Title: Great Tales of Action and Adventure
Description: Contains:
The bamboo trap by Robert S. Lemmon	
Leiningen versus the ants by Carl Stephenson	
The blue cross by G.K. Chesterton	
[The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8776206W) by Richard Connell	
The fourth man by John Russell	
The interlopers by "Saki" (H.H. Munro)	
[The adventure of the dancing men](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262417W/Adventure_of_the_Dancing_Men) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) by Edgar Allen Poe	
Rescue party by Arthur C. Clarke	
August heat by William Fryer Harvey	
To build a fire by Jack London	
Action by C.E. Montague.
Subjects: American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, short stories, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, Adventure stories, survival of the fittest, animal trapping, trapping pits, knouts, hunting dogs, Cossacks, deaf-mutes, snow leopards, jaguars, Islands, Juvenile fiction, Hunting stories, Juvenile works, Hunting, Human hunting, Big game sport, Travel fiction, Americans, crime bosses, frequency analysis, hanging, murder-suicide, penal labour, stick figures, substitution ciphers, weddings
Places: Toledo, Ridling Thorpe Manor, Norfolk, United States, Chicago, England, Caribbean, Amazon rainforest, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet
People: Father Time, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Hilton Cubitt, Elsie Patrick, Abe Slaney, Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, Ivan, The Great White Czar
Time periods: 20th century