The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Valley of Night is an enthralling tale of mystery and intrigue which is set in eighteenth-century England and ranges from London to that wild Cornish coast where the shipwreckers plied their nefarious trade.--from the Introduction.
An aristocratic young man falls in love at first sight with a lower-class girl on an omnibus, with disastrous consequences.
A collection of short science fiction stories by Noel Loomis.
Killed by blows over the head with a champagne bottle, the body of the disreputable heir to a great fortune is unexpectedly found within ancestral walls. The entire countryside appears to be implicated. But suspicion falls more strongly upon a certain farmer, once deeply wronged by the murdered man. When the farmer himself is killed there seems to be no way out, until JS Fletcher’s crafty hand finally brings the tangle into logical unravelling.
A riveting mystery filled with hatred and revenge.—Goodreads
Ship’s surgeon Dr. Ronald Ward, en route to his late father’s plantation in Malaysia, is drawn into murderous intrigue involving gold skulls and his father’s death. Seeking the killers in Singapore's underworld of gangsters, Ward finds himself a prisoner along with a beautiful young woman.
Set almost a decade after Rainbow Valley, Europe is on the brink of the First World War, and Anne’s youngest daughter Rilla is an irrepressible almost-15-year-old, excited about her first adult party and blissfully unaware of the chaos that the Western world is about to enter. Her parents worry because Rilla seems not to have any ambition, is not interested in attending college, and is more concerned with having fun. (In an aside, it is revealed that Marilla has died; her date of death is not specified but Rilla states it was before she was old enough to know her very well.)
Once the Continent descends into war, Jem Blythe and Jerry Meredith promptly enlist, upsetting Anne, Nan, and Faith Meredith (who Rilla suspects is engaged to Jem). Rilla’s brother Walter, who is of age, does not enlist, ostensibly due to a recent bout with typhoid but truly because he fears the ugliness of war and death. He confides in Rilla that he feels he is a coward.
In her pioneering work, "The Matrimonial Bureau," Carolyn Wells explores the intricacies of romantic relationships through the lens of early 20th-century societal conventions. Set against a backdrop of burgeoning modernity, the novel intricately weaves humor and satire within its narrative, revealing the absurdities of love, marriage, and the matchmaking industry.—Indigo
5th in the Philo Vance mystery series set during July 13-14, 1930. Vance, an independently wealthy college educated, amateur detective, uses his deductive skills and psychological knowledge to help his New York City District Attorney friend to unravel the murder of the financial backer of an Egyptologist and his work in Egypt. As usual, the action is set in New York City. His methods are unconventional and go against the more rigid police investigative methods and lawyer legal requirements.
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