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The very beginning of this affair, which involved me, before I was aware of it, in as much villainy and wickedness as ever man heard of, was, of course, that spring evening, now ten years ago, whereon I looked out of my mother's front parlour window in the main street of Berwick-upon-Tweed and saw, standing right before the house, a man who had a black patch over his left eye, an old plaid thrown loosely round his shoulders, and in his right hand a stout stick and an old-fashioned carpet-bag.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Detective and mystery stories  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

In the Paris evening papers of Tuesday, February 28, 1866, under the head of _Local Items_, the following announcement appeared: "A daring robbery, committed against one of our most eminent bankers, M. Andre Fauvel, caused great excitement this morning th
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Category: Mystery, General Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

It was eight o'clock at night and raining, scarcely a time when a business so limited in its clientele as that of a coin dealer could hope to attract any customer, but a light was still showing in the small shop that bore over its window the name of Baxter, and in the even smaller office at the back the proprietor himself sat reading the latest Pall Mall.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Detective and mystery stories, English  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August--the most terrible August in the history of the world.
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Category: Mystery, General Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Most of us see some romances in life.
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Category: Mystery, Short Form, General Fiction  -  1. Detective and mystery stories, English  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Grill is the club most difficult of access in the world. To be placed on its rolls distinguishes the new member as greatly as though he had received a vacant Garter or had been caricatured in "Vanity Fair."
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Category: Mystery  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

There are, I suppose, few places even on the East Coast of England more lonely and remote than the village of Little Sundersley and the country that surrounds it.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. London (England) -- Fiction 2. Thorndyke, Doctor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction 3. Physicians -- Fiction 4. Detective and mystery stories, English  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Description: Originally published in 1862, Braddon's "sensation" novel tells the story of Lucy Graham, a poor governess of unknown circumstances who wins the heart of the rich Sir Audley. When Sir Audley's nephew comes to visit with his friend George, George goes missing, and the book quickly turns into an action-packed detective story, Victorian style.
Category: General Fiction, Mystery  -  General  -  NON-PUBLIC DOMAIN

Ce n'est pas sans une certaine émotion que je commence à raconter ici les aventures extraordinaires de Joseph Rouletabille.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Detective and mystery stories 2. Rouletabille, Joseph (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Le mariage de M. Robert Darzac et de Mlle Mathilde Stangerson eut lieu à Paris, à Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, le 6 avril 1895, dans la plus stricte intimité.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Detective and mystery stories 2. Rouletabille, Joseph (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

C'était le 21 octobre 1913, en plein Balkan, dans les sombres défilés de l'Istrandja-Dagh... le soir tombait...
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Detective and mystery stories 2. Rouletabille, Joseph (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Those who retain any memory of the great law cases of fifteen or twenty years back will remember, at least, the title of that extraordinary will case, "Bartley v. Bartley and others," which occupied the Probate Court for some weeks on end, and caused an amount of public interest rarely accorded to any but the cases considered in the other division of the same court.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Private investigators -- England -- Fiction 2. Detective and mystery stories, English  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Detective and mystery stories 2. Rouletabille, Joseph (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Description: Catherine Tilney had settled in for a quiet, respectable, distinctly non-Gothic English life in the countryside with her husband, the Reverend Henry Tilney. Unfortunately, a quiet, respectable, distinctly non-Gothic life had not settled itself for her. An original sequel to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Nachtstürm Castle whisks the reader and its heroine away to the border countries in the Austrian Alps, where adventure, mistaken identities, lost heirs, and terrifying butlers lurk.
Category: Mystery, Romance  -  General  -  NON-PUBLIC DOMAIN

It was a blistering night in August.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Private investigators -- England -- Fiction 2. Detective and mystery stories 3. England -- Fiction 4. Criminals -- Fiction  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Jerramy, thirty years' stage-door keeper at the Theatre Royal, Norcaster, had come to regard each successive Monday morning as a time for the renewal of old acquaintance.
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Category: Mystery  -  1. Detective and mystery stories  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN