Uncertain Endings
Subtitle: literature's greatest unsolved mystery stories
Contributors: Bradbury, Ray; Huxley, Aldous; Porter, William Sydney; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Ellin, Stanley
Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed. (1)
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781933648859
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Short stories
Description: The most intriguing riddle mysteries in literary history, including tales from Bradbury, Dahl, Huxley, O. Henry, and Twain Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continually arresting collection come with an irresistible challenge: At their end they leave it to you, the reader, to determine how they end.

For ultimately it's the reader who authors the fate of the brave youth as he contemplates which of the two doors in the king's arena he will choose in Frank Stockton's famous and unforgettable "The Lady, or the Tiger?" And which of the two brothers in three-time Edgar-winner Stanley Ellin's "Unreasonable Doubt" shoots a bullet square in the middle of their rich uncle's forehead? And just what not-so-sweet secret is the prim Miss Spence hiding behind her smile in Aldous Huxley's deliciously enigmatic tale? You decide.
--back cover
Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Otto Penzler; title: Unreasonable doubt / Stanley Ellin; title: A dilemma / S. Weir Mitchell; title: Nunc dimittis / Roald Dahl; title: The lady, or the tiger? / Frank Stockton; title: The discourager of hesitancy / Franck Stockton; title: The lady and the tiger / Jack Moffitt; title: The blind spot / Barry Perowne; title: The mysterious card / Cleveland Moffett; title: The mysterious card unveiled / Cleveland Moffett; title: Karmesin and the meter / Gerald Kersh; title: One hundred in the dark / Owen Johnson; title: The whole town's sleeping / Rady Bradbury; title: At midnight, in the month of June / Ray Bradbury; title: Thimble, thimble / O. Henry; title: The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley; title: Tea for two / Laurie York Erskine; title: The lady and the dragon / Peter Godfrey; title: A medieval romance / Mark Twain; title: The moment of decision / Stanley Ellin.