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A classic of female British thriller, Mask of Shame (1994), by the author of the popular novel The Sculptor, is a dark psychological thriller about manipulation, family secrets and the limits of human cruelty.
Mistakenly kidnapped and tied to a ceiling beam, Sam Jones tries to remember her special love adventure. The painful blows, along with her innate humor, will encourage the heroine to focus all her peace of mind on solving life's problems.
Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.
The Christmas Pudding Adventure (1960) is a collection of six crime stories by Agatha Christie, in which five cases are solved by Hercule Poirot and one by Miss Marple.
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), a British geneticist, evolutionary biologist, and science popularizer, wrote "My Friend Mr. Leakey" in 1937 – a collection of five humorous, fantastic stories for children (and adults).