Title: Classic Crime Stories
Description: The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer --
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
Hunted down / Charles Dickens --
An honest thief / Fiodor Dostoevski --
God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoi --
Sleepyhead / Anton Chekhov --
Revenge / Guy de Maupassant --
Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The lost special / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
My favorite murder / Ambrose Bierce --
The stolen bacillus / H.G. Wells --
A retrieved reformation / O. Henry --
The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Footfalls / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke --
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner --
Back for Christmas / John Collier --
The small assassin / Ray Bradbury.
Subjects: tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Fiction, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, Detective and mystery stories, Criminals, Crime in literature, Detective and mystery fiction, Mystery fiction, Mystery and detective stories
Places: Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
People: Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Time periods: Antebellum era