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Welcome to Tremontaine, where ambition, love affairs, and rivalries dance with deadly results. In this novel Ellen Kushner and a team of writers return readers to the world of scandal and swordplay introduced in her cult-classic novel Swordspoint. Readers familiar with the series will find a welcome...

Swordplay, scandal, and sex—welcome to the world of Tremontaine, a glittering new entry in Ellen Kushner's classic Riverside series. This is the 11th episode in the third season of Tremontaine, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Karen Lord. Micah...

Swordplay, scandal, and sex—welcome to the world of Tremontaine, a glittering new entry in Ellen Kushner's classic Riverside series. This is the 3rd episode in the third season of Tremontaine, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Karen Lord. Kaab...

Book 10 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.February 1900, Venice. At the request of the Marchesa di Malaga, Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna have agreed to investigate the curious death of a husband on his wedding night. Assisting with the baffling post mortem is Dr Cagliari...

Book 11 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.April 1900, Egypt. Dr Watson and the Countess are recruited by Mycroft Holmes to investigate acts of espionage undermining the British effort in the Boer War. A renowned Egyptologist finds himself under Foreign Office scrutiny, all whilst...

Book 8 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.London 1899. The Prince of Wales' New Year’s Eve ball is in full swing when several explosions shatter the festivity. Were they an attempt to assassinate the heir to the throne or, as it seems, intended for Mycroft Holmes himself?...

Styria, May 1900. Watson and the Countess travel through the Semmering Pass to Waldenwulf Castle to attend a Christening. Among the godparents are several characters from the canon of Conan Doyle, including the odious Baron Gruner who is helping to train the Olympic archery team prior to the Summer...

Switzerland, June 1900. Watson and the Countess make a pilgrimage to the Reichenbach Falls - the place where Sherlock plunged to his so-called death in 1891. To their delight the Englischer Hof Hotel is hosting a hot air balloon festival and they are soon caught up in the joie de vivre of the Montgolfier...

Major-General Lord Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen, KCVO, CB, CMG, DSO (15 January 1863–14 December 1937) was a British courtier and soldier. This is an expanded version of a diary kept by its author, Commander of the 15th Infantry Brigade, relating events from August 1914 to March 1915 which was published in 1917. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

What is joy? Ask ten different people and you'll get ten different answers.Yet if you asked:a man who grew up fatherless and destitute in the slums of Atlantaa young widow who decided to bring a neglected garden back to life in spite of agonizing physical pain and a deeply wounded spiritor author...

Gordon MacMaster thought himself retired with his love Anastasia Viuda, but the British Secret Service has other plans for him. The mission should be a simple job; deliver a ransom and bring a kidnapped British diplomat home from the Middle East. Gordon wants to just do the job and get back alive...

Malcolm Zytel, a computer programmer for the Pelican National Bank, has devised an amazingly simple way to embezzle money.When he takes $100,000 and runs, he is unaware that he could have taken more than a quarter million dollars. For his crime he receives a ten-year sentence in the minimum...

Elements of Criticism is Kames’s most influential work. When it first appeared, in 1762, it was the most comprehensive philosophical work on “criticism” in English, and it was published in five editions during Kames’s lifetime and another forty editions over the next century. In America, Elements...

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