G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, ...
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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, Dickens's last novel, left unfinished when he died in June 1870, is set in an English cathedral town. It tells the potentially sordid tale of an opium addict, John Jasper; Rosa Bud, the woman he loves; Edwin Drood, who disappears during a Christmas Eve storm; and Dick Dat ...
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G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties–gained during his years listening to confessions–Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elus ...
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An anthology featuring famous sleuths: Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Crooked Man and G.K. Chesterlon's The Man in the Passage.
A unique police anthology. This compilation has been done around three of the biggest and most famous detectives of police novel. It presents stories led by Sherlock Holmes, a genius of the deduction and predecessor of the modern police story; by Hercules Poirot, the satirical creation of Agatha Chr ...
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