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Wiki: "The bishop claimed Mazvabo was in a position to know what she was talking about — something about Covenanters — and then clammed up."

Wiki: "Red-shanked pukekos skittered from the thuds as Vermuelen hammered down posts and stapled wire strands to wood."

Wiki: "The Calvi affair, you may recall?"

Wiki: "Beyond the commercial strips the paths opened to streets of fast-built housing blocks, their buckysheet sides arbitrarily coloured, their windows overlooking well-tended vegetable gardens and scuffed play areas."

Wiki: "Kind of like a marae, you know?"

19. Harry Grattan - A Christmas Ghost Story, 3 stars. Man hears an ominous noise drawing closer.
20. Arthur Walter Berry - Woden, the Wild Huntsman, 3 stars. Man witnesses the hunt in progress.
21. F.G. Grundemann - Squire Humperdinck and the Devil, 3 stars. Man sells his soul for wealth, boy tampers with the devil's messenger to everyone else's delight.

16. James Skipp Borlase - The Dead Hand, 3 stars. Naive maid steals a holy relic for her lover, spoils it with ill intentions.
17. James Skipp Borlase - The Wicked Lady Howard; or, The Coach Made of Dead Men’s Bones, 3 stars. Greedy wife asks her lover to murder her husband after she has a chance to spend his money.
18. Huan Mee - Ghost of the Living, 3 stars. Starving artist hears a ghost get on the train twice.

13. Magister Monensis - The Siren, 3 stars. Dumbass decides to travel through a blizzard at night, hears a distressed woman calling him over cliffs.
14. Baroness de Bertouch - The Tryst, 2 stars. Song about a lady ghost crying over her dead lover in the Glen.
15. Adeline Sergeant - The Mummy Hand, 3 stars. Sickly Englishman is bribed to temporarily hide stolen artifacts, mummy is outraged about the theft of her ring.

10. Phœnix - The Ghosts of the Bards, 3 stars. The ghosts of murdered druids play matchmaker.
11. Jessie Saxby - Hel-ya-water, 1 star. Viking poem.
12. Barry Pain - The Undying Thing, 3 stars. Ancestor dumps wolf baby in a cave, tradition says he'll come back to end the family.

07. Florence Marryat - That Awful Face!, 3 stars. Newlyweds bump along happily in their haunted home until the ghost starts showing her face.
08. Howell Davies - Two Christmas Eves, 3 stars. Man is visited by the ghost of his murdered father in law, later learns who committed the crime.
09. Mabel Collins - A Tale of Mystery, 2 stars. Friend is aided by a mystical Indian dwarf in saving his friend from a vampire.

04. Anonymous - Old Hell Shaft, 1 star. Wrestling over a mineshaft.
05. John Pitman - Ejected by a Ghost, 3 stars. New tenant gets spooked by a cold draft and open door.
06. Mrs. S.R. Townshend Mayer - The Netherstone Mystery, 3 stars. Man is hired to write a family history, flirts with a ghost all day.

01. John Gibson Lockhart - Little Willie Bell, 3 stars. Little boy's ghost can't rest until he gives his last coin the the church.
02. Thomas Haynes Bayly - The Mistletoe Bough, 3 stars. Bride wins hide and seek, her corpse is found many years later.
03. Amelia B. Edwards - My Brother’s Ghost Story, 3 stars. [2023]

01. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, 4 stars. Poirot finds a stolen ruby, breaks an unsuitable engagement, and enjoys a holiday feast.
02. The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, 3 stars. Man is found dead in a chest the day after a party he could not have attended.
03. The Under Dog, 3 stars. Wealthy lady is convinced the wrong man was arrested for murdering her husband, has an unlikely suspect.

04. Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds, 3 stars. [2021]
05. The Dream, 3 stars. [2021]
06. Greenshaw's Folly, 3 stars. [2023]

Wiki: "By climbing the two hundred stone steps that lead up to the shrine and looking back from the spot where there is a torii guarded by a pair of stone temple-dogs..."

10. Karen M. McManus - The Murdering Sort, 2 stars. Rich old man is convinced his family is trying to kill him, gets poisoned.
11. Kate Mosse - The Mystery of the Acid Soil, 3 stars. Jane figures out the location of a girl that supposedly ran off to the city after the death of her mother.
12. Leigh Bardugo - The Disappearance, 3 stars. Jane is urgently summoned back home to solve a murder/disappearance/jewel theft.

07. Jean Kwok - The Jade Empress, 3 stars. Jane learns about Chinese culture & cuisine on a cruise to Hong Kong, solves a family double murder.
08. Dreda Say Mitchell - A Deadly Wedding Day, 3 stars. Uninvited guest at a society wedding is poisoned by the fruit salad.
09. Elly Griffiths - Murder at the Villa Rosa, 3 stars. Writer takes a working vacation to figure out how to kill off his most popular character.

