The Best American mystery stories of the nineteenth century
An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre's founding century With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Centu...
| Other Authors: | Penzler, Otto. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston ; New York :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2014.
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| Series: |
Best American Mystery Stories.
Best American series. |
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Table of Contents:
- The story of the young robber /
- Washington Irving
- The rifle /
- William Leggett
- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe /
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The murders in the Rue Morgue /
- Edgar Allan Poe
- The purloined letter /
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Remarkable case of arrest for murder /
- Abraham Lincoln
- The fatal secret /
- Daniel Webster
- The danseuse /
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- A double tragedy: an actor's story /
- Louisa May Alcott
- The two sisters; or, The avenger /
- Allan Pinkerton
- The lady, or the tiger? and The discourager of hesitancy /
- Frank Stockton
- A thumb-print and what came of it /
- Mark Twain
- My favorite murder /
- Ambrose Bierce
- The sheriff's children /
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Gallegher /
- Richard Harding Davis
- 'Round the opium lamp /
- William Norr
- Lingo Dan /
- Percival Pollard
- The nameless man and the Montezuma emerald /
- Rodrigues Ottolengui
- The doctor, his wife, and the clock /
- Anna Katharine Green
- A very strange case /
- William M. Hinkley
- The long arm /
- Mary E. Wilkins
- The mysterious card and The mysterious card unveiled /
- Cleveland Moffett
- Tom Sawyer, detective /
- Mark Twain
- The corpus delicti /
- Melville Davisson Post
- The suicide of Kiaros /
- L. Frank Baum
- The purple emperor /
- Robert W. Chambers
- At Pinney's ranch /
- Edward Bellamy
- The blue hotel /
- Stephen Crane
- A cup of cold water /
- Edith Wharton
- The detective's pretty neighbor /
- Nicholas Carter
- A point in morals /
- Ellen Glasgow
- A thousand deaths /
- Jack London.