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Chap. 27-29

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Charles Reade

Wrongly convicted of a crime, Robert Penfold is condemned to 5 years penal servitude. After a year he is transported on the hulk VENGEANCE d…

Preface

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Betsy Balcombe and Elizabeth Balcombe Abell

In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious 14 year old at the time of events, we are provided with a rare account of the…

Chapter 10

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Written by one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century The Fatal Three although not as sensational as some of her other novels serv…

Preface

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Francis Parkman, Jr.

Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earn…

Ch. 21 Researches

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Eugène Sue

Rodolphe is the Grand Duke of Gerolstein, a fictional kingdom of Germany, but disguises himself as a Parisian worker. He can speak in the se…

Preface

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Ernest Belfort Bax

Preface Excerpt: "The following sketch of the course of the French Revolution was originally published during 1889 in serial form in &q…

Chapters 17-18

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Carolyn Wells

In this suspensful whodunit a mean-spirited and wealthy dowager is found murdered in her boudoir supposedly killed once by poison and also b…

Chapters 21-23

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Carolyn Wells

The White Alley is the sixth installment in Carolyn Well's famous detective series featuring Fleming Stone. The story begins during a weeken…

Chapter 17-1

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Émile Gaboriau

Widely considered the first modern detective novel in French literature, The Lerouge Case is the first in Emile Gaboriau's acclaimed "L…

Part 1 Chapter 18

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Mary Jane Holmes

In Part 1 of The Tracy Diamonds, wealthy, notorious flirt, Helen Tracy sets her sights on the one man who has shown no interest in her. Invi…