04. Natalie Haynes - The Unravelling, 3 stars. Village newcomer gets shot with an arrow shortly after being berated in public by a local veteran.
05. Ruth Ware - Miss Marple's Christmas, 3 stars. Jane foils a con straight out of a crime novel while attending an old fashioned Christmas dinner.
06. Naomi Alderman - The Open Mind, 3 stars. Creepy academic dies of an overdose after getting handsy with a dinner guest.

01. Lucy Foley - Evil in Small Places, 3 stars. Jane's hostess gets knocked down, controversial newcomer in town gets murdered.
02. Val McDermid - The Second Murder at the Vicarage, 3 stars. Maid is found murdered in the home of her former employer.
03. Alyssa Cole - Miss Marple Takes Manhattan, 3 stars. Jane sees through a shoddily acted off Broadway ruse.

DNF: disappointing.

42. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - The Hall Bedroom, 3 stars. Boarding house has a room with otherworldly sensations that people disappear into.
43. Max Beerbohm - Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton, 4 stars. Author lies to ensure his rival isn't invited to a fancy get together, is stalked by his apparition.
44. Arthur Machen - The Inmost Light, 3 stars. Doctor meddles in the occult, public suspects he murdered his wife.

39. John Guinan - The Watcher o’ the Dead, 2 stars. Man promises his dying friend that he'll hang out in the graveyard every night.
40. E. & H. Heron - The Story of Konnor Old House, 3 stars. Glowing ghost that drives a people crazy is just stinky library fungus.
41. W.B. Seabrook - Toussel’s Pale Bride, 3 stars. Pretty young girl marries an older rich man, ruins his voodoo plans by fleeing their anniversary dinner.

36. Frederick Marryat - The White Wolf Of The Hartz Mountains, 3 stars. Murderer is tricked into marrying a sexy werewolf, breaks his oath on the life of his children.
37. Roger Pater - A Porta Inferi, 2 stars. Medium gets possessed by the spirit of a murderer, dies in an insane asylum.
38. Richard Barham - Jerry Jarvis’s Wig, 3 stars. Gardener is gifted a dishonest lawyer's old wig, turns to a life of crime.

33. Roger Pater - The Astrologer's Legacy, 2 stars. Mysterious antique tableware intrigues scholarly birthday dinner guests.
34. Amelia B. Edwards - My Brother’s Ghost Story, 3 stars. Groom dies rushing home early to surprise his bride, new friends see/hear his ghost.
35. Vincent O'Sullivan - The Bargain of Rupert Orange, 3 stars. Former pampered rich dandy sells his soul for 5 years of health, wealth, and comfort.

30. Richard Barham - Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, Doctor in Divinity, 3 stars. Medical student dabbles in the occult, tortures people that love him.
31. Jasper John - The Spirit of Stonehenge, 2 stars. Amateur archaeologist is compelled to make a blood sacrifice for the stones.
32. Jasper John - The Seeker of Souls, 3 stars. Unseen apparation knocks on doors, goes back to bed every night.

27. Vernon Lee - Oke of Okehurst, 3 stars. Cousins' incompatible married life is overshadowed by their mutual ancestors' adultery/murder scandal.
28. Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Eveline's Visitant, 3 stars. Ugly cousin kills attractive cousin in a duel, wife is haunted by his pretty ghost.
29. Roger Pater - De Profundis, 3 stars. Priests investigate a wayward convent after hearing a distressed voice there.

Wiki: "About five o'clock, as I was strolling among the red-brick round-gabled outhouses--each with its armorial oak--and the old-fashioned spalliered kitchen and fruit garden..."

23. Vincent O'Sullivan - When I was Dead, 3 stars. Hostile dead man refuses to accept the obvious.
24. E. & H. Heron - The Story of Yand Manor House, 3 stars. Interfering with a corpse stops a crushing haunting.
25. Vincent O'Sullivan - The Business of Madame Jahn, 3 stars. Impatient nephew murders aunt for spending money.
26. Vernon Lee - Amour Dure, 3 stars. Historian falls in love with a murderess 300 years dead.

19. Charles Dickens - To be Taken with a Grain of Salt, 3 stars. Ghost of a murder victim influences the jury.
20. Charles Dickens - The Signal-Man, 3 stars. Man is warned by a figure multiple times about impending accidents.
21. Charles Collins - The Compensation House, 3 stars. Guilty man has a fear of mirrors.
22. Amelia B. Edwards - The Engineer, 3 stars. Close "friends" fight over the same unfaithful lover.

Wiki: "It represented a woman with brown eyes and golden hair, looking over her shoulder into a circular mirror held by a bearded man in the background."