Fletcher: 1215 books

Excerpt:  This was the third week of Selwoods secretaryship to Jacob Herapath. Herapath was a well-known man in London. He was a Member of Parliament, the owner of a sort of model estate of up-to-date flats, and something of a crank about such matters as ventilation, sanitation, and lighting....

This story will be of particular interest to anyone raised in a large family and born during the Second World War in the United Kingdom and the separations that caused for safety reasons. It describes conflict arising from a shared property inheritance. The romantic and emotional life of the protagonists...

This is the third in a series of three books which chronicles my life experiences in being brought from duality into oneness in God. Beginning chronologically where the second book ends, it includes new insights and experiences on my journey from deception as Eve to the birthing of the Son as Mary...

Example in this ebook It is now five years since the first section of this crude little announcement of a great physiological discovery was published; and while the author has spent all the intervening years in unremitting study of the subject of which it treats, with the heads of many of...

It takes place in northern England. Oliver Bassett, an acter and director of a theater company is missing. A young author Mr. Copplestone, who has come to meet with Bassett and the business manager start out to find him. They track him to Scarhaven, where Copplestone meets Audrey Greyle, the cousin...

Excerpt: "Half-way along the one straggling street of Savilestowe a narrow lane suddenly opened out between the cottages and turned abruptly towards the uplands which rose on the northern edge of the village. Its first course lay between high grey walls, overhung with ivy and snapdragon. When...

The Mayor of a small town is found murdered. A classic "whodunnit".

A Russian princess, a mysterious Norwegian doctor, nefarious German chemist, a disappearing Parisian maid, generous American millionaire, a smart secretary with a secret, a cache of fabulous jewels, secret poisons, multiple murders, Opera singers, lost diamond buckles - the lot. The author did not leave out a single piece of the 'thriller formula'. (Goodreads)

The body of a man is found on the steps to Middle Temple Lane near London's courts of law, and a journalist and a young lawyer are drawn into the ensuing investigation. (Google Books)

When an elderly pawnbroker is murdered in the London parish of Paddington, a young, down on his luck writer is accused of the crime. But then it's found the pawnbroker had had in his possession an extraordinary South African diamond worth over eighty-thousand pounds -- a diamond that's now missing....

In the whole history of the English people there is no period so absolutely heroic, so full of enthralling interest, as that in which the might of England made itself apparent by land and sea—the period which saw good Queen Bess mistress of English hearts and Englishmen and sovereign of the great beginnings which have come to such a magnificent fruition under Victoria.

A wealthy businessman is found dead in his study, but conflicting forensic evidence regarding the time and manner of his death raises more questions than it settles. With a sizable estate hanging in the balance and clues indicating foul play, a persistent detective endeavors to unravel the mystery.

In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far across the Atlantic, this event lit the fuse for a war that raged for the better part of two decades...

The Devil’s Hole. Four men who went through college together go on hunting and fishing trip to the wilds of Wyoming. They are taken to a mountain lake ten thousand feet in the mountains called the Devil’s Hole by the local residents. A helicopter takes them up and will return to bring them down....