Title: The Book of the Sleuth
First published: March 1988
Description: A thread of scarlet ; The little more / J.J. Bell --
The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins --

[Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15297563W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band)
[Adventure of the Priory School](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518319W/Adventure_of_the_Priory_School)
Aruthur[sic] Conan Doyle --

The purple death ; The crooked sou / William Le Queux --
The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The mystery of Marie Rogêt ; [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain --
The Sunningdale murder ; The mind readers / Edgar Wallace --
Abel Crew / Mrs. Henry Wood --
The authors / Alan K. Russell.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, English  Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, Mystery fiction, carbuncles, Christmas dinners, commissionaires, Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction, cattle, forges, hanging, horse gaits, horseshoes, moorland, preparatory schools, ransoms, Romani, school caps, traps, English Detective and mystery stories
Places: Paris, England, London, 221B Baker Street, Alpha Inn, British Museum, Covent Garden, Brixton, Priory School, Northern England, Fighting Cock Inn, Chesterfield, Australia
People: C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Baker Street Irregulars, Countess of Morcar, John Horner, Peterson, Henry Baker, Breckinridge, Mrs Oakshott, Catherine Cusack, James Ryder, Mrs. Oakshott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thorneycroft Huxtable, Lord Saltire, Duke of Holdernesse, Heidegger, James Wilder, Reuben Hayes