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  Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Devil's Foot is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and one of eight stories in the volume His Last Bow. 
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859-July 7, 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. 
  Public Domain (P)2017 Listen & Live Audio

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  Bukavu Blues

  Peter Lewenstein

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  A murderous gang on the rampage. A country torn apart by brutal conflict. A man determined to stop the bloodshed. 
  Watching his people suffer years of appalling violence has made human rights defender Patrice Le Congo grow weary and cynical. But when schoolteacher Aurélia Mukunda turns to him for help after a mutilated body is found in a village, he can’t say no. 
  Patrice’s investigation takes him to lawless tin mines and hazardous encounters with rebel groups and renegade army units – to the heart of a seemingly never-ending war that’s brought death and destruction to eastern Congo. 
  More gruesome murders follow, threatening to derail an international peace conference. Then the killers abduct Aurélia. And Patrice is faced with two challenges: to save the teacher and to save his country.  
  Bukavu Blues is the opening novel chronicling the adventures of Patrice Le Congo – a series of crime stories with a global political dimension. 

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  Her Murderer - A couple wish to...

  Mary Cholmonderly

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  Mary Cholmondeley was born in Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire on June 8th 1859, the third of eight children. Her father was appointed rector in 1874 in succession to his father. Much of the first 30 years of her life was taken up with helping her sickly mother run the household and her father with parish work, and she herself suffered with asthma. 
    
  Mary began writing with in her teens. She wrote in her journal in 1877, "What a pleasure and interest it would be to me in life to write books. I must strike out a line of some kind, and if I do not marry (for at best that is hardly likely, as I possess neither beauty nor charms) I should want some definite occupation, besides the home duties." 
    
  Mary began by publishing some stories in The Graphic and her first novel ‘The Danvers Jewels’ a detective story followed in 1887. It was followed by Sir Charles Danvers (1889), Diana Tempest (1893). 
    
  After her father retired in 1896, she moved with him and her sister Diana to Condover Hall before selling it to move to Albert Gate Mansions in Knightsbridge, London. 
    
  Mary wrote the best seller ‘Red Pottage’ in 1899. It satirised religious hypocrisy and the conceit of country life. It was denounced as immoral. It also explored female sexuality. 
    
  During the war she did clerical work in the Carlton House Terrace Hospital. The sisters moved in 
  1919 to 4 Argyll Road, Kensington, where Mary died, unmarried, on 15th July 1925.

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  The Adventure of the...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and is the second and final appearance of Mycroft Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" fourteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
  The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes' brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages - three are still missing - were found with Arthur Cadogan West's body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near the Aldgate tube station, his head crushed. He had little money with him (although there appears to have been no robbery), theatre tickets, and curiously, no Underground ticket. The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain's enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine.

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  The Mazarin Stone - The...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Step into The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, where Sherlock Holmes turns a clever illusion into the perfect trap. A wax effigy of Holmes casts a shadow that lures a cunning diamond thief into the open, and only Holmes' quick thinking can secure justice. Every moment is charged with tension, deception, and brilliant strategy, can you anticipate the criminal's next move before Holmes does?

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  Supernatural Horror Ghost...

  Ian Fortey, Ron Ripley, Scare...

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  Hell rises from the desert sands…  
  Still on the trail of the glowing ghosts, Shane Ryan and Xander Ventura stumble upon a restricted atomic testing ground, where they uncover a horrifying secret. 
  Something sinister lurks beneath the bomb-blasted sands. Something unlike anything they have encountered before… 
  Teaming up with Thomas Coulson, they venture into a haunting landscape where radiation-infused spirits stalk the shadows. Following the trail of death, they delve deep into an underground bunker, battling through an unholy legion of ghosts who burn with radioactive fury. But the worst is yet to come… 
  For as they go deeper into the darkness, the line between hunter and prey grows razor thin… 
  Step into the eerie world of Scare Street, where supernatural horror and suspense await you at every turn. Our collection of ghost stories, paranormal encounters, urban legends, and haunted house stories offer the perfect mix of scary and spooky tales. Whether it's a creepy campfire classic, short horror stories, or unsettling creepypasta, our tales are crafted to bring thrills and chills that will keep you hooked. 
  For a detailed list of our books, please visit scarestreet.com/books

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