Percy James Brebner

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Seated on a green hummock, his knees drawn up, his elbows resting on his knees and his...

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For a few moments the very daring of the leap paralysed the hunters. The man had surely gone to his death, preferring an end of this sort to the one that most surely awaited him if he were captured. They had looked to see horse and rider crash downwa...

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" ...]smiles. He may even have been here amongst us at the 'Punch-Bowl' without our knowing it." "It is not impossible," Gentleman Jack admitted, smiling a little at the others' enthusiasm. "I envy him," was the answer. "We seem mean beside such a ma...

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Professor Quarles is the most lovable, the most learned, the most unpoliceman-like detective we have yet met. As a matter of fact he is not a detective at all, but a scholar, specialising in philosophy and keenly interested in the human motives behin...

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" ...] Mr. Ratcliffe had traveled extensively, was a linguist, and a far richer man than his neighbors had supposed. Collecting precious stones had been his hobby, and in a case deposited with his bankers there were many valuable, and some unique, ge...

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There was a substantial aspect about Blenheim Square, not of that monotonous type which characterizes so many London squares, but a certain grace and consciousness of well-being. The houses, though maintaining some uniformity, possessed individuality...

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Excerpt from The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles

To-day the funeral was to take place. By his own de sire his body was not being taken to Moorlands, the fam ily seat in Gloucestershire, but was to be bur...

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Wallaria is a mystical kingdom in Southern Europe. The setting is perfect for a true romance. Princess Maritza is the heir to the throne, but she is kept away from her country. The hero in the story is a young English nobleman....

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Percy James Brebner (1864-1922) wrote some of his books under the pseudonym Christian Lys, among which are: Suspicion (1889), A London Cobweb (1892), The Doctor's Idol (1894), The Dunthorpes of Westleigh (1896), The Hepsworth Millions (1898), The For...

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" ...] THE COURT OF STURATZBERG Ellerey's servant had fallen asleep on a settle, partly induced, perhaps, by the liquor the empty tankard beside him had held, but he started, wide awake on the instant, as his master entered. Ellery expected him to re...

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