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A thirty-year-old man Simon Decker was sitting in his room and trying to start writing a detective novel. He had been worked as an expert of the bombs for the army for a long time. But then he understood, that this work wasn't his cup of tea and quitted. He got enough time for his passion – creating detective stories. Inspiration didn't want to come to him and the writer stuck on the first paragraph. Suddenly, Simon heard a gunshot, woman's scream and his dog barking. Our hero chased after his dog. The dog led him to the neighbor's house. The window was broken and Simon saw a bloody body through it. The neighbor was still alive. Simon gave him first aid and called to the police. He discovered a telephone bug there. They used such bugs in the army. Who and why wanted to kill his neighbor? This man was just a simple scientist.

This story is written in the third person plural. One day some people came to one happy family and took their father away. The children did not understand what had happened. Their mother could only tell them that father would be away for some time. The family had to leave their native home in London. The mother and three children Bobbie, Peter and the youngest Phyllis moved to a new house near the railway in Yorkshire. The childish attention was fully attracted by the railway station. They had many exciting adventures. The curious children even made a friend with an old man, who rode a 9:15 train every day. This man helped the family so much that Bobby decided to ask him for help. The girl found out their father was accused of spying.

The great Edgar Allan Poe considered this story as the best from all of his creations. Here he developed his favorite theme about love and death. The main character is a young man. He meets a young adorable woman and falls in love. Soon they get married. The husband does not know much about his wife, even her surname. In spite of this, they are happy together. Ligeia is tall and slim. Her skin is perfect. Her movements are smooth and aristocratic. She is very smart. Ligeia knows many foreign languages and never makes mistakes. It is unearthly love and admiration by the ideal. Suddenly Ligeia falls ill. She passes away. The widower goes crazy and becomes addicted to alcohol. Finally, he remarries another woman. He does not love her actually. The new wife falls into illness just like the previous one.

There was an ordinary town with ordinary people. They knew everything about each other or at least wanted to know. An ordinary man lived in this town with his old and sick mother. It's a common situation when a child helps his parent in old age. Everybody understood why he could not take part in life. His mother constantly needed help. The good son always went home after work. He couldn't afford himself even business trips for improving his career. He hadn't any close friends or a girlfriend. His whole life was around the sick mother and he hardly ever had some free time. The citizens sympathized him. They always asked how his mother was and proposed their help. The man was grateful but refused. One day, when he came home, he found a postman inside of his house. The postman told the owner he had seen fire and tried to prevent it.

It's an exciting story for children from the German author Erich Kastner. He loved children very much and always wanted to become a teacher. But hard times for Germany at the beginning of the XX century changed his plans. He became a children's author and had a great success. Erich Kastner understood the inner world of a child and reminded the adults, that they were the children too. That's why his books are so popular. The writer believed in human kindness, honesty and integrity and included all these things into his works. This book is about Emil Fischer. He is a schoolboy and lives with his mother in the village. Once his mother gave him a lot of money for his grandma. She asked him to pass it to granny when he would arrive at the city. It's Emil's first trip and he's nervous. He tried to hide this money in his pocket. After he had woken up, he discovered the absence of the sum. Now he has to get granny's money back.

There are many things people are ready to do when they need money. A modest journalist is forced to apply to the head of Marriner's Waxworks and ask to let him spend a night in this museum. There is a Murderers' Room. Many waxworks of the most terrific maniacs in the world are gathered there. It is terrifying to spend some time along in this room. A brave man, who agrees to spend a night in the museum, will get a fee. The journalist is going to do this. He also promises the head to write the article about Marriner's Waxworks into the famous newspaper. It will be a good advertising for attracting the visitors. The deal is easy. Now the journalist has to stay at night in the museum. The most terrible thing is the waxwork of one French maniac. He hypnotized his victims before to wrest their throats. The maniac is said to have died, but his body isn't found yet.

Alicia, Vicotia's friend, invited her to swimming competition. They had been friends since they secondary school. The organizer changed the swimmers' positions, leaving the first lane empty. The starting gun was fired and six bodies threw themselves into the water. The water around the second swimmer was turning red. Victoria jumped to the water and helped to lift that woman from water. The woman was dead a few minutes after this accident. Victoria told all necessary to policemen and she took Alicia to Victoria's house. Victoria wanted to know about what was going on in the swimming pool. Alicia did tell her nothing. At night the telephone rang and some voice in the telephone said her Alicia was lucky but at next time she won't...

