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An island in the eastern seas is left by will to two heirs who cannot stand each other, and the natives have views of their own. McCutcheon wrote it as a comic adventure and it moves at the speed of a farce. This edition is bound with a 53-plate gallery of paintings by William Logsdail, Harold Gilman, John Lavery and Spencer Gore, and includes three in-text illustrations restored and coloured.

Complete and unabridged, with 50 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Richard Wilson and Thomas Gainsborough. A country beauty goes up to London for a season with a plan, a maid and no money, and finds the town is playing the same game with better cards. Frances Aymar Mathews wrote light comedies of the eighteenth century for an American audience that loved them. The disguises are conventional and the dialogue is quick enough to carry them. Fifty paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, among others, follow the century's look from country houses and castles to portraits and landscapes.

This carefully crafted ebook: "E. W. HORNUNG Ultimate Collection – 19 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including War Poems and Memoirs" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Original A. J. Raffles Series:The Amateur Cracksman:The Ides of MarchA Costume PieceGentlemen and PlayersLe Premier PasWilful MurderNine Points of the LawThe Return MatchThe Gift of the EmperorThe Black Mask; or, Raffles: Further Adventures:No SinecureA Jubilee PresentThe Fate of FaustinaThe Last LaughTo Catch a ThiefAn Old FlameThe Wrong HouseThe Knees of the GodsA Thief in the Night:Out of ParadiseThe Chest of SilverThe Rest CureThe Criminologists'' ClubThe Field of PhilippiA Bad NightA Trap to Catch a CracksmanThe Spoils of SacrilegeThe Raffles RelicsThe Last WordMr. Justice RafflesNovels:Dead Men Tell No TalesA Bride from the BushWitching HillTiny LuttrellThe Boss of TaroombaMy Lord DukeYoung BloodPeccaviAt LargeThe Shadow of a Man; or The Belle of ToorakThe Shadow of the RopeDenis DentNo HeroStingaree: A Voice in the WildernessThe Camera FiendFathers of MenThe Thousandth WomanThe Unbidden GuestMr. Justice RafflesShort Stories & CollectionsAt the Pistol''s PointSome Persons UnknownThe Crime DoctorThe Amateur CracksmanThe Black MaskA Thief in the NightWar Poetry Collection: The Young GuardConsecrationLord''s LeaveLast PostThe Old BoysRuddy Young GingerThe Ballad of Ensign JoyBond and FreeShell-Shock in ArrasThe Big ThingForerunnersUppingham SongWooden CrossesMemoirNotes of a Camp Follower on the Western FrontErnest William Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and a war poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung''s works are also remembered for giving insight into the social mores of late 19th and early 20th century British society.

This collection consists of the greatest British mystery novels and detective stories, all concocted by the masterminds of the mystery genre:Arthur Conan Doyle:Sherlock Holmes SeriesA Study in ScarletThe Sign of FourThe Hound of the BaskervillesThe Valley of FearThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesThe Return of Sherlock HolmesHis Last BowThe Case Book of Sherlock HolmesOther MysteriesTrue Crime StoriesEdgar Wallace:Four Just Men SeriesMr. J. G. Reeder SeriesDetective Sgt. Elk SeriesThe Earl of Nowhere SeriesP.-C. Lee SeriesCrime NovelsTrue Crime StoriesWilkie Collins:The Woman in WhiteNo NameArmadaleThe MoonstoneThe Haunted HotelThe Law and The LadyThe Dead SecretMiss or Mrs?G. K. Chesterton:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownThe Incredulity of Father BrownThe Secret of Father BrownThe Scandal of Father BrownEthel Lina White:Fear Stalks the VillageSome Must WatchWaxThe Wheel SpinsStep in the DarkWhile She SleepsShe Faded into AirAnnie Haynes:The Abbey Court MurderThe Blue DiamondThe House in Charlton CrescentThe Crow''s Inn TragedyThe Man with the Dark BeardWho Killed Charmian Karslake?The Crime at Tattenham CornerThe Crystal Beads MurderR. Austin Freeman:Dr. Thorndyke SeriesOther MysteriesH. C. McNeile:Bulldog Drummond SeriesDetective Ronald Standish StoriesArthur Morrison:Martin Hewitt SeriesDorrington & Hicks StoriesErnest Bramah:Max Carrados StoriesVictor L. Whitechurch:Mystery NovelsThrilling Stories of the RailwayThomas W. Hanshew:Hamilton Cleek SeriesE. W. Hornung:A. J. Raffles SeriesMystery NovelsJ. S. Fletcher:Mystery NovelsShort StoriesRober Barr:The Triumph of Eugéne ValmontJennie Baxter, JournalistThe Adventures of Sherlaw KombsThe Adventure of the Second SwagFrank Froest Mystery NovelsC. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Mystery NovelsIsabel Ostander Mystery Novels

