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  Tales of Terror and Mystery -...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humor, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imaginative of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned and tragic facts which reinforce the statement. Though the assertions contained in it are amazing and even monstrous, it is none the less forcing itself upon the general intelligence that they are true, and that we must readjust our ideas to the new situation. This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger. If you have chilblains running up and down your spine, get a good grip on something as you listen to literature that can have frightening aspects with “chilling” present in the dozen tales.

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  Blood of the Hunters

  Laura E Simms

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  It's May 2055 and Paris-Brooke Seabrook is hoping that Theodore King-Lake will invite her to the school Prom, but at a party at Theodore's home Amberton Hall, Theodore's older brother Rufus is shot. Theodore, Paris-Brooke and Theodore's friend Benedict Templeton-Knight are taken hostage. To secure their release, Rufus must be saved by Paris's father Doctor Thomas Seabrook and his friend Doctor Samuel March-Banks. However, Amberton Hall holds many secrets. Just who is Lady Annabella Clarence, and what does she have to do with the Hunter family history?

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  Final Strike - A Thriller

  Jason Kasper

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  FROM FORMER GREEN BERET AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JASON KASPER 
    
  A secret mission, one final challenge. 
    
  For David Rivers and his team, this mission was meant to be the final chapter—an audacious strike to eliminate the world’s most dangerous terrorist. But deep in the unpredictable terrain of Iran, they soon realize that the assignment is far more intricate than expected. 
    
  As they close in on their target, the team uncovers a devastating secret: their mission is just one piece of a much larger plan, designed to ignite chaos and fracture the very foundations of America. With time running out and Iranian militias closing in, they must execute a desperate, high-risk counter strike to stop a conspiracy that threatens the world. 
    
  Pushed to their limits, they face the possibility that not all of them will make it out alive. The team must decide how far they are willing to go to prevent a global catastrophe. 
    
  It's all amounted to this, one final showdown.

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  Grande Dames and a Vegas Heist

  M.J. Miller

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  Ancient legends and secrets threaten the Grand Dames of Luckland 
  Pippa loves her simple life in her cozy town of Luckland, but after her sister holds a yard sale, Pippa’s life begins to unravel, starting with six missing shoeboxes, the arrival of two very odd visitors, blackmail, and revealed secrets—including a Vegas bag of millions. If that isn’t enough, Devon—Pippa’s not-so-friendly friend from childhood—returns home.

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  The Adventure of the Copper...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Violet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty. They are accused of freeing the prisoner, who was the daughter of Hunter's employer, who sets his dog on them, though it attacks him instead. It is revealed that Hunter had been hired to impersonate her employer's daughter so that her fiancé would believe she was no longer interested in seeing him, but the daughter had escaped and the pair later married.

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  The Flying Inn - A tale of...

  G K Chesterton

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  Progressive Islam takes over England, and two men go on the run with a barrel of rum and a wheel of cheese, intent on keeping English pub life alive. Packed with songs, satire, and style as only Chesteron could write."Perhaps prophetical more so than prosaic (and not at all in the sense Chesterton intended it) The Flying Inn is one of those books which should rank among the classics" - The Distributist Review"Chesterton said that the book he most enjoyed writing was The Flying Inn. He enjoyed creating the comical scenes as much as the polemical ones, the drinking songs as much as the bitter satire and the hard-edged debate. As the hero of the novel says, “It’s as innocent as Heaven and as hot as hell.” The novel is a vehicle for Chesterton to tee off against corrupt and ineffectual politicians who had not merely lost touch with common citizens but were actively taking away their basic rights and freedoms. Besides politicians, he also makes room on his skewer for journalists, textual critics, health gurus, idiot socialists and capitalist toadies. [...] the drinking songs in The Flying Inn [are] "true Temperance songs: temperance is about moderation not abstinence. Self-restraint and self-control are acts of freedom. Prohibition is not. Though drinking may be a caprice [...] it is a caprice that cannot be forbidden to a citizen, but can be forbidden to a slave.”And what are these drinking songs that came under such fire? Simply some of the dearest and most delightful poems that Chesterton or anyone else has ever written: The Song of Right and Wrong, The Song of the Dog Quoodle, Wine and Water, The Logical Vegetarian, The Good Rich Man, The Saracen’s Head, and The Rolling English Road."

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