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John Jasper's Secret
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Charles Dickens,Wilkie Collins,Henry Morford |
An early attempt to elucidate the mystery left unfinished at Dickens's death. |
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Perils of Certain English Prisoners
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Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens |
A monologue about English soldiers protecting a village against pirates. |
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Works (Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices / No Thoroughfare / Tale of Two Cities / Uncommercial Trav…
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Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens |
Contains:
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
No Thoroughfare
[Tale of Two Cities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721465W/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities)
Uncommercial Traveller |
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The Wreck of the Golden Mary
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Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens |
*The Golden Mary* is sailing towards the Californian coast. There is a motley group of passengers – a man hoping to make money in the gold rush, an estranged fiancé, a mother and her child heading to… |
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Three Victorian Detective Novels
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Israel Zangwill,Andrew Forrester,Wilkie Collins,Everett F. Bleiler |
Three Victorian Detective Novels edited and introduced by E. F. Bleiler contains some of the earliest modern detective novels available. The stories selected are meant to represent various moments in… |
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The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
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W. W. Jacobs,Edith Wharton,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Saki |
Poe:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibr… |
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Curses
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. L. Gold,Robert W. Chambers,Robert Bloch,Martin H. Greenberg,Wilkie Collins,Avram Davidson,George Moore,Arthur C. Clarke,Charles G. Waugh,Theodore Cogswell,Sarah Orne Jewett,Robertson, Morgan,Isaac Asimov,Christopher Fahy,Seumas MacManus,Manly Wade Wellman,Talmage Powell,F. Antsy,Mario Martin Jr. |
Contents:
Introduction: Malevolence - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Curse - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Julia Cahill's Curse - shortstory by George Moore
The Red Swimmer - novelette by Robert Bl… |
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Classic Ghost Stories
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Marion Crawford,W. W. Jacobs,Daniel Defoe,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Frederick Marryat,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Sir Walter Scott,Margaret Oliphant |
LeFanu, J. S. Sir Dominick Sarsfield.
Dickens, C. The story of the bagman's uncle.
Jacobs, W. W. The monkey's paw.
Scott, W., Sir. Wandering Willie's tale.
Stoker, B. Dracula's guest.
Oliph… |
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I Say No Or, The Love-Letter Answered And Other Stories
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Wilkie Collins |
Outside the bedroom the night was black and still. |
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The Haunted Hotel
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Wilkie Collins |
This is perhaps Collins' last lucid effort before ill health and opium drained his powers. A tale of ghostly terror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed Countess characterize and distingui… |
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The Woman in White
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Wilkie Collins |
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intri… |
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Antonina, or, The fall of Rome
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Wilkie Collins |
The author draws on historical accounts of the final days of Rome and adds fictional characters and details to bring the time to life in more of a vignette form rather than a novel. Chapters include … |
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My Lady's Money
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Wilkie Collins |
Old Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap. |
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The Frozen Deep
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James Mahoney,Wilkie Collins,George Du Maurier |
Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. Wi… |
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Jezebel's Daughter
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Wilkie Collins |
MR. DAVID GLENNEY CONSULTS HIS MEMORY AND OPENS THE STORY |
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The legacy of Cain
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Wilkie Collins |
At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English … |
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The craft of detection
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Arthur Conan Doyle,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens |
Presents three annotated mystery and detective stories--"The Biter Bit," "Hunted Down," and "The Hound of the Baskervilles"--along with a section of related articles with discussion questions. |
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Romance
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W. S. Gilbert,Mark Twain,Joseph Conrad,David Herbert Lawrence,Edith Wharton,O. Henry,Wilkie Collins,Rudyard Kipling,Robert Louis Stevenson,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Arnold Bennett,Rosemary Gray,James Joyce,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,Kate Chopin,George Gissing,Saki,Katherine Mansfield |
Love in the night / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
An inverted love story / W.S. Gilbert --
The long run / Edith Wharton --
Olalla / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The box-office girl / Arnold Bennett --
A d… |
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The Book of the Sleuth
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Edgar Wallace,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mark Twain,Wilkie Collins,Edgar Allan Poe,Alan K. Russell,Mrs. Henry Wood,J. J. Bell,William Le Queux |
A thread of scarlet ; The little more / J.J. Bell --
The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins --
[Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15297563W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled… |
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The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Thomas Hardy,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Edgar Allan Poe,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Robert Etty,Montague Rhodes James |
The Ostler / Wilkie Collins --
The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell --
[Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
[Pit and the… |
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