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Arthur Conan Doyle:Sherlock Holmes SeriesA Study in ScarletThe Sign of FourThe Hound of the BaskervillesThe Valley of FearThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesThe Return of Sherlock HolmesHis Last BowThe Case Book of Sherlock HolmesOther MysteriesTrue Crime StoriesEdgar Wallace:Four Just Men SeriesMr. J. G. Reeder SeriesDetective Sgt. Elk SeriesThe Earl of Nowhere SeriesP.-C. Lee SeriesCrime NovelsTrue Crime StoriesWilkie Collins:The Woman in WhiteNo NameArmadaleThe MoonstoneThe Haunted HotelThe Law and The LadyThe Dead SecretMiss or Mrs?Ethel Lina White:Fear Stalks the VillageSome Must WatchWaxThe Wheel SpinsStep in the DarkWhile She SleepsShe Faded into AirAnnie Haynes:The Abbey Court MurderThe Blue DiamondThe House in Charlton CrescentThe Crow''s Inn TragedyThe Man with the Dark BeardWho Killed Charmian Karslake?The Crime at Tattenham CornerThe Crystal Beads MurderR. Austin Freeman:Dr. Thorndyke SeriesOther MysteriesH. C. McNeile:Bulldog Drummond SeriesDetective Ronald Standish StoriesG. K. Chesterton:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownThe Incredulity of Father BrownThe Secret of Father BrownThe Scandal of Father BrownArthur Morrison:Martin Hewitt SeriesDorrington & Hicks StoriesErnest Bramah:Max Carrados StoriesVictor L. Whitechurch:Mystery NovelsThrilling Stories of the RailwayThomas W. Hanshew:Hamilton Cleek SeriesE. W. Hornung:A. J. Raffles SeriesMystery NovelsJ. S. Fletcher:Mystery NovelsShort StoriesRober Barr:The Triumph of Eugéne ValmontJennie Baxter, JournalistThe Adventures of Sherlaw KombsThe Adventure of the Second SwagFrank Froest Mystery NovelsC. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Mystery NovelsIsabel Ostander Mystery Novels

This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Arthur Conan Doyle:Sherlock Holmes SeriesA Study in ScarletThe Sign of FourThe Hound of the BaskervillesThe Valley of FearThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesThe Return of Sherlock HolmesHis Last BowThe Case Book of Sherlock HolmesOther MysteriesTrue Crime StoriesEdgar Wallace:Four Just Men SeriesMr. J. G. Reeder SeriesDetective Sgt. Elk SeriesThe Earl of Nowhere SeriesP.-C. Lee SeriesCrime NovelsTrue Crime StoriesWilkie Collins:The Woman in WhiteNo NameArmadaleThe MoonstoneThe Haunted HotelThe Law and The LadyThe Dead SecretMiss or Mrs?Ethel Lina White:Fear Stalks the VillageSome Must WatchWaxThe Wheel SpinsStep in the DarkWhile She SleepsShe Faded into AirAnnie Haynes:The Abbey Court MurderThe Blue DiamondThe House in Charlton CrescentThe Crow''s Inn TragedyThe Man with the Dark BeardWho Killed Charmian Karslake?The Crime at Tattenham CornerThe Crystal Beads MurderR. Austin Freeman:Dr. Thorndyke SeriesOther MysteriesH. C. McNeile:Bulldog Drummond SeriesDetective Ronald Standish StoriesG. K. Chesterton:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownThe Incredulity of Father BrownThe Secret of Father BrownThe Scandal of Father BrownArthur Morrison:Martin Hewitt SeriesDorrington & Hicks StoriesErnest Bramah:Max Carrados StoriesVictor L. Whitechurch:Mystery NovelsThrilling Stories of the RailwayThomas W. Hanshew:Hamilton Cleek SeriesE. W. Hornung:A. J. Raffles SeriesMystery NovelsJ. S. Fletcher:Mystery NovelsShort StoriesRober Barr:The Triumph of Eugéne ValmontJennie Baxter, JournalistThe Adventures of Sherlaw KombsThe Adventure of the Second SwagFrank Froest Mystery NovelsC. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Mystery NovelsIsabel Ostander Mystery Novels

The ''British Murder Mysteries - Boxed Set'' epitomizes an era when the detective novel burgeoned into a literary phenomenon, reflecting a fascination with the macabre and the incisive. Ranging from atmospheric whodunits to gripping true crime narratives, this extensive collection presents a diverse tableau of stylistic approaches—from the methodical reasoning of detective stories to the taut suspense of thrillers. The anthology not only showcases seminal works that have defined the genre but also brings lesser-known masterpieces into the fore, offering readers an expansive journey through the golden age of British mystery. The contributing authors form a venerable roll call of pioneers who significantly shaped the landscape of detective and mystery literature. Figures like Arthur Conan Doyle and G.K. Chesterton, alongside innovators such as Ethel Lina White and Edgar Wallace, represent a confluence of intellectual energies that spearheaded multiple literary movements, including the classic detective story and elements of Victorian crime narratives. This collection, in encapsulating a wide temporal and thematic range, serves as an invaluable reflection of societal attitudes and the evolution of crime fiction as a sophisticated cultural critique. For enthusiasts of classic detective fiction and scholars alike, ''British Murder Mysteries - Boxed Set'' offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore the intricate interplay of morality, law, and society through the lens of murder and mystery. The anthology invites readers to traverse a labyrinth of intrigue and intellect, where each story not only holds its distinctive flair but also contributes to a grander narrative of the genre''s growth and its mirror to humanity. Engaging with this collection promises not just entertainment but a profound appreciation of how mystery fiction can probe the depths of human nature and societal complexities.