101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die

... Sax Rohmer, Alexandre Dumas, Washington Irving, Maurice Leblanc, Erskine Childers, Gaston Leroux, Wilkie Collins, Earl Derr ... dummies. Like tailors' dummies they were headless; and like tailors' dummies they had a handsome unnecessary ...

... employs a panoply of literary methods to bring issues under scrutiny. Most important among these are questions of identity: who precisely is Ricardo Reis and what is his relationship to. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis José Saramago.

... dance, will come The sound of tabour and of drum. Again to spouse and realm restored, Girt by his friends, the Vánar ... stolen wife Dearer to Ráma than his life, Chief when he saw the Lord of Night Rise slowly o'er the eastern height ...

... book Ruby Loren. “That's not all ... breath. This was crazy! “Hello?” The voice on the other end of the line ... online banking. “It's real!” she whispered, staring wide-eyed at the number in her bank account. It was all there - every last ...

... Cynthia Wakeham's Money, A Strange Disappearance... Anna Katharine Green ... hand, keeps watch on the haunted stairway. He has fastened up every door and ... Unearthly lights shining up through the house, waking the family. Disappeared as ...

... Cameron, only on condition that you give me your promise never to play a joke on me again. I admit that you CAN do it, but I ask that you WON'T do it." "I promise, Princess," said Cameron. "Henceforward, there shall be no jokes between ...

... Pross and Mr. Cruncher had discharged the office of purveyors ; the former carrying the money ; the latter , the basket . Every afternoon at about the time when the public lamps were lighted , they fared forth on this duty , and made ...

... Mole yawn , and yet she ought to be accustomed to the social charms of the friends of the house . I am frightened of ... jokes . On this particular day , whether or not by reason of some affectation on her part , she proved cruel to bores .

... sea- monsters. But the boy understood that it was the sea-trolls, who had gathered around the island and intended to crawl up on it, to fight with the land-trolls who lived there. And those on the land were probably afraid, for he saw ...

... Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Victor ... Gregorio and the beauty of Ana Felix were the admiration of all who were ... Gregorio, and Don Gregorio at no great length, but in a few words, in which he ...

... Irredeemable is certainly not the first comic to have the 'what if Superman went bad?' sort of premise but this is a breezy, imaginative, and entertaining comic with plenty of twists and turns. The characters are interesting (as are the ...

... this poet laureate of angst marry his verse to minor chords and reinvent melancholy. The cover shows a grave Cohen in his early thirties; a ... Long, Marianne” paint such a poignant picture of heartbreak and loneliness that the listener.

... The Twin Snakes Metroid Zero Mission Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Def Jam: Fight for NY Ninja Gaiden Paper Mario: The ... Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Battalion Wars Battlefield 2 Call of Duty 2 God of War Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich ...

... Fosse (director), Liza Minnelli (actress), Joel Grey (actor in support role), Rolf Zehetbauer, Hans Jürgen Kiebach, Herbert Strabel (art direction), Geoffrey Unsworth (photography), David Bretherton (editing), Ralph Burns (music) ...

... Father by Beverly Cleary • Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary • Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary • Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary • Ramona's World by Beverly Cleary • The Mouse ... the sort of boys and. 42 30. Beezus and Ramona.

... Running Man (1982) by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman The Running Man (1982) by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman is a thrilling dystopian novel about a man named Ben Richards who is forced to compete in ...

... Menschen : er ist die beharrliche Einheit , die in den Fluten der Veränderung ewig sie selbst bleibt . Der Mensch ... Gestalt ; lebende Gestalt oder Schönheit ist also des Spieltriebs Sache ; er will so hervorbrin- gen wie der Sinn zu ...

Los tratados descriptivos sobre las distintas posturas que se pueden adoptar durante el acto sexual, como el Kama Sutra, el Ananga Ranga o los libros de alcoba chinos son la base de este libro que explora todas las posturas para hacer el ...

... girl stolen from her parents, and I assured him we were both of age to command our own consent; and that made him ask to see you.' 'Well,' said I, 'do as you please'; so up they brings the parson, and a merry, good sort of gentleman he ...

... you and your sort, for Frieda, for instance, pops in to see him whenever she likes — if that's how it is, you can still get proof of the thing, you only need to wait. After all, Klamm won't be able to tolerate such a false rumour for long, ...

... Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Daniel Defoe, Jack ... Tabaqui, the Dish-licker — and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling ...

... Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha, and every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's disciples, the silently begging ones. Near the town was Gotama's favourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana ...

The Secret Garden, The Odyssey, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, The ... fate, until the actors in this nefarious drama had arranged the several parts which each ... twisted like the horns of a ram. Such was the dress of a gallant of the ...

... GATSBY CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne THE SCARLET LETTER THE CUSTOM-HOUSE INTRODUCTORY TO "THE SCARLET LETTER" THE SCARLET LETTER I. THE PRISON DOOR II. THE ...

The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare ... coincidence involved in the fact, that unknown to me, there should have been a skull ... coincidences. The mind struggles to establish a connexion-a sequence of ...