The mystery book /
Thomson, Henry Douglas.
London : Odhams Press,
c1934.
Short stories.
Includes indexes.
Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier -- A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm -- The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce -- A terribly strange bed / W. Wilkie Collins -- The black veil / Charles Dickens -- The ivory god / J.S. Fletcher -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The smile of La Gioconda / Morley Roberts -- The invisible man / H.G. Wells -- The game played in the dark / Ernest Bramah -- The missing baronet / G.D.H. and M.I. Cole -- The mystery of the sleeping-car experss /  Freeman Wills Crofts -- The adventure of the Speckled Band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cave of Ali Baba / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The last séance / Agatha Christie -- Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- Out of the deep / Walter de la mare -- The turn of the screw / Henry James -- The witch aunt / Charles Lamb -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker.
Detective and mystery stories.