A mother from England arrived in one very hot country. She came to see her daughter arrested at the airport. During their meeting the mother learnt that her daughter was brought to the prison last week. The Police had found some drugs in her toothpaste. The daughter swore that it wasn’t her and she was innocent. The Police also had arrested one man with her. He was a good man and he wasn’t able to commit such a crime. But as mother discovered, her daughter’s previous boyfriend was on the plane during the arrest. Her daughter had gone to this country with him. Something happened two months ago and the girl found another guy. There was something very strange in this story and the mother would try to find the truth to save her child.

Harminda really wants to get home at Christmas. She has not been at home for four years and the separation from her family was due to a big row. But now her father is dying and she wants to see him and try to make peace. But fate is doing everything possible that would not have time to Harminda to get home at Christmas time. It all begins with traffic jams in the airport, then it turns out that her flight is canceled and all tickets are purchased coming from the hustle and bustle of Christmas – everybody flies home. She wasted no time, so she went to the car rental and discovered that there was only one car that could not be divided by the two other girls. Harminda offered the girls to go on a journey together, at the same time save on the rent. The girls agreed and they immediately hit the road, but the one they didn’t know was that this car was reserved for the special customers…

Phillip Marlowe, a private detective, wants to make some money. He wrote a detective novel and sent it to a publishing house, which prints the horror novels. The editor invited Mr. Marlowe for a meeting. During the meeting the detective understood one thing. The editor was interested in his detective skills. She proposed a deal: if Phillip solved a difficult case, the novel would be published. The case was connected with the disappearance of publisher's wife. The detective accepted this proposition. There was one thing confusing him. The wife had left with her lover. Despite of this Marlowe started an investigation as he urgently needed money. Suddenly he was caught up in a complicated story.

Every year, the bank rewarded two of its employees. The two employees who had worked the hardest were given a reward. The bank gave the two employees and their families a holiday. This year, 1977, the reward was a holiday in Mauritius. Mauritius is a small island in the Indian Ocean. Many tourists visit Mauritius. And many of them enjoy water-sports and sea-fishing. Edna Murgatroyd had come to Mauritius with her husband. John Higgins was not married – he was travelling alone. The Murgatroyds had been married for twenty-five years and Edna was never happy about anything or anybody. The days passed quickly. Every day, the Murgatroyds did the same things. They sat on the beach. Edna sat under a sun umbrella and read romantic novels. Roger did what his wife told him to do. But at last days of their holiday something happened that changed things that were the same for many years.

This book is written by the modern author form New Zealand. She used to be a teacher and taught in many countries. Now she creates the touching stories for young people. Her books are translated into many languages. This work is about love difficult times. When a catastrophe happens, people first try to find their relatives or friends under the wrecks of the collapsed life. You will find a classic love triangle in the book. Sylvia is a young woman. She takes care of her ill mother. The family used to be rich, but everything changed after father's death. Gabriel is a young man, who is very kind and generous. He is Sylvia's old friend and he loves her. However, Sylvia loves Marco. Marco is a reach person. He is interested only in his fortune. A great earthquake happens on one Saturday evening. The tragedy completely changes their lives.

This book contains eight kind and wise parables. You will find a deep meaning in simple words. These tales were created in different parts of the world: Russia, America, Burma, China, Egypt, Mexico, Guinea and India. The first story tells us about a woodcutter and his ill son. The boy asks his father to bring him a bird. It is his last desire. The next tale is about a baker, who wants to get payment even for the smell of his perfect baked goods. You will also learn about a young man who dreams to become an alchemist and make gold from dust. A Chinese old man will teach you wisdom. He always says “Good luck, or bad luck who knows”. It is true, as we never know how the things will turn out even if everything seems good. Another tale is about a man. He desires to become very rich and makes a business plan.

Welcome to the classic children literature! There are charming quiet town on Mississippi river, sunny and green valley, simple and touching people, the atmosphere of game and romance… Such are Sawyer's adventures – a harmonious and happy book for the children… but is it really for children? The author Mark Twain assured readers that this book was created for adult and can be interesting only for them. Cheerful and cheeky children Tom and Huck became impersonation of 'an American dream'. They attain the rights to freedom and happiness with courage at school and church; in a wooded Jackson's island, being the pirates; in a court for saving an innocent; in a horrible, deserted house where the treasures were hidden; in the maze of McDougal caves...

Now Skipperton is fifty-two. His wife had left him two years ago, because she couldn't live with his bad temper. She had met a quiet university teacher in Boston, and had married with him. Skip had intense hunger to keep the relations with their daughter, Maggie, who was then fifteen. With the help of clever lawyers he succeeded in it. A few months after he separated from his wife, Skip had a heart attack. So he looked around, and bought a small farm in Maine with a comfortable farmhouse. A little river, the Coldstream, ran along the bottom of the garden, and the house was called Coldstream Heights. There was only one thing that annoyed him: his neighbour.