8 books like Letter from an Unknown Woman

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Blind Corner Dornford Yates · 1927 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate First of the Chandos thrillers, set in central Europe Shares Austria

Above suspicion Helen MacInnes · 1941 · ★ 3.9 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of pre-war Europe, nobody is above suspicion, in fact the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures. Above Suspicion was MacInnes’… Shares Austria

Ungeduld des Herzens Stefan Zweig · 1927 · ★ 4.3 · 435p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Austria with this book.

Where Eagles Dare Alistair MacLean · 1967 · ★ 4.1 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans. Shares Austria

The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain · 1916 · ★ 4.1 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate *The Mysterious Stranger* is a novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each involves a supernatural character called "Satan" or "No. 44". All the versions remained unfinished (with the exception of the last one, No. 44, *the Mysterious Stranger).* Shares Austria

Girl in the cellar Hall, Allan · 2006 · ★ 3.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate On March 2, 1998, while on her way to school, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was abducted. More than eight years later, on August 23, 2006, she escaped with a story that shocked and horrified the entire world. She spent the most delicate years of her life hidden in a cellar underneath an ordinary Austrian suburban home. How was she able to survive? What sort of woman had emerged? What kind of man… Shares Austria

Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 1871 · ★ 3.9 · 70p · ≈ 2h · Challenging First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), *Carmilla* is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist. The novella notably never acknowledges… Shares Austria

3096 Days Natascha Kampusch · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "3,096 days : The incredible story of eight years of abuse and humiliation-- and the fighting spirit that allowed her to escape unbroken"--Cover. Shares Austria

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