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Classic English mystery and detective stories / edited by Julian Hawthorne.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : The Floating Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- When you're in the mood for suspense, nothing delivers like a collection of mystery and detective stories. These tales have been culled from the golden age of the genre, when masters like Charles Dickens, Thomas De Quincey, Laurence Sterne, and William Makepeace Thackeray were producing stories at a rapid clip to satisfy millions of devoted readers. Curl up with Classic English Mystery and Detective Stories tonight.
- Contents:
- The haunted house / by Charles Dickens
- No. 1 Branch Line: the signal-man / by Charles Dickens
- The haunted and the haunters; or, The house and the brain / by Bulwer-Lytton
- The incantation / by Bulwer-Lytton
- The avenger / by Thomas De Quincey
- Melmoth the Wanderer / by Charles Robert Maturin
- A mystery with a moral / by Laurence Sterne
- On being found out / by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The notch on the ax / by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Bourgonef / by Anonymous
- The closed cabinet / by Anonymous.
- ISBN:
- 9781775417668
- 1775417662
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