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A Mussoorie Mystery
On the morning of 19 September, while Miss Mountstephen was still away, Miss Garnett-Orme was found dead in her bed. The door was locked from the inside. On her bedside table was a glass. She was positioned on the bed as though laid out by a nurse or undertaker.'
There are very few readers who don't get a feeling of satisfaction from reading a good short story. It is the ending to a story that can make the reader sit up and think about it-some can be good, some twisted and some absolutely anticlimactic! Read about a couple who set out to get the perfect gift for each other and the surprising twist in the end in 'The Gift of the Magi'; a robotic dancing partner, which creates more menace than a human partner ever can in "The Dancing Partner'; Bond's own telling of a mystery set in Mussoorie, which caught the fancy of none other than Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes; and many more such stories. Selected and edited by Ruskin Bond, this collection is abound with several fantastic, scary, surprising and humorous stories.
On the morning of 19 September, while Miss Mountstephen was still away, Miss Garnett-Orme was found dead in her bed. The door was locked from the inside. On her bedside table was a glass. She was positioned on the bed as though laid out by a nurse or undertaker.'
There are very few readers who don't get a feeling of satisfaction from reading a good short story. It is the ending to a story that can make the reader sit up and think about it-some can be good, some twisted and some absolutely anticlimactic! Read about a couple who set out to get the perfect gift for each other and the surprising twist in the end in 'The Gift of the Magi'; a robotic dancing partner, which creates more menace than a human partner ever can in "The Dancing Partner'; Bond's own telling of a mystery set in Mussoorie, which caught the fancy of none other than Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes; and many more such stories. Selected and edited by Ruskin Bond, this collection is abound with several fantastic, scary, surprising and humorous stories.
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On the morning of 19 September, while Miss Mountstephen was still away, Miss Garnett-Orme was found dead in her bed. The door was locked from the inside. On her bedside table was a glass. She was positioned on the bed as though laid out by a nurse or undertaker.'
There are very few readers who don't get a feeling of satisfaction from reading a good short story. It is the ending to a story that can make the reader sit up and think about it-some can be good, some twisted and some absolutely anticlimactic! Read about a couple who set out to get the perfect gift for each other and the surprising twist in the end in 'The Gift of the Magi'; a robotic dancing partner, which creates more menace than a human partner ever can in "The Dancing Partner'; Bond's own telling of a mystery set in Mussoorie, which caught the fancy of none other than Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes; and many more such stories. Selected and edited by Ruskin Bond, this collection is abound with several fantastic, scary, surprising and humorous stories.
