The Case of the Dead Skipper and Other Stories

A second selection of some of the very best classic mystery and detective fiction short stories and novellas: from Wilkie Collins: The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen letter; Sir W S Gilbert: The Burglar's Story; Catherine Louisa Pirkis: The Black Bag Left On a Door-Step; Grant Allen: The Great Ruby Robbery; Anna Katharine Green: A Difficult Problem; The Golden Slipper; R C Lehmann: The Bishop's Crime; Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventure of the Three Students; R Austin Freeman: Rex v. Burnaby; Arthur Morrison: The Case of the Dead Skipper; Rudyard Kipling: The Return of Imray; E W Hornung: A Trap to Catch a Cracksman; Arnold Bennett: Murder!; Victor L Whitechurch: The Stolen Necklace; G K Chesterton: The Insoluble Problem; and Edgar Wallace: Circumstantial Evidence.