The Big Bow Mystery
£0.99A journalist is found dead behind a locked and bolted door in one of the first great ‘impossible crime’ mysteries.
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A journalist is found dead behind a locked and bolted door in one of the first great ‘impossible crime’ mysteries.

A Scottish general murders his way to the throne on a witch’s prophecy, and finds the crown considerably heavier than expected.

Descartes doubts everything he can possibly doubt and rebuilds knowledge from a single certainty — ‘I think, therefore I am’ — in the founding text of modern philosophy.

Showman P.T. Barnum’s blunt rules for building wealth, drawn from a career spent turning curiosities, hoaxes, and hard work into a fortune.

Hamilton, Madison, and Jay’s essays arguing for ratification of the U.S. Constitution remain the definitive explanation of how and why it was built the way it was.

Mark Twain’s account of a raucous American pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land, mocking tourists, tour guides, and Old World pretension in equal measure.

A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible and quickly finds that invisibility is a far better weapon than a way of life.

A henpecked villager falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes twenty years later to a world, and a country, he no longer recognises.

A collection of the Buddha’s core teachings on suffering, mindfulness, and the path to liberation, condensed into short, quotable verses.

A New York lawyer is engaged to a proper society bride while falling for her scandal-tainted cousin, and old New York enforces its rules.

A poor New England farmer’s loveless marriage and forbidden love collide in a single, devastating sled ride.

Lao Tzu’s foundational text of Taoism, teaching that the wisest way to live is in effortless harmony with the natural flow of things.

A southern gentlewoman relocates to a grim industrial mill town and clashes with a proud, self-made factory owner.

A married man and a married woman drift into an affair during a seaside holiday, in Chekhov’s quiet, devastating study of love without a happy ending available to it.

Mill lays out the case for judging actions by their consequences, and for the greatest happiness of the greatest number, in the classic statement of utilitarian ethics.

A wealthy schoolgirl is reduced to servant status when her father is presumed dead, but refuses to stop acting like a princess.