Buchan's hero, a Scottish grocer, teams up with a poet to investigate a house inhabited by two women, one of whom may be a princess in distress. Set in Scotland, it follows the adventures of Dickson McCunn, a newly retired grocer planning a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west...
Rumoured to have been responsible for her husband's downfall, Madame Fontaine becomes known as Jezebel, and her sweet-tempered daughter is known as Jezebel's daughter.
A ten year old boy narrates the story of love and intrigue in a European court.
An egocentric man leaves his wife in order to marry a more popular and wealthier woman through the use of a loophole in Irish marriage laws.
Set in Paris, Monsieur Lecoq investigates the embezzlement of millions of dollars from the Mutual Credit Society.
This novel chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. The story?s allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism.
Between two flames the man stood, overlooking the crowd. A soft breeze, playing about the torches, sent shadows billowing across the massed folk on the ground.
M. Elgin carried his generosity to an extreme, and he would rather starve to death rather than touch the gold entrusted to his care.
Kitty loves her governess, Sydney, but when Sydney leaves and Kitty's father gets a divorce, she becomes forlorn.
One of the most fascinating experiments in American literature resulted in The Whole Family. This unusual composite novel numbers among its twelve authors such luminaries as Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Mary E. Wilkins.