A Master of Mysteries is a collection of six seemingly impossible (supernatural?) cases narrated by Mr. John Bell, the well-known ghost-hunter who seeks to debunk and expose the truth behind ghosts and haunting.In his own words, Bell “proposes to relate the histories of certain queer events, enveloped at first in mystery, and apparently dark with portent, but, nevertheless, when grappled with in the true spirit of science, capable of explanation.""The Mystery of th...

Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton (1854–1943), an eng doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation. He also wrote as Eustace Robert Rawlings. Eustace often collaborated with other writers, producing a number of works with the author L. T. Meade and others.L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories. "A Master of Mysteries" is a collection of exciting classic ...

True Irish Ghost Stories gathers a striking range of supernatural testimony, folklore, and psychical anecdote into a volume that illuminates Ireland's haunted imaginative landscape. Moving from ancestral houses and lonely roads to apparitions, banshees, poltergeists, and prophetic dreams, the collection blends oral tradition, documentary curiosity, and Gothic atmosphere. Its significance lies not only in the chill of individual narratives, but in the way they preserve a cultural archive of...

Doyle's The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1911) is a unique mystery novel. Dr. Watson finds himself entrapped in the midst of a crime scene and is utterly helpless until the arrival of Holmes. But even Holmes is not able to solve the mystery smoothly. With last minute escapes and hair splitting events the blunders they commit may cost a lady her life. This EasyRead Comfort Edition has been optimized for readers who do not need large type yet prefer a print that does not strain th...

The Holly-Tree and The Seven Poor Travellers by Charles Dickens is one of the great book for those who love classic fiction. The story is narrated in first person and makes a wonderful read. This is the story of youth and folly that is on the brink of self-destruction. Saved only by destiny, the plot has unusual twists and turns that make for an interesting read.

Respected crime writer, critic and editor Martin Edwards introduces a selection of Conan Doyle's most influential and innovative stories, as well as providing a critical analysis of Doyle's work. In his perceptive introduction, Edwards charts Conan Doyle's development into not only one of the world's leading popular writers, but a formal innovator of the short story.

Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatchbox with my name, John H. Watson, M. D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine. Some, and not the least interesting, were complete failures, and as such will hardly bear narrating, since no final explanation is fo...

Documented, witnessed, and soberly set down, these are the reported hauntings of Ireland's northern districts, gathered by a scrupulous clergyman-scholar who weighed every account before committing it to the page.The Reverend St John D. Seymour, co-author of the celebrated True Irish Ghost Stories (1914), drew his material from public appeals, private correspondence, and the personal testimony of clergy, gentry, and serving officers. Grouped under the anci...

This early work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon was originally published in 1898 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography of the author. 'Rough Justice' is one of Braddon's novels in the sensation literature genre. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in Soho, London, England in 1835. She was educated privately in England and France, and at the age of just nineteen was offered a commission by a local printer to produce a serial novel "combining the humour of Dickens with the plot and...

Table of ContentsThe Complete Sherlock HolmesA STUDY IN SCARLETPART 1Chapter 1 MR. SHERLOCK HOLMESChapter 2 THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTIONChapter 3 THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERYChapter 4 WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELLChapter 5 OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITORChapter 6 TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DOChapter 7 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESSPART 2THE COUNTRY OF THE SAINTS Chapter 1 ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAINChapter 2...

Table of ContentsThe Complete Sherlock HolmesA STUDY IN SCARLETPART 1Chapter 1 MR. SHERLOCK HOLMESChapter 2 THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTIONChapter 3 THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERYChapter 4 WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELLChapter 5 OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITORChapter 6 TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DOChapter 7 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESSPART 2THE COUNTRY OF THE SAINTS Chapter 1 ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAINChapter 2...

Fans of the new Showtime series ‘Penny Dreadful’ are in for a treat with this Penny Dreadful Double Bill.‘The Strange Bed’ by Wilkie CollinsThe author of ‘The Moonstone’ and ‘The Woman In White’ was a frequent contributor to Household Words, the popular Victorian literary magazine run by Charles Dickens. ‘The Strange Bed’ (a.k.a. 'The Traveller's Story of A Terribly Strange Bed') was Collins’ first contribution to the magazine and was something of a sensati...