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(0)Wilkie Collins
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Table of Contents:
After The Dark
The Ostler
Mr. Wray's Cash Box
The Queen of Hearts
A House To Let
The Haunted House ("The Ghost in the Cupboard Room")
My Miscellanies
No Thoroughfare
Miss or Mrs?
"Blow up with the Brig!"
The Hidden Cash
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
The Last Stage Coachman
The Fatal Cradle
The Frozen Deep and Other Stories
The Captain's Last Love
The Dead Hand
The Devil's Spectacles
The...
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"The Woman in White" is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. "The Moonstone" is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language....
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A delightful meditation on the pleasures of bachelor bonding and an example of collaborative journalism at its best In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens' periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these well-loved men of letters....
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The Woman in White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives.
The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides...
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Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. From 1859's Christmas edition of All Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens, a collection set in an abandoned...
92) A House to Let
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Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes up lodgings in London. Immediately intrigued by a nearby "house to let," she charges her two warring attendants, Trottle and Jarber, to unearth the secret...
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Español
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En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de Wilkie Collins, Juan Miguel Salvador, Joaquín Rodríguez, Manuel Gil, Jaume Balmes Sierra, Jesús Ortiz, Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie, Eric Gill, Jason Forrest, CERLALC, Alejandro Dujovne, Simón Ergas, Hernán López Winne, Juan Villoro y Luis Herrero.
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William, the narrator and faithful servant to rich widow, Mrs. Norcross, tells the story of his mistress' unhappy second marriage to James Smith. A detective lawyer's clerk, Mr. Dark, both confirms Smith's bigamous remarriage and, following his disappearance, proves Mrs. Norcross and William innocent of murder. Dark also recovers jewelry stolen by the maidservant and establishes her guilt.
96) The Dream Woman
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A man's recurring dream of his demise becomes a living nightmare.
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A collection of witty, warm, mysterious short stories from some of the best classic authors
This fine collection of intelligent, unabridged short stories about intriguing, interesting and sometimes inspirational men is an audio treat for young and old, male or female. A carefully compiled anthology featuring timeless tales from classic authors including Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anton Chekhov, read by a cast of acclaimed and respected...
98) Murder Most Foul
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A collection of classic crime short fiction - story listing: Bluebeard's Bathtub by Margery Allingham read by Derek Jacobi; Who Killed Zebedee? by Wilkie Collins read by Patrick Malahide; An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr read by Brian Cox and The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle read by Edward Hardwicke.
100) The woman in white
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Artist Walter Hartright arrives at Limmeridge House to instruct wealthy half-sisters Marian and Laura Fairlie. Their peaceful lives are marred by a strange woman dressed in white, who brings disturbing warnings to the family. When Laura announces her engagement to the dashing Sir Percival Glyde, it seems the darkness haunting them is lifting. But new dangers lurk closer than ever, and the only hope for averting disaster lies with the secret held by...