Title: The Detective Story
Subtitle: An Introduction to the World's Greatest Whodunit Sleuths and Their Creators
Description: Annotated anthology textbook of detective stories for American high schools, containing literary history and criticism with student exercises designed to deepen similar literary sensibilities.

Contains:
Edgar Allan Poe	
The murders in the Rue Morgue --	
The purloined letter --	
The gold bug --	
Arthur Conan Doyle	
Study in scarlet (excerpts) --	
Final Problem
[Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518119W/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House)
The American Sherlock Holmes:	
Ellery Queen	
The telltale bottle --	
My queer dean! --	
The adventure of the president's half dome --	
The others:	
The problem of cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle --	
The invisible man by G.K. Chesterton --	
The mystery of Hunter's Lodge by Agatha Christie --	
The adventurous exploit of the cave of Ali Baba by Dorothy Sayers --	
Mr. Strang performs an experiment by William Brittain --	
There were female sleuths before women's liberation:	
Locked doors by Mary Roberts Rinehart --	
Village murders by Agatha Christie --	
You bet your life by Stuart Palmer --	
Mom and the haunted mink by James Yaffe --	
Variations:	
In the heat of the night (excerpts) by John [Dudley] Ball --	
The world series murder by Rex Stout --	
The day the children vanished by Hugh Pentecost --	
The stolen cigar case by Bret Harte.
Subjects: Textbooks, air guns, anonymity, attempted murder, baritsu, coal tar, deformities, locked-room mysteries, soft-point bullets, wax sculptures, whist, detective stories, American Detective and mystery stories, English Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, English language
Places: London, Maynooth, Australia, 427 Park Lane, Kensington, Reichenbach Falls, Florence, Tibet, Lhasa, Persia, Mecca, Khartoum, Camden House, Baker Street, Montpellier, France, Rue Morgue, Cell 13, Hunter's Lodge, Cave of Ali Baba
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Ronald Adair, Earl of Maynooth, Sebastian Moran, James Moriarty, Mycroft Holmes, Inspector G. Lestrade, Mr. Strang
Time periods: 1894