American detective stories.
Contributors: Burgess, Gelett; Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930.; Harte, Bret, 1836-1902.; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.; Matthews, Brander; Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935.; Post, Melville Davisson
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Published: 1927
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Detective stories
Table of contents: value: Foreword, by Carolyn Wells; The gold-bug, by E.A. Poe; The twinkling of an eye, by Brander Matthews; The Corpus Delicti, by Melville D. Post; The long arm, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The ruby and the caldron, by Anna Katherine Green; The Denton boudoir mystery, by Gelett Burgess; The stolen case, by Bret Harte.