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  The Trouble at Pinelands

  Ernest M. Poate

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  A haunted house. A murdered physician. A bridegroom found holding the smoking gun. 
   
  George Uhlman has reluctantly agreed to watch over his niece, Dorothy McGregor, as she prepares to marry young physician Lewis Parker. His stay at Fort House should be uneventful—but the gloomy North Carolina mansion is already troubled by unexplained noises, shattered dishes, missing food, and rumors of a destructive poltergeist. 
   
  Then the disturbances take a deadly turn. 
   
  After a bitter confrontation between Lewis and his professional rival, Dr. Gaskell, a shotgun blast shatters the early-morning quiet. Gaskell is discovered dead in the scrub oaks, and Lewis is found nearby with the weapon in his hands. 
   
  The evidence appears damning. The townspeople demand justice, the authorities close in, and Dorothy’s future collapses around her. But when Lewis’s sharp-minded best man, Dr. Floyd Somers, arrives in Pinelands, he refuses to accept the obvious solution. 
   
  Behind the ghostly disturbances lies a household filled with secrets. Behind the murder lies a web of jealousy, old grudges, hidden criminal activity, and carefully arranged deception. 
   
  First published in 1922, *The Trouble at Pinelands* is an atmospheric American mystery combining a seemingly haunted house, small-town rivalries, courtroom intrigue, and a classic puzzle of detection. 
   
  Narrated by John Riddle.

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  Erewhon - or Over the Range

  Samuel Butler

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  A traveler crosses a mountain range and finds a country where illness is a crime, machines have been banned in case they evolve, and the banks that matter deal in a currency nobody spends. Butler published it anonymously and let readers think it was Bulwer-Lytton's; the chapters on machines were being quoted a century later by people who had not read the joke. Fifty-nine plates from 1770 to 1894, including Corot and Ommeganck, picture the valleys, flocks and pastures of the country the traveler crosses.

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  Yvette - A Novel of the Paris...

  Guy De Maupassant

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  A young man pursues Yvette, the beautiful daughter of a Marquise whose salon is not quite what it appears — and discovers, slightly before she does, exactly what her mother is and what that makes her. Flaubert was Maupassant's mother's friend and made him rewrite for seven years before allowing him to publish; this long story is his cruellest about innocence, and the cruelty is in the reader's foreknowledge. Fifty-seven plates of painting by Renoir and Manet, among others, capture the parks, parlours and performers of the Paris that Yvette moves through.

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  The Last Man - Europe Emptied by...

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  A plague empties the world in the last decades of the twenty-first century, and one man is left to write the record. Mary Shelley published it in 1826, four years after Shelley drowned and eight after Frankenstein; the friends who die in it are Shelley and Byron under other names. It was despised at the time and forgotten for a century. Fifty-eight plates of Constable and Friedrich, from Flatford Lock to the Riesengebirge, follow the novel's turn from crowded cities to a landscape emptied of people.

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  Middlemarch (Book 2: Old and Young)

  George Eliot

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  Middlemarch (Book 2: Old and Young), A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Leavened with comic elements, Middlemarch approaches significant historical events in a realist mode: the Reform Act 1832, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. It looks at medicine of the time and reactionary views in a settled community facing unwelcome change. Eliot began writing the two pieces that formed the novel in 1869–1870 and completed it in 1871. Initial reviews were mixed, but it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great English novels.

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  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  Agatha Christie

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  “What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.” 
  In Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement to solve one of the most vexing cases of his career. The quiet village of King’s Abbot is still reeling from the death of the widow Ferrars from an overdose of Veronal, when not twenty-four hours later it is learned that the man she planned to marry, Roger Ackroyd, has been brutally murdered.  
  Prior to his death, Ackroyd had been reading an article in the Evening Post to discover who had been blackmailing his wife over poisoning her first husband. But before he could learn who the blackmailer was, he was stabbed through the neck in his own study. 
  Hercule Poirot is the only man with the “little grey cells” to solve this convoluted crime. This time however, it is not Hastings along for the ride. It is Dr. James Shepard, a man actually living in the small village, and one of the men to actually find Ackroyd’s body, who relates to us the terrible truths of the crime and the great deductions of our beloved Belgian detective. 
  See why the British Crime Writers’ Association voted The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as the “Best Crime Novel of All Time”!

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