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Never Put All Your Eggs in One Basket.

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A Crime of the Under-Seas


by Guy Boothby

There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but how true this is very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it amounts almost to the marvellous. There are men engaged in trades there, some of them highly lucrative, of which the world in general has never heard, and which the ordinary stay-at-home Englishman would in all probability refuse to believe, even if the most trustworthy evidence were placed before him. For instance, on the evening from which I date the story I am now about to tell you, three of us were seated chatting together in the verandah of the Grand Oriental Hotel at Colombo... (Excerpt)

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The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

by Mark Twain

The 'consulting detective', Sherlock Holmes, has been called to an American town to solve a strange mystery. Only... this time the pen pulling the strings of the World's Greatest Detective is held by literary legend Mark Twain. In a style that could only be presented by Mark Twain, this tale begins "with a situation that suggests endless possibilities..." But "Mark Twain intended from the first to have some fun...as well as to surprise his readers. Therefore the second part of this short tale develops unexpectedly into a most ingenious parody upon Sherlock Holmes, capitally done." - The Book Buyer, Volume XXIV, 1902. 

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The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories

by Ruskin Bond  (Editor)

From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.

About the Author

Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children's books, many of which have been published by Penguin India.

He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.

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A Mysterious Disappearance

 

by Gordon Holmes, Louis Tracy 

Gordon Holmes has a happy method in the way he talks to his readers. He takes something for granted instead of spinning out to a fine point every single idea. He gives us two diametrically opposite characters in his two detectives—the Scotland Yard man and the amateur. Then he gives his readers the same clues the detectives have in Lady Dyke's disappearance. No reader can resist the subtle invitation to speculate as to what has happened and is going to happen. It is a most involved tangle. Gordon Holmes is Louis Tracy's real name.

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A MAIDEN Of MARS.

by General F. M. Clarke

Over the land the sunlight falls

A golden shower,
Kissin g to life the sheen of leaf,
And lip of flower,
Building with strength the stately tree,
The stalk of grain,
Softly, tenderly over all,
Oh l Golden rain.
All around are the charms of life,
So strong and fair.
Beauteous hues in floweret's cup,
And perfumed air.
Ripening seed and fragrant fruit
Do bless the year .
Sweetest notes of melody
Enchant the ear
To our senses, rapt and keen,
All life doth call.
Into our hearts, refreshing us,
Doth sunligh t fall .
Now for the stranger swiftly weave
A crown of flowers,
Over him let love descend
In golden showers ! ·

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