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Often cited as the first detective story. The genre arrives pretty much fully formed: a brilliant detective, the bumbing police officer and a (particularly) gruesome murder.
Revealing the dangers of mixing good food and popular music.
When Henri Deplis becomes the canvas for the final masterpiece of the great tatoo artist Andreas Pincini, he finds that life as a living work of art is far from easy.
When an wholly unsuitable man tries to aquire invitations to an aunt's picnic, the task of putting him off is left to Clovis.
In an ego-driven attempt to heal local political divisions, the Baroness and Clovis decide to stage a Greek tragedy.
A man becomes obsessed with the idea that owners might grow to resemble their pets. Then someone buys him a monkey.
When Clovis must back-up his claim that he can produce quality poetry by the square yard, Bertie van Tahn assumes the role of critic.
A couple apparently run into some ancient forces when they make the move to the country.
A man contemplating ending it all off the edge of a cliff is apparently - by an enormous stroke of luck - given a second chance.
The tragic story of three sisters who come tantalisingly close to an unexpected inheritance.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
A man sets out to uncover the secrets of the strange natural phenomenon that is the Maelstrom vortex.
'I fancy there are few persons living today who ever knew the secret of that window, but I am one, as you shall see.'
A man's attempt to save the woman of his dreams goes embarassingly wrong.
The story of an enterprising gambler who finds some unusual uses for animals.
In the midst of a fearsome storm, a sceptic is confronted by a passionate salesman.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
