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Detailing Dr Ludwig Boitus' studies of the strangely charastmatic Caliguinas bird.
Two reclusive, retired ship's Captains decide to celebrate Christmas for the first time in years.
James Cushat-Prinkly reluctantly sets off for afternoon tea with the girl he intends to marry.
Alethia Debchance, raised on a strict diet of romance novels, leaves home for the first time to visit her distant cousin Robert, an aspiring politician.
The government's success in a by-election becomes dependant on the acquittal of an obviously guilty man.
An author, at work on the third chapter of his eighth novel, is interrupted by an encyclopaedia salesman.
In the window of a dismal 'Toy Emporium' a particularly horrible doll in peach-coloured velvet with leopard-skin accessories fires the imagination of two passing children.
Bertie becomes increasingly frustrated by his mother who insists on reading all of his mail - so he mentions the problem to his friend Clovis ...
Matilda ignores Mrs. Panstreppon's advice not to take her rumbustious son to the poll on his father's election day.
The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead ...
At night, in the autumn of 1861, a brave but sensitive Federal officer sits alone in the heart of a forest in western Virginia.
One half of a pair of absolutely identical twins tells of the strange, supernatural bond between him and his brother.
A compilation of the facts and testimonies of witnesses following the return of a dedicated shop keeper from the dead.
Late one night, a mysterious man witnesses the strangely silent movement of a large army.
A man sets sail from Liverpool to New York on 'The Morrow' where he becomes attracted to a strange young woman.
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.
