Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories, Ghost Stories, Riddle Stories, Mystic-Humorous Stories

Contents

Detective Stories:

The Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Hand / Arthur B. Reeve
The Biter Bit / Wilkie Collins
Missing: Page Thirteen / Anna Katherine Green
A Scandal in Bohemia / A. Conan Doyle
The Rope of Fear / Mary E. and Thomas W. Hanshew
The Safety Match / Anton Chekhov
Some Scotland Yard Stories, from "Criminals and Crime" / Sir Robert Anderson.

Ghost Stories:

The Listener / Algernon Blackwood
Number 13 / Montague Rhodes James
Joseph: A Story / Katherine Rickford
The Horla / Guy de Maupassant
The Beast with Five Fingers / William F. Harvey
Sister Maddelena / Ralph Adams Cram
Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Yellow Cat / Wilbur Daniel Steele
Letter to Sura / Pliny the Younger.

Riddle Stories:

The Mysterious Card / Cleveland Moffett
The Great Valdez Sapphire / Anonymous
The Oblong Box / Edgar Allan Poe
The Birth Mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Terribly Strange Bed / Wilkie Collins
The Torture by Hope / Villiers de l'Isle Adam
The Box with the Iron Clamps / Florence Marryat
My Fascinating Friend / William Archer
The Lost Room / Fitz-James O'Brien.

Mystic-Humorous Stories:

May-Day Eve / Algernon Blackwood -- The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The Mummy's Foot / Théopile Gautier -- Mr. Bloke's Item / Mark Twain -- A Ghost / Lafcadio Hearn -- The Man Who Went Too Far / E. F. Benson -- Chan Tow The Highrob / Chester Bailey Fernando -- The Inmost Light / Arthur Machen -- The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange / A. Conan Doyle -- The Man With The Pale Eyes / Guy de Maupassant -- The Rival Ghosts / Brander Matthews.