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  Murders in the Rue Morgue The...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.As the first fictional detective, Poe's Dupin displays many traits which became literary conventions in subsequent fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Many later characters, for example, follow Poe's model of the brilliant detective, his personal friend who serves as narrator, and the final revelation being presented before the reasoning that leads up to it. Dupin himself reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" and "The Purloined Letter".

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  Rudyard Kipling The Collection

  Rudyard Kipling

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  This Audiobook contains the Collection of Rudyard Kipling:- The jungle book- Just So Stories- Kim- Captains Courageous- Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books- Puck of Pook's Hill - France At War On the Frontier of Civilization- Letters of Travel- A Fleet In Being- The Fringes Of The Fleet- American Notes

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray -...

  Oscar Wilde

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  Dorian Gray embodies every artistic element for artist, Basil Hallward. But when Lord Henry reveals the phenomenal world experienced only to the young and beautiful, Dorian makes a devious deal. Thus begins Dorian Gray's extensive journey into dissipation, while somehow maintaining every element of his youth and innocence. What is his secret? And why does he keep Basil Hallward's painting hidden from prying eyes?

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  The Best of Saki Volume 1

  Saki Saki

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  The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this first volume there are 22 glittering examples.Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. Later he travelled in Europe with his father. He joined the Burma police but resigned after a year because of ill health and returned to England where he began his writing career as a journalist and short story writer for magazines and newspapers. Saki is regarded as a master of the short story.At the start of the First World War he refused a commission, enlisted as a private, and went to France where, in November 1916, he was killed by a shot to the head, his last words being “Put that bloody cigarette out.”Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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  Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  In Edgar Allan Poe's short and turbulent life, he laid the groundwork for the genre of modern horror and, almost as an aside, invented the modern detective story. This collection brings together Poe's most popular short stories and poems, listed below:The Masque of the Red DeathBereniceThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Black CatThe Pit and The PendulumThe Tell-Tale HeartEleonoraThe Oval PortraitHop-FrogLigeiaThe SphinxThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Premature BurialThe Raven, Annabel Lee, The Bells & seven other poems 
  Narrated by Jake Urry, each story has its place in the history of dark fiction, and went on to inspire authors including Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.

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  The Furnished Room

  O. Henry

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  O. Henry's poignant ghost story of a young man seeking his lost love in the city. When he rents a furnished room in the lower West Side, he senses from a mysterious and familiar scent that his lost love has recently stayed there. The ghostly essence of his lover exercises a very strange and sinister effect on him.

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