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The Cask – A suspicious cask arrives in London dock which when unloading slips and cracks open to reveal gold sovereigns. While the bystanders scramble to pick up the gold, the dock inspector finds a hand of a dead woman buried underneath. To his absolute bewilderment, the next day, the cask has disappeared! Now it is up to Inspector Burnley of Scotland Yard to solve the mystery of the cask as well as the murder of the woman. The Ponson Case – When the dead body of Sir William Ponson is found...
| Автор | Freeman Wills Crofts |
This meticulously edited and unique collection includes the greatest mystery cases for Christmas time and winter holidays: Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Murder on the Links The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Secret Adversary R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke's Cases The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes A Study in...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
During Christmas dinner, Robert Warbeck, the only son and heir of the old Lord, dies in front of the other guests. Because of heavy snowfall Warbeck Hall is cut off the outer world, and the phone line is broken. Detective Rogers takes upon himself the task of investigating the murder. Soon after the old Lord Warbeck, already being on his last legs, dies. A silent panic strikes the guests, who try to keep together. Still, another guest dies, this time it is Mrs. Carstairs. Both Robert Warbeck and...
| Автор | Cyril Hare |
"Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes" – Bulwer-Lytton has created a true masterpiece that inspired none other than the great Wagner to create his opera titled «Rienzi.» Set during the Italian Renaissance period, in the 14th century, the story depicts the rise and fall of Rienzi, the beloved last Tribune of Rome and his lovely wife Nina. Intrigue dog this great man at every stage and backstabbers are always around the corner, but Reinzi towers above them all. However, his formidable nemesis,...
| Автор | Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон |
The unique American short stories ranging from satire, social injustice, horror, adventure and psychological turmoi, are most appreciated american literary works around the world. We present to you the collection of the greatest works of short fiction by the masters of their craft: Content: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Mark Twain) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Mark Twain) To Build a Fire (Jack London) A Piece of Steak (Jack London) An Odyssey of the North (Jack...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
The «unfortunate» and «coincidental» deaths of Rev. John Avery and a local village fellow do not excite any suspicion in locals until Inspector Pointer gets involved in the case! Excerpt: "The rector got up from his writing table and laying his pipe down, stood a moment as though collecting his thoughts. A distinguished-looking man of around forty was John Avery, with his tall spare figure, his clever, scholarly face. He was frowning as he absent-mindedly straightened a yellow china jar...
| Автор | Dorothy Fielding |
Musaicum Books presents to you a collection of the greatest horror, supernatural and gothic tales of all time: Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle H. P. Lovecraft: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward At The Mountains of Madness The Colour out of Space The Whisperer in Darkness The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House… Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye… John William...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
Musaicum Books presents this meticulously edited and formatted Selma Lagerlöf collection. Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Through her studies in Stockholm, Lagerlöf reacted against the realism of contemporary Swedish-language writers such as August Strindberg. She began her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, while working as a teacher in Landskrona in 1887. A visit in 1900 to the American Colony in...
| Автор | Selma Lagerlöf |
Thipps, an architect, finds a dead body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez in the bath of his London flat. Lord Peter Wimsey—a nobleman who has recently developed an interest in criminal investigation as a hobby—resolves to investigate the matter privately. Leading the official investigation is Inspector Sugg, who suggests that the body may be that of the famous financier Sir Reuben Levy, who disappeared from his bedroom in mysterious circumstances the night before. Sir Reuben's...
| Автор | Dorothy L. Sayers |
El protagonista de esta historia es un hombre joven, redactor de profesión, que se exaspera con cosas sencillas, como que su esposa ponga su sombrero en el lugar equivocado o que alguien pruebe sus alimentos. Su vida va entrando, poco a poco, en la rutina; pierde el interés en su matrimonio y, paralelamente, se obsesiona con reconstruir el pasado del señor Ulme, su vecino, quien ha olvidado gran parte de sus recuerdos luego de sufrir un aneurisma. Decide visitar los lugares donde su vecino vivió...
| Автор | Afonso Cruz |
В монографии обобщается многолетний опыт изучения грамматической вариантности как универсального общеязыкового фактора эволюции в развитии русского языка. Предложенная типология вариантов имеет системно-структурную основу и реализуется в поуровневом анализе парадигматики и синтагматики единиц языка, грамматических оппозиций и их нейтрализации, в синхронии и диахронии. На большом фактическом материале русской письменности XI–XVII веков и регионального делового языка XVIII века показана сложность...
| Автор | Л. А. Глинкина |
