The Second Victorian Mystery MEGAPACK ®

Name: The Second Victorian Mystery MEGAPACK ®
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Robert Barr · Rudyard Kipling · Mary Fortune · L.T. Meade · E.W. Hornung

Mar 2015 · Wildside Press LLC

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The second volume of our Victorian Mystery series presents 38 more classic mysteries, including series by Andrew Lang, August Groner, and Robert Barr. Included are: IN THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO, by Rudyard Kipling
THE CRIME CLUB, by William Holt-White
TRACES OF CRIME, by Mary Fortune
THE STAR OF THE "GRASMERE," by E. W. Hornung

MR. BOVEY'S UNEXPECTED WILL, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLAW KOMBS, by Robert Barr
THE AFFAIR OF THE "AVALANCHE BICYCLE AND TYRE, CO., LTD," by Arthur Morrison
THE RED CROSS GIRL, by Richard Harding Davis

THE MYSTERY OF THE CLASPED HANDS, by Guy Boothby
CHEATING THE GALLOWS, by Israel Zangwill
THE DREAM WOMAN, Wilkie Collins

The "Joe Muller" Series, by Augusta Groner:

THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN BULLET
THE CASE OF THE REGISTERED LETTER
THE POCKET DIARY FOUND IN THE SNOW

The "Eugene Valmont" Series, by Robert Barr:

THE MYSTERY OF THE FIVE HUNDRED DIAMONDS
THE SIAMESE TWIN OF A BOMB-THROWER
THE CLUE OF THE SILVER SPOONS
LORD CHIZELRIGG'S MISSING FORTUNE
THE ABSENT-MINDED COTERIE
THE GHOST WITH THE CLUB-FOOT
THE LIBERATION OF WYOMING ED
LADY ALICIA'S EMERALDS

Robert Louis Stevenson's Mystery Tales from "New Arabian Nights":

THE STORY OF THE BANDBOX
THE STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN IN HOLY ORDERS
THE STORY OF THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN BLINDS
THE ADVENTURE OF PRINCE FLORIZEL AND A DETECTIVE

The "Disentanglers" Series, by Andrew Lang:

THE GREAT IDEA
FROM THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES
ADVENTURE OF THE FIRST CLIENTS
ADVENTURE OF THE RICH UNCLE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICE SCREEN
A LOVER IN COCKY
THE ADVENTURE OF THE EXEMPLARY EARL
THE ADVENTURE OF THE LADY PATRONESS
ADVENTURE OF THE LADY NOVELIST AND THE VACCINATIONIST
ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR AMERICAN
ADVENTURE OF THE MISERLY MARQUIS
ADVENTURE OF THE CANADIAN HEIRESS

If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the more than 180 other entries in the series, covering science fiction, modern authors, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!

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Kipling, who as a novelist dramatized the ambivalence of the British colonial experience, was born of English parents in Bombay and as a child knew Hindustani better than English. He spent an unhappy period of exile from his parents (and the Indian heat) with a harsh aunt in England, followed by the public schooling that inspired his "Stalky" stories. He returned to India at 18 to work on the staff of the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette and rapidly became a prolific writer. His mildly satirical work won him a reputation in England, and he returned there in 1889. Shortly after, his first novel, The Light That Failed (1890) was published, but it was not altogether successful. In the early 1890s, Kipling met and married Caroline Balestier and moved with her to her family's estate in Brattleboro, Vermont. While there he wrote Many Inventions (1893), The Jungle Book (1894-95), and Captains Courageous (1897). He became dissatisfied with life in America, however, and moved back to England, returning to America only when his daughter died of pneumonia. Kipling never again returned to the United States, despite his great popularity there. Short stories form the greater portion of Kipling's work and are of several distinct types. Some of his best are stories of the supernatural, the eerie and unearthly, such as "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Brushwood Boy," and "They." His tales of gruesome horror include "The Mark of the Beast" and "The Return of Imray." "William the Conqueror" and "The Head of the District" are among his political tales of English rule in India. The "Soldiers Three" group deals with Kipling's three musketeers: an Irishman, a Cockney, and a Yorkshireman. The Anglo-Indian Tales, of social life in Simla, make up the larger part of his first four books. Kipling wrote equally well for children and adults. His best-known children's books are Just So Stories (1902), The Jungle Books (1894-95), and Kim (1901). His short stories, although their understanding of the Indian is often moving, became minor hymns to the glory of Queen Victoria's empire and the civil servants and soldiers who staffed her outposts. Kim, an Irish boy in India who becomes the companion of a Tibetan lama, at length joins the British Secret Service, without, says Wilson, any sense of the betrayal of his friend this actually meant. Nevertheless, Kipling has left a vivid panorama of the India of his day. In 1907, Kipling became England's first Nobel Prize winner in literature and the only nineteenth-century English poet to win the Prize. He won not only on the basis of his short stories, which more closely mirror the ambiguities of the declining Edwardian world than has commonly been recognized, but also on the basis of his tremendous ability as a popular poet. His reputation was first made with Barrack Room Ballads (1892), and in "Recessional" he captured a side of Queen Victoria's final jubilee that no one else dared to address.

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