A young girl named Juliet, draws the boys in a small village after her, and along the way a rich Colonel, whose love for her reaches farther than anyone would have expected. She also hooks a fiery, unstable man named Orrin. The Colonel gets her to swear she will marry him as soon as he finishes a stone house for her, while Orrin tries something secretive to win his love. The narrator is a former lover of Juliet, and what he tells of is a twisted tale of a selfish woman and an evil man, decide for yourself which man is the villain... Short stories written by Anna Katharine Green. This well-written collection also includes: „A Memorable Night”, „The Black Cross”, „A Mysterious Case”, „Shall He Wed Her? „. Each one contains a mystery and a romantic involvement in the plot, and some have a twist ending.
20 Top-Detektive der Literatur : Die Kriminalfälle für Sherlock Holmes, Wachtmeister Studer, Detektiv Dupin, Detektiv Gryce, Inspektor Lecoq, Father Brown
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The Chief Legatee
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Murder Under The Mistletoe - Ultimate Christmas Murder Mystery Collection : Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Hercule Poirot Cases, Father Brown Mysteries, Arsene Lupin
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The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life
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Three Thousand Dollars
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A Strange Disappearance
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The Millionaire Baby
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60 GOTHIC CLASSICS : Dark Fantasy Novels, Supernatural Mysteries, Horror Tales & Gothic Romances
Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Anna Katharine Green, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas Love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Marsh, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, H. G. Wells, W. W. Jacobs, William Thomas Beckford, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Eliza Parsons
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