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Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape. His big chance comes when a rich landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, daughter-in-law, and their two Pomeranian dogs. From behind the wheels of a Honda, Balram sees Delhi and begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top? The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.

Why is Katie Berger-Jones-Burg under a sofa in Buckingham Palace? The last thing she can remember is reading in her bedroom, trying to block out the sound of the TV. Now she is in London, at the height of Queen Victoria's reign. Something very strange is going on. Together with her two new friends—Princess Alice, the young daughter of Queen Victoria, and James O'Reilly, the son of the royal doctor—Katie must discover why she has been sent back in time. And who are the weird and frightening creatures who seek her out? The key, it seems, lies with the enigmatic Bernardo DuQuelle. As the dark forces moving through the royal household begin to take control, Katie and her friends uncover a plot to assassinate the Queen and unearth an even darker mystery. . .

"Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" —Arthur Conan Doyle In The Murders in the Rue Morgue, all of Paris is in shock following the ghastly murder of two women—but with all witnesses claiming to have heard the suspect speak a different language, the police are stumped. When Dupin finds a suspicious hair at the crime scene, and places an advert in the newspaper asking if anyone has lost an "Ourang-Outang," things take an unexpected turn. In The Mystery of Marie Roget, Dupin and his sidekick undertake to solve the murder of the beautiful young woman who works in a perfume shop, whose body is found floating in the Seine. The Purloined Letter, the final story, finds Dupin engaged on a matter of national importance: a highly compromising letter has been pilfered from the Queen’s private drawing room. The police know who the unscrupulous culprit is, but they can not find the letter, and therefore are unable to pin the crime on him. It it is up to Dupin to solve the case—which he does, with characteristic flair. A master of rational deduction and intellectual insight, and protoype for Holmes and Poirot, Dupin sees things for what they are, rather than what they appear to be.

"The first real thriller." —Ken Follett While on a duck-hunting holiday sailing in the Frisian Isles, Carruthers and his friend Davies become suspicious of German naval activity off the North Sea Coast. The pair decide to investigate, are soon embroiled in a world of suspense and intrigue, and set about foiling nothing less than a plot to invade England. Initially published in 1903, this thriller proved a prescient vision of the Anglo-German conflict that was to culminate in World War I. This adventure is now regarded as the first—and one of the best—spy novels ever written, inspiring such later masters of the genre as John Buchan, Ian Fleming, and John le Carré.

Introducing a major literary talent, the white tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen balram halwai is a complicated man servant philosopher entrepreneur murderer over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along born in the dark heart of india, balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his villages wealthiest man, two house pomeranians (puddles and cuddles), and the rich mans (very unlucky) son from behind the wheel of their honda city car, balrams new world is a revelation while his peers flip through the pages of murder weekly (love -- rape -- revenge!), barter for girls, drink liquor (thunderbolt), and perpetuate the great rooster coop of indian society, balram watches his employers bribe foreign ministers for tax breaks, barter for girls, drink liquor (single-malt whiskey), and play their own role in the rooster coop balram learns how to siphon gas, deal with corrupt mechanics, and refill and resell johnnie walker black label bottles (all but one) he also finds a way out of the coop that no one else inside it can perceive balrams eyes penetrate india as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger and with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, balram teaches us that religion doesnt create virtue, and money doesnt solve every problem -- but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations