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When American millionaire Theodore Racksole impulsively purchases the luxurious Grand Babylon Hotel in London, a string of strange things start occurring. Amidst the many disappear ...

At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volu ...

When the Gentleman, Rudolf Rassendyll, leaves behind his quiet English life for a little vacation, he has no idea was he is about the get involved in.‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ (1894) ...

’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavi ...

Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, n ...

Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private d ...

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an ...

'Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive...' When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesom ...

The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gry ...

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy thes ...

"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is ...

The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event  -  the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent t ...

An increased globalization and growth of cities also highlights the boundaries between nature and civilization from educational and experiential perspectives, especially with regar ...

As iconic rock guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen approaches his 51st birthday, well-respected rock journalist Anders Tengner takes a look back at the Swedish rock god’s career and life. M ...

The heroine in The Chessmen of Mars is Tara, princess of Helium, daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris. A typical Barsoomian capture by evil headless men, the subsequent rescue ...

Thuvia, Maid of Mars shifts focus from John Carter and Dejah Thoris to their son Carthoris, prince of Helium, and Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, as protagonists. Set in the same scien ...

Warlord of Mars picks up where the previous book The Gods of Mars ended. John Carter's wife Dejah Thoris is imprisoned in The Temple of the Sun by the false goddess Issus. Accompan ...

First published in 1913 as a five-part serial in All-Story, and later as a novel in 1918, The Gods of Mars is the second book in Burroughs' Barsoom series.  The Gods of Mars begins ...

John Carter, a Confedrate Veteran, finds himself transfered from Arizona to Mars. There, on Barsoom as the inhabitants of Mars call their planet, he finds himself captured and must ...

This political thriller is set in 2020 in Delhi and Stockholm. Sara Sarasvati, a girl of 20 learns that her Swedish father whom she has had little contact with, is assassinated in ...