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Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to ... Read more...
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Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, and was the daughter of composer Baron Félix Orczy de Orci (1835–1892) and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege (1839–1892).Her parents left their estate for Budapest in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution.
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BEING THE SECOND OF THE SERIES OF THE "FANTÔMAS" DETECTIVE TALES
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- 54699 Words
- Ages 18 and up
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Émile Souvestre (April 15, 1806 – July 5, 1854) was a French novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Finistère.
Marcel Allain (15 September 1885 – 25 August 1969) was a French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-vill... Read more...
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Winning Out Against Heavy Odds
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- 40769 Words
- Ages 18 and up
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BARBARA THURSTON awakened with a violent start. "Wha—a-at is it?" she muttered, then opened her eyes wide. In the darkness of the Pullman berth she could see nothing at all save a faint perpendicular line of light at the edges of the curtains that enclosed the section. "I—I... Read more...
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Checkmating The Plots Of Foreign Spies
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Barbara Thurston stood at the window of a large old-fashioned house, looking out into Connecticut Avenue. It was almost dark. An occasional light twinkled outside in the street, but the room in which Barbara was stationed was still shrouded in twilight.
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The Ghost Of Lost Man's Trail
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- 52337 Words
- Ages 18 and up
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“Mollie Thurston, we are lost!” cried Barbara dramatically. The two sisters were in the depth of a New Jersey woods one afternoon in early September. “Well, what if we are!” laughed Mollie, leaning over to add a cluster of wild asters to her great bunch of golden rod. “We h... Read more...
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The wind howled dismally round a house standing by itself almost on the shores of Barking Creek. It was the grey dusk of an early autumn day, and the occasional harsh cry of a sea-gull rising discordantly above the wind alone broke the silence of the flat, desolate waste.
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Major George John Whyte-Melville was born in 1821,[2] at Mount Melville near St Andrews. He was a son of Major John Whyte-Melville and Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne and a grandson on his mother's side of the 5th Duke of Leeds. His father was a well-known sportsman and C... Read more...
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MESSAGES AND ADDRESSES TO THE CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE, MARCH 5, 1917 TO JANUARY 6, 1918
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- Ages 18 and up
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This book opens with the second inaugural address and contains the President's messages and addresses since the United States was forced to take up arms against Germany. These pages may be said to picture not only official phases of the great crisis, but also the highest si... Read more...
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Valentine Williams (born George Valentine Williams, 1883–1946) was a journalist and writer of popular fiction. Williams was born in 1883.[1] He was the eldest son of the chief editor at Reuters; both his brother and an uncle were also journalists. He replaced Austin Harris... Read more...
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