The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

✍ Agatha Christie 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 HarperCollins;Harper Audio 🌐 English ⚖ 330 KB 👁 1 views

A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes the stand. . . . A woman's sixth sense--and a loaded revolver--signal premonitions of doom. . . . A stranded motorist seeks refuge in a remote mansion and is greeted with a dire warning. . . . Detective Hercule Poirot faces hi

The Traveller and Other Stories

✍ Stuart Neville 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 John Connolly, Soho Press 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 126 KB 👁 2 views

**A darkly glittering collection of Northern Irish noir by Stuart Neville,_Los Angeles Times_ Book Prizewinning author** __ The book is divided into two parts: New Monsters, which contains seven chilling stand-alone tales that traverse and blend the genres of crime fiction, horror, and speculat

The Intrusion and Other Stories

✍ Shashi Deshpande 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Penguin Random House India Private Limited 🌐 English ⚖ 115 KB 👁 2 views

A haunting new collection of short stories from one of India's most acclaimed writersShashi Deshpande, in her new collection of short stories, explores a world darkened by the despair and unhappiness of women trying to break out of predefined roles. There is the newly married protagonist of the titl

The Middleman and Other Stories

✍ Bharati Mukherjee 📂 Fiction 📅 1988 🏛 Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic 🌐 English ⚖ 117 KB 👁 1 views

{ NOV 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 197 pages Published: 1988 Edition: Grove Press (2007) National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction (1988)

The boatman and other stories

✍ Billy O'Callaghan 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Harper Perennial;HarperCollins; HarperPerennial 🌐 English ⚖ 221 KB 👁 2 views

**“I know of no writer on either side of the Atlantic who is better at exploring the human spirit under assault than Billy O’Callaghan.”—Robert Olen Butler** **The prizewinning Irish short-story writer and author of the highly praised novel,*My Coney Island Baby*, delivers his most accomplished

The Nose and Other Stories

✍ Gogol, Nikolai 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 291 KB 👁 3 views

Nikolai Gogol's novel _Dead Souls_ and play _The Government Inspector_ revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol's peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns--or at once--funny, terrifying, and pro