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30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces you have to read before you die - cover

30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces you have to read before you die

Wilkie Collins, Mary Roberts Rinehart, William Le Queux, Frank Norris, Grant Allen, Henry Haggard, Arthur Griffiths, Edgar Wallace, G.K. Chesterton, John Buchan, Anthony Hope, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Louis Joseph Vance, Marcel Allain, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Fred Merrick White, Thomas Hardy, William Andrew Johnston

Publisher: Whitemore Kennett

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Summary

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names

A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain]
The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen]
Mr Standfast [John Buchan]
The Three Hostages [John Buchan]
Greenmantle [John Buchan]
The Island of Sheep [John Buchan]
The Thirty-Nine Steps [John Buchan]
The Efficiency Expert [Edgar Rice Burroughs]
The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers]
The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
The Rome Express [Arthur Griffiths]
Lysbeth [Henry Rider Haggard]
Desperate Remedies [Thomas Hardy]
Rupert of Hentzau [Anthony Hope]
The Prisoner of Zenda [Anthony Hope]
The Apartment Next Door [William Andrew Johnston]
The Film of Fear [Frederic Arnold Kummer]
The Green God [Frederic Arnold Kummer]
The Czar's Spy [William Le Queux]
The Pit: A Story of Chicago [Frank Norris]
The Double Traitor [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]
The Evil Shepherd [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]
The Kingdom of the Blind [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]
The After House [Mary Roberts Rinehart]
The International Spy [Allen Upward]
The Bandbox [Louis Joseph Vance]
Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
The River of Death: A Tale of London In Peril [Fred Merrick White]
The Dust of Death: The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century [Fred Merrick White]
Available since: 12/30/2019.

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