Great Detective Stories: One Volume Edition (Walter J. Black, 1928, hc, an)
Also as World’s Great Detective Stories and abridged as Baffling Detective Stories by Masters of Mystery. In 101 World’s Great Mystery Stories (Blue Ribbon 1928).
- 1 · Mr. Vincent Cawdor, Commission Agent [Peter Ruff] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss Pearson’s Magazine November 1909, as “An Episode in the Career of Mr. Vincent Cawdor, Commission Agent”
- 12 · Missing: Page Thirteen [Violet Strange] · Anna Katharine Green · nv The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green, Putnam's, 1915
- 37 · Madame Noel · François Eugène Vidocq · ar 1828
- 45 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844
- 58 · In Various Roles · Guy de Maupassant (error, actually by Léopold von Sacher-Masoch) · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the German (“Ein exotischer Prinz”, Soziale Schattenbilder, Gesenius, 1873).
- 62 · The Four Just Men [The Just Men] · Edgar Wallace · ex Tallis, 1905
- 67 · The Three Rings · Giovanni Boccaccio · ss from The Decameron (r)
translated from the Italian (Decamerone, 1353).
- 69 · The Silent Bullet [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine January 1911
- 81 · Tracks in the Snow · Alfred Henry Lewis · ss (r)
- 98 · The Stolen White Elephant · Mark Twain · nv The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain, Webster, 1882
- 113 · The Law Beaters · Richard Edward Connell · ss Collier’s June 23 1928
- 121 · Love and Police · Emile Gaboriau · ss (r)
- 131 · A Case of Identity [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine September 1891
- 144 · The Murder in the Mayor’s Parlor · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine September 15 1916
- 160 · Extradition [John Dockbridge] · Arthur C. Train · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1905
- 172 · Zadig · Voltaire · ex Romances, Tales and Smaller Pieces of M. De Voltaire by Voltaire, Dodsley, 1794
translated from the French (“Zadig ou la Destinée”, 1747).
- 178 · D’Artagnan, Detective · Alexandre Dumas · ex from The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (r)
translated from the French (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard).
- 183 · The Tragedies in the Greek Room [Moris Klaw] · Sax Rohmer · nv The New Magazine (UK) April 1913, as “Case of the Tragedies in the Greek Room”
- 197 · The Majesty of Justice · Anatole France · ss (r)
- 213 · A Woman of the Streets · Victor Hugo · ss (r)
- 217 · Tough · Walter Davenport · ss Liberty March 21 1925
- 225 · The Lady with the Hatchet [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · ss Metropolitan May 1922
- 239 · Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine December 1834, uncredited.
- 247 · Miss Youghal’s Sais [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Civil and Military Gazette April 25 1887
- 251 · The Gray Seal [Jimmie Dale (The Gray Seal)] · Frank L. Packard · ss People’s Ideal Fiction Magazine May 1914
- 266 · The Mystery of a Studio [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American December 4 1905
- 284 · A Lodging for the Night · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv Temple Bar October 1877
- 298 · Rinconete and Cortadillo · Miguel de Cervantes · ss (r)
- 313 · The Twelve Green Russian Garnets · Arthur Sherburne Hardy · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910
- 324 · The Night of Gems · Rafael Sabatini · ts The Premier Magazine #28, August 1916
- 339 · The Talking Bird · Harris Dickson · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 19 1925
- 351 · Angelo · John A. Moroso · ss (r)
- 360 · Well-Woven Evidence · Dietrich Theden · ss (r)
translated from the German (“Fein gesponnene Faden”).
- 369 · The Bet · Anton Chekhov · ss Best Russian Short Stories ed. Thomas Seltzer, Boni & Liveright, 1917
- 374 · Too Dear · Leo N. Tolstoy · ss (r)
- 378 · The Hunch-Back Woman · Honoré de Balzac · ss (r)
- 382 · Cartouche · [uncredited] · ar (r); from Parisian Criminal Records.
- 401 · The Beaucaire Diligence · Alphonse Daudet · ss (r)
from Letters from My Mill (1866). translated from the French (“Diligence de Beaucaire”, Lettres de mon moulin, 1869).
- 404 · The Three Strangers · Thomas Hardy · nv Longman’s Magazine March 1883
- 419 · Ghosts in Court · [uncredited] · ar (r)
from French Trials.
- 427 · The Nail · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · nv (r)
- 438 · The Detective · Eugène Sue · ss (r)
- 451 · El Conde Lucanor · Don Juan Manuel · ss (r)
- 454 · A Capillary Crime · F. D. Millet · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1884
- 469 · Claude Du Vall · [uncredited] · ar (r)
from Robber Tales.
- 473 · Sawney Beane · [uncredited] · ar Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland, John Nicholson, 1843, as “Sawney Bean and His Family”
- 476 · Tracked by Trappers · Ouida · ss (r)
- 492 · Am I Myself? · [uncredited] · ar (r); from French Court Records.
- 500 · Dorido and Clorinia · Mateo Aleman · ss (r), uncredited.
- 509 · Pen, Pencil and Poison · Oscar Wilde · ar The Fortnightly Review January 1889
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