A treasury of classic mystery stories
Edition: printing (2)
Publisher: Fall River Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9781435162853
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Criminal behavior; Fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Specimens; English Detective and mystery stories; American Detective and mystery stories
Description: MURDER MOST FOUL! Kidnapping most treacherous: Larceny, swindling, poisoning, and suicide! Mystery tales of the nine- teenth and early twentieth century teem with some of the most nefarious crimes ever imagined. A Treasury of Classic Mystery Stories collects twenty- three masterpieces from this gold- en age of mystery fiction—tales that laid the groundwork for mystery fic- tion being written today. So sit back, relax. and immerse yourself in some of the best-told mystery stories of all time by some of the greatest writers Of the past two centuries—or, see how sharp you yourself are at solving some of the most baffling mysteries in the annals of literature, including:
Table of contents: title: Missing!  -- Émile Gaboriau; title: The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed  -- Wilkie Collins; title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue  -- Edgar Allen Poe; title: The Ten-Thirty Folkestone Express  -- Sax Rohmer; title: The Fenchurch Street Mystery  -- Baroness Orczy; title: The Invisible Man  -- G.K. Chesterton; title: The Murder of Bennett Sandman  -- Edgar Wallace; title: The S.S.  -- M.P. Shiel; title: The Mysterious Card  -- Cleveland Moffett; title: The Hound of the Baskervilles  -- Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The Ivy Cottage Mystery  -- Arthur Morrison; title: The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage  -- Ernest Bramah; title: A Case of Premeditation  -- R. Austin Freeman; title: The Scarlet Thread  -- Jacques Futrelle; title: The Red Silk Scarf  -- Maurice Leblanc; title: The Business Minister  -- H.C. Bailey; title: The Big Bow Mystery  -- Israel Zangwell; title: Room Number 3  -- Anna Katharine Green; title: The Doomdorf Mystery  -- Melville Davisson Post; title: The Poisoned Pen  -- Arthur B. Reeve; title: Justice Ends at Home  -- Rex Stout; title: The Rope of Fear  -- Mary E. Hanshew and Thomas W. Hanshew; title: The Mysterious Affair at Styles -- Agatha Chrisitie -- Original Sources.