She reads palms and communes with the dead—but the Oracle of Maddox Street is no mere charlatan. A palmist and spiritualist by profession, she moves through Edwardian London’s fashionable drawing rooms with her barrister brother at her side, unraveling mysteries where the uncanny brushes against cold reason. Where other investigators dismiss the supernatural, she embraces it as both her method and her gift.In four complete adventures—three classic tales from the pages of Pearso...

An entertaining story concerning various incidents at a school for girls. The competition for a school scholarship, which is won by unfair means, is the central incident.

David's Little LadByL.T. Meade

You have kept us waiting an age! Come along, Bet, do.

In this story Mrs. Meade gives a picture of school-girl life, in which many varied characters play a part, the most interesting and original being Kitty Malone from Castle Malone in Ireland, who earns the nickname of Wild Kitty because of her love of mischief and her unconventional manners.

A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt in France will be realized; while the third, an unscrupulous minx, is a go-between who bribes the honest Priscilla to turn over her essay to the girl whose pleasure depends upon winning the prize, in consideration for which...

The casebook of John Bell, a 'professional exposer of ghosts', who solves mysteries in haunted houses.

A classic story for girls, concerning a governess and her beautiful, penniless girls.

The Girl and her Fortune is a mystery written by prolific writer of girls' stories L.T. Meade. This book is one of many works by her. It has already published in 1906. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introdu...

You didn't see the masther going this way, miss?

Kathleen O'Hara, a wilful, daring, yet beautiful and impulsive Irish girl, enters Great Shirley School. She becomes restive under the restraint, and converts others to her ways of thinking and acting.

The night is dark, and I am far from home. Lead Thou me on