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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.

A classic and hilarious comedy gem that has been filmed many times! The intricate storyline involves a rich businessman's son, Travers, who learns of a planned burglary of his house and decides to dress himself up as a policeman to confront the legendary criminal.

The Shores' brothers were seamen and hardworking whalers, but Mark and Joel have a disagreement about the recovery of a quantity of pearls acquired by Mark. He had buried them on a South Sea as a toll for future retrieval... This is the seed of the major conflict on board the ship.

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...

Only two individuals have survived a cataclysmic disaster on earth, a man called Adam and a woman called Robin. Will they try to repopulate the earth? Is it even worth it, considering what happened, and how human history has "evolved"? A great mixture of fantasy elements and philosophical contemplations makes this work stand out as a kind of post apocalyptical take on the biblical tale of Adam and Eve.

Can the mystery of The Locks be unlocked? This detective and suspense tale is absolutely filled with goosebumps atmosphere. It features a small mysterious town, peculiar inhabitants with secrets, a lonely odd house called "The Locks", that a stranger moves into. A sole light in a single room strangely lights up every night.

In this complicated romance we follow the two main characters from their childhood through to adulthood; all the way experiencing all the many, many challenges and opposing forces to their union. The heroine of this piece, aptly named Conscience; is forced to take on a mighty giant - the puritanical values instilled by her father (a minister) and the society of the older generation - in order to thrive in life as well as in love...

Harrington Strong (pseudonym of Johnston McCulley) gives us one of his typically effective and suspenseful detective stories: our protagonist Sidney Prale returns to New York from Honduras after ten years. He has made a fortune and now wants to invest it on Wall Street...Things don't go smoothly from here on. He finds himself sabotaged at every moment and accused of murder. With a hired private investigator, he intends to get to the bottom of this mess...

A wonderfully atmospheric and suspenseful tale for aficionados of sea and mystery! Code Schofield, is quite in a predicament: he has lost his boat in an Atlantic gale a while back, and finds himself presently viewed upon with disdain and suspicion both by his community off the coast of New Brunswick, and by insurance investigators...

An epic tale of a father and son, spanning the time range of their whole lives, with existential ups and downs along the ride...This is the story of Cardigan and his son, both pioneers in the very special place of Trinidad Head. We follow their efforts and successes, both career-wise and love-wise of the father and his son.

A classic detective story with twists and turns! Mr. Stoughton's vault has been robbed...

Welcome to the world of the "Reivers", also known as "Snow-Burners" to the Native Americans of the North. Our ruthless and forceful "hero" gets assigned to run a labor camp filled with foreigners. Will he attend to business in his usual dominant ways, or could he possibly crack? This western tale by Henry Oyen is as rugged as it gets.

A suspenseful classic detective story! A rich woman boards a taxi on a night in the big city. When they reach her destination, the driver discovers the woman gone, a suitcase and a male corpse... This is a perfect case for Detective David Carroll; brilliant and somewhat eccentric.

Celia and her husband Seth journey from Kentucky to the tornado filled vastness of Kansas, where Seth might be having a job waiting for him in the soon to be built "Magic City", but is that the whole story? This work by Zoe Anderson Norris is filled with wonderful atmosphere; the landscape of Kansas and the ever-present wind become complete and fascinating characters of their own, in many ways influencing the eventual outcome for our central characters.

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.

Meet Edgar Braine, our proficient main character, the editor of a local newspaper and a politician. Being a hardworking and centered man, having followed his old mother's advice on leading a good, ethical life; he now faces a bit of a quandary where a caveat, a warning from his mother, might come in very handy, possibly saving him from a personal catastrophe...

Welcome to the life of George Basine, and those of his family and friends; as legendary author and screenwriter Ben Hecht takes the listener through a maze of ethical struggle and identity related dilemmas involving the everlasting questions of perception and self-perception...

A moving romance with a well nuanced and observed central character that grows to a noble soul. A soldier of WWI wakes up from injury only to gradually discover through his damaged memory that his day-bride has remarried (believing him to be dead)... The soldier decides to re-invent himself and his life completely from scratch - this proves to be easier said than done.

This is an extremely clever and entertaining story of lookalikes and the switching of identities! Our protagonist, a very poor American in England, meets his doppelganger, the wealthy Rochester in a fancy hotel. The two get along, but very soon the world announces the suicide of (the real) Rochester. From now on everything gets complicated, as the new Rochester falls in love with the old/real Rochester's woman...A very funny work but also a very astute social satire.

The listener is engrossed in a world filled with action, travel, betrayal and greed. A complicated and multifaceted story involving a journey across the sea, different countries and a potential revolution; but the core of it is of our hero rescuing his lady and trying to find the famous treasure of Eldorado.