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Mystery & Suspense
Mystery at Geneva
1 Henry, looking disgusted, as well he might, picked his way down the dark and dirty corkscrew stairway of the dilapidated fifteenth century house where he had rooms during the fourth (or possibly it was the fifth) Assembly...
Mystery & Suspense
The Poor Clare
THE POOR CLARE by Elizabeth Gaskell CHAPTER I. December 12th, 1747.—My life has been strangely bound up with extraordinary incidents, some of which occurred before I had any connection with the principal actors in them, or...
Mystery & Suspense
The Grey Woman and Other Tales
THE GREY WOMAN. PORTION I. There is a mill by the Neckar-side, to which many people resort for coffee, according to the fashion which is almost national in Germany. There is nothing particularly attractive in the situation of...
Mystery & Suspense
A Dark Night's Work
In the county town of a certain shire there lived (about forty years ago) one Mr. Wilkins, a conveyancing attorney of considerable standing. The certain shire was but a small county, and the principal town in it contained...
Mystery & Suspense
One of My Sons
BOOK I THE SHADOW I THE CHILD, AND WHAT SHE LED ME INTO I was walking at a rapid pace up the avenue one raw, fall evening, when somewhere near the corner of Fifty----Street I was brought to a sudden stand-still by the sound...
Mystery & Suspense
The Mill Mystery
I. THE ALARM. Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. --MRS. BROWNING. I had just come in from the street. I had a letter in my hand. It was for my fellow-lodger, a young girl who taught in the High School, and...
Mystery & Suspense
The Millionaire Baby
I TWO LITTLE SHOES The morning of August eighteenth, 190-, was a memorable one to me. For two months I had had a run of bad luck. During that time I had failed to score in at least three affairs of unusual importance, and the...
Mystery & Suspense
Dark Hollow
THE WOMAN IN PURPLE I WHERE IS BELA? A high and narrow gate of carefully joined boards, standing ajar in a fence of the same construction! What is there in this to rouse a whole neighbourhood and collect before it a group of...
Mystery & Suspense
The Chief Legatee
PART I A Woman of Mystery CHAPTER I A BRIDE OF FIVE HOURS "What's up?" This from the manager of the Hotel ---- to his chief clerk. "Something wrong in Room 81?" "Yes, sir. I've just sent for a detective. You were not to be...
Mystery & Suspense
Agatha Webb
THE PURPLE ORCHID I A CRY ON THE HILL The dance was over. From the great house on the hill the guests had all departed and only the musicians remained. As they filed out through the ample doorway, on their way home, the first...
Mystery & Suspense
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
A PROBLEM OF THE FIRST ORDER I "LET SOME ONE SPEAK!" The hour of noon had just struck, and the few visitors still lingering among the curiosities of the great museum were suddenly startled by the sight of one of the...
Mystery & Suspense
The Mayor's Wife
THE MAYOR’S WIFE by Anna Katherine Green CHAPTER I. A SPY’S DUTY I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position...
Mystery & Suspense
The Golden Slipper
PROBLEM I THE GOLDEN SLIPPER “She’s here! I thought she would be. She’s one of the three young ladies you see in the right-hand box near the proscenium.” The gentleman thus addressed--a man of middle age and a member of the...
Mystery & Suspense
Initials Only
I. POINSETTIAS “A remarkable man!” It was not my husband speaking, but some passerby. However, I looked up at George with a smile, and found him looking down at me with much the same humour. We had often spoken of the odd...
Mystery & Suspense
The Sword of Damocles
Damocles, one of the courtiers of Dionysius, was perpetually extolling with rapture that tyrant’s treasures, grandeur, the number of his troops, the extent of his dominions, the magnificence of his palaces, and the universal...