The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Tiger Lillie, a newspaper reporter, is sent to get a story about counterfeiters, and meets Detective Gordon Muldrew. As the two are passing the Florence Hotel, a scream is heard therein. With the hotel manager, they rush to Room 322 and find there a middle-aged man lying on the floor dead with a dagger beside him. Mona Netherwood, discovered in the corridor, identities the dead man as her father, Aaron Netherwood, an ex-actor who registered under the name of Lightfoot. She was about to visit him, she says. . .—FictionDB
A former soldier seduces and manipulates women in order to rise through Parisian society.
This is the third in a series of readers to teach literacy to young children by the phonics method.
The book contains thirteen short stories about Biggles’ childhood in India.
A story of the United Empire Loyalists’ journey to Canada.
This is a collection of 13 short stories. Set at the turn of the 20th century, the tales are urban realism studies that explore how ordinary people and children face choices, poverty, and consequences in a rapidly changing world.
Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out. Ben knew that whenever his thumbs were itching, something ‘orrible’ was about to happen. Sure enough, on one foggy afternoon of itchy thumbs, the hapless Ben is implicated in criminal activity by the police – the kind of mistake it isn’t easy to explain. Doing a runner, Ben hides in the basement of a deserted house, where he discovers the body of a well-dressed man, shot through the head . . . and much more trouble than he bargained for.
“Saint Michael’s Gold” is a historical novel set during the tumultuous period of the French Revolution and follows the adventures of an American caught in the chaos and dangers of that era.
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