title: Seemingly Strange and Unusual Tales
author:  D L Holmes 
description: D.L. Holmes is a horror writer living in the Southern part of the United States. He is currently attending University to attain his Bachelors in Creative Writing for Entertainment. He has many projects in the works, and would like the reader to be aware that should he go missing, the clues to his disappearance are likely within the pages of this book. Tiffany Pennywell is a lover of creative writing. She likes to write poetry, short stories, screenplays, lyrics and fan-fiction. Tiffany has a Masters in Fine Arts Degree from Full Sail University. She has an emotionally charged poetry book titled Window to My Soul.
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  The Drugged Cornet
  
  
  
  
  
  and other mystery stories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  chosen by SUSAN DICKINSON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _illustrated by Robert Micklewright_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jeremy Fisher had been impatiently
  
  
  waiting at the station for the arrival of
  
  
  his sister, Jane. It was her idea in the first place to go hear the cornet
  player, Tony
  
  
  Crisp, and now she had missed the train. But despite his irritation, Jeremy
  felt uneasy about Jane’s lateness. What ii something awful had happened?
  Jeremy had no way of knowing then that Jane’s
  
  
  eventual arrival would turn out to be
  
  
  the catalyst in a deadly chain of events—
  
  
  and the missing link was the strange suitcase Jane carried off the train.
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Drugged Cornet,” by John
  
  
  Verney, is only one of the many ingenious, suspense-filled stories appearing
  
  
  in this fine collection of classic and contemporary mysteries. Included are
  the inscrutable Sherlock Holmes and heroes
  
  
  and villains who plot or scheme un