The Man in the Brown Suit
After the death of her father, an archaeologist, Anne Beddingfeld finds herself completely penniless. She has lived in the country all her life. Now she wants to build a new, independent existence in London. Returning from an ...
The Murder on the Links
The Murder on the Links is the third mystery novel by Agatha Christie. It investigates Hercule Poirot in his second novel together with Arthur Hastings. It is the only novel from Christie's pen that is set almost exclusively in France. ...
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The Index librorum prohibitorum was a directory of the Roman Inquisition that listed for every Catholic the books whose reading was considered a grave sin; for some of these books, the ecclesiastical punishment was excommunication. ...
The Devil’s Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary is a collection of satirical aphorisms by Ambrose Bierce from 1911, gathering mostly blackly humorous or sarcastic definitions for about 1000 words. Although only a small portion of his work has been thoroughly ...
