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1) The Lodger
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Based on the nineteenth century's most infamous crime, a novel that asks, How do you recognize a serial killer? One damp November evening on the Marylebone Road, a couple sits in silence. Though their thoughts are the same-money and the lack thereof-the time has long since passed when Mr. and Mrs. Bunting could find comfort in sharing their anxieties with each other. Now every word is a reproach-a reminder of luxuries forsaken and keepsakes pawned....
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Spooky and suspenseful. Wealthy widow Sylvia Bailey is idling around Europe when she befriends another widow who is also a gambling addict. The two decide to go to the gambling town of Lacville, despite a psychic's warning that they will find themselves in grave danger there--danger from which at least one of them will not escape. If only they'd heeded the warning... A real, old-fashioned "page-turner", for sure.
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Another hard to find great old book, with a much younger gorgeous wife married to an aristocratic, rich older man that started out adoring her and ended up a frail invalid from suffering a stroke after catching her in an indiscretion with a younger man, that's where the tale really starts, and what happens following that makes for a fascinating story right to the end.
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Excerpt: "Barbara Rebell's tenth birthday,-that is the ninth of June, 1870,-was destined to be long remembered by her as a day of days; both as having seen the first meeting with one who, though unknown till then, had occupied a great place in her imagination, if only because the name of this lady, her godmother, had been associated every night and morning with that of her father and mother in her prayers, and as having witnessed the greatest of her...
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A young newly wed couple are on the third week of their honeymoon when they arrive in Paris. It's the Exhibition and every lodging house is at full capacity. At well past midnight they manage to secure rooms at an ancient home, although not together. The wife is given the owner's daughter's room (who is away) and her husband is given a room in the garret. "No worries, Darling. It's only for one night." Morning comes but her artist husband is nowhere...
10) Studies in Wives
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This set of short stories follow a pattern: First: A mistake as regards relations with the other sex. Second: A crisis. Third: Final resolution. Now in many cases the final resolution is one of violence.
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It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper...
An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband, Fordish. It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper, but according to the couple's servant in the witness-box, the flask disappeared the night Fordish died, and all attempts to trace it have come to nothing. The jury...
14) What Timmy Did
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Excerpt: "...then an astounding thing had happened. Godfrey had had a fortune left him by an eccentric old man in whose employment he had been as secretary for a while. His luck still holding, he had gone through most of the war, including Gallipoli, with only one wound, which had left no ill effects. A man so fortunate ought not to have neglected his old friends."