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The village of Concord Massachusetts lies an hour's ride from Boston upon the Great Northern Railway. It is one of those quiet New England towns whose few white houses grouped upon the plain make but a slight impression upon the mind of the busy traveller hurrying to or from the city.

The Public? he said, and his voice had in it a faint surprise. "Well, they all want the taxis. It's natural. They get about faster in them, and time's money. I was seven hours before I picked you up. And then you was lookin' for a taxi. Them as take us because they can't get better, they're not in a good temper, as a rule. And there's a few old ladies that's frightened of the motors, but old ladies aren't never very free with their money--can'...

Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes....

A Sequel to "The Count's Millions" translated from the French.

HIS Christian name was Nicholas but his familiars called him Nickie the Kid. The title did not imply that Nicholas posses-sed the artless gaiety, the nimbleness, or any of the simple virtues of the young of the common goat. Kid was short for "kidder, " a t

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The girl was very tractable: she lay perfectly still. He looked into her pale face, her eyes were wide open staring straight up at the feeble stars. Every minute or so he cried aloud or whistled a shrill call between his teeth but the action did not disturb the flow of his thoughts.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

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First published in 1909.

A play on the letter "I" in three acts.

So this is Dunhaven? inquired Jack Benson. "Ye-es, " slowly responded Jabez Holt, not rising from the chair in which he sat tilted back against the outer wall on the hotel porch. "It looks like it, " muttered Hal Hastings, under his breath. "Doe

Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text by Kisari Mohan Ganguli (1883-1896)

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Danger! That sign might have been over an air-hole in the ice, or it might have been near rapidly moving shafting and belting in a factory. As a matter of fact, the letters, white against the red paint on the door of the shed, meant danger in the

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A Fantasy in Three Acts

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