The Mysterious Stranger and Other Tales (Signet Classics)
Contributors: Edmund Reiss (Foreword)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: February 1, 1962
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780451524584
First sentence: IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result.
Table of contents: title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County --; title: The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut --; title: The stolen white elephant --; title: Luck --; title: The 1,000,000 (pound) bank-note --; title: The man that corrupted Hadleyburg --; title: The five boons of life --; title: Was it Heaven? Or Hell? --; title: The mysterious stranger.