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  Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and...

  Oscar Wilde

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  A collection of short stories from the celebrated irish writer and dramatist: Oscar Wilde. Included within this collection are the stories:  
  Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: Lady Windermere's pet palm-reader delivers a fearful oracle to Lord Arthur, but being a resolute gentlemen he knows just what to do...  
  The Canterville Ghost: The Ghost of Canterville Hall has led a highly creditable undeath for centuries, but now, the worst has happened... american's have moved into the hall!  
  The Sphinx without a Secret: Just what was the secret of the mysterious woman that Lord Murchison wanted to marry?  
  The Model Millionaire: Poor Hughie, he'll never raise the money he needs to marry, but even so, he's not above giving a tramp his artist friend is painting a sovereign. Surely, after all, the poor man needs it more than Hughie?  
  The Portrait of Mr W.H. : Oscar Wilde delves into the mystery of Mr W.H. The recipient of William Shakespeares' series of Sonnets. Presenting through this story, a series of highly plausible, if unprovable theories on this literary mystery.  
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  P-C Lee Series

  Edgar Wallace

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  P.-C. Lee Series by Edgar Wallace is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The magistrate looked over his glasses at the prisoner in the dock, and the prisoner nodded in the friendliest way. The clerk at his little desk before the magistrate jerked his head round in the direction of the dock. "Were you drunk last night?" he asked pointedly. "I were in a manner of speakin' This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Virgin of Valkarion

  Poul Anderson

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  Save for himself, the broad highway that flung its time-raddled length down the rock slope was empty. On either hand, the harsh gullied hills stretched away to the dusky horizon, wind whispering in gray scrub and low twisted trees. Here and there, evening fires glimmered red from peasants huts, or the broken columns of temples in ruins these many thousand years loomed against the darkening greenish-blue. Behind him, the land faded toward the raw naked desert from which he had come. A falkh hovered on silent wings far above him, watching for a movement that might mean prey—otherwise he was alone....FROM THE BOOKS.

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  Armaments Race

  Arthur C. Clarke

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  "Armaments Race" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1954, and later anthologized in Tales from the White Hart. Like the rest of the collection, it is a frame story set in the pub "White Hart", where the fictional Harry Purvis narrates the secondary tale.Purvis tells of Hollywood special effects man Solly Blumberg, who is hired to create mock weapons as set pieces for a science-fiction serial named "Captain Zoom". Blumberg becomes involved in an arms race as he creates increasingly elaborate weapons for both the protagonist and his adversaries, until he accidentally creates a functional weapon and "makes the studio disappear".

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  A Study in Scarlet

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "A Study in Scarlet" is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.  
  The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would go on to become one of the most well-known detective duos in literature.  
  When a gruesome murder is discovered with the word "RACHE" scrawled in blood, Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of deduction to uncover a hidden story of passion, betrayal, and retribution.

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  Barbarians

  ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

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  Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827–1911), a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (1842–1913). His parents met when his mother was twelve years old and William P. was interning with her father, Joseph Boughton, a prominent corporate lawyer. Eventually the two formed the law firm of Chambers and Boughton which continued to prosper even after Josephs death in 1861. Robert Chamberss great-grandfather, William Chambers (birth unknown), a lieutenant in the British Royal Navy, was married to Amelia Saunders (1765–1822), a great granddaughter of Tobias Saunders of Westerly, Rhode Island. The couple moved from Westerly to Greenfield, Massachusetts and then to Galway, New York, where their son, also William Chambers (1798–1874), was born. The second William graduated from Union College at the age of 18, and then went to a college in Boston, where he studied medicine. Upon graduating, he and his wife, Eliza P. Allen (1793–1880), a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island, were among the first settlers of Broadalbin, New York. His brother was the architect Walter Boughton Chambers.

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