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  Triumphs of a Taxidermist The...

  H. G. Wells

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  Bellows visits a friend, the taxidermist of the title, in the latter's home. Like much of Wells' fiction, the Taxidermist remains unnamed and the story is a concealed assault on the English culture of the time of its writing. The Taxidermist proudly tells the younger man of his accomplishments both grotesque and fraudulent.

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  Diary of a Country Prosecutor

  Tawfik al-Hakim

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  1920s Cairo. A young and ambitious prosecutor is dispatched from the bustling city to a provincial village to investigate a serious crime. Armed with his European education, the prosecutor is confident that he will dispense justice in this rural outpost. But he finds himself increasingly befuddled by an alien legal system and the clueless bureaucrats who enforce it. As he teases out the facts of the case only one thing becomes clear: justice is never as simple as it seems. First published in 1937, this classic by one of the Arab world's leading dramatists has lost none of its bite.

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  The Resident Patient

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Resident Patient, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories....A little digging at police headquarters brings up the rest of the truth. All four of the men were once members of a criminal gang that robbed banks. Blessington's real name was Sutton, and the other three, two of whom played the Russians, were Biddle, Hayward, and Moffat. After robbing the Worthington Bank of £7,000 in 1875, Blessington (or Sutton) had turned informer, and as a result, another gang member, Cartwright, had been hanged for murdering the caretaker, and the other three had each been given 15 years in prison. Blessington's "paranoia" was indeed a very real fear, caused by news of their early release, not by some burglary, as he claimed. The murderers chose hanging as their form of execution to avenge Cartwright...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  Arsène Lupin: The Collection

  Maurice Leblanc

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  The series that inspired the Netflix show.
  
  This collection contains 34 Arsène Lupin stories, including:
  
  - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (1-15)
  - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (16-25)
  - The Hollow Needle 26-37)
  - 813 (38-56)
  - The Crystal Stopper (57-71)
  - The Confessions of Arsène Lupin (72-91)
  - The Teeth of The Tiger (92-128)
  - The Woman of Mystery (129-150)
  - The Eight Strokes of The Clock (151-160)
  - The Secret Tomb (161-180)

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A cursed family. A fog-shrouded moor. A monstrous howl that freezes the blood—Holmes has never faced a case like this.
  When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under terrifying circumstances, whispers of a supernatural hound spread through Devonshire. Fearing for the life of the new heir, Dr. Mortimer seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes. As Holmes and Watson follow a trail of eerie clues, strange footprints, and deadly secrets, they uncover a truth far more shocking than any legend.
  
  Praised as "Sherlock Holmes's greatest adventure," this classic blends atmospheric horror with razor-sharp deduction, creating a mystery that has captivated readers for generations.
  
  If you love moody suspense, gothic landscapes, and detective work at its finest, this unforgettable novel will grip you from the first page to the last.
  
  Step onto the moor—start reading now and face the hound that haunts the Baskerville name.

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  Fear - From their pens to your...

  Catherine Wells

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  Little information survives on Catherine’s life. 
  She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872. 
  In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells.  Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey.  He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register office. 
  In the early years they were poor to the point that they could not afford to start a family.  When they did they had two children; Philip in 1901 and Frank two years later. 
  For much of her life she seemed to pursue other interests, being a mother, a gardener, running much of her husband’s business affairs and this seemed to leave little time for her own literary pursuits.  She published little during her lifetime apart from a few poems and some short stories.  Indeed her prodigiously talented husband even referred to her as ‘Jane’ and soon all around her did too, her writing life seemingly in another personality far, far away.   
  By the mid 20’s she was ill with cancer and succumbed to its advance in 1927. 
  Wells, although wayward and promiscuous during much of the marriage, now attempted to put his wife’s literary merits into book form and published ‘The Book of Catherine Wells’, a collection of short stories and poems.

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