The Dead and the Countess
By: Gertrude Atherton
3.22
Format: None pages, None
The dead sleep peacefully -- until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest wor…
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1. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-22)
By: Agatha Christie , David Suchet
3.54
Format: 326 pages, Audiobook
Philip Ridgeway, a young banker, is suspected of stealing one million dollars in Liberty Bonds on a… read more
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2. The Jolly Corner
By: Henry James
3.13
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Jolly Corner was first published in 1908 in The English Review. Henry James describes the adven… read more
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"...he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was going; he had gone."-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks -- just as his …"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have c…"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
"I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've follow…"-Henry James, The Jolly Corner
3. The Old Nurse's Story
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.64
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more
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"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story
4. The Offshore Pirate
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.95
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From time to time there was the bright flare of a match as one of them lighted a cigarette, but exc… read more
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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
"The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
5. The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories
By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3.66
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Eight poignant tales vividly portray patient, self-reliant heroines living in small New England vil… read more
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6. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
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8. Mr. Jones
By: Edith Wharton
2.90
Format: 96 pages,
When Lady Jane Lynke inherits the Bells, she and her friend Edward Stramer set out to discover the … read more
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9. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor: A Short Story
By: Agatha Christie
4.22
Format: None pages,
Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates An aging, heavily-insured country s… read more
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10. The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Short Story
By: Agatha Christie
3.71
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Just as World War I is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped. It is down to Hercule Po… read more
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11. The Adventure of the ‘Western Star': A Short Story
By: Agatha Christie
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Audio
Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn … read more
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12. The Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural
By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fam… read more
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13. The Man Who Would Be King
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
"My gord, Carnehan," says Daniel, "This is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as… read more
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14. The Case of the Missing Will: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
By: Agatha Christie , David Suchet
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Audiobook
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15. Afterward
By: Edith Wharton
4.14
Format: None pages,
Or, rather, Ned answered, in the same strain, "why, amid so much that's ghostly, it can never affir… read more
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16. The Crown Derby Plate: A Ghost Story for Christmas
By: Marjorie Bowen , Seth
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete… read more
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19. Barbara of the House of Grebe
By: Thomas Hardy
3.63
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
Desiderio femminile, pazzia, ruoli sociali. Un lungo racconto magistrale, narrato con maestria e co… read more
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20. The Captain of the Pole-Star
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.58
Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of detective Sherlock Holmes, is the father of crime fiction. H… read more
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21. Let's Get Together
By: Isaac Asimov
3.68
Format: 18 pages, ebook
"Let's Get Together" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was origi… read more
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22. An Eddy on the Floor
By: Bernard Capes
3.20
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
After attending a séance at an acquaintance’s home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from ano… read more
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23. The Toll House
By: W.W. Jacobs
3.33
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
An chilling ghost story by W.W. Jacobs is reborn in this illustrated Christmas edition by renowned … read more
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24. The Corner Shop: A Ghost Story for Christmas
By: Cynthia Asquith
3.73
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. Peter Wood enters a … read more
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25. A Room in a Rectory: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories)
By: Andrew Caldecott
3.34
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
“[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist… read more
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26. The Captain of the Polestar: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories)
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.57
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
“[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist… read more
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27. The Dead and the Countess
By: Gertrude Atherton
3.22
Format: None pages, None
The dead sleep peacefully -- until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest wor… read more
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28. The House by the Poppy Field: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories)
By: Marjorie Bowen
3.46
Format: 43 pages, Paperback
“[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist… read more
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29. A Visit: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories)
By: Shirley Jackson
3.72
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. Margaret visits the l… read more
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30. The Doll's Ghost
By: F. Marion Crawford
3.61
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Mr. Puckler is a doll doctor, and the dolls he repairs become very, very lifelike. read more
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31. Xelucha
By: M.P. Shiel
2.80
Format: 13 pages, ebook
Matthew Phipps Shiell, also known as M. P. Shiel, was a prolific British writer of West Indian desc… read more
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