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Two brothers and a female cousin live in a remote cabin in the wilderness. The oldest brother is hiding from the law because of murder, so the younger brother has to do the trading in town (they are trapping for a living). One day, while Hugh (the convict) leaves the cabin, he meets a girl who is sun blind. He falls in love and uses her temporary blindness to his advantage. The only problem is that his younger brother, Pete, falls for her too.

Mr. Stoughton's vault has been robbed... How did this happen? How come he himself is clueless about how to access it? What is going on with the singing? Or with the stenographer? Nothing in this mess seems to make much sense, but the patient listener will enjoy both the confusion and the resolution, that's guaranteed by author Anna Katharine Green!

This could be straight from a classic Hitchcock film - a lady in danger who appears to suffer from amnesia, a man trying to solve it all with her, wanting to prove her innocence in the murder charge pinned on her. Who is she? What did she do? What really happened, and why is her father in danger as well? Classic, adventurous and nail biting stuff by Victor Rousseau, published in 1919.

Through magnificently descriptive and evocative prose and dialogue, the listener is transported into the rugged landscape of Canada, and into the suspenseful and action-packed story of its hero, Wallace Vane, and his deepest motivations as a success in the lumber industry, having emigrated from his British roots.

Functioning almost like an incredibly charming "mini - Around the world in 80 days" and somewhat an unusual departure from mystery-writing of the author, Isabel Ostrander, this is the tale of how rich New Yorker Jim Abbott, following a bet, and teenage runaway Lou come together by chance, as a daring pair of travelers in rural America. The bet is to travel with no money all the way from Buffalo to New York City. Needless to say, the voyage in question is filled with incidents and challenges.

This is a warm and wonderful tale by Sara Ware Bassett of almost a whole coastal community in Cape Cod… The humorous events focus on and around eccentric old "inventor" Willie Spence, his housekeeper Celestine and, most notably, a would-be couple by the name of Robert and Delight. Artist Bio Author: Sara Ware Bassett (1872-1968), was a prolific American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She is most known for her fiction, featuring eccentric and funny characters in fictional towns in Cape Cod.

As mostly science fiction writer Edgar Pangborn switches to the detective genre; we get this successful and suspenseful novel of a murder case against our female protagonist Callista Blake... Meticulously detailed, the story flashes back and forth in time, framed in the classical style of the "courtroom drama" we have come to know so well by now.