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The After House
by Mary Roberts Rinehart

A young doctor climbs aboard a luxury yacht as steward of the After House. It's smooth sailing until mysterious murders leave Dr. Leslie to solve the crimes and keep himself alive. This is a classic mystery and suspense story from Rinehart.

Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense

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Allan's Wife
by Henry Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain's heroic adventures continue in Allan's Wife, with the tale of his star-crossed relationship with the Englishwoman Stella, in the wilds of Africa. Encountering elephants and battling baboons along the way, Allan and Stella's story ultimately becomes a tale of life and death.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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The Agony Column
by Earl Derr Biggers

An American visiting London innocently checks the personal ads, known as the agony column, and soon finds himself entangled in a murder mystery and a love affair. Part mystery, part romance, this novel was also made into a silent film in 1930 under the title The Second Floor.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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A Rogue's Life
by Wilkie Collins

An adventure cliffhanger, this tells the story of a grand life in Paris filled with art, friendship, fun and adventures. The many set backs faced by the narrator are met with optimism. It was originally serialized, with the cliffhanger chapter endings leaving the reader looking for the next adventure.

Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Romantic Suspense

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The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins

In this fast-paced mystery, eyewitnesses each tell what they know about an enormous diamond that is taken out of India and sent to London where it disappears. The story revolves around who really owns the diamond. The book, first published in 1868, is often called the first detective novel and is one of the author's most critically-acclaimed works.

Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense

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A Damsel in Distress
by Pelmam Grenville Wodehouse

An American composer searches for a beautiful young woman who he met in a taxi. He tracks her to a rural manorhouse and the romance takes interesting turns. The 1919 novel was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, made into a black and white movie and then made into a 1937 Hollywood musical.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux

A criminally insane, physically-deformed musician haunts a Paris opera house demanding a monthly salary and a box seat for every show. He provides voice lessons to a beautiful young singer and then abducts her to his cellar retreat away from her lover who threatens to destroy the opera house. She is forced to make a difficult choice of who to love and makes a promise to the musician. The novel was the source of several films and stage adaptations including the highly successful musical version by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1987.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Kate Bonnet - The Romance of a Pirates Daughter
by Frank Richard Stockton

This satirical novel tells the adventures of beautiful Kate, a fictional daughter of a planter turned pirate 'Major Stede Bonnet' who was known as The 'Gentleman Pirate.' Kate falls in love with her friend Dickory as they share adventures while trying to change the ways of her pirate father.

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Desperate Remedies
by Thomas Hardy

Cytherea, a lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, realizes that the man she loves is already engaged to another woman. She becomes influenced by Miss Aldclyffe's manipulative steward Manston, and quickly becomes involved in romance, blackmail and murder.

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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

Like heroines in many romantic stories, Jane Eyre was a penniless orphan who was an ugly duckling. She left an unhappy time at a boarding school to become a teacher and governess for a proud man with a secret.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

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