Excerpt: "Standing in the doorway was an individual who was dressed in a fashion in which gentlemen in the immediate neighborhood of Hercules Buildings were not accustomed to dress. His clothes were beautiful, he wore patent leather shoes, his tie was a marvel, he carried a glossy silk hat in a well-gloved hand. He became his costume-so tall and so slender; with a little beard cut to a point; a charming moustache, the ends of which curled gracefully...

"The Crime and the Criminal" by Richard Marsh. 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...

Excerpt: "A big, burly man was sitting on the edge of the table. One foot rested on the floor, the other dangled in the air. He did not move when she entered; he merely looked round at her and stared. His great baldhead had a narrow fringe of sandy hair, which was just turning grey. He wore a huge sandy moustache, whose hue was more, than matched by his head and face. A large, angry-looking spot was on the left of his big nose, a smaller one was on...

Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman, who arrives asking for a piano lesson from Madge, suddenly bolts out the back door and over the hedge when he sees a rough-looking character watching him from the street in front of the cottage. This man in turn, runs away, when he sees a shabbily dressed woman come around the corner. The woman, marches into the cottage, declaring...

Excerpt: "I come here in answer to an advertisement, at great personal inconvenience to myself, and I am shown into a room with a number of most extraordinary characters; and one person, who, I am sure, was the worse for drink, asks me the most impertinent questions, and when I appeal for protection to another individual, he tells me that he has enough to do in attending to his own business without interfering with other people's, and I have positively...

Excerpt: "It was about as miserable an afternoon as one could wish to see. May is the poet's month, but there was nothing of poetry about it then. True, it was early in the month, but February never boasted weather of more unmitigated misery. At half-past two it was so dark in the schoolroom of Mecklemburg House that one could with difficulty see to read. Outside a cold drizzling rain was falling, a shrieking east wind was rattling the windows in...

The Magnetic Girl is Richard Marsh's version of the story of Cinderella. Tomboyish and somewhat plain Miss Norah, the narrator of the story, has always lived in the shadow of her lovelier sisters Lilian, Doris, Audrey, and Eveleen, and is constantly talked-down to by them and their mother. As the story begins, Norah has had a particularly bad day, and when she receives her first proposal of marriage from the kind but not particularly handsome Benjamin...

Excerpt: "She clapped her hands together with such violence that she actually stung her tender palms, and cried- "What a little beast I am! What a little beast!" Then, instantly, she resumed her packing, remembering that the trap was coming in less than half-an-hour, but not with quite so much zest, as before. There was a vague consciousness in her somewhere that her conduct had not been-and still was not-altogether without reproach. When Nora got...

The story begins with Miss Daisy Strong who has met a rather fascinating young man named Mr. Lawrence whilst in Brighton.

Excerpt: "As a small girl I must have been, a curiosity. At least I hope so. Because if I was only an average child what a time parents, and guardians, and schoolmistresses, and those sort of persons, must have of it. To this hour, I am a creature of impulse. But then, I did a thing; started to regret it when it was about half done; and if I ever thought at all about the advisability of doing it, it was certainly only when everything was over. Take...