Author: Michael E. Parker
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573629419
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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William Worthington III and his wife are both going to be away for the weekend from their two hundred acre Massachusetts estate with its twenty six bedroom mansion, he to Delaware to shoot ducks with the Duponts and she to her mother's in Boston. Both have, in fact, arranged trysts with their respective lovers in the estate's beach cottage. Inevitably their paths cross and divorce is in the air. Neither is willing to give up the world famous Worthington necklace, so each devises a plan to steal it. True to the laws of farce, both simulated burglaries are scheduled for same night. Fun filled chaos ensues: mistaken identities, unlikely romantic liaisons, a bumbling private detective, a fake necklace, one very determined nymphomaniac and two scantily clad pseudo nuns sharing a single skirt - where did they come from? Confusion is piled on confusion until the mystery of who has the real necklace and who has the fake is revealed in a surprise ending.
Author: Spectre stricken (pseud.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: William Stainton Moses
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Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Author: Maurice Leblanc
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513295195
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (1907) is a collection of short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Originally published in Je sais tout, a popular French magazine, these stories launched Leblanc’s career as a leading international writer of crime fiction. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius Jacob, Arsène Lupin first appeared in print in 1905 as an answer to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery, Leblanc crafts original and entertaining tales of adventure starring one of the greatest literary characters of all time—Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief. Arsène Lupin is the world’s greatest thief, an unmatched force for good whose exploits threaten the wealth and standing of France’s most wicked men. In this debut installment of Leblanc’s beloved series, Lupin uses his remarkable wit and chameleon-like ability to move undetected through aristocratic society in order to steal, trick, and cheat his way through life. Despite his criminal nature, he operates under a strict moral code, only taking from those who have taken from the poor all their lives. In this collection of early short stories, Lupin is sentenced to prison, makes a daring escape, cracks an impregnable safe, and makes the acquaintance of Sherlock Holmes, the legendary British detective. These nine tales are the perfect introduction to Leblanc’s legendary literary universe. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar is a story of romance, mystery, and crime that continues to astound over a century after it was published. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar is a classic of French literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author: Goli Taraghi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393241483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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“Carries the flavor of the old world, its underlying ferocity leavened by a lyrical mysticism. . . . Her prose is transcendent.”—Washington Post Rich in characters both whimsical and deeply poignant, humorous and real, the stories of Goli Taraghi have made her one of the world’s most beloved contemporary writers from Iran. A best-selling author in her native country and widely anthologized in the United States and around the world, Taraghi's work is now made fully accessible to an English-speaking audience in this standout and long-awaited volume of selected stories, selected as a Best Book of 2013 by staff and critics at National Public Radio. Drawing on childhood experiences in Tehran during the reign of the Shah, her exile in Paris, and her subsequent visits to Tehran after the revolution, Taraghi develops characters and tales that linger in one’s mind. In the title story, a woman traveling from Tehran to Paris is obliged to help an old woman—the Pomegranate Lady—find her way to her fugitive sons in Sweden. In "The Gentleman Thief," a new kind of polite, apologetic thief emerges from the wreckage of the revolution. In "Encounter," a woman's world is upended when her former maid becomes her jailer. And in "The Flowers of Shiraz," a group of teenagers finally manages to coax a shy schoolmate out of her shell—only to once again encounter tragedy. Reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer and Eudora Welty, Taraghi's stories capture universal experiences of love, loss, alienation, and belonging—all with an irresistible sense of life’s absurdities.
Author: Faraz Qureshi
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491793724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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Gray Glory is an introverted boy who lives a fulfilling life in the online world. As a wealthy hero-like figure who slays monsters and protects damsels in distress, this is where he has everythingeven a girlfriend who displays ample obsession over him. To Gray, his online world is reality. After an in-game kiss, he awakens in his girlfriends room where he is nearly consumed by an existence-eating aura that disappearswhen she makes physical contact with him. Having been exposed to this secret the world keeps hidden, Gray encounters one misfortune after another while he tries to solve the mystery behind his girlfriends strange behaviour. Encountering devils, demons, and hollowspeople who have become a temporary existence, Gray finally got the extraordinary life he wished for but at the cost of becoming involved with the world hidden within his own. Gray Glorys urban fantasy adventure gets a jumpstart as he continues to discover one secret after another all while attempting to change both himself and the world around him!
Author: Chaim Walder
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
ISBN: 9781583309124
Category : Children's writings
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Young people in Israel write about their experiences dealing with personal problems, handicaps, fears, and relationships with parents and others.
Author: Clarissa Yip
Publisher: Entangled: Ignite
ISBN: 1622660773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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First comes marriage. Then comes murder... Lauren Burke waited fifteen months and twenty-three days for her divorce to be finalized. Instead, her ex-husband went one step further—he turned up dead. And the detective working on the case is none other than Kane Hollister—the man who ran off over three years ago and shattered Lauren's heart into a zillion pieces... It looks like Lauren, but she's no longer the carefree girl Kane once knew. And yet he can't deny the awareness that heats his blood at the sight of her. But when the death threats begin, Kane realizes that the killer has a new target...and it's Lauren. Now he must protect the woman he's always loved—and always hurt— from a vicious murderer. And when the sparks between them ignite, Lauren will have to make a choice between her life...or her heart!
Author: Frederic William Henry Myers
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Category : Crystal gazing
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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