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The dead body of a peer of the realm sitting upright in an empty hansom cab was an odd sight indeed. He had been decently buried once before, Inspector Pitt knew.

In Rutland Place, a lost locket becomes the key to deadly secrets that lurk behind the opulent facade of one of London's most exclusive neighborhoods.

Late one night, a blazing inferno destroys the home of a well-to-do English doctor. Tragically, the man's wife perishes in the flames.

Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England.

The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character.

Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension.

Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble.

Huck Finn fakes his own death to escape a cushy life with a kind widow because he is sick of wearing shoes. Back on the river where he belongs, he teams up with an escaped slave named Jim.

Furious at being cuckolded, a sultan beds a new virgin each night, then murders each before she can betray him.

Team Secrets of the Navy SEALs is written especially for business professionals who want to make it in today's extremely aggressive business environment.

This clever little volume was devised to provide hints on setting a modest but “well-ordered table” for the “young and inexperienced mistress of a household where a moderate income renders economy

The particular emphasis on varieties of seafood in The New England Cook Book, including specific recipes for cod, halibut, striped and sea bass, black fish, shad, salt cod, fish cakes, lobsters and

Published in 1830 in Watertown, New York, and then in 1831 in Canada (where it became Canada’s first cookbook), this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection stresses American cooking

Published in 1848 in Boston, The American Family Keepsake contains an enormous variety of information—everything from medicinal cures to common childhood illnesses to recipes to farming to “Indian

According to the unknown author, “Without a perfect knowledge of the art of Carving, it is impossible to perform the honor of the table with propriety; and nothing can be more disagreeable to one o