While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.

David Balfour, hero of Kidnapped, gambles his life to clear a friend accused of murder, and finds many obstacles on the path to love with the daughter of true reprobate in Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson. This classic adventure was the last novel the author wrote alone and displays all his beguiling storytelling skills. -- from back cover.

The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a reissue of one of literature's most audacious and thought-provoking novels of murder and intrigue, in hardback with its 1929 cover design and a brand new introduction. "The Detective Story Club", launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearinghouse for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90...

An illustrated version of the poem in which a child describes her relationship with her shadow.

Battles, captures and escapes figure largely in this story of a young man's revenge on his guardian whom he suspects of having murdered his father. Set during the War of the Roses in fifteenth-century England.

'I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two'. . . A London lawyer is drawn into a series of strange occurrences concerning his old friend Henry Jekyll and the despicable stranger Edward Hyde, a man who seems to epitomise the very meaning of evil. What is Hyde's mysterious hold over Jekyll, and what is the reason behind Jekyll's increasingly...