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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
Arthur Conan Doyle
2 days •
ⓘ 1927 • So many strange things are occuring at a respectable racing stable, not least the owner going mad, that Sherlock Holmes can't resist uncovering the mystery.
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
Arthur Conan Doyle
2 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A mysterious lodger hides her face, screams in the night, and has started to die. Her puzzled landlady seeks help from Sherlock Holmes.
The Big Four
Agatha Christie
17 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A surprise guest on the doorstep of Hercule Poirot pulls the famed detective into a web of mystery, murder, and international espionage.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
9 days •
ⓘ 1927 • After a bridge collapses killing five people, a monk sets out to learn about each victim and uncover god's purpose in the tragedy.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
251 days •
ⓘ 1927 • All the stories of the famous "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. John Watson.
Copper Sun
Countee Cullen
4 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A poetry collection from a Harlem Renaissance great, including many works on love - love as a unifier, love for nature, religious love, love leading to death.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
24 days •
ⓘ 1927 • The tale of the life of Father Latour and the world he comes to know: 19th century New Mexico, a collision of cultures, lonely landscapes, and the gentle spread of his faith.
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
52 days •
ⓘ 1927 • The scandolous tale of a evangelist reverend, rising in the Methodist church while pursuing women, money, and self-indulgence.
Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway
13 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A collection of short stories including some of Hemingway's best works: "The Killers", "Hills Like White Elephants", and "In Another Country"
Mosquitoes
William Faulkner
32 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A satirical novel skewering the artists, socialities, rich, and would-be-rich on a New Orleans boating trip.
Oil!
Upton Sinclair
67 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A narrative inspired by the Teapot Dome Scandal diving into the bribery, politics, rivalries, and class warfare of oil production in California. Became the film There Will Be Blood.
The Outlaw of Torn
Edgar Rice Burroughs
20 days •
ⓘ 1927 • In 13th-century England, torn unsunder by civil war, a skilled outlaw with a familiar face strives against the king.
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
21 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A gripping exploration of the tensions within a family -- between men and women, children and adults, past and future -- while on holiday to Scotland's Isle of Skye.
The Tower Treasure
Franklin W. Dixon
14 days •
ⓘ 1927 • The Hardy Boys are pulled into an escalating mystery of theft, fake identities, and false acquisations with a friend's livelihood on the line.
Twilight Sleep
Edith Wharton
26 days •
ⓘ 1927 • A modernist satirical novel of the Jazz Age following a socialite New York family through parties, affairs, divorce, drugs, and murder.
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