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  • The Collected Works of Romain Rolland. Illustrated

    Jean-Christophe, Colas Breugnon, Pierre and Luce and others

    Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".He was a leading supporter of Josef Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with ... Read more

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  • Trent Intervenes

    by E. C. Bentley ...
    Series series Detective Club Crime Classics
    Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case.Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears in twelve tales of misadventure, where the crimes that he investigates range from fraud and embezzlement to criminal assault and murder, yet they all ... Read more

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  • The Portable Voltaire

    by Voltaire ...
    Series series Portable Library
    Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters. ... Read more

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  • Death in the Thicket

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    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “The solitude of the place was almost frightening. Anything might happen here, in this lonely waste of marsh and sky and fog…”Seeking a quiet spot to work on his new play Peter Bavent stumbles on Fleet Trinity, in the salt marshes of the Suffolk coast. It is an eerie, isolated place consisting of a few scattered cottages and the stately gloom of Fleet Hall. Bavent soon becomes acquainted with the ... Read more

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  • Inspector French: Sudden Death

    Series Book 7 - Inspector French
    To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Anne Day is the new housekeeper at Frayle, the home of Mr Grinsmead and his invalid wife. To Anne’s horror, her intuition that something is very wrong in the house culminates in an ... Read more

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  • The Porcelain Fish Mystery

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    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Simon Brade, connoisseur of antique china, is invited to Medbury Grange, the country home of noted socialist campaigner Selford Prentice. Ostensibly, Brade has been called in to examine a valuable porcelain fish, which Prentice wishes to sell. But no sooner has the specialist arrived at the Grange, than its owner's real motives are revealed. For Prentice suspects that someone has designs on more ... Read more

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  • The Sanfield Scandal

    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
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  • Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Water

    Series Book 9 - Inspector French
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  • The Silk Stocking Murders

    First published in 1928, public domain in the US and Canada. A Roger Sheringham mystery from Golden Age author Anthony Berkeley When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father pleading for help. As the amateur sleuth investigates, he discovers that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a door by her own silk stocking. It is ... Read more

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