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  To be Taken in Water

  George Walter Thornbury

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  George Walter Thornbury (1828-1876) was an English writer and a favourite of Charles Dickens.When Herbert Blamyre is summoned back from his vacation for an urgent mission, he knows it is a matter of great importance to his firm. And indeed, he is to travel to Naples with two trunks, secured with cryptic letter locks, containing a million in gold. His instructions are to speak to nobody and make no friends on his journey. But already when he boards the boat to Calais, he strikes up an acquaintance with the blustery Major and his domineering wife, as well as the rather odd Mr. Levinson, a commercial traveller in waterproofs...who mysteriously is travelling with an identical set of trunks.An action-packed adventure follows, as it becomes clear that none of the passengers is quite what they seem...and the series of mishaps en route cannot be quite so coincidental as they are portrayed to be. A riveting yarn!

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  Sherlock Holmes - The Adventures

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. 
  In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favorite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favorite.

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  The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is a detective narrative that explores Dupin's investigation into the mysterious disappearance and subsequent death of a young woman in Paris, based on a real case in New York, highlighting analysis and logical deduction.

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  JK Rowling: The True Story of...

  Liam Dale

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  Once upon a time, as all good stories with happy endings begin, a penniless young mother walked the streets of Edinburgh with her beloved baby daughter, hoping to make her fortune. In truth, “fortune” is probably over-exaggerating; enough money to feed and clothe the two of them and put a decent roof over their heads was all this young mother asked, but it was proving to be incredibly difficult. 
   
  Yet this is no fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson, it’s the true story of one of the most successful women the world has ever known, who in 1990 came up with the idea for a book about an orphaned boy wizard. The boy’s name was Harry Potter, the young woman, JK Rowling, and the rest is history!

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  The Case of the Missing Will

  Agatha Christie

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  Do you want to listen to The Case of the Missing Will? If so then keep reading…In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Case of the Missing Will,” Poirot must help clever student Violet Marsh meet the terms of an unusual will by her Uncle Andrew. She must live in his house for a month and “prove her wits” if she is ever to receive his fortune. But is there another will?What are you waiting for The Case of the Missing Will is one click away!

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  Tom Jones

  Henry Fielding

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  Henry Fielding’s great novel is a masterpiece of the picaresque. It has a lovable rogue for a hero, whose all too recognisable human faults involve him in many a scrape.  The story bounds along from the opening scene in which an unknown baby is discovered in Allworthy’s bed, through all Tom’s trials and tribulations. But the novel’s exuberant tone never lets the reader fear that’s its erring hero will come to any real harm, despite the machinations of the devious Blifils, who so nearly come between Tom and his true birthright.  All comes right in the end, as Tom win the hands of his beloved Sophia, whose common-sense and virtue match her beauty.

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