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There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. This is the justification for the Council of Justice-a meeting of great and passionless intellects. These men are indifferent to world opinion. They relentlessly wage their wits and cunning against powerful underworld organizations, against past masters of villainy, and against minds equally astute. To breakers of the unwritten laws, they deal de...

She was an expensive call girl and spending a night with her came high. But he never figured on a price as high as murder. The photograph did justice to her generous statistics. Any private eye would enjoy tracking her down, and Hal Darling was no exception. Her name was Marion Lodge. She'd put her impressive body to good use as a call girl before she'd dropped out of sight almost a year before. Hal was being paid a fortune to find her.

A Johnny Killain Novel The mob got the word when Killain hit town-lock up your women and load your guns! Carl Thompson reached in a pocket with his free hand and tossed a glittering object across the room. Johnny caught it and looked down at part of a gold badge in his hand. It had been torn jaggedly through the center from top to bottom.

Johnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a foolproof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll. Two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a two-faced dame has another idea: Let Johnny do the work, then she'll take it for herself and her boyfriend. Originally published in 1955 under the title Clean Break. Basis for the 1956 Stanley Kubrick film.

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Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes but he is also, to quote Rufus King, 'in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being.' You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with the umbrella, who exhibits such uncanny insight into ingeniously tricky human problems.

Grant Harrington is a man forced to kill a teenager by the name of Lecy Newsted. Gaining the confidence of Lecy's sister Cora, Grant thinks he may have figured out a plan... But Lecy Newsted is not any little girl.

The legendary 1952 dystopian/alternative history novel about British naval lieutenant Alan Querdillon, who becomes a POW during the Battle of Crete during World War II, and awakens in a Nazi-controlled world 102 years after the war. He is hunted by a "Reichsforester" and takes refuge with genetically mutilated "undesirables"-one of the first fictional descriptions of genetic manipulation.

Garth, in response to the unforeseen summons, hurried along the hallway and opened the inspector's door. As he faced the rugged figure behind the desk, and gazed into those eyes whose somnolence concealed a perpetual vigil, his heart quickened. He had been assigned to the detective bureau less than six months. That brief period, however, had revealed a thousand eccentricities of his chief

A fascinating adventure tale with exciting non-stop action for both young teens and adults alike. Across India is the first volume of the third series of the "All-Over-the-World Library, " in which the voyage of the Guardian-Mother is continued from Aden, where some important changes were made in the current of events, including the disposal of the little steamer Maud, which figured to a considerable extent in the later volumes of the library.

Everything comes back to me. I was seated at my table, dressed in a large black overall, and engaged in writing out the tenses of a Latin verb on a ruled sheet divided into several compartments. All of a sudden I heard a loud cry, followed by a clamor of voices, then rapid steps trod the corridor outside my room. Instinctively I rushed to the door and came up against a man-servant, who was deadly pale, and had a roll of linen in his hand.

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train.

First appearing in 1689 (though dated 1690), An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding, in which Locke describes the mind at birth as a blank slate filled later through experience. This essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and has influenced many enlightenment philosophers, from David Hume to George Berkeley.

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A must-read for fans of strange or gothic literature! Every seven years, Archibald Malmaison falls into a trance-like state to emerge with one of two alternate personalities. Within these pages you will find insanity, death, ghosts, revenge, duels, star-crossed lovers-everything fans of the gothic will love, written by Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 - July 21, 1934), son of the great novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Originally published in 1899.

First appearing in 1689 (though dated 1690), An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding, in which Locke describes the mind at birth as a blank slate filled later through experience. This essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and has influenced many enlightenment philosophers, from David Hume to George Berkeley. Book One is Locke's attempt to refute ...

Matthew Lanfear had stopped off, between Genoa and Nice, at San Remo in the interest of a friend who had come over on the steamer with him, and who wished him to test the air before settling there for the winter with an invalid wife. She was one of those neurasthenics who really carry their climate-always a bad one-with them, but she had set her mind on San Remo, and Lanfear was willing to pass a few days in the place making the observations w...

Collected here are 14 tales of terror and the supernatural by one of the greatest masters of all time.The AlchemistThe Beast in the CaveMemoryThe Picture in the HouseBeyond the Wall of SleepDagonThe White ShipThe Statement of Randolph CarterThe Doom That Came to SarnathPoetry and the GodsNyarlathotepThe Cats of UltharPolarisThe Street

First published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel." One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity.

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.