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A treasury of classic mystery stories

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MURDER MOST FOUL! Kidnapping most treacherous: Larceny, swindling, poisoning, and suicide! Mystery tales of the nine- teenth and early twentieth century teem with some of the most nefarious crimes ever imagined. A Treasury of Classic Mystery Stories collects twenty- three masterpieces from this gold- en age of mystery fiction—tales that laid the groundwork for mystery fic- tion being written today. So sit back, relax. and immerse yourself in some of the best-told mystery stories of all time by some of the greatest writers Of the past two centuries—or, see how sharp you yourself are at solving some of the most baffling mysteries in the annals of literature, including:

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Fall River Press
Language
English
Pages
792

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Table of Contents

Missing! -- Émile Gaboriau
The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed -- Wilkie Collins
The Murders in the Rue Morgue -- Edgar Allen Poe
The Ten-Thirty Folkestone Express -- Sax Rohmer
The Fenchurch Street Mystery -- Baroness Orczy
The Invisible Man -- G.K. Chesterton
The Murder of Bennett Sandman -- Edgar Wallace
The S.S. -- M.P. Shiel
The Mysterious Card -- Cleveland Moffett
The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Ivy Cottage Mystery -- Arthur Morrison
The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage -- Ernest Bramah
A Case of Premeditation -- R. Austin Freeman
The Scarlet Thread -- Jacques Futrelle
The Red Silk Scarf -- Maurice Leblanc
The Business Minister -- H.C. Bailey
The Big Bow Mystery -- Israel Zangwell
Room Number 3 -- Anna Katharine Green
The Doomdorf Mystery -- Melville Davisson Post
The Poisoned Pen -- Arthur B. Reeve
Justice Ends at Home -- Rex Stout
The Rope of Fear -- Mary E. Hanshew and Thomas W. Hanshew
The Mysterious Affair at Styles -- Agatha Chrisitie -- Original Sources.

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New York, NY
Copyright Date
2016

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.087208
Library of Congress
PR1309.D4 T74 2016

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
792 pages
Number of pages
792

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37763615M
Internet Archive
treasuryofclassi0000unse_e9w6
ISBN 10
1435162854
ISBN 13
9781435162853
LCCN
2016286586
OCLC/WorldCat
1035797392
Goodreads
33650869

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"Collects twenty-three masterpieces from this golden age of mystery fiction-tales that laid the groundwork for mystery fiction being written today. So sit back, relax, and immerse yourself in some of the best told-mystery stories of all time by some of the greatest writers of the past two centuries - or, see how sharp you yourself are at solving some of the most baffling mysteries in the annals of literature, including The Murder in the Rue Morgue, The Fenchurch Street Mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles.--Amazon.com.

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