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Classic Reader: Authors: Emile Gaboriau

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Emile Gaboriau including the full text of nine novels including The Mystery of Orcival, Other People's Money, and The Widow Lerouge.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"

For Students 9th - 10th
The unabridged text of Agatha Christie's first novel. A no-expense way to read the book that started the career of one of world's best known mystery writers.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Gold of the Gods by Arthur B. Reeve

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Gold of the Gods by Arthur B. Reeve, a mystery involving an ancient Peruvian dagger, poisoned cigars, a beautiful heiress, a journalist/investigator, professors and doctors and a host of other...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: From Whose Bourne by Robert Barr

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel From Whose Bourne by Robert Barr, a murder mystery with a twist.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume. One of the main characters is a professor of Egyptology, who wishes to compare a Peruvian mummy with Egyptian mummies. The first and main mystery is how the green...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne, a combination romance, adventure, metaphysical and mystery from the Victorian era by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu including a biography and the full text of 9 novels and 13. He is called the father of the modern ghost story; his vampire story Carmilla influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Sax Rohmer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Sax Rohmer including the full text of 11 novels such as The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Fire-Tongue, and The Quest of the Sacred Slipper.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: A Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a long list of literary terms complete with full definitions and examples.
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Arlington Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery: Dashiell Hammett

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Arlington National Cemetery has information about Dashiell Hammett and his service as a sergeant in the Army. Includes great biographical information along with several helpful pictures of this sergeant and author.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Initials Only" by Anna Katharine Green

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the book "Initials Only" by Anna Katharine Green. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Widow Lerouge by Emile Gaboriau

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the mystery novel "The Widow Lerouge" by Emile Gaboriau on this site.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the mystery novel "Caught in the Net" by Emile Gaboriau. Ms. Gaboriau is considered a pioneer of detective fiction and to have inspired Sherlock Holmes.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the mystery novel "The After House" by Mary Roberts Rinehart about gruesome murders aboard a yacht.
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Classic Reader: The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the mystery novel "The Circular Staircase" by Mary Roberts Rinehart. The story centers around a woman who stops a series of crimes at a rented summer home.
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Battle of the Bands' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Battle of the Bands by K. L. Denman, one band is preparing to battle another in a music competition. But then a guitar is destroyed and suspicions against a lead band member mount. This teacher's guide includes a book summary,...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Wuthering Heights

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides the full text of Emily Bronte's novel, "Wuthering Heights." There is a brief paragraph introducing the context, characters, and significance of this "tale of heartbreak and mystery."
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Nancy Polette: "Wolves of Willoughby Chase"/lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Take a look at four activity ideas to use with Aiken's novel, "Wolves of Willoughby Chase."
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Truth' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ian's parents go on vacation and leave him on his own, which he sees as an opportunity to have a large party. But a friend of the parents comes to check on him and is murdered. No one will talk and two school newspaper reporters put...
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Other

Jean Craighead George's Website

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This website is about author Jean Craighead George. Offers information on her background, her books, she gives hints about becoming a writer. She also has a question and answer section where she answers questions that people most often...
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Mostly fiction.com: Laura Esquivel

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of "The Law of Love" from MostlyFiction.com and a short biography of the author, Laura Esquivel.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

For Students 9th - 10th
Published in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson's novel was classified as a mystery thriller. This site looks in depth at the characters, themes and important quotations from the novel.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the humorous novel "When a Man Marries" by mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Angel of Terror by Edgar Wallace

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the mystery crime novel "The Angel of Terror" also known as "The Destroying Angel" by Edgar Wallace about a beautiful woman who can get away with murder.

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