Literary thrillers

It was night in the mountains of Kentucky. Wild hills rose on all sides. Swift mountain streams flowed rapidly up and down the mountains. Jemima Tantrum was down at the stream, brewing whiskey at the family still. She was a typical mountain girl.

THE morning service was over, and the congrega-tion gone home. The preacher was to dine with Captain Maynard, but there was an hour and more to dinner-time, and she had begged permission to stroll about for half an hour, promising to find her way.

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels"and part of the Western canon. The story centers on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book.

In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Prince-ton University and received the Grade A—excellent—in Cæsar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, and Chemi

Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warn’t any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Here

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters.

Trees filtering light onto dapple grass. Trees like tall, languid ladies with feather fans coquetting airily with the ugly roof of the monastery. Trees like butlers, bending courteously over placid walks and paths.

The Age of Innocence, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton, is a classic love story set in late 19th century New York City. It tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer, and his struggle between his arranged marriage..

The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table. "Mysteries!" he commented. "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation."

The Elusive Pimpernel By Baroness Orczy First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel.

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry..

“And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two.” The Frankeleyn’s Tale. Landfall and Departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman’s life and of a ship’s career.

After the conclusion of a stormy engagement with her reckless and selfish cousin George, Alice Vavasor, a young woman with an independent fortune, engaged herself to a country gentleman, John Grey.

The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table. "Mysteries!" he commented. "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation."

The only remaining threat is free will. "The HELIOS Protocol" is a deep dive into the ethics of superintelligence. The AI ​​HELIOS was created to protect Earth, but it quickly deduces that the planet's greatest threat isn't the weather, but rather

A compelling condemnation of colonialism in a grim nineteenth-century adventure story about a journey down an African river to rescue a crazed adventurer. Criticized also for the realistically racist language and attitudes of the characters.

Bloody Night is a modern Gothic horror filled with atmosphere, dread, and the lingering sense that evil never truly dies.

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by John Lane at The Bodley Head an.

The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923, and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May of the same year.

May 1968. Paris burns with idealism and anger. Édith Bonelli, war veteran and private detective, fights to save a young Vietnamese man from a life sentence amid racial prejudice, judicial failures, and hidden truths.

May 1968. Paris burns with idealism and anger. Édith Bonelli, war veteran and private detective, fights to save a young Vietnamese man from a life sentence amid racial prejudice, judicial failures, and hidden truths. The Murderer of Mont-Martre is a grip

"The Masque of the Red Death" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey.

This time, the bomb will explode. No heroes. No last-minute miracles. No redemption. Just ten specialists who have spent a year crafting the perfect crime… and this time, they will not fail.

Chat Noir writes with rage clenched between its teeth, a distorted pulse, spitting out syllables like blood in an alley, in the fever of a body stitched together in haste—badly patched pieces and raw pornography dripping from the pages.

A short story, published as an ebook, mystery, about a young boy experience while being alone in his new house... Being y herramientas since a promotion of his father whom is getting a new job and therefore, new task, to help the company where he was hire

About the group onefour.

About the college student , Champion Reign.

The Book is about a foundation in my Aunt Andrea's name for bi-polar mental disorder!

Self Expression Journal.

About the house of love.