L. T. Meade Complete Mystery Romance Thriller Anthologies

L. T. Meade (Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina Smith), English novelist, was born at Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, 1854, the daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade, rector at Novohal, County Cork, and married Toulmin Smith in 1879. She wrote her first book, Lettie's Last Home, at the age of 17, and since then has been an unusually prolific writer, her stories attaining wide popularity on both sides of the Atlantic.

She worked in the British Museum, lived in Bishopsgate Without, making special studies of East London life, which she incorporated in her stories. She edited the Atlanta, a magazine, for six years. Her pictures of girls, especially in the influence they exert on their elders, are drawn with intuitive fidelity, pathos, love, and humor, as in Girls of the Forest.

Contents
The Arrest of Capt. Vandaleur: How Miss Cusack Discovered His Trick (1894)
The Blood-Red Cross (1902)
The Children of Wilton Chase (1891)
The Dead Hand (1902)
Dr. Rumsey's Patient (1896)
The Face of the Abbot (1902)
Fingertips (1902)
Followed (1903)
A Girl of the People (1890)
Girls of the Forest (1902)
The Honorable Miss (1890)
Light O' The Morning (1899)
A Little Mother to the Others (1896)
Madame Sara (1902)
A Master of Mysteries (1898)
Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will (1899)
Polly: A NEW-FASHIONED GIRL (1910)
Red Rose and Tiger Lily (1894)
The Secret of Emu Plain (1898)
The Sorceress of the Strand (1902)
A Sweet Girl Graduate (1891)
The Time of Roses : A Story for Girls (1900)
Wild Kitty (1897)
A Girl in Ten Thousand (1896)
Girls of the True Blue (1901)
The Rebel of the School (1902)
A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls (1904)
Daddy's Girl (1900)
A World of Girls: The Story of a School (1886)
Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief (1916)
A Very Naughty Girl (1901)
A Big Temptation (1900)
Dickory Dock (1890)
The Palace Beautiful (1887)
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (1899)
The Ponsonby Diamonds (1894)
A Life For a Love
A Children's Pilgrimage
School Queens (1910)
Girls New and Old (1895)
A Sister of the Red Cross
A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School (1898)
A Bevy of Girls (1905)
The Little Princess of Tower Hill (1889)
Sue, A Little Heroine (1910)
Three Girls from School (1907)

Dr. Rumsey's Patient (1896)-
Dr. Rumsey's Patient is young Squire Awdrey, whose family laboured under an hereditary curse. It brought an extraordinary loss of memory for matters of grave moment, combined with perfect remembrance of minor details. Two undergraduates, staying at the village inn, are greatly attracted by the innkeeper's niece. The girl is the village beauty and has secretly set her heart on the young Squire, though she amuses herself with the undergraduates at the inn. Young Frere becomes madly in love with the girl, and conceives a jealous passion against Awdrey. He attacks him in a wood, Awdrey defends himself and accidentally kills Frere. The family curse falls on him, he forgets what has happened, and the innkeeper's niece, who has seen the struggle, commits perjury to save him. Frere's companion is convicted and sentenced to penal servitude. How Awdrey recovers his memory after some painful years and clears the condemned man the book itself must tell. It is as exciting as the detective romance which wins such wide favour in the present day, and will certainly supply all the excitement which a reader can desire. Margaret Douglas, who marries Awdrey, is a very noble character--her portrait is the gem of the book.

A Master of Mysteries (1898)-
It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth the weird, the mysterious had an irresistible fascination for me. Having private means, I resolved to follow my unique inclinations, and I am now well known to all my friends as a professional exposer of ghosts, and one who can clear away the mysteries of most haunted houses.

Red Rose and Tiger Lily (1894)-
A story of two English girls, who have just finishedtheir school life. The scene is laid in the country,and the events are quite simple and wholly unsensational.

A Girl in Ten Thousand (1896)
The heroine is an English girl, the daughter of a country doctor, who sacrificed his life for his profession. Believing herself fitted for a nurse, Effie Staunton began a course of training in St. Joseph's Hospital, London. Just as Effie was assured of success, she was forced to resign her charge. The story tells of her life thereafter, dwelling particularly on the incident that led to her being called "A girl in ten thousand."