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A remarkable collection, centering on tales situated in the White Mountains region. The hero in the first tale turns out to be the actual Great Stone Face, but it will take the villagers and himself a lifetime to realize this! The collection includes three other fascinating short stories: The Ambitious Guest, The Great Carbuncle and Sketches from Memory.

A suspenseful work filled with everything we want from an adventurous, mysterious romance and murder puzzle! A North Canadian police officer makes a deathbed confession to a murder that an innocent man is going to die for... A beautiful, secretive young woman knows something about the case, but has her motive to keep this hidden from everyone except the Chief of Police, who has reasons of his own for everything to just go away...

Along with the fight for survival in the wild, comes a poignant melodrama with a side order of mystery! A beautiful young wife dies shortly after giving birth to a girl. She is appeased by the lovely violin playing of a starving boy who came to their cabin for food. The mystery of the violin player's past and how his life connects with those in the small trading village is what makes this tale stand out.

A wonderfully warm and atmospheric tale of friendship, wisdom, growing up, war and love. The friendship is between the old man Eben, who rescues young orphan Bill from yet another orphanage, as the two migrate from Vermont to Paradise Valley. The wisdom comes from Eben. The growing up is done by Bill, as well as the partaking in the war (The American Civil War) and the falling in love.

An Egyptologist attempts to raise the mummy of Tera from the dead, while an ancient Egyptian queen finds a magnificent gem and is stricken senseless by an unknown power... Amidst bloody and unsettling scenes, his daughter is possessed by Tera's soul, and her destiny depends upon bringing Tera's mummified body back to life.

This classic Western tale features many of the beloved elements of the genre: a lonesome, almost mythical hero (The Lone Ranger), his steadfast friend and sidekick and of course his horse; in a story that tells us how these three came together in the first place.

Through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) this series of communications has been made available to the public for the first time! Most of the files have been redacted with names left out, but most of the sightings in 1947 can be known by listening to the ongoing correspondence at the time between the FBI and diverse U.S. Government and military establishments. Essential listening for both history buffs and fans of ufology!

A sweet romance in a bitter world...Pierre and Luce find each other in Paris in 1918, while WWI still rages. Will these two sensitive young people, Pierre, a pacifist, and Luce, an artist in training; stay together and find happiness; or will the weight of the world in flames end their future together...

This story is about the elusive thief called the Black Star and his gang, leaving black stars at the crime scenes and occasional ironic notes for the police to find, standing powerless against the sophistication and professionalism of the master criminal... Along comes detective Roger Verbeck.

A sergeant of the Canadian Northwest Mounted and his partner are hunting an elusive killer and his wife through a freezing and harsh world... This story possesses all of the great essentials that make up a good adventure tale! Old fashioned sense of nobility, falling in love, losing love, suspense, tragedies and ultimate happiness regained as the listener gets entangled in the story which is full of twists and turns!

Hollister is an emotionally scarred veteran from the war, returning home, but finding social life very difficult. He migrates to a remote place in British Columbia, where he starts to feel he can begin to breathe again. How will the rest of his life now turn out? Will he continue to grow as a human being? Will he find meaning and satisfaction in small things, out here in the hidden places? A wonderfully profound and old-fashioned story awaits the listener!

A well told, beautifully observant and tragic tale of a young woman's life, also containing a potentially scandalous relationship between her and a young schoolboy. Gabrielle, a neglected daughter of a widowed father, lives in a beautiful but rugged Connemara, Ireland, she faces many ups and downs in her life, mostly involving men she has no wish being attached to.

A powerful story about how the effects of war physically and mentally changes the soul of a young and sophisticated officer of the infantry, as he tries to save himself and his men amidst the brutality and ruthlessness of the war and the deep cynicism of his superior officers as well.

The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods is a collection of adventurous and romantic stories by Albert Bigelow Paine. The tales in this prodigious work of escapist writing revolve around the lucky piece that a young man once used as payment for a hatful of berries sold to him by a girl one summer evening... Love stories, all kinds of relationships and beautiful mountain life make for a rich creative tapestry.

A corpse emerges on a New England beach, handcuffed to a raft. The whole town seems to want to cover up everything and bury the body as quickly as possible without even bothering to identify it. Our hero, Chester Kent, is determined to investigate the matter...Nothing is as it seems in this completely engrossing mystery yarn that plays out like walking inside a labyrinth! The listener comes up against constant dead-ends during the tale's unfolding, right up to the surprising and satisfying resolution.

A nautical mystery unfolds for the listener, raising more puzzling questions than immediate answers: a boat crew find themselves short of one crew member (supposedly a twin brother) after a storm.

A suspenseful and action-packed tale that chronicles the adventures of our hero, Wallace Vane, with his deepest motivations to succeed in the lumber industry.

An old-fashioned story of life in a coastal town on Long Island, filled with the air and waves of the sea! All is centered around a lighthouse and a life saving station, where Cap'n Billy Daddy works. He also takes care of Janet; whose mother is out of the picture. One day a young painter comes to the dunes to paint, sees Janet, and asks to paint her and the two fall in love...and then Janet's rich biological father shows up.

Our main character, Jimmy, doesn't know whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he was hunting with his friends. What follows is a story of escape and survival of our hero, in an unfamiliar and particularly challenging and taxing environment...

Is a defense attorney forced to defend his client, or should he follow his conscience, knowing that the client he is defending is essentially guilty? And if his friends believe that he may have been aware of it before the trial yet respect the man for his morals; might it not become cause for blackmail, and therefore revenge? This is the ethical quandary that the novel grapples with, as well as painting a suspenseful and mysterious atmosphere involving the attorney's background, the titular house and its white shadows.