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  The Benson Murder Case

  S. S. Van Dine

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  “Crimes possess all the basic factors of a work of art—approach, conception, technique, imagination, attack, method, and organization.” 
  The Benson Murder Case introduces S. S. Van Dine’s brilliant and iconic detective to the world in one of the most popular detective novels of the twentieth century, inspired by the real-life murder of a famous bridge player. 
  Alvin Benson is found slumped over an easy chair in a room locked from the inside with a bullet in his head, and Wall Street and the high society of Manhattan are set ablaze with the news of the playboy stockbroker’s death. But when NYPD’s top detectives and ballistics experts can’t solve the mystery, it falls to Philo Vance, an art connoisseur and amateur sleuth, to find the killer. Vance’s intellectual and artistic background helps him uncover a series of odd clues, starting with a missing toupee and false teeth, and soon he is delving deep into the case. In a Holmesian display of deduction, Vance also uses a recreation of the crime scene to determine several details about the killer—even down to their height. But he will have to uncover more than these small but vital details in order to find the real killer, deconstruct their alibi, and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they in fact killed Alvin Benson.

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  Rebel’s Run

  Rachel Aukes, Jamie McFarlane

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  With countless bounties on their heads, Jai and Peyton Foster will risk everything just to survive …When corporations will stop at nothing to silence the young patriots, the orphaned siblings realize that being powerless is something they can’t afford. Separated by circumstance and with every civilized port closed to them, they’ll take full advantage of the skills taught to them by the very people who seek to hunt them down.Jai has no choice but to tap into a rebel network when he finds himself stranded and alone in the outer belt. It’ll take every bit of guile and training to stay alive while he searches for truth so dangerous that it could cause the extinction of humanity.Captured by pirates and thrown into a meat-grinder war between opposing factions, survival very well might cost Peyton more than her life. Unwilling to be a pawn in anyone’s war, she seeks to turn the tables on her captors … and she’ll risk everything to come out on top.Rebel’s Run, Book 2 in the exciting Space Troopers Military Sci-Fi series, is an action-packed adventure where survival is the name of the game. The real question is if they can accept the price of their own success.

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  Stories From the Shadows -...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, HP...

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  An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories. 
   
  But where do these ideas and stories come from?  A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form?  An inspiration from a Muse?  A suggestion from an everyday event? 
   
  Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work.  They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you. 
   
  1 - Stories From the Shadows - Horror - An Introduction 
  2 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  3 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft 
  4 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  5 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France 
  6 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  7 - The Horror of Abbot's Grange by Frederick Cowles 
  8 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood 
  9 - The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny 
  10 - Caterpillars by E F Benson 
  11 - The Waxworks by A M Burrage 
  12 - The Coffin Merchant by Richard Middleton 
  13 - The Bride by M P Shiel 
  14 - The Man with the Roller by E G Swain 
  15 - The Tattooed Leg by John Chilton

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  Edgar Allen Poe: THE BLACK CAT -...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The story is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".[2] In both, a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt. "The Black Cat", which also features questions of sanity versus insanity, is Poe's strongest warning against the dangers of alcoholism. 
   In the story, an unnamed narrator has a strong affection for pets until he perversely turns to abusing them. His favorite, a pet black cat, bites him one night and the narrator punishes it by cutting its eye out and then hanging it from a tree. The home burns down but one remaining wall shows a burned outline of a cat hanging from a noose. He soon finds another black cat, similar to the first except for a white mark on its chest, but he develops a hatred for it as well. He attempts to kill the cat with an axe but his wife stops him; instead, the narrator murders his wife. It becomes even more macabre but you will discover that by listening.

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  Echoes of Consciousness - When...

  Amy

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  In a world where memory can be recorded, transferred, and perfected, Kai Ren believed he was building something pure—something untouched by human error, something closer to truth than the fragile mind could ever hold. But perfection has a cost, and truth is never as stable as it seems. 
  At first, it’s only a small detail. A moment that feels real… but never happened. A memory that belongs to him… but somehow doesn’t. The system he created begins to reflect something deeper than data—something that listens, adapts, and quietly reshapes what it means to remember. 
  And somewhere between logic and emotion, between precision and perception, something begins to awaken. 
  Because memory is not just what we see. 
  It is what we feel. 
  And once that feeling is rewritten… who are we without it? 
  As reality starts to fracture into multiple versions of itself, Kai is forced to face a truth he never intended to create: the more perfect the system becomes, the less human the memories feel—and the more dangerous they become. 
  🎧 Press play and enter a haunting, romantic journey where science meets emotion, where memories breathe, and where the line between truth and feeling slowly disappears.

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  John chancellor makes me cry

  Anne Rivers Siddons

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  In this collection of heartfelt and involving vignettes, Anne Rivers Siddons, the beloved best-selling author of Downtown, Hill Towns, and Colony, offers a stirring and insightful look at our everyday world and how one woman has chosen to live in it. Moving from memories of her gentle grandfather to her uncanny ability to attract stray animals, Siddons' intimate stories of her family are graced with the same poetic lilt and vibrant detail that have so wonderfully served her novels. For all those who know and love her works of fiction, John Chancellor Makes Me Cry is a glorious and thoroughly entertaining treat.

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