The Frozen Deep
8 best books like The Frozen Deep (Wilkie Collins): The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Kim, iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World, Laura, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, A House to Let, はぴまり~Happy Marriage!?~ （１）, Un escándalo en Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0140439269 |
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age,...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0140183523 |
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.
Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of...
iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World
| Author | Chris Roberson |
| ISBN | 1401229654 |
Told from a female zombie’s perspective, this smart, witty detective series mixes urban fantasy and romantic dramedy.
Gwendolyn “Gwen” Dylan is a 20-something gravedigger in an eco-friendly cemetery. Once a month she must eat a human brain to keep from losing her memories, but in...
| Author | Vera Caspary |
| ISBN | 1558615059 |
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms—not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura’s death, he becomes obsessed...
| Author | Wendy Cope |
| ISBN | 0571137474 |
When I was at university and writing endless essays about The Waste Land, few things gave me greater pleasure (because I am not a big Eliot fan) than pulling out Wendy Cope's ‘Waste Land Limericks’, in which she condenses the whole poem into five admirably no-nonsense quintains:
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| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 1843910853 |
Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes...
はぴまり~Happy Marriage!?~ （１）
| Author | Maki Enjōji |
| ISBN | 4091324703 |
There are a ton of romance novels and manga out there with this plot. Virginal girl suddenly forced into marriage with rich, hot overbearing dude (in this case, her boss). This really brings nothing new to the party. She's not the most stupid and supine heroine ever, he's not the most alphaholic hero....
Un escándalo en Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Fusioni di musica e letteratura, narrazioni parallele offerte da grandi talenti, capaci di restituire non solo il senso e il significato, ma anche l'anima dei racconti più belli. Per Sherlock Holmes c'era soltanto una donna, e tale donna rispondeva al nome di Irene Adler, il cui ricordo è senz'altro...
