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  • The Plague Court Murders

    A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Sir Henry Merrivale Mysteries
    When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime.Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge's ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Broken Sword

    by Poul Anderson ...
    This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic."One of the most influential fantasies I have ever read." —World Fantasy Award–winning author Michael MoorcockPublished the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources.In his greed for land and power ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Unfortunate Fursey

    by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda ...
    Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task is made easier by the fact that one hapless monk, the simple-minded Brother Fursey, cannot manage to pronounce the necessary words of exorcism ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • On Conan Doyle

    by Michael Dirda ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda, a delightful introduction to the creator of Sherlock HolmesA passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars—the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal ... Read more

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  • Book by Book

    Notes on Reading and Life

    by Michael Dirda ...
    "As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again," the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic discusses the rewards of reading books ( Chicago Tribune, Editor's Choice).Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure. Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how to live. Though books have always been understood as life ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • I Am Jonathan Scrivener

    by Claude Houghton, Michael Dirda ...
    "So remarkable in truth is this novel that I cannot understand why it is not universally known and admired." - Hugh Walpole"I Am Jonathan Scrivener remains a tantalizing, highly diverting philosophical novel of rare elegance and wit." - Michael DirdaJames Wrexham is thirty-nine, lonely, and stuck in a dead-end job when he comes upon an advertisement for a position as secretary to Mr. Jonathan ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Novels

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    All four legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Michael DirdaThough endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented, and imitated, the Sherlock Holmes stories have never been surpassed. Sporting his signature billowing coat and pipe in hand, the genius investigator Holmes captivates readers with his alluring melancholy and superhuman intuition, ... Read more

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  • The Green Man

    by Kingsley Amis ...
    The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, and romantic woes in this humorous, “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times)Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fifth Business

    by Robertson Davies ...
    Series Book 1 - Deptford Trilogy
    The first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly LinkRamsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great Age of Storytelling

    The Glory Days of Adventurers and Rogues, Time Travelers, and Great Detectives

    by Michael Dirda ...
    With infectious enthusiasm, "the best read person in America"—as Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda has been called—aims to rekindle our passion for classic works of adventure, mystery, fantasy and romance.Kidnapped, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Kim, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Trent’s Last Case, Captain Blood, The Enchanted Castle, The Man Who Was ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Browsings

    by Michael Dirda ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Unspeakable Skipton

    by Pamela Hansford Johnson, CBE, FRSL ...
    It’s not easy being a genius. Just ask Daniel Skipton, the greatest—or, let us say, the most under-recognized—novelist of his generation. Skipton is only a few revisions away from finishing his masterpiece: a satire of literary London that will humiliate his enemies and make him as famous, and as rich, as he deserves. Yet, in the meantime, he is forced to scrape by in obscurity and self-imposed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD