Goodbye, Mr Chips - Facts

 

The author of this book is James Hilton. James Hilton (9 September 1900 – 20 December 1954) was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. W.H. Balgarnie, a master at The Leys School, Cambridge and Hilton's father, headmaster of Chapel End School in Walthamstow, were the inspirations for the character of Mr. Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a best-seller.

Goodbye, Mr Chips by James Hilton

 

First Published: January 1, 1934

RATING: GOOD

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A Scandal In Bohemia - Facts

 

The story starts on 20 March 1888. Sherlock can tell that the person who will visit him is from Bohemia because of the paper of his note. Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, in which case the term refers to the historical cultural and political space of the Czech people.

A Scandal In Bohemia - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1 - by Arthur Conan Doyle

 First Published: June 25, 1891

RATING: GOOD

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The Sign of Four 2 (Pages 27 - 46)

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New Book - The Sign of Four - Sherlock Holmes 2 - by Arthur Conan Doyle (Pages 1 - 27)

 

First Published: February 1, 1890

In the first chapter of this book we find Holmes and Watson at home. Holmes injects heroine, which Watson disapproves of, and Holmes claims that he needs some stimulant when he is bored. Then they receive the visit of a woman who introduces herself as Mary Morstan.

Detectives Victorianas - El hombre que me cortó el pelo (The Man Who Cut Off My Hair) by Richard Marsh - Facts

 

The author of the story is Richard Marsh. Richard Marsh (12 October 1857 – 9 August 1915) was the pseudonym of the English author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel The Beetle,which was published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). Marsh produced nearly 80 volumes of fiction and numerous short stories, in genres including horror, crime, romance and humour. 

Detectives Victorianas - El hombre que me cortó el pelo (The Man Who Cut Off My Hair) by Richard Marsh

 

First Published: 1911

RATING. GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - Las muescas del bastón (How He Cut His Stick) by M McDonnell Bodkin - Facts

 

The author of this story is M McDonnell Bodkin. Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (8 October 1850 – 7 June 1933) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland  a noted author, journalist and newspaper editor, barrister (King's Counsel (K.C.)), and County Court Judge for County Clare, 1907–24. Bodkin earned a place in the history of the detective novel by virtue of his invention of the first detective family. His character Paul Beck, a private detective with comfortable lodgings in Chester, was an Irish Sherlock Holmes with a very original yet logical method for detecting crime.

Detectives Victorianas - Las muescas del bastón (How He Cut His Stick) by M McDonnell Bodkin

 

First Published: 1900

RATING: GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - La aventura de la anciana quisquillosa (The Adventure of the Cantankerous Woman) by Grant Allen - Facts

 

The author of this story is Grant Allen. Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. 

Detectives Victorianas - La aventura de la anciana quisquillosa (The Adventure of the Cantankerous Woman) by Grant Allen

 

First Published: 1899

RATING: GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - El hombre de los ojos feroces (That Man with the Wild Eyes) by George R Sims - Facts

 

The author of this story is George R Sims. George Robert Sims (2 September 1847 – 4 September 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant.

Detectives Victorianas - El hombre de los ojos feroces (That Man with the Wild Eyes) by George R Sims

 

First Published: 1897

RATING: VERY GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - Dagas dibujadas (Drawn Daggers) by C.L. Pirkis - Facts

 

This is a story by CL Pirkis. Catherine Louisa Pirkis (6 October 1839 – 4 October 1910) was a British author of detective fiction and animal welfare activist. Throughout her career as a writer, Pirkis would sometimes write under the name of C. L. Pirkis, to avoid gender association.

Detectives Victorianas - Dagas dibujadas (Drawn Daggers) by C.L. Pirkis

 

First Published: 1893

RATING: VERY GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - El arma desconocida (Unknown Weapon) by Andrew Forrester - Facts

 

The author of this story is Andrew Forrester. James Redding Ware (1832  – c. 1909, pseudonym Andrew Forrester) was an English writer, novelist and playwright, creator of one of the first female detectives in fiction. His last known work was a dictionary.

Detectives Victorianas - El arma desconocida (Unknown Weapon) by Andrew Forrester

 

First Published: 1864

RATING: GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - La Condesa Misteriosa (The Mysterious Countess) by W.S Hayward - Facts

 

The author of this story is William Stephens Hayward. 

Detectives Victorianas - La Condesa Misteriosa (The Mysterious Countess) by W.S Hayward

 

First Published: 1864

Mrs Paschal is a woman with a peculiar profession.