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Mystery & Suspense
A Sicilian Romance
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe draws readers into a shadowed world of secrets, forbidden rooms, dangerous loyalties, and emotions that refuse to stay buried. Its atmosphere is tense and romantic, with mystery pressing...
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe draws readers into a shadowed world of secrets, forbidden rooms, dangerous loyalties, and emotions that refuse to stay buried. Its atmosphere is tense and romantic, with mystery...
Mystery & Suspense
The Italian
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe draws readers into a shadowed world of secrets, forbidden rooms, dangerous loyalties, and emotions that refuse to stay buried. Its atmosphere is tense and romantic, with mystery pressing against...
Mystery & Suspense
The Romance of the Forest
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe draws readers into a shadowed world of secrets, forbidden rooms, dangerous loyalties, and emotions that refuse to stay buried. Its atmosphere is tense and romantic, with mystery...
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The Eustace Diamonds
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope follows characters navigating reputation, money, family pressure, and the quiet rules of society. Behind polished drawing rooms and respectable choices, private desire and ambition...
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The Last Man
The Last Man by Mary Shelley draws readers into a shadowed world of secrets, forbidden rooms, dangerous loyalties, and emotions that refuse to stay buried. Its atmosphere is tense and romantic, with mystery pressing against...
Mystery & Suspense
The Danvers Jewels
The Danvers Jewels by Mary Cholmondeley centers on intimate choices, social pressure, and the search for a freer life. Its characters face love, duty, ambition, and the expectations placed on women, often discovering that...
Mystery & Suspense
Elster's Folly
BY THE EARLY TRAIN. The ascending sun threw its slanting rays abroad on a glorious August morning, and the little world below began to awaken into life--the life of another day of sanguine pleasure or of fretting care. Not on...
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Lost Man's Lane
Amelia Butterworth enters a case that has made Lost Man's Lane a name whispered with fear. Principled, observant, and unwilling to accept easy answers, she is drawn toward a mystery shaped by secrecy, local dread, and the...
Mystery & Suspense
That Affair Next Door
When an unsettling discovery occurs next door, Amelia Butterworth refuses to remain merely a curious neighbor. Intelligent, opinionated, and alert to every contradiction, she steps into a mystery of family tension, hidden...
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East Lynne
THE LADY ISABEL. In an easy-chair of the spacious and handsome library of his town-house, sat William, Earl of Mount Severn. His hair was gray, the smoothness of his expansive brow was defaced by premature wrinkles, and his...
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The Filigree Ball
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM I. “THE MOORE HOUSE? ARE YOU SPEAKING OF THE MOORE HOUSE?” For a detective whose talents, had not been recognized at headquarters, I possessed an ambition which, fortunately for my standing with the...
Mystery & Suspense
The Woman in White
(of Clement’s Inn, Teacher of Drawing) This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and...
Mystery & Suspense
The Moonstone
FOURTH NARRATIVE FIFTH NARRATIVE SIXTH NARRATIVE I II III IV V SEVENTH NARRATIVE EIGHTH NARRATIVE EPILOGUE I II III PROLOGUE THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799): _(Extracted from a Family Paper.)_ I I address these...
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St. Martin's Eve
THE LITTLE HEIR. The dull sombre light of a November afternoon was rapidly giving place to twilight. The day had been wet and cold; and the sodden leaves that strewed the park of one of England's fair domains did not...
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No Name
TO FRANCIS CARR BEARD; (FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND) IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE TIME WHEN THE CLOSING SCENES OF THIS STORY WERE WRITTEN. PREFACE. The main purpose of this story is to appeal to the reader’s...
Mystery & Suspense
Lady Audley's Secret
LUCY. It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked...
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Armadale
ARMADALE By Wilkie Collins TO JOHN FORSTER. In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his “Life of Goldsmith;” and in affectionate remembrance of a friendship which is associated...
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The Trail of the Serpent
THE GOOD SCHOOLMASTER. I DON’T suppose it rained harder in the good town of Slopperton-on-the-Sloshy than it rained anywhere else. But it did rain. There was scarcely an umbrella in Slopperton that could hold its own against...
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The Leavenworth Case
THE PROBLEM SOLVED XXXIV. MR. GRYCE RESUMES CONTROL 332 XXXV. FINE WORK 351 XXXVI. GATHERED THREADS 364 XXXVII. CULMINATION 373 XXXVIII. A FULL CONFESSION 384 XXXIX. THE OUTCOME OF A GREAT CRIME 405 Illustrations PAGE “I did...
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Jezebel's Daughter
In the matter of Jezebel's Daughter, my recollections begin with the deaths of two foreign gentlemen, in two different countries, on the same day of the same year. They were both men of some importance in their way, and both...
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Anne Hereford
MRS. EDWIN BARLEY. An express train was dashing along a line of rails in the heart of England. On one of the first-class carriages there had been a board, bearing the intimation 'For Ladies Only,' but the guard took it off...
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The Knave of Diamonds
THE MISSING HEART There came a sudden blare of music from the great ballroom below, and the woman who stood alone at an open window on the first floor shrugged her shoulders and shivered a little. The night air blew in brisk...
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Henry Dunbar
AFTER OFFICE HOURS IN THE HOUSE OF DUNBAR, DUNBAR, AND BALDERBY. The house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby, East India bankers, was one of the richest firms in the city of London—so rich that it would be quite in vain to...
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The House of the Whispering Pines
SMOKE I THE HESITATING STEP To have reared a towering scheme Of happiness, and to behold it razed, Were nothing: all men hope, and see their hopes Frustrate, and grieve awhile, and hope anew; But-- _A Blot in the ’Scutcheon._...
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The Lamp in the Desert
BEGGAR'S CHOICE A great roar of British voices pierced the jewelled curtain of the Indian night. A toast with musical honours was being drunk in the sweltering dining-room of the officers' mess. The enthusiastic hubbub spread...
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The Law and the Lady
“FOR after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose daughters ye are as long as...
Mystery & Suspense
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Everyone lied. One murder changed everything. A classic public-domain story presented for modern NovelLuma readers who love emotional tension, secrets, society drama, mystery, and unforgettable heroines.
Mystery & Suspense
The Secret Adversary
A secretive house, a dangerous clue, and a truth no one wants exposed. A classic public-domain story presented for modern NovelLuma readers who love emotional tension, secrets, society drama, mystery, and unforgettable heroines.
Mystery & Suspense
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
A secretive house, a dangerous clue, and a truth no one wants exposed. A classic public-domain story presented for modern NovelLuma readers who love emotional tension, secrets, society drama, mystery, and unforgettable heroines.