The great detective stories
Subtitle: a chronological anthology
By: compiled and edited with an introduction by Willard Huntington Wright.
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1927
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.
Notes: Published in 1931 under title: The world's great detective stories.
Table of contents: title: American and English stories: The murders in the Rue Morgue, by E. A. Poe. The biter bit, by W. Collins. The doctor, his wife, and the clock, by Anna K. Green. The Boscombe Valley mystery, by A. C. Doyle. The Lenton croft robberies, by A. Morrison. The pathologist to the rescue, by R. A. Freeman. The straw man, by M. D. Post. The Knight's cross signal problem, by E. Bramah. The oracle of the dog, by G. K. Chesterton. The murder in the mayor's parlor, by J. S. Fletcher. The butler, by B. Copplestone. Three dead men, by E. Phillpotts. The little house, by H. C. Bailey.; title: Continental stories: Footprints in the snow, by M. Leblanc. The Swedish match, by A. Chekhov. Well-woven evidence, by D. Theden. Strange tracks, by B. Groller.