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Every village loves a good piece of gossip. In Hedgerton, a sleepy English seaside resort that never quite became the fashionable watering-place its builders dreamed of, the talk of the day is the new tenant of Maranatha: a wealthy baronet who has inexplicably left the pleasures of London for a...

Sea air, golf links and a secret waiting to be uncovered. The sleepy seaside town of Stroan has seen better days, but a new golf course is bringing visitors, and a little life, back to its streets. Among the holidaymakers are three friends: Otto, Clifford and Willie, who has never been able to...

In 1872, Irish soldier and adventurer Sir William Francis Butler published this vivid firsthand account of his journey across the vast, untamed expanse of Canada's Northwest. Dispatched on a hazardous reconnaissance mission during the Red River Rebellion, Butler travelled deep into contested...

In this heartwarming Victorian classic by Agnes Giberne, first published in 1885, we follow the story of Daisy Meads—a gentle and resilient young girl navigating life alongside her eccentric and miserly father, Isaac. Set against the rustic backdrop of a traditional English village, "Daisy of...

First published in 1883, Sinners and Saints is British journalist Phil Robinson's witty and observant travelogue of a journey across the United States. Beginning with a train ride from New York toward Chicago, Robinson turns his sharp eye and dry humor on American landscapes, small towns, and...

Bohemian London, a beautiful stranger and a friendship about to be tested: in this classic mystery, Guy Boothby, the Australian-born master of sensational fiction and creator of the legendary Dr. Nikola, brings art, desire and suspense together in one irresistible tale. Godfrey Henderson is a...

In the spring and summer of 1899, a man who had spent years among tramps, thieves and vagabonds took a job as a policeman to see the other side of the story. Josiah Flynt, author of Tramping with Tramps, knew the underworld from the inside: its lodging-houses, its camp-fires, even its jails. Now...

Long before the modern detective story, there was the diary of a Special Agent of the U.S. Post-Office Department. First published in 1855, Ten Years Among the Mail Bags gathers the narratives of James Holbrook, who spent a decade investigating thefts and breaches of trust in the American mail...

Step into the shadowy world of the early United States Secret Service with Captain Walker, the quiet, methodical chief who has spent a lifetime hunting the cleverest criminals of his age. In this classic collection, Melville Davisson Post, the celebrated creator of Uncle Abner and Randolph Mason...

Some houses keep their secrets better than others. In the quiet English town of Dourville, a handsome old mill house stands beside a stream that once powered a busy paper mill. It is here that a young woman, Rhoda Pembury, is brought to recover after being rescued from a near-fatal bicycle...

A stormy night in London. Two friends, a card table, a heap of gold, and one moment of blind rage that can never be undone. Haunted by guilt and terrified of the consequences, Adrian Lancaster flees into the tempest and stumbles upon the enigmatic Dr. Michael Roversmire, a man steeped in occult...

A woman rising from a tomb. A deserted palazzo. A crime worthy of the Borgias. Verona, late nineteenth century. Hugo Cranston, a young Englishman studying music under a local maestro, spends his nights wandering the moonlit city, until one evening his steps lead him to the old cemetery. There he...

A wealthy eccentric with a taste for playing the benevolent detective gathers nine guests aboard his barge, nine people whose lives have collided in ways none of them fully understands. One by one, they step forward with a story to tell: the Human Gargoyle, the Hypochondriacal Painter, the...

Step behind the veil of Victorian London into a world where love is never safe from the dark. First published in 1894, Tales of the Supernatural gathers six haunting tales in which romance and the occult are bound together by blood, ritual, and forbidden bargains. From a blood pact sworn beside...

In the ancient city of Winton, three brothers grow up in the shadow of their family's old flour mill — and of the father whose sins seem to echo through its walls. Everything changes when a strange child named Zyp appears out of the woods, claiming to be a changeling with no home of her own...

Dreamthorp is a collection of twelve reflective essays by the Scottish poet Alexander Smith, first published in 1863. Taking its name from the quiet, imaginary village where Smith claims to have retired to write, the book blends memoir, literary criticism, and philosophical musing in a leisurely...

First published in 1875, Thrift is Samuel Smiles' companion volume to his phenomenally popular Self-Help and Character. In it, Smiles argues that frugality and prudent saving form the true foundation of personal independence, dignity, and social progress. Drawing on historical anecdotes...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of late fifteenth-century Spain, The Son of Columbus follows Diego, the young son of the visionary navigator Christopher Columbus, as he forges a deep friendship with Don Felipe, a nobleman's son, while the two boys are raised together in a monastery under the...

Step into the fields, woods, and marshes of early twentieth-century New England with one of America's most graceful nature writers. In this collection of nine essays, Dallas Lore Sharp turns his naturalist's eye on the small, often-overlooked dramas of the countryside: a hawk's raid on a flock...

At eighteen, Frank Bullen signs aboard the ramshackle whaler Cachalot, more out of desperation than choice, and finds himself thrown into one of the harshest trades on the high seas. What follows is a three-year voyage from New Bedford, Massachusetts, round the Cape of Good Hope, and on through...