The Best Holiday Mysteries for Christmas Time

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Джером К. Джером. The Best Holiday Mysteries for Christmas Time

The Best Holiday Mysteries for Christmas Time

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Table of Contents

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

The Flying Stars

Percival Bland's Proxy

A Christmas Capture

McAllister's Christmas

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II

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IV

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VI

The Mystery of Room Five

A Policeman’s Business

Stuffing

Mr Wray’s Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery

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IV

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VI

VII

VIII

IX

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The Adventure of the Second Swag

An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite

A Chaparral Christmas Gift

A Christmas Tragedy

The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing

The Silver Hatchet

What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights

First Night

Second Night

Third Night

Fourth Night

Markheim

The Wolves of Cernogratz

Mustapha

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III

IV

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance

Letter I

Letter II

Letter III

Letter IV

The Christmas Banquet

The Haunted Man

Chapter I. The Gift Bestowed

Chapter II. The Gift Diffused

Chapter III. The Gift Reversed

Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions

Chapter I. To Be Taken Immediately

Chapter II. Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time

Chapter III. To Be Taken at the Dinner-Table

Chapter IV. Not to Be Taken for Granted

Chapter V. To Be Taken in Water

Chapter VI. To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt

Chapter VII. To Be Taken and Tried

Chapter VIII. To Be Taken for Life

The Christmas Carol

Stave I. Marley's Ghost

Stave II. The First of the Three Spirits

Stave III. The Second of the Three Spirits

Stave IV. The Last of the Spirits

Stave V. The End of It

The Ghost’s Touch

Glámr

The Ghosts at Grantley

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

A Terrible Christmas Eve

Ghosts and Family Legends

Preface

First Part. Round the Fire

First Evening

Second Evening

Third Evening

Fourth Evening

Fifth Evening

Sixth Evening

Seventh Evening

Eighth Evening

Appendix

Second Part. Legends of the Earthbound

The Italian's Story

The Dutch Officer's Story

The Old French Gentleman's Story

The Swiss Lady's Story

The Sheep-Farmer's Story

My Friend's Story

The Ghost: A Christmas Story

Thurlow’s Christmas Story

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II

The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa

The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation

Chapter I. Dramatis Personae

Chapter II. Byplay

Chapter III. Who Was It?

Chapter IV. Feeding the Peacocks

Chapter V. Under the Mistletoe

Chapter VI. Miracles

Chapter VII. A Ghostly Revel

Chapter VIII. Jasper

Old Applejoy's Ghost

Wolverden Tower

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VI

The Christmas-Eve Vigil

Told After Supper

Introductory

How the Stories came to be told

Teddy Biffles' Story

Interlude—The Doctor's Story

Interlude

A Personal Explanation

My Own Story

The Box with the Iron Clamps

Joseph: A Story

The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

The Ghost of Christmas Eve

The Dead Sexton

Uncle Cornelius His Story

The Grave by the Handpost

Number Ninety

At Chrighton Abbey

The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step

Between the Lights

Transition

The Kit-Bag

Отрывок из книги

Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Cheney Train, Wilkie Collins, Emmuska Orczy, Louisa M. Alcott, M. R. James, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Leonard Kip, Catherine Crowe, Lucie E. Jackson, William Douglas O'Connor, Frank R. Stockton, James Bowker, Grant Allen, Saki, Florence Marryat, Katherine Rickford, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Catherine L. Pirkis, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood

The Flying Stars (G. K. Chesterton)

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