Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures.Lord Peter views the body in 12 tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outstanding collection. He deals with such marvels as the man with copper fingers, Uncle Meleager's missing will, the cat in the bag, the footsteps that ran, the stolen stomach, the man without a face...and with such clues as cyanide, jewels, a roast chicken and a classic crossword puzzle.

    A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy tests her loyalty to her race.The gifted Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen wrote compelling dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belonged. Passing, Larsen's best-known work, is a disturbing story about the unraveling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white bigot. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of Helga Crane, half black and half white, who can't escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Race and marriage offer few securities her or in the other stories in a collection that is compellingly readable, rich in psychological complexity, and imbued with a sense of place that brings Harlem vibrantly to life.

    Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volume In 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Drawing on his childhood and adolescent experiences, Fitzgerald wrote nine tales that were published in the Saturday Evening Post about his life from the time he was an eleven-year-old boy living in Buffalo, New York, until he entered Princeton University in 1913. Then from 1930 to 1931, with Tender Is the Night still unfinished, Fitzgerald wrote five more stories (also published in the Post) that centered around Josephine Perry, Basil's female counterpart. Although Fitzgerald intended to combine the fourteen Basil Lee and Josephine Perry stories into a single work, he never succeeded in doing so in his lifetime. Here, The Basil and Josephine Stories brings together in one volume the complete set, resulting in one of Fitzgerald's most charming and evocative works.

    This is Miss Marple's story to the loosely associated Tuesday Night Club which enjoys looking into mysterious events. Does she clear her niece's name and reveal the true perpetrator?Librarian's note: this entry relates to the short story, "The Thumb Mark of St. Peter." Collections and the other stories by the author are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The Miss Marple series includes twelve novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."

    James's 'Casting the Runes', as a lawyer seeks to avenge the death of a friend . . . These, and many more, are the ghosts which H.R. Wakefield has set to haunt us in his first book of supernatural stories, a landmark collection, now republished for the first time since 1928.Wording from the dust-wrapper of the first edition:'The Author of "The Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" in the preface to one of his books expressed his lively distaste for benevolent ghosts, and ghosts with nice minds. The author profoundly agrees with this sentiment of the master, and, furthermore, he abominates the 'natural' explanation, a poisonous anti-climax. So this much can be said for his tales, that those Who Return therein are animated by undiluted malevolence, and no iconoclastic materialist has been allowed to cast a doubt on their credentials as genuine apparitions.

    Anthology includes:PoemsThe Fallen VeilZara, the BatherGastibelzaThe Feast of FreedomThe GrandmotherThe Giant in GleeThe Cymbaleer's BrideChildren of CainEviradnusNo BaptismMarch of the HalberdiersHero of Gentle MienNight and a CabinSong of the GildersSaga of the BeastThe Hunchback of Notre-DameShort Stories:Last Days of a Condemned ManClaude Guex King of ThievesMonster and InfanticideA Woman of the StreetsFieschi the ExplorerLecomte the AssassinHenri the RegicideThe Crypt of PainCount Mortier the MadmanAn Over-Night CriminalPraslin, Duchess-SlayerHubert, the SpyThe Ninety-Four Thousand Franc FraudEssaysCapital PunishmentThe Minds and the MassesThe Face of CainThe SoulsMirabeauVoltaireSir Walter ScottThis book is part of the Black's Readers Service set.

    She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on the balcony of Denis and Margery Dacre, when she realised she had included blood stains on the pavement. A few days later Margery is found dead, having drowned. It's a challenge to the club to solve the mystery.Librarian's note: this entry relates to the short story "The Bloodstained Pavement." Collections and other stories by the author can be found elsewhere on Goodreads. The Miss Marple series includes twelve novels and 20 short stories. The short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."