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Michelle Zepeda Secretly In Love

Fiction
English
3104 Words
No Age Recommendation
454
5

Deysie has always been the lonely, "unpopular" girl in Ridgeway High. But all that starts to change when [more]

Keywords: Love, mystery, novel, short story.

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Olusola Coker The Price of Greed

A Tale of Stolen Gold and Betrayal

Fiction
English
4924 Words
Ages 3 and up
120
0

Introducing 'The Stolen Gold', a gripping and intriguing mystery novel that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Follow the thrilling journey of Mr. Johnson, a beloved Pineview jeweler, as he faces the devastating loss of his gold jewelry in a daring heist. This compelling police procedural will take you through the twists and turns of the investigation, as detectives search for clues and interview potential suspects. With its captivating storyline and page-turning plot, this small-town crime book is the perfect addition to your collection of crime fiction bestsellers. Get ready for an exciting and suspenseful ride through the world of burglary and theft, as 'The Stolen Gold' takes you on a journey you won't soon forget. [more]

Keywords: Intriguing mystery novel, Gripping crime story, Page-turning detective fiction, Suspenseful heist tale, Compelling police procedural, Thrilling burglary novel, Exciting small-town crime book, Captivating gold theft story, Engaging mystery and suspense fiction, Addictive crime fiction bestseller

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confusedalarms . The Business

You will pay for your lust

Mystery & Crime
English
9417 Words
Ages 14 and up
1006
25

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Keywords: the business, thriller, crime, mystery, novel, supernatural, organisation

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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

Fiction
English
38106 Words
Ages 12 and up
273
2

Heart of Darkness is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.” In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz. The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness one of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century. [more]

Keywords: heart of darkness, joseph conrad, modern literature, mystery novel, historical fiction, africa

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Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Mystery & Crime
English
104644 Words
Ages 8 and up
935
2

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine. The 12 stories in this collection are: "A Scandal in Bohemia"; Client: The King of Bohemia "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League"; Client: Jabez Wilson "A Case of Identity"; Client: Mary Sutherland "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"; Client: Alice Turner "The Five Orange Pips"; Client: John Openshaw "The Man with the Twisted Lip"; Client: Mrs. St. Clair "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"; No client. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"; Client: Miss Helen Stoner "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"; Client: Victor Hatherley "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"; Client: Lord Robert St. Simon "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"; Client: Alexander Holder "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"; Client: Violet Hunter [more]

Keywords: the adventures of, sherlock homels, detective novel, mystery novel, classic, literature, dr watson

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Arthur Conan Doyle Valley of Fear

Mystery & Crime
English
57484 Words
Ages 6 and up
336
2

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes decodes a cipher warning from Moriarty's organization for "Douglas" in "Birlstone", but a corpse is there already. When Mr. Douglas blows the head off his American assassin, he dresses the body as himself, and hides, to throw off the chase for good. Holmes guesses the missing dumb-bell weighted down the killer's clothes in the moat. The calling card left, VV341, is Vermissa Valley Lodge 341. Decades ago for Pinkerton, he went months undercover, first with Freemen in Chicago, then west to desolate mountain coal mine area, to take down corrupt murderers who ran the Valley Freemen Lodge, but criminals pursued. Holmes warns Douglas, when acquitted, to flee England. But Moriarty prevails. The second Mrs. Douglas telegrams that her husband was lost overboard on his way to South Africa on a ship. [more]

Keywords: the valley of fear, arthur conan doyle, sherlock holmes, detective mystery, mystery novel, detective fiction

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Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four

Mystery & Crime
English
42985 Words
Ages 8 and up
203
2

The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. In 1888 a client, Mary Morstan, comes with two puzzles for Holmes. The first is the disappearance of her father, British Indian Army Captain Arthur Morstan in December 1878. According to Mary, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace has ever been found of him. Mary contacted her father's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England, one Major Sholto, but he denied knowing her father had returned. The second puzzle is that she has received 6 pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor once a year since 1882 after answering an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she has received a letter remarking that she has been a wronged woman and asking for a meeting. Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began to receive the pearls, implying a connection. The only clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father's desk with the names of Jonathan Small and three Sikhs named Dost Akbar, Abdullah Khan, and Mahomet Singh. [more]

Keywords: the sign of four, artur conan doyle, sherlock holmes, crime, mystery novel, detective fiction, classic mystery

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Charles Dickens Bleak House

Satire
English
352605 Words
Ages 8 and up
485
2

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce, and the childish and disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone. At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills. The litigation, which already has taken many years and consumed between £60,000 and £70,000 in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Dickens's assault on the flaws of the British judicial system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a Chancery litigant seeking to enforce copyright on his earlier books. His harsh characterisation of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave memorable form to pre-existing widespread frustration with the system. [more]

Keywords: bleak house, charles dickens, historical fiction, satire, classic literature, english history, mystery novel

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Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Mystery & Crime
English
87570 Words
Ages 8 and up
296
2

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of classic detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Another series of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes as reported by his faithful biographer Dr. Watson and it becomes clearer than ever that the real draw of these stories is the fascinating character of Holmes himself. The mysteries are secondary to the enjoyment, though many of them do prove to have distinct elements of interest (otherwise why would the great detective have bothered himself about them?), but it really is in observing the fascinating character of Holmes himself that the reader is immersed in them. Indeed, this collection provides a rare treat for the reader in that we learn more about the detective and his early life and connections than has previously been the case. Of course one can’t leave off discussion of this volume without making mention of “The Final Problem” the story in which Holmes’ greatest adversary Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, is born. After months of playing cat-and-mouse with Moriarty and his insidious league of crime Holmes finally has gathered the pieces he needs to crush the vast criminal organization and its most dangerous leader. Moriarty, of course, is not likely to take such a possibility lying down and thus we have a final chase across London and Switzerland that ends in Watson’s final realization of what has happened to his friend. [more]

Keywords: memoirs of, sherlock homes, detective fiction, mystery, mystery novel, short stories, classic english literature

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Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Mystery & Crime
English
112047 Words
Ages 8 and up
516
2

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is a pop culture phenomenon, and he's one worth knowing about. After all, Holmes is one of the most popular, and most frequently cited, literary characters of all time. There's clearly something going on there that strikes people's interest. But what's really interesting is that Holmes is one of those larger-than-life characters that everyone knows, but that few people really know all that much about. Sherlock Holmes has been interpreted and reinterpreted so many times, in movies, TV shows, and even just throwaway references, that it's hard to know exactly who this guy is. The Sherlock Holmes that exists in today's pop culture, and the Watson for that matter, are actually different in a lot of ways from the characters that exist in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. So, by actually reading Sherlock Holmes stories, you can really be in the know. It's good to go back to the original material and see what's up. [more]

Keywords: the return of, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, mystery novel, detective fiction, english literature

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