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When Alice and John buy an antique teapot they get more than they bargained for.
A girl celebrates her father's birthday.
Abby's mother tells her to tidy her room.
A young lady asks Holmes' advice as to whether she should accept an excellent appointment as a governess even though it comes with an unusual condition attached.
A domineering wife and mother unobtrusively and inexplicably vanishes.
Late one night a little girl appears at a woman's door: "I can't find my mother".
Creeping paranoia becomes something altogether more sinister, but is it madness or has he discovered a plot that threatens humanity.
When Katherine sails into a secluded bay she seems destined to meet a creative kindred spirit in blues musician Matt.
In this homage to Poe, two rival scholars are brought together when one discovers an important early Christian burial ground.
A prince's mother takes steps to ensure her son marrys a real princess.
Frankly, Framton Nuttel doubted whether these formal visits on a succession of total strangers would do much towards helping his nerve cure.
Theodoric is not alone in his train compartment and, while not actually afraid of mice.....
Animals talk to eachother, of course. An expert tells of one particularly verbal creature.
There is a presence in Theresa's room, watching her ...
An interpreter seeks Holmes' advice after being abducted and forced to translate a conversation with a bound and gagged man. A story that also involves Sherlock's even more observant brother, Mycroft Holmes.
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.
