A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma
A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma by Fergus Hume is available here as the complete text, split into 480 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II A Boccaccian Adventure
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV The Angello Household
- Chapter V Lost
- Chapter VI A Haunted Palace
- Chapter VII At the Teatro Ezzelino
- Chapter VIII The Phantom of Lucrezia Borgia
- Chapter IX Fiore Della Casa
- Chapter X A Voice in the Darkness
- Chapter XI The Marchese Beltrami
- Chapter XII Death in Life
- Chapter XIII "Down Among the Dead Men."
- Chapter XIV The New Lazarus
- Chapter XV Found
- Chapter XVI An Interrupted Honeymoon
- Chapter XVII Nemesis
- Chapter XVIII A Last Word
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- Night
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Vampire
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- Wings
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- Plumed
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