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Sing a Song of Sixpence (short story) The Soul of the Croupier; Story of the Bandbox; Story of the House with the Green Blinds; Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk; Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders; Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts; The Stymphalean Birds; The Sunningdale Mystery
"August Heat" is a 1910 short story by W. F. Harvey, about two men, unknown to each other, whose look at the other's possible future suggests that one of them will be murdered and the other will be the murderer. It is often referred to as a ghost story (it appears in The Folio Society's Book of Ghost Stories, for example, and in Edward Gorey's ghost story collection The Haunted Look
Pages in category "Mystery short stories" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Children's mystery short story collections (3 P) N. Nero Wolfe short story collections (14 P) S. Sherlock Holmes short story collections (1 C, 5 P)
These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories. Much of early detective fiction was written during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" (1920s–1930s). These detectives include amateurs, private investigators and professional policemen. They are often ...
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but who also invented several turn-of-the-century detectives including The Old Man in the Corner.
In the story, Lord Murchison recounts to his old friend a strange tale of a woman he had loved and intended to marry, but was now dead. She had always been very secretive and mysterious, and he one day followed her to see where she went, discovering her stealthily going to a boarding house. He suspected there was another man, and confronted her ...
The other is The Mysterious West, a less weighty book, with "20 short stories, primarily mystery and detective fiction", each introduced by Tony Hillerman. In sum, the 20 stories had "fictional landscapes here [that] range from the desolation, silence, and danger of Death Valley, and the small, dying towns of southern Colorado to the ...