The Risk Profession Donald Edwin Westlake http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288 en 1961 Short Fiction Science Fiction The men who did dangerous work had a special kind of insurance policy. But when somebody wanted to collect on that policy, the claims investigator suddenly became a member of ... THE RISK PROFESSION Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288.mobi The Voice of the City O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3620 urn:isbn:1417932570 en 1908 Short Fiction Collections Further Tales of the Four Million: The Complete Life of John Hopkins; A Lickpenny Lover; Dougherty's Eye Opener; Little Speck in Garnered Fruit; The Harbinger; While the Auto Waits; A Comedy in Rubber; One Thousand Dollars; The Defeat of the City; The Shocks of Doom; The Plutonian Fire; Nemesis and the Candy Man; Squaring the Circle; Roses Ruses and Romance; The City of Dreadful Night; The Easter of the Soul; The Fook Killer; Transients in Arcadia; The Rathskeller and the Rose; The Clarion Call; Extradited from Bohemia; A Philistine in Bohemia; From Each According to His Ability; The Memento; and the title story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3620.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3620.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3620.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3620.mobi The Trimmed Lamp O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619 urn:isbn:0543904261 en 1907 Short Fiction Collections Other Stories of the Four Million: A Madison Square Arabian Night; The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball; The Pendulum; Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen; The Assessor of Success; The Buyer from Cactus City; The Badge of Policeman O'Roon; Brickdust Row; The Making of a New Yorker; Vanity and Some Sables; The Social Triangle; The Purple Dress; The Foreign Policy of Company 99; The Lost Blend; A Harlem Tragedy; The Guilty Party - an East Side Tragedy; According to their Lights; A Midsummer Knight's Dream; The Last Leaf; The Count and the Wedding Guest; The Country of Elusion; The Ferry of Unfulfilment; The Tale of a Tainted Tenner; Elsie in New York; and the title story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619.mobi Options O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597 urn:isbn:1589630149 en 1909 Short Fiction Collections A collection of 16 short stories. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597.mobi Whirligigs O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621 urn:isbn:1419126164 en 1910 Short Fiction Collections A collectior of 24 short stories: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Calloway's Code; A Matter of Mean Elevation; Girl; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Marry Month of May; A Technical Error; Suite Homes and Their Romance; The Whirligig of Life; A Sacrifice Hit; The Roads We Take; A Blackjack Bargainer; The Song and the Sergeant; One Dollar's Worth; A Newspaper Story; Tommy's Burglar; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; A Little Local Colour; Georgia's Ruling; Blind Man's Holiday; and Madame Bo Peep of the Ranches. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.mobi Strictly Business O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3616 urn:isbn:1426407742 en 1910 Short Fiction Collections More Stories of the Four Million: The Gold that Glittered; Babes in the Jungle; The Day Resurgent; The Fifth Wheel; The Poet and the Peasant; The Robe of Peace; The Girl and the Graft; The Call of the Tame; The Unknown Quantity; The Thing's the Play; A Ramble in Aphasia; A Municipal Report; Psyche and the Pskyscraper; A Bird of Bagdad; Compliments of the Season; A Night in New Arabia; The Girl and the Habit; Proof of the Pudding; Past One at Rooney's; The Venturers; The Duel; What You Want; and the title story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3616.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3616.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3616.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3616.mobi Heart of the West O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3594 urn:isbn:1600962173 en 1907 Short Fiction Collections Western A collection of 19 short stories from the West. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3594.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3594.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3594.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3594.mobi Roads of Destiny O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3599 urn:isbn:1443781770 en 1909 Short Fiction Collections A collection of 22 short stories: Roads of Destiny, The Guardian of the Accolade, The Discounters of Money, The Enchanted Profile, "Next to Reading Matter", Art and the Bronco, Phœbe, A Double-dyed Deceiver, The Passing of Black Eagle, A Retrieved Reformation, Cherchez la Femme, Friends in San Rosario, The Fourth in Salvador, The Emancipation of Billy, The Enchanted Kiss, A Departmental Case, The Renaissance at Charleroi, On Behalf of the Management, Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking, The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss, Two Renegades & The Lonesome Road This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3599.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3599.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3599.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3599.mobi The Four Million O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3593 urn:isbn:1434100642 en 1906 Short Fiction Collections Written in 1906 when roughly four million people lived in New York City, it opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's "assertion that there were only "400" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. To O. Henry,however, everyone in New York counted. He had an obvious affection for the city, which he called "Bagdad-on-the-Subway". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3593.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3593.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3593.