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My great-aunt Liza is an old she-devil... but she's had a devilish raw deal.' Lady Elizabeth Carn has ruled Tristowell Castle with an iron fist for fifty years. On the eve of her adored adopted daughter Augusta's twenty-first birthday, far-flung family return to the castle, dredging up past resentments and conflicts. The next morning, Elizabeth is discovered strangled at her writing desk and nephew Palin Carn is found to have disappeared in ...

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I shouldn't have come back! They'll never give up! There's too much to lose!' George Pollicott and Henry Rowles live a solitary and meagre existence in a hut along the towering Sea Wall of the Welsh Lowlands. On a foggy night twenty years before, night-watchman Pollicott had found Rowles near death and nursed him back to health. Henry Rowles, an obviously educated man, shuns outside contact and relies on the devoted Pollicott for all his nee...

It is not for you to exact vengeance on my behalf. Remember that.' When successful novelist Christabel Strange dies suddenly aged 32, the bequests are hard to fathom. She leaves one wing of the ancestral home to good friend Marcia Wentworth for her ongoing use, the rest of the house remains in the hands of her mother, grandmother and siblings. Christabel made it known that Marcia would write her biography, but leaves her sixteen volumes of m...

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Jake Seaborne, uno studente di medicina in vacanza, sta girando in auto per la campagna inglese quando viene sorpreso da un violento temporale e rimane in panne. Proseguendo a piedi per un sentiero, raggiunge un grande cancello aperto i cui pilastri sono sormontati da curiose statue di animali. L'imponente dimora che sorge alle sue spalle ha l'aria semidisabitata e vagamente sinistra, ma il giovane, ansioso di trovare riparo, decide di chieder...

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It is a little known fact that the Bard of Aryshire. Rabbie Burmese, could often be heard mewing his poems on the garden fence after a late night out with the alley cats. Or that her dislike of water made Fluffy Macdonald's bonny boat trip to Skye even more impressive. For that matter, has anyone really given Whiskers Wallace his due for being the first to utter, Cry furdom!? Here, twenty of the country's most beloved icons are transformed int...