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Dr Watson is called upon late at night by a female friend of his wife. Her husband has been absent for several days and, as he is an opium addict, she is sure he has been indulging in a lengthy drug binge in a dangerous East End opium den. Frantic with worry, she seeks Dr. Watson's help in fetching him home. Watson does this, but he also finds his friend Sherlock Holmes in the den, disguised as an old man, trying to extract information about a new case from the addicts in the den.Mr. Neville St. Clair, a respectable and punctual country businessman, disappears. Making the matter more mysterious is that Mrs. St. Clair is sure that she saw her husband at a second-floor window of the opium den, in Upper Swandam Lane, a rough part of town near the docks. He withdrew into the window immediately, and Mrs. St. Clair is sure that there is something wrong.She tries to enter the building, but her way is blocked by the opium den's owner, a lascar. She fetches the police, but they cannot find Mr. St. Clair. The room, in the window of which she saw her husband, is that of a dirty, disfigured beggar known to the police as Hugh Boone. The police are about to put this report down as a mistake of some kind when Mrs. St. Clair spots and identifies a box of wooden bricks that her husband said he would buy for their son. A further search turns up some of her husband's clothes. Later, his coat, with the pockets full of several pounds' worth of pennies and halfpennies, is found in the Thames, just below the building.The beggar is arrested and locked up at the police station, and Holmes initially is quite convinced that Mr. St. Clair has been the unfortunate victim of murder. However, several days after Mr. St. Clair's disappearance, his wife receives a letter in his own writing. The arrival of this letter forces Holmes to reconsider his conclusions, leading him eventually to an extraordinary solution. Taking a bath sponge to the police station in a Gladstone bag, Holmes washes Boone's still-dirty face, causing his face to be revealed — the face of Neville St. Clair! Upon Mr. St. Clair's immediate confession, this solves the mystery, and creates a few problems.

Behind the unforgettable characters, worlds, and battles of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit lie a vast range of world myths and historical events that originally inspired J. R. R. Tolkien. From the Finnish epic poem Kalevala and the medieval Beowulf to Arthurian mythology, Shakespeare, and even World War II, Tolkien's sources are unpacked and explained for the novice and connoisseur alike. Laid out in dictionary form, this indispensable guide provides insights not only into literature's most beloved fantasy, but also into the man who brought it to life.

For this collection of young adult horror writings, R. L. Stine gathers his favorite comics, poems, and chilling short stories from both classic and contemporary authors. A formidable anthology of authors and illustrators who are masters of the horror genre, works by Ray Bradbury, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Bram Stoker, and R. L. Stine himself are included. Para esta colección de escritura de horror, R. L. Stine escogió sus favoritas de toda clase de historias de terror: relatos breves, cuentos tanto clásicos como modernos, cómicas, y poemas. Una formidable antología firmada por escritores e ilustradores maestros en el género, incluyendo Ray Bradbury, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Bram Stoker, y R. L. Stine sí mismo.

These inspiring and empowering stories feature small, timid children who blossom when they are given magical powers. Thomas Top's ability to fly brings heartbreak and happiness; Sam Ray meets a little alien that explains how being invisible can be a big help; Ruby Genie is a girl so tiny that she can fit into a handbag; and Josie Jenkins discovers she can lift anything, even a school bus.

These inspiring and empowering stories feature small, timid children who blossom when they are given magical powers. Thomas Top's ability to fly brings heartbreak and happiness; Sam Ray meets a little alien that explains how being invisible can be a big help; Ruby Genie is a girl so tiny that she can fit into a handbag; and Josie Jenkins discovers she can lift anything, even a school bus.

These inspiring and empowering stories feature small, timid children who blossom when they are given magical powers. Thomas Top's ability to fly brings heartbreak and happiness; Sam Ray meets a little alien that explains how being invisible can be a big help; Ruby Genie is a girl so tiny that she can fit into a handbag; and Josie Jenkins discovers she can lift anything, even a school bus.

Raised in far-off India, wealthy heiress Lady Victoria Arbuthnot is unceremoniously shipped off to London to find a husband as soon as she turns 16. With her usual aplomb, however, Victoria gets herself engaged to the perfect English gentleman before she even sets foot on British soil. But when it becomes clear that young Lord Malfrey just might not be all that he's professed to be, Victoria is forced to admit, for the first time in her life, that she is wrong.

Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he's looking for some tenderness—tenderness he finds in befriending and killing young girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from the home that has been invaded by her mother's boyfriend, and is looking for a place where she can once again feel safe. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness—tenderness she finds in Eric. Told from their alternating points of view, this story of a partnership that walks a thin line between salvation and destruction speeds to its fateful conclusion with irresistible force.