Mysteries for Christmas - Boxed Set

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Джером К. Джером. Mysteries for Christmas - Boxed Set

Mysteries for Christmas - Boxed Set

Table of Contents

Tarnhelm or, The Death of My Uncle Robert (Hugh Walpole)

I

II

III

IV

V

The Snow (Hugh Walpole)

The Strange Visitation (Marie Corelli)

The Night of Christmas Eve (Nikolai Gogol)

The Chopham Affair (Edgar Wallace))

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

The Flying Stars

Percival Bland's Proxy

A Christmas Capture

McAllister's Christmas

I

II

III

IV

V

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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I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

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

I

II

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

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

I

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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II

III

IV

V

VI

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

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

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Hugh Walpole, Marie Corelli, Nikolai Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Leonard Kip, Catherine Crowe, William Douglas O'Connor, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Louisa M. Alcott, Florence Marryat, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Catherine L. Pirkis, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood

50+ Detective Tales, Ghost Stories and Eerie Suspense Thrillers

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The suffering millionaire, breathless, exhausted and conscious of a great aching pain at his heart, gazed at the peaceful scene before him in silence. It was a very little garden upon which he looked,—a mere tea-cup of a garden,—but full to the brim of the sweetest blossom. The cottage to which the garden belonged was likewise very small, but it had a deep and cosy porch, up which the loveliest jessamine clambered and threw out tufts of odorous white spray. Red roses thrust their warm glowing faces through the masses of snowy bloom, and, twining in friendly garlands, showered their velvety petals at the feet of a fair woman who sat just within the porch, with her arms thrown round a sturdy boy of some nine or ten years old. She was well worth the homage of the roses—for she was very sweet to look upon,—fresh-complexioned as the bloom on a peach,—soft-eyed,—full-bosomed, and of an aspect expressing the serenest peace, love and tenderness.

“Once upon a time!” she said.

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