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The Case of Jennie Brice

Read by Wina Hathaway


Mary Roberts Rinehart


The flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a m…

The Confession

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart is claimed to have invented the "Had I but known" mystery genre. When Agnes Blakiston rented the old parson…

Chapter XLIV

In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë


The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …

28 - Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey

In The Brown Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was …

ONE MYSTERY FOR ANOTHER

In The Circular Staircase

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 19…

27 - Louise Makes a Discovery

In Aunt Jane's Nieces

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L. Frank Baum


Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her mone…

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

In Japanese Fairy Tales

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Yei Theodora Ozaki


First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold…