LOT No. 249 (PART 1) by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

A well known banker comes to Holmes with a thorny problem- he has accepted a jewel-encrusted cornet, a national treasure-as collateral for a cash loan- and the coronet has been stolen. The man's son is the number one suspect to both he and the police- but not to Holmes. Get all o ...  Afficher plus

A wealthy London surgeon on his way to continue an affair another man's wife is waylaid by a Turkish man who wife has been accidentally poisoned and has only hours to live. A tense horror story from Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Idler in 1893, and found in his collection ti ...  Afficher plus

While riding his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a geneologist seeks shelter from an approaching storm. He enters an apparently abandoned house only to find it occupied by a loathsome old man who seems to enjoy pictures of hacked human bodies. Catch ALL our ...  Afficher plus

A hopeless drunk and failed attorney finds redemption in this well written tale by O.Henry.. Get all of our shows at one website: www.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. ...  Afficher plus

Father Brown is traveling in Italy when he comes across a strange situation. An English family on vacation is in the guidance of a local courier, and the daughter is also flirting with an italian poet who appears to be something of a lothario. There is a true thief in their midst ...  Afficher plus

"Aloha Oe" by Jack London is the story of a young girl who has accompanied her father on a senator's junket to Hawaii, befriends a young man with Hawaiian blood,and learns a hard lession about the divisions between race and class. "The Mexican pt 2" will return as soon as I get o ...  Afficher plus