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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...

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 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 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.

A classic held as one of the greatest works of 19th Century fiction. The novel is thought of as a reply to the growing cultural divide and alienation between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the rapidly growing nihilist movement. These two philosophies were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's greatness lay in its traditional spirituality... The main characters reflect a youthful rebellious and anarchistic thought, therefore confronted with their traditional fathers.

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.

Temptress Desirée Le Mire and brothers Paul and Harry Lamar are searching for a missing treasure in a mysterious cave in the Andes. They encounter Inca deformed by living underground. What follows is a tornado of an adventure underground by Rex Stout; featuring heroic acts, lucky escapes, battles of will and physical power, feats of daring and strategy.

David Carrigan, a Royal Northwest Canadian Mounty always gets the job done.

Carter Brent, alcoholic gambler and Yukon gold finder, strikes real gold as he meets a beautiful young half-breed girl called Snowdrift. They experience adventures and hardships of all sorts, both physical and psychological.

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.

Kentucky has suffered from an extremely bad reputation, and these recordings of feuds, tragedies and vendettas - the most notorious being that of the Hatfield and McCoys - puts the listener right into it! The New York Times of July 26, 1885 had this to say of the state and its people: "The savages who inhabit this region are not manly enough to fight fairly, face to face. They lie in wait and shoot their enemies in the back... One can hardly believe that any part of the United States is cursed with people so lawless and degraded.

Along the coast of Maine can be found loads of rocky and starkly beautiful small islands. "Pocket Island" was no exception. Along with the loveliness come secrets and mysteries and, above all, hazard. And old ghosts, war, smuggling, barn dances, passions and friendships. Even 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...

This is an effective mystery and detective yarn that will please fans of the classic genre. What's that old saying? Never trust a beautiful woman... perhaps, perhaps not. A typical set up in the classical Agatha Christie style; a detective visiting a manor is suddenly forced to examine the murder of a young woman on the grounds, and everyone there- including himself - might be up for grabs as potential killer; as alibis start to crumble and lies and silences prosper...

When our detective star Carlton Davies is called to the home of Ruth Darwin late at night, he once again can't help questioning what it was that forced her to marry Phillip Darwin, a powerful banker. Ruth and he and been engaged until suddenly she broke off the engagement. Hinting at some sort of extortion, Carlton once more takes up the search to find out what it was only to find Ruth with a (literally) smoking gun in her hand... An old fashioned mystery that will have the listener guessing from beginning to end! A classic whodunit filled with plot twists.

The story's hero, Clement, is a man with a past. Should he reveal to his newly found love his secrets? Will it be worth jeopardizing the happiness of the short time they will have together, since the young woman is, presumably, fatally ill? A romance set in a border mining town in Colorado, this novel is for those of us who are incorrigible romantics at heart.

Two brothers and a female cousin live in a distant cabin in the wilderness. The oldest brother is hiding from the law because of murder, so the younger brother must 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 momentary blindness to his advantage. The only problem is that his younger brother, Pete, falls in love with her too...

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.

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.