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First published in 1924, Beau Geste tells the story of a stolen sapphire and three brothers, who consequently join the Foreign Legion. Michael "Beau" Geste, as his nickname suggests, represents honor and bravery in the midst of deceit and treachery. An action-packed adventure, much of the plot is set in French North Africa, where the Geste brothers have to contend with both a mutiny in their ranks and the attacks of the Touaregs.

A shot rang out. The Arabs surged forward under a savage fusillade of heavy fire. Nearer and nearer they came, shouting with hate and blood-lust. Geste rushed up and down his side of the roof, pausing only long enough to load his rifle and fire into the shrieking mob below, hoping to trick the Arabs into believing the fort was heavily manned.

"The Perfect Crime" is written in the first person: "I know I committed the perfect crime." Phoebe Wallowes, a well educated American woman, really irritates him. He also has a genuine terror that she will one day marry him. Something therefore has to be done.

Rats and mice, and beetles and creaky doors, and loose slates, and broken panes, and stiff drawer handles, that stay out when you pull them and then fall down in the middle of the night...Rats is bogeys, I tell you, and bogeys is rats, and don't you get to think anything else! Ghosts, vampires, werewolves and even rats, all make an appearance in this collection of frighteningly good classic stories from Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and more!

Quando uma pedra preciosa é misteriosamente roubada de uma casa de campo inglesa, todos desconfiam dos três irmãos órfãos... Para fugir da suspeita, eles se alistam separadamente na Legião Estrangeira Francesa. Agora valentes legionários, os irmãos enfrentam diversos perigos e devem lutar pela sobrevivência. Será que eles conseguirão voltar para a Inglaterra a salvo? Quem teria sido o ladrão dessa pedra tão almejada? Essa história clássica sobre fraternidade e honra foi fonte de inspiração para o filme clássico "Beau geste" (1926) com William Powell e para a série de televisão homônima da BBC, realizada em 1982.