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Often cited as the first detective story. The genre arrives pretty much fully formed: a brilliant detective, the bumbing police officer and

The relationship between a father and his son is explored through their differing pastimes.

Bachmann sat on a bench in the shade that smelled sickly with blossom and watched as the sergeant took command and the little company moved forward. Bachmann mounted the small, quick-hurrying tram...

The American lost his way and was blandly introduced to a singularly artistic-looking man of middle age. The next morning the porter met him with a mysterious air, dismissed him, and showed him all...

The master criminal Raffles sets his sights on a priceless collection of jewels. Crime story in which the villain is the hero.

The wind was charged with moist, salt spray and caused the rocks to rumble angrily and the trees to rustle. A man with a black beard and a brigand's dark eyes was gazing at the Crucifix with a...

The learned gentleman who examined the archives of the Cathedral of Southminster agreed that it was not earlier than the Perpendicular period, but Dean Burscough was very set on the Gothic...

A good old canon of Notre Dame de Paris gave himself up earnestly to the confessing of ladies, made money with holy water, and had three heirs, but his heart had cracked a little. One evening the...

Frederick Erlcort was laughing with a blonde at the book-counter when he stopped at the bell-pull of an elderly girl's studio ten stories above. The friends decided that the front of the shop...

Andrew learns the value of spending time with loved ones after his grandfather's death.

Tonomoli, a young warrior, joins a council to fight Osmadaan's invasion, facing battles and alliances in a fantasy world.

A man who wrote in code was killed and left in a bathtub. He was found by mistake. Soon a story surfaced about a man who thought in code. His body was found in a bathtub some weeks later. A man who...