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The Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb
Submitted by storybus on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 18:25
Of all the problems which have been submitted
to my friend, Mr.Sherlock Holmes, for solution
during the years of our intimacy,there were
only two which I was the means of introducing
to his notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb,
and that of Colonel Warburton's madness.read the short story
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Adventure
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15 An Encounter
Submitted by storybus on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 14:35
IT WAS Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us. He had a little
library made up of old numbers of The Union Jack, Pluck and The
Halfpenny Marvel.read the short story
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5 The Travelling Musicians
Submitted by storybus on Tue, 05/19/2009 - 20:23
An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him
a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more
unfit for work.read the short story
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2 Death and the Woman
Submitted by storybus on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 20:59
Her husband was dying, and she was alone with him. Nothing could exceed the desolation of her surroundings.read the short story
story type:
Horror
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4 Heine and Mathilde
Submitted by storybus on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 16:31
The love story of Heine and his Mathilde is another of those stories which fix a type of loving. It is the love of a man of the most brilliant genius, the most relentless, mocking intellect, for a simple, pretty woman,read the short story
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Romance
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7 Discovery
Submitted by storybus on Sat, 05/16/2009 - 16:33
The steamer was crowded with people and the crossing promised to be
good. I was going from Havre to Trouville.read the short story
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Other
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2 The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Submitted by storybus on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 19:00
We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the
maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran
in this way:read the short story
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Adventure
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20 Jorinda and Jorindel
Submitted by storybus on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 16:31
There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy
wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy. Now this fairy could take
any shape she pleased.read the short story
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2 The Sisters
Submitted by storybus on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 20:09
THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night
after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studiedread the short story
story type:
Fiction
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7 The Boarded Window
Submitted by storybus on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 09:58
In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of
Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest.read the short story
story type:
Horror
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