ISBN: 9781620870495

Description: x, 566 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

• Introduction by Otto Penzler
• Detection and mystery. Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr
• The ordinary hair-pins / E.C. Bentley
• The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins
• The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts
• Blind gap moor / J. S. Fletcher
• The Regent's Park murder / Baroness Orczy
• Mystery and horror. Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier
• The leech of Folkestone / R. H. Barham
• A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm
• Cut-throat farm / J. D. Beresford
• The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce
• Secret worship / Algernon Blackwood
• No. 17 / Mrs. E. Bland
• The open boat / Stephan Crane
• Riesenberg / Ford Madox Ford
• The prayer / Violet Hunt
• The well / W. W.Jacobs
• Mr. Justice Harbottle / J. S. Le Fanu
• The haunted and the haunters / Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
• The great return / Arthur Machen
• The story of the Greek slave / Frederick Marryat
• Anty Bligh /John Masefield
• The bell-tower / Herman Melville
• The library window / Mrs. Oliphant
• Rose Rose / Barry Pain
• Berenice / Edgar Allan Poe
• The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
• Sredni vashtar "saki"/ (H. H. Munro)
• Called to the rescue / Henry Spicer
• The inexperienced ghost / H. G. W. Wells.

LCCN: 2012022722

Control Number: 940750

Subjects:

• Detective and mystery stories, American.
• Detective and mystery stories, English.

Genre: Fiction.

Other Authors: Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957.