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Murder Will In' is a detective novel written by Carolyn Wells. It features her most famous character, Detective Fleming Stone, who in this volume is facing his final case. A high society woman named Alma McCleoud was recently murdered during a party that she held-and it's possible that her husband might have been the culprit behind it.
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Excerpt: "Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is, who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said, The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries, And every joke that's possible has long ago been made. I started as a humourist with lots of mental fizziness, But humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse, For my stock-in-trade, my fixtures and the good-will of the business No reasonable offer I am likely to refuse....
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"Patty at Home" by Carolyn Wells. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
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A Manhattan lawyer turns to master detective Fleming Stone to prove his beautiful neighbor innocent of murder in this classic locked-room mystery A respectable young attorney in New York City, Otis Landon has barely settled into his new living quarters when an incident occurs in a neighboring apartment that he cannot, in good conscience, ignore. Robert Pembroke, a vicious, miserly man, has been murdered behind locked doors. The only people who had...
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After his son, Peter, is lost and presumed dead in the wilds of the Labrador coast, Benjamin Crane turns to spiritualism for solace and comfort. So profound is his belief in the medium, that he writes a successful book about his experiences. But when one of his son's companions on the ill-fated expedition is poisoned, at least some of those surrounding him begin to question the honesty of the medium, Madame Parlato. To find the murderer, the famous...
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A respectable young attorney in New York City, Otis Landon has barely settled into his new living quarters when an incident occurs in a neighboring apartment that he cannot, in good conscience, ignore. Robert Pembroke, a vicious, miserly man, has been murdered behind locked doors. The only people who had access to the victim were his servant and his niece. The latter, Miss Janet Pembroke, seems the suspect most likely to have eliminated her uncle...
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He must be a fool indeed who cannot at times play the fool, and he who does not enjoy nonsense must be lacking in sense.-William J. Rolfe. Excerpt: "On a topographical map of Literature Nonsense would be represented by a small and sparsely settled country, neglected by the average tourist, but affording keen delight to the few enlightened travellers who sojourn within its borders. It is a field which has been neglected by anthologists and essayists,...
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Fourteen-year-old Patty Fairfield is sent for a year of visiting relatives to learn about moderation and making a home. Patty Fairfield leaves her home with her father to spend a year visiting four sets of aunts, uncles and cousins and to learn about proportion.
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From the introduction: Satire, though a form of literature familiar to everyone, is difficult to define. Partaking variously of sarcasm, irony, ridicule, and burlesque, it is exactly synonymous with no one of these. Satire is primarily dependent on the motive of its writer....
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Strongly motivated by the school of thought that sees parody as not necessarily ridicule, the editor of this volume has provided a standard collection of English parodies. It is an entertainment not to be missed by enthusiasts of satiric verse and an enlightening book for the uninitiated reader. (Google Books)
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At the close of that wonderful summer on her Grandmother's farm, 12-year-old Marjorie came home to Rockwell and the happy quartette of the Maynard family, reunited once more, had many a new game together. And then came school days. Before we know it along comes Halloween with a beautiful party, and then we learn of the strange activities of the Village Imp. Society with its anonymous messages to the village property owners. Thanksgiving Time brings...
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As a young lawyer is about to leave his office on the top floor of a Madison Avenue office building, he hears an argument followed by a shot from the office across the hall. But when he goes to investigate he finds no sign of either victim or assailant despite the fact that no one could have passed him without being seen. However, as is soon discovered, a murder has indeed been committed, that of the banker who owned the building. But who is the murderer?...
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The death of Robert Gleason, a wealthy businessman from Seattle, at first looked like a suicide. He had called his doctor saying that he was shot, and when the doctor arrived at his New York apartment, the door was locked. After breaking down the door, his body was found lying on the floor, a revolver at his side. Yet certain facts argued against a verdict of suicide. Gleason had been shot twice, once shot to the temple, which killed him instantly,...
16) Raspberry Jam
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Raspberry Jam is a classic locked-room whodunit featuring Detective Fleming Stone and is widely considered to be one of the best of the Fleming Stone Mysteries. Millionaire Sanford Embury is found dead in bed, alone, with the door of his second-story bedroom bolted shut from the inside. He was known to be a controlling husband, refusing to give his pretty young wife an allowance of cash or her own checking account. Was his wife a party to the murder,...
17) Patty -- Bride
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War comes to Patty Fairfield. Also she's engaged. The spy mystery is a bit more clever than one usually sees in a series not built around that concept. All ends happily and her final stray beau finally accepts that he isn't going to edge out her chosen one. (goodreads)
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Patty makes friends in England, and helps some of them find a lost family fortune. This is the 6th book in the series of Patty books. This one has Patty living in England for the summer, and there are two story lines. The first is her acquaintance with Lady Hamilton, and her trying to reconcile her with her estranged father. The 2nd is in the summer home of Cromarty Manor and trying to find their hidden treasure, so they can restore their English...
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Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 – March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. She was a well known author of children's stories, until she began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein. A new book by this popular author, and written in her best and most interest-compelling style. Ladybird Lovell, the staying...
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Wealthy, eccentric, inveterate practical jokester Ursula Pell has often reminded her live-in niece Iris Clyde that when she dies, Iris will inherit a beautiful diamond pin. Iris has no reason to doubt her aunt, since it is known that Mrs. Pell has a secret cache of jewels that, presumably, her few heirs will inherit.
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