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A mother, a daughter, and the man who comes between them—what begins as a scandalous liaison in 1870s Montpellier and Marseille descends into theft, conspiracy, and a murder that shocks France. Drawn from H. B. Irving’s classic 1918 collection A Book of Remarkable Criminals, this riveting...

A mesmerizing case from H. B. Irving’s A Book of Remarkable Criminals: the rise and ruin of Antoine François Derues, the smooth‑smiling Parisian grocer who posed as a nobleman to seize an estate—and left a trail of fraud, poison, and audacious disguise. With a dramatist’s eye for motive...

From H. B. Irving’s A Book of Remarkable Criminals comes the definitive account of the Eyraud–Bompard affair—one of Paris’s most sensational 1889 murders. When the genial bailiff Gouffe vanishes, a trail of an empty trunk, scorched matches, and a grim discovery near Lyons draws master...

A trusted physician. Two dead brothers. A fortune shadowed by suspicion. In early nineteenth-century France, young doctor Edme Castaing struggles with financial pressures until his friendship with the wealthy Ballet brothers brings an extraordinary change in his circumstances. But behind his...

A Baker’s Dozen - A collection of 13 classic Christmas stories.