Scandal at High Chimneys
Scandal at High Chimneys

Author: John Dickson Carr

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1480472433

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A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a “faultless formal puzzle in detection” In 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is relaxing at his club when his friend Victor Damon comes to him in a panic, begging Clive to help him marry off his sister to a cash-poor marquis whose affections reek of gold-digging. Victor doesn’t care. Something sinister lurks at High Chimneys and he wants his sisters out of the house before their lives are put in danger. Old Matthew Damon, their father, has long been dogged by scandalous rumors of solitary visits to the cells of women about to be hanged for murder. But when murder is done at High Chimneys, Strickland and private investigator Jonathan Whicher will have to sort out the rumors and look behind the discreetly drawn curtains of High Chimneys for a killer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Amos Bronson Alcott

Publisher:

Published: 1882

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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This essay was privately printed & presented to Emerson on his 62nd birthday, May 28, 1865. It was published in 1882 without material alteration or addition.

The Acharnians
The Acharnians

Author: Aristophanes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1625580681

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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.