the path of their villa. 'How was Nicole?' she asked mildly; but she spoke out of breath, giving away the fact that she had held the question in her mind during her run. Franz looked at her in surprise.

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  The Red Hand

  ARTHUR MACHEN

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  Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction.  
  The Red Hand is a mysterious horror story, which tells the peculiar tale of the strange murder of Sir Thomas Vivian, the famous heart surgeon.  Why was he murdered with an ancient flint weapon, when there was an unused brand new knife at the scene? What was the meaning of the bizarre letter in the dead man's pocket, written in a very strange hand? And what could be the meaning of the peculiar symbol of a red hand chalked on the wall above the corpse?

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  The Flight of the Shadow

  George MacDonald

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  An eerie and mysterious gothic romance steeped in family secrets and deception from the Victorian-era author of The Portent and Lilith.   MacDonald’s second realistic novel written in the first person by a fictional female narrator, The Flight of the Shadow feels somber and ominous almost from its opening pages. It is thus linked with The Portent from early in MacDonald’s career, both books similar of length and style. Again MacDonald develops his familiar themes through the character of an orphan, who, without an earthly father, must yet discover the goodness of God’s Fatherhood. Belorba Whichcote learns of the divine Fatherhood through the goodness of her uncle Edward, who has raised her on the “old family farm.” Both of their lives are complicated when Belorba falls in love with John Day from the neighboring estate of Rising. John’s demonic mother, Lady Cairnedge, who holds a secret over the Whichcote family, threatens to destroy them, foreshadowing the character of Lilith, the first draft of whose saga was being written about the same time as Flight of the Shadow’s release in 1891. Reconciliation and restoration conquer her evil influence in the end.   “MacDonald is best known for his children’s fiction and his fantasy-romances; but this is the US debut of an only slightly fantastical minor romance, written just before Lilith—which, in some aspects of plot and character, it anticipates.”—Kirkus Reviews

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  In a German Pension

  Katherine Mansfield

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  First published in 1911, Katherine Mansfield's collection "In a German Pension" was inspired by her extended stay in a spa town in Bavaria in 1909, during which she suffered a miscarriage. The collection brought her instant fame and popularity as a short story writer, particularly as her amusing - though less than favourable - caricatures of the Germans were very popular at that time: - Germans at Meat -The Baron - The Sister of the Baroness - Frau Fischer - Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding - The Modern Soul - At Lehmann’s - The Luft Bad - A Birthday - The Child-who-was-tired - The Advanced Lady - The Swing of the Pendulum - A Blaze

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  Poirot Investigates

  Agatha Christie

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  Book #3 in Agatha Christie's Poirot series. 
   
  First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond; then came the “suicide” that was murder; the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat; a suspicious death in a locked gun room; a million-dollar bond robbery; the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb; a jewel robbery by the sea; the abduction of a prime minister; the disappearance of a banker; a phone call from a dying man; and, finally, the mystery of the missing will. 
   
  The stories included in this collection are: 
  The Adventure of 'The Western StarThe Tragedy of Marsdon ManorThe Mystery of Hunter's LodgeThe Million Dollar Bond RobberyThe Adventure of the Egyptian TombThe Jewel Robbery at the Grand MetropolitanThe Kidnapped Prime MinisterThe Disappearance of Mr. DavenheimThe Adventure of the Italian NoblemanThe Case of the Missing Will

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  Detective Police The (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.THE DETECTIVE POLICE: We are not by any means devout believers in the old Bow Street Police. To say the truth, we think there was a vast amount of humbug about those worthies. Apart from many of them being men of very indifferent character, and far too much in the habit of consorting with thieves and the like, they never lost a public occasion of jobbing and trading in mystery and making the most of themselves.

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