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  The Murder at the Vicarage

  Agatha Christie

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  Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. 
  Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English. 
  When Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the vicar’s study, it seems that almost everyone in the village of St Mary Mead had a motive to kill him. 
  This is the first case for Agatha Christie’s legendary female 
  detective, Miss Marple. She needs to use all her powers of 
  observation and deduction to solve the mystery.

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  Only a Dream

  H. Rider Haggard

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  Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 – 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure stories, often set in exotic locations, especially Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre."Only a Dream" is a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the ghastly apparition of his dead first wife.

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  The Monster Men

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  Men or Monsters? What were those thirteen hulking brutes Professor Maxon had created in his laboratory? Soulless, malformed, brainless they were, nevertheless composed of flesh and blood and endowed with the spark of life. Only number 13 was the redeeming feature of this grewsome experiment, for he was a perfect specimen of a man, but he, too, was soulless. Unconsciously he was the cause of the most diabolical plans Professor Maxon had yet concocted--his beautiful daughter Virginia was to marry this monster. From ERBville Press.

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  American Drolleries - Selected...

  Mark Twain

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  In these extraordinary stories Mark Twain takes us from the sleepy banks of the Mississippi, through frontier towns, and across the deserted gold plains of California. We encounter his countryfolk in all their bizarre variety: a cannibalistic ex-senator, a compulsive gambler, phoney travelling salesmen, and a team of bumbling detectives.
  
  The breadth, skill, and comic ingenuity of these tales remind us why Mark Twain is truly the 'father of American literature'.
  
  'Twain is still the liveliest, sharpest, most humane observational satirist and wit.' -
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  'Beguiling, brusquely fantastic yarns. . .' -
  John Updike
  'The greatest humorist of his age.' -
  New York Times

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  The Princess and the Mercenary

  Marilyn Pappano

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  Tyler Ramsey's mission was to follow the trail ofMontebello's missing crown prince to Montana,not to guard a pampered princess. But whenPrincess Anna Sebastiani insisted on joining thesearch for her brother, Tyler became her reluctantbodyguard. Keeping track of the regal virginwasn't nearly as challenging as fighting theexplosive and unexpected attraction betweenthem. When the fierce Montana winter left themsnowbound, the result seemed inevitable. But therugged mercenary's sworn duty was to protectthe princess&#8212even from himself&#8230.

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  The Wisdom of Father Brown

  G.K. Chesterton

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  The Wisdom of Father Brown is the second book in the series of cases involving the eccentric yet competent detective. Invented by renowned author, essayist and journalist G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown is an amateur sleuth whose day job involves preaching to his congregation at church. Chesterton himself was a committed Christian who wrote volumes of essays and fiction surrounding faith and spirituality, and would base his Father Brown stories upon a priest - Father John O'Connor - he himself knew. Despite its intention as a parody, the Father Brown books became a popular hit in early 20th century Britain as well as the USA. Today they remain a well-considered and much-liked classic series which fans of detective fiction return to more than a century after their original publication. Characterised by his easily digestible style, ready use and exposure of paradox, and his use of wit and humour to advance argument, Chesterton's fiction and non-fiction writings on the topics of human behaviour and wider society remain relevant and poignant to this day.

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