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  • The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries

    Edited by Michael Sims ...
    **For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock HolmesA Penguin Classic**For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre. This historical tour of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Phantom Coach

    A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories

    by Michael Sims ...
    Series series The Connoisseur's Collections
    Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula's Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity's oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising, often ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Frankenstein Dreams

    A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction

    by Michael Sims ...
    Series series The Connoisseur's Collections
    From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest.Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

    Inspiration for the Major Streaming Series

    The inspiration for the Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar SyA curated collection of the very best adventures of Arsène Lupin, France’s most famous gentleman thiefThe poor and the innocent have nothing to fear from Lupin; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to spoil his fun, however, must beware. They are the target of Lupin’s ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime

    Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

    by Michael Sims ...
    A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight CrimeIt is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

    Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

    by Michael Sims ...
    An exclusive collection—the first-ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era, including Arsène Lupin, the inspiration for the new Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sycollected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Dracula's Guest

    A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories

    by Michael Sims ...
    Series series The Connoisseur's Collections
    Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.Michael Sims brings together the very best vampire stories of the Victorian era-from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, and even ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Arthur and Sherlock

    Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes

    by Michael Sims ...
    2018 Edgar Award NomineeShortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers AssociationFrom Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective story.As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • You Already Have It

    30 Days to Unleash the Supernatural Power Within You

    by Michael Sims ...
    What If the Miracle You’re Praying for Is Already Inside You?Are you tired of feeling stuck—circling the same mountain, desperately seeking purpose and breakthrough? What if the supernatural strength to demolish fear, obliterate doubt, and transform your world isn't "out there" but already blazing within you, ready to explode?In "You Already Have It," Dr. Michael Lee—a battle-tested spiritual ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dead Witness

    A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories

    by Michael Sims ...
    Series series The Connoisseur's Collections
    The Dead Witness gathers the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth--including a wide range of overlooked gems creating the finest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories. "The Dead Witness," the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary Fortune, is the first known detective story by a woman, a suspenseful clue-strewn ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Story of Charlotte's Web

    E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic

    by Michael Sims ...
    While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White obeyed that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours as a child and adult. Painfully shy, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Daily Sherlock Holmes

    A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective

    Series series A Year of Quotes
    "Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us."How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.""How on earth did you know that?" I asked in astonishment."Never mind," said he, chuckling to himself.At that first sight of Watson, Sherlock Holmes made brilliant deductions. ... Read more

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