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3593.mobi Sixes and Sevens O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3603 urn:isbn:1443781800 en 1911 Short Fiction Collections A collection of 25 short stories: The Last of the Troubadours, The Sleuths, Witches' Loaves, The Pride of the Cities, Holding up a Train, Ulysses and the Dogman, The Champion of the Weather, Makes the Whole World Kin, At Arms with Morpheus, The Ghost of a Chance, Jimmie Payes and Muriel, The Door of Unrest, The Duplicity of Hargraves, Let Me Feel Your Pulse, October and June, The Church with an Overshoot Wheel, New York by Campfire Light, The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes, The Lady Higher Up The Greater Coney, Law and Order, Transformation of Martin Burney, The Caliph and the Cad, The Diamond of Kali & The Day We Celebrate. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3603.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3603.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3603.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3603.mobi Cabbages and Kings O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592 urn:isbn:0559579195 en 1904 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.mobi The Gift of the Magi O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504 urn:isbn:141693586X en 1906 Short Fiction Jim Dillingham Young and his wife Della are a young couple who are very much in love with each other, but can barely afford their one-room apartment opposite the elevated train due to their very bad economic condition. For Christmas, Della decides to buy Jim a chain which costs twenty dollars for his prized pocket watch given to him by his father. To raise the funds, she has her prized long hair cut off and sold to make a wig. Meanwhile, Jim decides to sell his watch to buy Della a beautiful set of combs made out of tortoise shell for her lovely, knee-length brown hair. Although each is disappointed to find the gift they chose rendered useless, each is pleased with the gift they received, because it represents their love for one another. The true unselfish love that the characters, Jim and Della, share is greater than their possessions. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504.mobi American Fairy Tales Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408 en 1901 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections 12 Fairy Tales from the author of the Wizard of Oz series of books. Inspired by Lang and the Brothers Grimm, Baum sought to create an American type of fairy tales, avoiding the usual violence and roman often found in these sort of stories. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408.mobi Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/207 urn:isbn:0688098266 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Fantasy A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/207.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/207.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/207.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/207.mobi The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197 urn:isbn:0688166776 en 1900 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in the country of the Munchkins. The falling house kills the Wicked Witch of the East. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.mobi Peter the Brazen George F. Worts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3895 urn:isbn:1928619444 en 1919 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: When Peter Moore entered the static-room, picked his way swiftly and unnoticingly across the littered floor, and jerked open the frosted glass door of the chief operator's office, the assembled operators followed him with glances of admiration and concern. No one ever entered the Chief's office in that fashion. One waited until called upon. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3895.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3895.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3895.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3895.mobi Anderson Crow, Detective George Barr McCutcheon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3896 en 1918 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections Excerpt: Two events of great importance took place in Tinkletown on the night of May 6, 1918. The first, occurring at half-past ten o'clock, was of sufficient consequence to rouse the entire population out of bed—thereby creating a situation, almost unique, which allowed every one in town to participate in all the thrills of the second. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3896.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3896.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3896.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3896.mobi The Double Four Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876 en 1911 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller A novel about secret societies in New York. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876.mobi The Evil Shepherd Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880 urn:isbn:1434662861 en 1922 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller A novel of English life of a melodramatic character, so fascinating and so stirring that the most hardened reader can hardly fail to receive a series of thrills. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880.mobi The Great Impersonation Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877 urn:isbn:1920265643 en 1920 Novels Crime/Mystery Romance Adventure Excerpt: The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing. It developed the next morning, when he found himself for the first time for many months on the truckle bed, between linen sheets, with a cool, bamboo-twisted roof between him and the relentless sun. He raised himself a little in the bed. "Where the mischief am I?" he demanded. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.mobi The Zeppelin's Passenger Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870 urn:isbn:0554360225 en 1918 Novels Crime/Mystery War Excerpt: "Never heard a sound," the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. "No more tea, thank you, Miss Fairclough. Done splendidly, thanks. No, I went to bed last night soon after eleven—the Colonel had been route marching us all off our legs—and I never awoke until reveille this morning. Sleep of the just, and all that sort of thing, but a jolly sell, all the same! You hear anything of it, sir?" he asked, turning to his companion, who was seated a few feet away. