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The story of Ivy

Marie Belloc Lowndes

At a country-house week-end party, Mary Hampton and her guests discuss the striking Ivy Lexton, her marriage to Jervis, and the pressure of the couple’s financial troubles. The conversation also centers on Miles Rushworth, whom Mary hopes may find Jervis work, while others speculate about Ivy’s effect on men and her carefully managed charm. The book opens amid social observation, flirtation, and hints of a mystery tied to the Lextons’ situation in London society.

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Le due colpe

Giuseppe de Rossi

Nel 1897 a Roma, in una casa di via Arenula gestita da Palmira Girelli, un delitto sconvolge il quartiere e attira l’attenzione della città. Al centro della vicenda ci sono Amanda di Valberta, il clown Robody e il conte Romolo Laureati, indicato come sospetto dopo l’omicidio di Amanda e Robody. Il racconto si concentra sulle circostanze della casa, sulla posizione della locandiera e sulle prime testimonianze raccolte.

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Idol's eye

Carol Emshwiller

Philippa, a young woman with poor eyesight and a habit of hiding behind her hair and glasses, lives on a farm where a man’s visit and her family’s comments make her feel uneasy. While shelling peas, she has a sudden, unusually clear vision of a purple cloud over Hump Back Mountain and becomes absorbed in the experience of seeing differently. The story also shifts to a separate group arriving in a folded loop, guided by a crystal and searching for the right place for their idol.

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Public enemy

Kendell Foster Crossen

This science-fiction crime story follows Public Police Officer Brad Raynor on his first days in the highly trained police system of the 32nd century. While he finds routine patrol work dull, he is suddenly sent after a violent fugitive who has killed an officer and fled in an air-car through Nyork. The setup centers on Brad’s new uniform, his police education, and the contrast between everyday domestic calls and a serious manhunt.

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Terror station

Dwight V. Swain

Dwight V. Swain’s science-fiction adventure follows Stone, who encounters a terrifying alien creature at a top-secret desert base after a woman stumbles into the road and is seized by the translucent monster. He fights the fast-moving being with a pistol and then by hand as it attacks with tentacles and a purple beam, while the woman warns him about the light. The story centers on survival, an apparent alien threat to Earth, and the immediate danger surrounding the encounter.

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The haunted house

Hilaire Belloc

Rackham is a Sussex country house owned in the early twentieth century by Henry Maple, a widower with one young son. The book sketches the house, its long and mixed history, its comfortable interior, and the small household that supports a life rooted in the surrounding land and only loosely connected to London. It sets up a satiric picture of English rural gentry and their setting rather than a conventional mystery plot.

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Brown eyes and brown bear

Frank Richardson Pierce

In this Alaska story, Dave Sloan and his partner Sam quarrel over Dave’s habit of boasting about bear hunting and misleading a young schoolteacher, Mary Hanna, who is in love with him. Sam decides to warn Mary that Dave has never killed a bear, but Mary is not persuaded and instead presses Dave for a bear rug to match her eyes. The tale centers on their talk of truthfulness, romance, and the difference between brown bears and black bears.

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Russian life and society as seen in 1866-'67

Nathan Appleton

Nathan Appleton recounts his 1866 Atlantic crossing from New York to Brest and the month he spent in Paris before continuing to Russia. He sketches the shipboard world of his voyage in lively detail, including the mix of travelers, conversation, card playing, and the captain’s routine presence. The book is framed as a travel narrative from an American visitor observing Europe and moving on toward Russia.

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Moods

Mercedes de Acosta

Moods is Mercedes de Acosta’s first volume, made up of brief prose fragments or vignettes that resist easy classification. The pieces are described as vivid, singable, and atmospheric, combining mystery with an intense human feeling and a direct interest in ordinary people and situations. The book is presented as a collection of short glimpses of experience rather than traditional poems.

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The Graveyard Rats

Henry Kuttner

Set in one of Salem’s oldest and most neglected cemeteries, the story follows caretaker Old Masson as he wages a losing battle against unusually large rats that have colonized the graves. His attempts to trap, poison, and shoot them fail, while rumors about hidden burrows, stolen bodies, and darker forces beneath the cemetery deepen the unease. As Masson works a rain-soaked grave at night, he discovers the rats have reached the coffin before he can.

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Mata Hari

Thomas Coulson

A biography of Mata Hari presents her as a dancer and vaudeville star whose beauty and personality drew unusual public sympathy, even as she became identified with espionage. It frames her as a figure wrapped in romantic legend and disputed stories, while insisting on a factual account of her life and the wartime intelligence world around her. The book also reflects the author’s experience with counter-espionage and his effort to avoid revealing details that could endanger people still involved in such work.

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Winds of rebellion

Ernest Haycox

Set in early 1777 amid Washington’s army at Morristown, the novel follows young Lieutenant Jeffry Peale as he sits in a drafty hut studying military law and wrestling with ambition, discipline, and the hardships of a winter campaign. A summons takes him to Brigadier Maxwell’s quarters, where the general sizes him up for qualities such as strength, boldness, and swimming ability, hinting at a special assignment connected to the war around New York and the Hudson shore.

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Despised and rejected

R. Allatini

Set in an English private hotel, the novel introduces Hester Cawthorn, a reserved visitor who prefers solitude and keeps her plans to herself. Around her are the chatty Mrs. Blackwood, her family and acquaintances from Eastwold, a theatrical holiday company, and an exchange arrangement involving Ottilie, a German girl staying with the Blackwoods while Doreen is to visit Heidelberg. The opening also shows the social bustle of the hotel, with a performance in preparation and the eccentric, informal world surrounding the guests.

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The fatal marriage

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The novel opens in western Maryland in September 1755, as young Lieutenant Orville Deville and his servant Nero climb the Ridge of Spears after a day of travel. Orville is introduced as an aristocratic provincial officer and heir to River-view, while Nero serves him with familiar loyalty and sharp wit. From the summit they survey the surrounding wilderness, see no sign of shelter, and realize that a storm is approaching, forcing them to consider camping out overnight.

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The man who limped

Otis Adelbert Kline

Hamed bin Ayyub, an elderly dragoman in the Holy City, recalls his earlier life as Hamed the Attar, a successful perfumer whose customers were largely women. Shaped by his father’s warnings, he becomes deeply distrustful of women even as his business prospers, until an evening on his rooftop leads him to overhear the song and conversation of a beautiful neighbor named Salamah Khatun. The story then turns toward her reluctance about marrying her cousin, Sheik Ali ben Mohammed, as Hamed begins to be drawn into this situation.

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