Title: The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century
Description: Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Purloined letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / Edgar Allan Poe
Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins
Murder under the microscope / William Russell
Three strangers / Thomas Hardy
Gallagher / Richard Harding Davis
[Red-headed league](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W) / Arthur Conan Doyle
Cheating the gallows / Israel Zangwill
Chemistry of anarchy / Robert Barr
Sheriff of Gullmore / Melville Davisson Post
The Episode of the Mexican Seer / Grant Allen
Affair of the 'Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co., Limited' / Arthur Morrison
Nameless man / Rodriguez Ottolengui
His defense / Harry Stillwell Edwards
Man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
Subjects: English Detective and mystery stories, English fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, banks, detective fiction, Encyclopædia Britannica, pawnbrokers, police inspectors, red hair
Places: Paris, London, Baker Street
People: C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Duncan Ross, Police Inspector Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay, Archie
Time periods: 1890