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"Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall."'The Mark on the Wall' is about a woman sitting in her chair, starring at ...

'Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying ...

The terrifying outcast Abeniki Caldwell wins the love of the beautiful Lady Berenice after the events of a dark and dangerous night. Her father forbids the marriage, insistent that ...

‘Eight Girls and a Dog’ is a children’s book from popular American author Carolyn Wells. Eight friends from the Blue Ribbon Cooking Club decide to holiday together for a month in a ...

In Connecticut, Clearman Court has been renovated by its current owner, Stephen Clearman. An unusual character, Stephen has a penchant for wearing strange masks which he believes w ...

‘Faulkner’s Folly’ is the second book in the ‘Alan Ford’ series of detective novels by prolific author Carolyn Wells. In Long Island, artist Eric Stannard is found stabbed to death ...

In the Campanile Apartment building in the heart of Manhattan, wealthy resident Sir Herbert Binney has been found dead in the lobby. The only clue to the crime is a mysterious scra ...

First published in 1923 ‘More Lives Than One’ by author Carolyn Wells is the first in the ‘Lorimer Lane’ detective series. In a bohemian part of 1920s New York, a woman is murdered ...

First published in 1916 ‘The Bride of a Moment’ is the first of two works by author Carolyn Wells which follow the exploits of gentleman detective Alan Ford. In the town of Bascomb ...

Inspired by the book 'Robinson Crusoe,' a young boy named Barty decides that he, too, wants his own deserted island.One day he goes out to the forest where he meets the Good Wolf, ...

Esmeralda Rogers is a simple farm girl in North Carolina in love with her neighbour David. But when the discovery of iron ore on their farm suddenly makes the family wealthy, Esmer ...

Twenty years ago, a young runaway boy named Jem Haworth collapsed in the snow in front of a foundry. Today, he runs the foundry that now bears his name. Now the wealthy Mr. Ffrenc ...

American heiress Octavia Bassett arrives in a sleepy English town to visit her aunt Belinda. She’s extremely wealthy, privileged and independent, which doesn’t go over well with th ...

Emily Fox-Seton is a well-bred but penniless lady who works for the selfish Lady Maria Bayne. At 34, she knows she is unlikely to marry, and her prospects are bleak. Despite that, ...

First published in 1914, ‘A People’s Man’ by popular author E. Phillips Oppenheim follows the story of a revolutionary politician named Maraton. Having had great success in America ...

‘The Box with Broken Seals’ is a rip-roaring thriller from popular author E. Phillips Oppenheim. A tale of international espionage, we follow criminal Jocelyn Thew as he escapes ca ...

First published in 1898, ‘A Daughter of Astrea’ by Edwardian author E. Phillips Oppenheim is a story told by an anonymous artistic narrator. He has travelled to a foreign land with ...

First published in 1912, ‘The Double Four’ by E. Phillips Oppenheim follows the story of former criminal turned country squire Peter Ruff as he is drawn back into the criminal unde ...

Eager to make his fortune in the gold mines of Africa, young Scarlett Trent must grapple with his own sense of wrong and right, balancing the challenges which face him with his des ...

Accompanied by his trusty and beautiful companion Violet Brown, Peter Ruff decides to turn his back on his former life of crime and become a private investigator. With his establis ...

Originally published as a series of short stories in ‘Hearst’ magazine, ‘Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat’ follows the story of young Ambrose Lavendale, who enters the secret service in ...

Rich, pampered and obnoxious Ernest Bliss is making himself ill through his hard partying lifestyle. When a doctor refuses to treat him Bliss’s vanity is offended, and he makes a w ...

Originally published in 1924, E. Phillip Oppenheim’s ‘The Lesser Sin’ is a captivating tale of love and deception. A young lady of sophisticated tastes but limited means, young Phi ...

British politician Sir Julien Portel finds himself framed in a scandal by the jealous and ambitious Mabel Carraby, who is intent on pushing him out of his role in order that her hu ...

Son of a debt-ridden aristocratic family, Gregory Ballaston, resorts to desperate means while travelling through China. Will his rash decision result in the corruption of all manki ...