Four Free Books from Copia (EPUB)

There are four new free books from Copia today, all of which should be in EPUB format (you have to download first to your Copia reader app). All are classics, but I don't see a free version on Kindle (three have Rosetta Books editions). If you have any problems with the Buy Now button wanting payment, try adding all four to your cart, then using checkout from the cart - this seems to bypass that screen (and is what I had to do for three of the books; I am also having a problem downloading those three books, but am fairly certain that Copia will straighten it out soon and they are in my library until then).

The Borgias ($1.99 or more, various editions), by Alexandre Dumas (Copia link)

Book Description
CELEBRATED CRIMES Vol I, Part 1: The Borgias

There are dreadful -- perhaps scurrilous -- rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy, and here Dumas, author of such classics as THE THREE MUSKETEERS, in his Celebrated Crimes series, dishes up the dirt in all its ugly glory. This book was not written for children. Dumas has minced no words in describing the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader -- for whom the books are intended -- will recognize and allow for this fact.

The House of Dr. Edwardes ($4.49), by Francis Beeding (Copia link)

Book Description
The basis for Hitchcock’s masterpiece Spellbound, Francis Beeding’s The House of Dr. Edwardes is a chilling mystery set in an asylum in France. A study of good and evil that owes some of its brooding, portentous atmosphere to the Gothic fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Beeding’s novel is also a classic page-turner, a gripping work of suspense and intrigue.

Mute Witness ($7.19), by Robert L. Fish (Copia link)

Book Description
A slimy district attorney, an assortment of inept police officers, an underworld boss turned snitch, and the hardboiled lieutenant charged with protecting him until his trial make up the cast of characters of Robert Fish’s hair-raising 1963 novel Mute Witness. For Lieutenant Clancy of the New York Police Department, the assignment of protecting mobster Johnny Rossi soon turns into an investigation into who wants him dead and why. The inspiration for the Steve McQueen film, Bullitt, Mute Witness is a classic.

The Wheel Spins ($4.49), by Ethel White (Copia link)

Book Description
One of the Iris Carr's companions in coach, a sweet old woman, suddenly disappears on long train ride and none of the other passengers has ever even heard of her. Iris's increasingly desperate search uncovers a web of danger and intrigue. Basis of one of Hitchcock's most famous films, THE LADY VANISHES, (1938, England) with British cast headed by Michael Redgrave.