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The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private detective Carmady with a story about a guy wh[...]![]()
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'I ran to the side of the ship. "Help, help! Murder!" I sceamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; Isaw a great flash of fire, and fell to the[...]![]()
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It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come an[...]![]()
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A woman and a man ... words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her ... It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It hap[...]![]()
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There were six of them -three Katherines, two Annes, and Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life.After [...]![]()
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'Moondial!' As Minty spoke the word, a cold wind went past her, and her ears were filled with a thousand frightened voices. She shut her eyes and put her hands over her ears - and the voices and the wind went away. Minty opened her eyes...and kn[...]![]()
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In these thrree short stories, Thomas Hardy gives up pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy...![]()
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Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first.And when they are adults, Al still[...]![]()
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Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few week's time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like h[...]![]()
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If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what do you do?![]()
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Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor l[...]![]()
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The room was on th fourth flour, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside . The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the[...]![]()
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There, on top of hte mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of his mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, "Who are you?"What strange things happen when Alice falls down the ra[...]![]()
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Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can [...]![]()
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All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they[...]