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A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, narrated by Dr. John H. Watson, a British Army surgeon invalided home after being wounded at the Battle of Maiwand durin...

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a landmark Gothic novel of ambition, creation, and catastrophic responsibility, narrated through the letters of Robert Walton, an obsessive Arctic explore...

The reservation was a mistake — or so Vera told herself. The Alcázar Grand had been closed for eleven years, yet when she pulled into the gravel drive at quarter past midnight, every window on the third floor burned with amber light. The front doors stood open, as if the hotel had been expecting her. Inside, the lobby smelled of old roses and candle wax, and behind the mahogany desk stood a man who looked like he'd been carved from the building itself — dark-eyed, sharp-jawed, dressed in a suit that belonged to another decade. 'You must be our second guest,' he said, sliding a brass key across the counter. 'We've been waiting.'

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