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  • Mystery Cases For Christmas – Test your Power of Deduction During the Holidays

    Classic Christmas Whodunits of Detection, Suspense, and Ingenious Crime

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, O. Henry, R. Austin Freeman, G. K. Chesterton, Emmuska Orczy, Arthur Cheney Train, Wilkie Collins, Fred M White, Thomas Hardy, Sabine Baring-Gould, Robert Barr, Katherine Rickford, Catherine L. Pirkis ...
    Mystery Cases For Christmas gathers classic detective and crime tales into a seasonal invitation to test one's powers of inference. Across puzzle mysteries, sensation fiction, comic reversals, courtroom investigations, psychological suspense, and atmospheric tales of rural and urban unease, the volume demonstrates the remarkable elasticity of the genre. Holiday framing heightens the pleasures of ... Read more

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  • The Christmas Mystery Wagon – Premium Collection

    Victorian and Edwardian Yuletide Tales of Detection, Ghosts, Gothic Suspense, and Festive Crime

    by Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Arthur Cheney Train, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, O. Henry, Emmuska Orczy, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, M. R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, Louisa M. Alcott, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, James Bowker, Jerome K. Jerome, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, E. F. Benson ...
    The Christmas Mystery Wagon – Premium Collection gathers Christmas-tide crime, ghostly suspense, domestic intrigue, and ironic comedy into a capacious survey of popular nineteenth- and early twentieth-century storytelling. Its range extends from detective deduction and locked-room puzzles to supernatural visitations, moral fables, sensation fiction, and sharply observed seasonal satire. Amid ... Read more

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  • THE GREAT BRITISH DETECTIVES - Boxed Set: 270+ Thriller Classics & Murder Mysteries (Illustrated Edition)

    270+ Victorian and Edwardian Crime Classics

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr ...
    The Great British Detectives gathers more than 270 thrillers and murder mysteries into a capacious survey of detective fiction's formative popular traditions. Ranging from clue-driven puzzles and locked-room enigmas to urban crime tales, espionage-inflected adventures, and comic or philosophical investigations, the collection reveals the genre's unusual stylistic breadth. Illustrated presentation ... Read more

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  • Creatures of Accident

    The Rise of the Animal Kingdom

    by Wallace Arthur ...
    The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical" dimension of evolution has been downplayed in both the specialist and popular literature on evolution, in large part because it was in the past associated with unsavory political views. The avoidance of evolution's vertical dimension has, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Evolving Animals

    The Story of our Kingdom

    by Wallace Arthur ...
    What do we know about animal evolution in the early twenty-first century? How much more do we know today than Darwin did? What are the most exciting discoveries that have been made in the last few decades? Covering all the main animal groups, from jellyfish to mammals, this book considers all of these questions and more. Its 30 short chapters, each written in a conversational, nontechnical style ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Macedonia

    by Arthur Wallace Pickard, Cambridge ...
    IN the year 360 B.C. the position of Athens in the Greek world was, to all appearance, a very strong one. The battle of Mantinea had put an end for the time to the rivalry of Thebes; the influence of Sparta even in the Peloponnese itself was held in check by the recently established powers of Messene and Megalopolis; the Athenians had made up their differences with the minor Peloponnesian states; ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Murder Mysteries Ever Written

    A Treasury of Victorian Detectives, Locked Rooms, Golden Age Whodunits, and Gothic Crime

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Ethel Lina White, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. W. Hornung, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr, Frank Froest, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Isabel Ostander, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur B. Reeve, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Richard Marsh, Émile Gaboriau, Arthur J. Rees, William Le Queux, Carolyn Wells, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, Allan Pinkerton, Anna Maynard Barbour, A. E. W. Mason, Louis Tracy, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Cleveland Moffett, Louis Joseph Vance, Jackson Gregory, E. M. Delafield, Anton Chekhov, James Hay, Melville Davisson Post, Anna Katharine Green, Ambrose Bierce, John R. Coryell, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Arthur Cheney Train, S. S. Van Dine ...
    The Greatest Murder Mysteries Ever Written surveys the formative pleasures and formal ingenuity of detective fiction, gathering locked rooms, poisoned clues, country-house crimes, urban conspiracies, and investigations shaped by psychological suspense. Its range extends from Gothic atmosphere and sensational plotting to the brisk procedural, the gentleman-thief adventure, and the modern puzzle ... Read more

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  • Christmas Mystery Special

    by Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Arthur Cheney Train, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, O. Henry, Emmuska Orczy, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, M. R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, Louisa M. Alcott, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, James Bowker, Jerome K. Jerome, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, E. F. Benson ...
    The 'Christmas Mystery Special' anthology stitches together a rich tapestry of narrative intrigue and seasonal enigma, fashioned by a constellation of seminal literary figures. This collection spans a diverse array of styles, from the detective tales of fog-laden Victorian London streets to the eerie whispers of ghostly visitations on Christmas Eve. The anthology's essence captures the unique ... Read more

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  • 560 British Mysteries: Detective Novels, True Crime Stories & Whodunit Mysteries (Illustrated)

    Complete Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Max Carrados Stories, Martin Hewitt Cases…

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Ethel Lina White, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. W. Hornung, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr, Frank Froest, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Isabel Ostander ...
    The anthology '560 British Mysteries: Detective Novels, True Crime Stories & Whodunit Mysteries (Illustrated)' stands as a mammoth testament to the richness and diversity inherent in early 20th-century British mystery writing. Symbolizing a pivotal era in the literary genre of mystery and detective fiction, this collection boasts an impressive array of styles from the grim complexities of true ... Read more

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  • Understanding Evo-Devo

    by Wallace Arthur ...
    Series series Understanding Life
    Why do the best-known examples of evolutionary change involve the alteration of one kind of animal into another very similar one, like the evolution of a bigger beak in a bird? Wouldn't it be much more interesting to understand how beaks originated? Most people would agree, but until recently we didn't know much about such origins. That is now changing, with the growth of the interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Xmas Thrillers: The Greatest Holiday Mysteries in One Volume

    Victorian and Edwardian Holiday Mysteries, Ghost Stories, and Gothic Suspense

    by Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Cheney Train, Wilkie Collins, Emmuska Orczy, Louisa M. Alcott, M. R. James, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Leonard Kip, Catherine Crowe, Lucie E. Jackson, William Douglas O'Connor, Frank R. Stockton, James Bowker, Grant Allen, Saki, Florence Marryat, Katherine Rickford, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Catherine L. Pirkis, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood ...
    Xmas Thrillers gathers holiday mysteries in which festivity becomes an occasion for secrecy, menace, detection, and the uncanny. Spanning sensation fiction, detective puzzles, Gothic terror, comic misdirection, supernatural tale, and psychological suspense, the volume situates Christmas within the rich nineteenth- and early twentieth-century traditions of popular narrative. Domestic celebrations, ... Read more

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  • THE GREAT BRITISH DETECTIVES - Boxed Set

    270+ Thriller Classics & Murder Mysteries (Illustrated)

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Morrison, Thomas W. Hanshew, Edgar Wallace, J. S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, G. K. Chesterton, H. C. McNeile, Victor L. Whitechurch, Annie Haynes, Rober Barr ...
    THE GREAT BRITISH DETECTIVES - Boxed Set offers readers an exquisite exploration into the quintessential qualities of classic British detective fiction, showcasing a tapestry of mystery, wit, and intellectual rigor. This anthology presents an enthralling compendium of tales, ranging from the cerebral puzzles of locked-room mysteries to the gripping pursuit of justice through fog-shrouded streets. ... Read more

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