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The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace. The Clue of the Twisted Candle is a 1918 detective novel by Edgar Wallace, featuring a locked-room mystery, a framed mystery writer (John Lexman), and a Scotland Yard investigator (T.X. Meredith) trying to clear his friend's name. The plot involves a wealthy, villainous figure, Remington Kara, who frames Lexman for murder, leading to a prison break and a later, even more baffling locked-room murder of Kara himself, with two twisted candles as the key clue. It's known for its fast pace, intricate plot, and classic Wallace elements like ...

The Secret Pact by Mildred A. Wirt Benson. PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt became frustrated ...

In this uproarious tale, Pleusicles is desperately in love with Philocomasium, but their romance takes a turn for the worse when she is kidnapped by the boastful Pyrgopolinices. Palaestrio, Pleusicles devoted servant, witnesses the abduction and rushes to inform his master, only to be caught by pirates and forced into servitude under Pyrgopolinices himself. Undeterred, Palaestrio devises a clever and intricate plan filled with disguises, supposed twin sisters, family connections, and even a monkey, all in a bid to outsmart Pyrgopolinices and reunite Pleusicles with his beloved Philocomasium. ...

Dive into Sweethearts, an evocative play subtitled An Original Dramatic Contrast. Follow the journey of two neighbors, Harry and Jenny, as they part ways in Act 1, only to reunite 30 years later in Act 2 after Harrys return from India. Experience the emotional twists and turns of their lives across decades. - Summary by ToddHW

A memoir told in silence, fragments, and the spaces between what people say. Some houses don’t hide secrets—they reflect them. In this slow-burning memoir, one narrator revisits the home she should have left, the woman who kept coming back, and the quiet damage that shaped everything that came after. Told in six haunting parts, The Mirror House is a personal account of chaos, codependency, and what it means to love someone who always disappears. Season One (The Basement Door) unfolds one door at a time—through memory, sound, and observation. The truth is never said aloud, but it’s ...

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Halo: Survival is a fan produced audio drama following Rhino Squad as they attempt a routine mission on behalf of the Office of Naval Intelligence. When things go sideways, the Marines find themselves stranded and must fight to survive.

The Code of the Woosters is one of the best known of Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeves series. Bertie's beloved Aunt Dahlia pressures him into stealing a cow-shaped silver creamer much coveted by his uncle from his arch rival in silver collecting, Sir Watkyn Bassett. At the same time, Bertie attempts to patch up the shaky romance between Guisse Fink-Nottle, the newt expert, and Madeline Bassett, a four star drip. The results of Bertie's efforts are, as always, a financial disaster.

The Perry Mason radio show is an American old-time radio program that aired from 1943 to 1955. The show is based on the fictional character Perry Mason, a brilliant criminal defense lawyer created by author Erle Stanley Gardner. The radio show was produced and directed by the legendary William N. Robson, and it starred several actors as Perry Mason over its twelve-year run.The Perry Mason radio show was one of the most popular and enduring detective dramas of the golden age of radio. The show followed the exploits of Mason, as he defended clients accused of various crimes, ranging from petty ...

The play is significant for the way it deals with the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world, despite the fact that Ibsen denied it was his intent to write a feminist play. It aroused a great sensation at the time and caused a "storm of outraged controversy" that went beyond the theatre to the world of newspapers and society.

Proverbs are short well-known sentences or phrases that tell a general truth about life or offer advice. In other words, they present the gist of a moral tale or a fable prevalent in a specific society. And because of their universal appeal, many of these proverbs have crossed their social barriers, and have become part of the human consciousness in general.

This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner.

Rosalind, daughter of the deposed Duke Senior, is exiled from the court by her wicked uncle. Disguising herself as a young man and accompanied by her cousin Celia, she takes refuge in the Forest of Arden. In the forest Rosalind meets Orlando with whom she is in love, but her male disguise complicates matters, especially when Rosalind finds she has unwittingly attracted the shepherdess Phebe. But out of the confusion comes reconciliation and forgiveness, and all ends happily.

When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helen's peculiar art is an outpouring of creativity or an outbreak of madness.

Full-cast dramatization of Oedipus the King, the Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BCE. Featuring Douglas Campbell, Eric House and Robert Goodier.

Jingo is the twenty-first novel by Terry Pratchett, one of his Discworld series. It was published in 1997. The title can be related to the word jingoism, meaning an attitude of belligerent nationalism.

A genre-bending audio drama of character-driven adult dark fiction. Each story is fully dramatized with exceptional actors and sound so vivid, you’ll feel like a witness.Listeners call it "horrifying, disorienting, fiendishly thrilling, erotic and heartbreaking."What will you call it? Listen for yourself. Grab those headphones or earbuds and vanish inside Ominous Thrill.Ominous Thrill is a multi-award-winning, twice Ambie Award-nominated anthology created by the acclaimed sound designer and director Jeff Schmidt, the creative force behind the vivid, immersive sounds of fiction-podcast ...

Two giants of the theater, five-time Tony Award® winner Angela Lansbury and three-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, star in 1988’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama. Driving Miss Daisy is Alfred Uhry’s tale that follows the complicated friendship between a feisty Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur in mid-century Atlanta over the course of 20 years.