Which one keeps calling?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

’Tain’t robbery—it’s revenge! A wicked light flares and a man demands help for a plan that ends in flight to Texas.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A goose at one end of a chain and a man's liberty at the other—whose fate hangs on the missing link?

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Black ashes, an open brass box—and the treble K on the lid that matched the morning's envelope.

The Divine Comedy

War has traded swords for the slow theft of bread—who profits when scarcity replaces open battle?

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The vine has struck a fiber in me—might my base metal be filed into the key the Dervish howls at?

The Divine Comedy

She tore open her garments and exposed her belly—the stench woke me; what horror produced such a brutal unveiling?

The Divine Comedy

I stood frozen and powerless—what sight could silence a man so completely that words fail?

Meditations

When someone speaks, let your mind vanish from everything else—what do you lose by half-listening?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

She fumbles the keys in terror; the knob turns and the door opens—what terrified her so much she could hardly breathe?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

No mornings, no school, no washing—Tom sells pirate life as perfect freedom.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A white hand slipped from a chink in the stones, felt about in the light—and then it was gone.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

If a single sip contains both birth and end, are you still the same person tomorrow?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Dig where the limb's shadow lies at midnight—can a child's riddle really point to something worth risking?

The Art of War

Knowing the enemy is open to attack is useless if your own forces can’t strike—what vital condition are you overlooking?

Treasure Island

From my hiding place I heard the knife twice—Silver, like a monkey, panting as he struck.