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The Mystery of the Cracked Wall

Author : Sandra Maggs

Publisher : Sandra Maggs

Page : 75 pages

File Size : 36,12 MB

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Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN :

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After a visit to the future and a message from herself, Bess Hooper hits a wall. After the disappearance of her best friend Eloise, confusing clues which seem to be unrelated intertwine to make the mystery almost impossible to unravel. With the company of her brother Tom, her cousin Clancy and Holland who hs returned to Endless Hiccup, Bess travels to Smackleton and meets up with Maisy. Together, the five teenagers contact the dead and receive a message from the past. In the chaos, Bess catches up with an old friend. Haunted by a woman from over a century ago, the truth is slowly recognised and the result shocks them. In this, the sixth book in the series, what's revealed throughout the story ends in fear for Bess Hooper.



The Mystery of the Vanishing Lake

Author : Sandra Maggs

Publisher : Sandra Maggs

Page : 76 pages

File Size : 12,70 MB

Release : 2020-01-28

Category : Juvenile Fiction

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In this, the fifth book in The Hooper Mysteries, Bess meets Holland Meganty, the cousin of her best friend, and Holland has a secret of her own. After a strange sighting at an afternoon tea, Bess and Holland find they have a lot more in common than Eloise and join forces to investigate a crime from the past which was never solved. Together they work at finding the clues and uncovering the truth. As there has been in past episodes, a little more about her time travel and the past is revealed to Bess and although the pieces don't quite fit into place, she's one step closer to finding the reason for her gift.



A Crack in the Wall

Author : Claudia Piñeiro

Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 46,93 MB

Release : 2013-07-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 190852409X

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Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten. Claudia Piñeiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pléyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction; All Yours (finalist for the 2003 Planeta Prize) and Thursday Night Widows.



The Light Has Been Broken: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales

Author : Wilhelm Hauff

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 13812 pages

File Size : 17,92 MB

Release : 2023-12-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Good Press presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Bram Stoker: Dracula The Squaw... John William Polidori: The Vampyre James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental... H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House... Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House... Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Woman in White Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla... Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan... William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables... Thomas Hardy: What the Shepherd Saw The Grave by the Handpost Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story The City of Dreadful Night The Mark of the Beast... Stanley G. Weinbaum: The Dark Other Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian: The Man-Wolf... Amelia B. Edwards: The Phantom Coach... Pedro De Alarçon: The Nail Walter Hubbell: The Great Amherst Mystery Some Real American Ghosts Some Chinese Ghosts...



The Rats in the Walls

Author : H.P. Lovecraft

Publisher : SAMPI Books

Page : 40 pages

File Size : 18,19 MB

Release : 2024-07-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 6561332423

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In "The Rats in the Walls" by H.P. Lovecraft, a man restores his ancestral estate in England, only to be haunted by mysterious noises within the walls. As he investigates, he uncovers horrifying secrets about his family's dark past and the ancient horrors lurking beneath the mansion.



The Mystery of the Cornerstone

Author : Sandra Maggs

Publisher : Sandra Maggs

Page : 109 pages

File Size : 17,35 MB

Release : 2020-01-22

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN :

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Bess Hooper is an ordinary teenager, or so she thinks. Drawn to a nearby abandoned building, she begins to investigate when strange occurrences come to light. Bess experiences visits to the past and ghostly whispers from another lifetime. Strange dreams of another family plague her sleep and as the mystery deepens, confusion sets in. Exploring the archives and her own family history, reveal odd events that seem to be tied to the mystery. With the help of her younger brother Tom, slowly Bess peels back the years layer after layer, to reveal what really happened to the girls of Bishops Hall Independent School, and slowly she solves the mystery of the cornerstone.



The Mystery of Kissing Gate Woods

Author : Sandra Maggs

Publisher : Sandra Maggs

Page : 96 pages

File Size : 17,4 MB

Release : 2020-01-24

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN :

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"There's magic in the air, perhaps it arrived with you." Bess Hooper is reluctantly dragged away on a two week holiday with her family. While away she meets the annoying Maisy who learns that Bess has just solved a mystery from a century ago and asks for her help to look for a family heirloom that has been missing for decades. In an effort to avoid her, Bess escapes to the nearby woods that Maisy and her brother are forbidden to explore. Realising that she is not alone, Bess discovers a cottage in amongst the trees and gets to know the occupants, Grace and Patrick. Instantly falling for Patrick, she spends more time with them hoping for her very first kiss. But there's something very odd about it all, which Bess discovers when she invites her brother Tom along and they find the cottage in a derelict state. Determined to get to the bottom of it, with the help of a badly drawn picture and the ramblings of an old woman, Bess finally works out what's happening, and in the process, solves the mystery of Kissing Gate Woods.



The Mystery of the Stone Arches

Author : Sandra Maggs

Publisher : Sandra Maggs

Page : 72 pages

File Size : 45,27 MB

Release : 2020-01-25

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN :

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Bess Hooper the time travelling teenage sleuth is back and this time she has help from her best friend Eloise. When Bess has a vision of a crying boy on the night of her fifteenth birthday, she dismisses it after a few weeks when no other clues appear. But after being invited to spend a week at the home of Eloise's cousin's home, the mystery begins to evolve after she spots a picture of the boy from her vision in a frame in their library. After finding out that the boy, Sebastian Wescott, went missing in the forties, she joins forces with Eloise and her cousin Jack to try to solve the mystery. But can Bess help solve the puzzle and keep her secret?



The Mystery of the White Knight

Author : Ruby Lorraine Radford

Publisher :

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 50,39 MB

Release : 1927

Category : Adventure stories

ISBN :

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A girl and a boy spend the summer at an old plantation. Mystery and adventure begin the night of their arrival. An ivory chessman, a white knight, offers the clue which reveals the location of a hidden treasure.



The Mystery of the Clock Tower

Author : Sandra Maggs

Publisher : Sandra Maggs

Page : 57 pages

File Size : 38,24 MB

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Category : Juvenile Fiction

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This is it! The final book, and the one which explains everything. Bess Hooper finally learns the truth. As this mystery unfolds, the origin of the time travel gift is revealed. Another riddle is solved in the process and clears up more than one question. Without Eloise by her side, life is difficult, but not impossible and Bess learns to cope without her best friend, all the time questioning where she is. Chased through time, Bess gets the fright of her life and after a short stay in hospital, she comes to the conclusion that there is only one answer, and that is to return the legacy, but will she?