Tom Ripley is bored with life in New York, so when Mr. Greenleaf asks him to go to Italy and find his son, Dickie, he is delighted. Tom and Dickie become good friends, but there are soon problems -…
Rudolf Rassendyll, a daring young Englishman looking for adventure, arrives in Ruritania for the new king's coronation. The two men meet by chance the day before and are shocked to find that they l…
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and her uncle at Jamaica Inn. Strange things happen there at night, and Mary slowly discovers that she and her aunt are in terrible dang…
This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenth - and early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others…