In this installment of the Smoke Bellew series, Smoke and Shorty endeavor to buy a town site, but the situation is complicated.
The big bow Mystery marks a key turning point for the detective novel. Sealed-room mysteries had appeared before, but none so fully exploited its puzzling possibilities. The modern style, which disguises the criminal and lay all evidence before the reader, owes much to Zangwill and his retired...
short horror
Danger of overindulgence in Green Tea
In the hands of Spanish Inquisition
White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North--kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang's life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever...
This lesser-known, 1920 novella from the author of "The Phantom of the Opera." The story, you'll find, has similar elements, but is clearly unique with shades of both The Phantom, as well as Dorian Grey.
A strange creature haunts the fishermen and pearl divers of the La Plata Bay. The superstitious local villagers call it the Sea Devil. When a pearl merchant decides to capture the strange being at all costs, the truth turns out to be far more tragic and complex than anyone had imagined.
This is a tale of buried treasure and fraught with treachery, danger, and the ghosts of dead pirates!
