The Grill is the club most difficult of access in the world. To be placed on its rolls distinguishes the new member as greatly as though he had received a vacant Garter or had been caricatured in "Vanity Fair."<br><br>Men who belong to the Grill Club never mention that fact. If you were to ask one of them which clubs he frequents, he will name all save that particular one. He is afraid if he told you he belonged to ...
Upon a certain dreary April afternoon in the year of grace, 1906, the apprehensions of Philip Kirkwood, Esquire, Artist-peintre, were enlivened by the discovery that he was occupying that singularly distressing social position, which may be summed up succinctly in a phrase through long usage grown proverbial: "Alone in London." These three words have come to connote in our understanding so much of human misery, that to Mr. Kirk ...
Hayden was back in New York again after several years spent in the uttermost parts of the earth. He had been building railroads in South America, Africa, and China, and had maintained so many lodges in this or that wilderness that he really feared he might be curiously awkward in adapting himself to the conventional requirements of civilization. In his long roundabout journey home he had stopped for a few weeks in both London and Paris; but to h ...
West, still attired in khaki uniform, but wearing the red chevron of honourable discharge on his left sleeve, sat in the Club writing room, his feet comfortably elevated, endeavouring to extract some entertainment from the evening paper. The news was not particularly interesting, however, and finally, obsessed with the feeling that it would soon be time for him to seriously contemplate the procuring of suitable employment, the young man turned t ...
The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companionships which recently had angered his grandfather to the point of threatening a disciplinary change in his will. As a consequence he drifted into that strange adventure which later was to surround him with dark shadows and overwhelming doubts.<br><br>Be ...
In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London—measuring from the Standard in Cornhill,' or rather from the spot on or near to which the Standard used to be in days of yore—a house of public entertainment called the Maypole; which fact was demonstrated to all such travellers as could neither read nor write (and at that time a vast number both of travell ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by<br>Mary Roberts Rinehart<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>The After House<br>THE AMAZING INTERLUDE<br>BAB: A SUB-DEB<br>The Bat<br>THE BREAKING POINT<br>THE CASE of JENNIE BRICE<br>THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE<br>THE CONFESSION<br>DANGEROUS DAYS<br>K<br>KINGS, QUEENS AND PAWNS<br>LONG LIVE THE KING<br>LO ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Edgar Wallace<br><br>The Angel of Terror<br>Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country<br>Bones in London<br>The Clue of the Twisted Candle<br>The Daffodil Mystery<br>The Green Rust<br>Jack O' Judgment<br>The Keepers of the King's Peace<br>The Man Who Knew<br>The Secret Hous ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of classic vampire books:<br><br>The Vampyre, a Tale, John Polidori <br>Carmilla, J. Sheridan LeFanu <br>Dracula, Bram Stoker <br>Dracula's Guest, Bram Stoker <br>The House of the Vampire, George Sylvester Viereck <br>Varney the Vampire, Thomas Preskett Prest ...
