The Leavenworth Case
£1.99A wealthy bibliophile is murdered in his locked library, and a detective must untangle a household of suspects in one of the first American detective novels.
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The Old Man in the Corner
£1.99An armchair detective solves crimes from a corner table in a London tea shop, tying knots in a piece of string as he unpicks the police’s mistakes.
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The Compleat Angler
£0.99A 17th-century celebration of fishing as a contemplative art, still considered the classic of angling literature and one of the most reprinted books in English.
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The Natural History of Selborne
£1.99A country parson’s decades of careful, curious letters about the birds, weather, and wildlife of his small English village founded modern nature writing.
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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
£1.99An orphaned heiress is placed under the guardianship of her sinister uncle, who has both her fortune and her life in his sights.
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The Story of Burnt Njal
£0.99A medieval Icelandic saga of blood feuds, fate, and one farmer’s stubborn refusal to take revenge, considered one of the greatest sagas to survive from Iceland.
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
£1.99A wealthy young man is found strangled in a hansom cab in Melbourne, in the bestselling detective novel that beat Sherlock Holmes to print by a year.
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Melmoth the Wanderer
£1.99A man who sold his soul for 150 extra years of life searches desperately for someone willing to take the bargain off his hands, in one of the last great Gothic novels.
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813: The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin
£1.99Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin races German spies to a hidden fortune before the First World War, in one of his most ambitious capers.
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The Lady of the Barge (and The Monkey’s Paw)
£1.99Sailors, con men, and the supernatural collide in W.W. Jacobs’s story collection, including his single most famous tale: a monkey’s paw that grants three wishes, at a price.
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The Red Thumb Mark
£1.99Dr Thorndyke, medicine’s answer to Sherlock Holmes, uses forensic science to clear a man convicted on nothing but a single thumbprint.
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The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde
£0.99A cursed necklace passes from owner to owner in this collection of original literary fairy tales, each one a small, sharp lesson in vanity and virtue.