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.mobi The Brand of Silence Harrington Strong http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3755 urn:isbn:1436636868 en 1919 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: Now the fog was clearing and the mist was lifting, and the bright sunshine was struggling to penetrate the billows of damp vapor and touch with its glory the things of the world beneath. In the lower harbor there still was a chorus of sirens and foghorns, as craft of almost every description made way toward the metropolis or out toward the open sea. The Manatee, tramp steamer with rusty plates and rattling engines and a lurch like that of a drunken man, wallowed her way in from the turbulent ocean she had fought for three days, her skipper standing on the bridge and inaudibly giving thanks that he was nearing the end of the voyage without the necessity for abandoning his craft for an open boat, or remaining to go down with the ship after the manner of skippers of the old school. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3755.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3755.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3755.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3755.mobi The Vanished Messenger Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862 urn:isbn:0497962608 en 1914 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2—possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great terminus. The station-master, however, was there himself, with an inspector in attendance. A dark, thick-set man, wearing a long travelling ulster and a Homburg hat, and carrying in his hand a brown leather dressing-case, across which was painted in black letters the name MR. JOHN P. DUNSTER, was standing a few yards away, smoking a long cigar, and, to all appearance absorbed in studying the advertisements which decorated the grimy wall on the other side of the single track. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862.mobi The Hand in the Dark Arthur John Rees http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3752 urn:isbn:1606643622 en 1920 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: Seen in the sad glamour of an English twilight, the old moat-house, emerging from the thin mists which veiled the green flats in which it stood, conveyed the impression of a habitation falling into senility, tired with centuries of existence. Houses grow old like the race of men; the process is not less inevitable, though slower; in both, decay is hastened by events as well as by the passage of Time. The moat-house was not so old as English country-houses go, but it had aged quickly because of its past. There was a weird and bloody history attached to the place: an historical record of murders and stabbings and quarrels dating back to Saxon days, when a castle had stood on the spot, and every inch of the flat land had been drenched in the blood of serfs fighting under a Saxon tyrant against a Norman tyrant for the sacred catchword of Liberty. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3752.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3752.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3752.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3752.mobi The Moon Rock Arthur John Rees http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3750 urn:isbn:0559344244 en 1922 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: The voice of the clergyman intoned the last sad hope of humanity, the final prayer was said, and the mourners turned away, leaving Mrs. Turold to take her rest in a bleak Cornish churchyard among strangers, far from the place of her birth and kindred. The fact would not have troubled her if she had known. In life she had been a nonentity; in death she was not less. At least she could now mix with her betters without reproach, free (in the all-enveloping silence) from the fear of betraying her humble origin. Debrett’s Peerage was unimportant in the grave; breaches of social etiquette passed unnoticed there; the wagging of malicious tongues was stopped by dust. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3750.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3750.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3750.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3750.mobi The Shrieking Pit Arthur John Rees http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3751 urn:isbn:1606643010 en 1918 Novels Crime/Mystery Murder mystery set in a remote country inn at Norfolk, England. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3751.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3751.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3751.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3751.mobi The Black Box Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3858 en 1915 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: “You’re in luck, Alfred,” he declared. “That’s the most interesting man in New York—one of the most interesting in the world. That’s Sanford Quest.” “Who’s he?” “You haven’t heard of Sanford Quest?” “Never in my life.” The young man whose privilege it was to have been born and lived all his days in New York, drank half a glassful of wine and leaned back in his chair. Words, for a few moments, were an impossibility. “Sanford Quest,” he pronounced at last, “is the greatest master in criminology the world has ever known. He is a magician, a scientist, the Pierpont Morgan of his profession.” This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3858.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3858.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3858.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3858.mobi The Circular Study Anna Katharine Green http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733 urn:isbn:1406974064 en 1900 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: "Mr. Gryce was melancholy. He had attained that period in life when the spirits flag and enthusiasm needs a constant spur, and of late there had been a lack of special excitement, and he felt dull and superannuated. He was even contemplating resigning his position on the force and retiring to the little farm he had bought for himself in Westchester; and this in itself did not tend to cheerfulness, for he was one to whom action was a necessity and the exercise of his mental faculties more inspiring than any possible advantage which might accrue to him from their use." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733.mobi