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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Cardboard Box is a short story written by English novelist Arthur Conan Doyle which was published in the twelve part Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Human ears severed and sent by Post to horrify Miss Susan Cushing. While Scotland Yard police inspector suspects three medical students, Holmes rule ou..
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, a short story written in two parts which is also part of Arthur Conan Doyle’s His Last Bow series of detective stories. Garcia found dead at one o’ clock morning at his rented house The Wisteria Lodge. A note at his pocket states that John Scott Eccles met him on the previous night. As he could be arrested Ecc..
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Devil's Foot is a short detective work by Arthur Conan Doyle. While Holmes on a Holiday in Cornwall, Mr. Mortimer Tregennis approaches him with a case. According Tregennis his sister Brenda found dead previous day night and brothers George and Owen are mentally ill. He claims devil forces behind the ..
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is a short crime story written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Lady Frances Carfax, who has the habit of traveling with costly jeweleries found missing as her governess stopped getting letters from her. Dr. Watson traces Lady Frances Carfax and found she has been last seen at Germany and left along-with a m..
Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the Nineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain. Perhaps he was the greatest of them all for now, a generation after he passed away, more people read the stories of Dickens than those by any other auth..
To Be Read at Dusk
by Charles DickensTo Be Read at Dusk (1852) is a short story written by Charles Dickens, and was first published in Heath's Keepsake. In the text, five couriers talking amongst themselves outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass are overheard by the narrator as two of their group's members relate short ghost stories; one of a woman who abandons h..
A Child's Dream of a Star
by Charles DickensTHERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they w..
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago is a volume collecting 13 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1922 by John Murray. The stories covers various centuries from Antiquity to first millenary...