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Book IX Chapter 11: An Enterprise

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

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Frances Burney

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

Juliet's Story Continued

In The Secret Passage

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Fergus Hume

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstaking…

Book 03 The Heart Of Man Chapter 27 The Image Of Dread

In Initials Only

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Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective f…

Chapter 9

In The Hampstead Mystery

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John Watson and Arthur Rees and Arthur J. Rees

A murder whodunit... Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot w…

Chapter 19 - Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise

In The Trumpet-Major

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Thomas Hardy

Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…

Chapter 19

In The Turmoil (Growth Trilogy Vol 1)

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Booth Tarkington

The Turmoil is the first novel in the 'Growth' trilogy, which also includes The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1923, retitl…

02 - The Dead Bride

In The Midnight Queen

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May Agnes Fleming

May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…

02 - Gagtooth's Image

In The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

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John Charles Dent

John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated …

14 - Kenneth is Frightened

In Aunt Jane's Nieces

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L. Frank Baum

Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her mone…

The Ordeal of Mark Twain

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Van Wyck Brooks

This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attribu…