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50 Eternal Masterpieces of Detective Stories
2017
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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Fantômas [Marcel Allain] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] The Woman in Black [E.C. Bentley] The Island Mystery [George A. Birmingham] Four Max Carrados Detective Stories [Ernest Bramah Smith] The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Innocence of Father Brown [G.K Chesterton] The Secret Adversary [Agatha Christie] The Mysterious Affair at Styles [Agatha Christie] No Name [Wilkie Collins] The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins] Hunted Down [Charles Dickens] The Trial for Murder [Charles Dickens] The Mystery of Cloomber [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Spider [Hanns Heinz Ewers] The Middle Temple Murder [Joseph Smith Fletcher] Dead Men's Money [Joseph Smith Fletcher] The Red Thumb Mark [R. Austin Freeman] The Cat's Eye [R. Austin Freeman] The Honor of the Name [Émile Gaboriau] The Man Who Ended War [Hollis Godfrey] The Rome Express [Arthur Griffiths] Arson Plus [Samuel Dashiell Hammett] Desperate Remedies [Thomas Hardy] Green Tea [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu] The Seven Secrets [William Le Queux] Eight Strokes of the Clock [Maurice Leblanc] The Phantom of the Opera [Gaston Leroux] The Lodger [Marie Adelaide Lowndes] The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel [A. E. W. Mason] The Mysterious Card Unveiled [Cleveland Moffett] The Mysterious Card [Cleveland Moffett] The Evil Shepherd [Edward Phillips Oppenheim] The Double Four [Edward Phillips Oppenheim] The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective [Catherine Louisa Pirkis] The Mystery of Marie Rogêt [Edgar Allan Poe] The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe] The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe] The Green Eyes of Bâst [Sax Rohmer] Whose Body? [Dorothy Leigh Sayers] The Lady, or the Tiger? [Frank R. Stockton] Catherine: A Story [William Makepeace Thackeray] Tom Sawyer, Detective [Mark Twain] and more...

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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Author · 240 books

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well-received. Twain had found his calling. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. However, he lacked financial acumen. Though he made a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he squandered it on various ventures, in particular the Paige Compositor, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. With the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers, however, he eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain worked hard to ensure that all of his creditors were paid in full, even though his bankruptcy had relieved him of the legal responsibility. Born during a visit by Halley's Comet, he died on its return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature". Excerpted from Wikipedia. AKA: Μαρκ Τουαίν (Greek)

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