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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
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.
This collection of detective short stories has a theme connecting the stories, as well, "a group of short detective stories within a detective novel." [5] The collection was well received on publication, with the "merriest collection", [5] with amiable parodies, [6] to one reviewer who was less impressed, saying the stories were "entertaining ...
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror: 1928: Gollancz Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror: Second Series: 1931: Gollancz Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror: Third Series: 1934: Gollancz Tales of Detection: 1936: J.M. Dent As part of the Everyman's Library series
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; [1] [2] Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". [1] C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous ...
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story.
Simon Iff is the protagonist of a series of short detective stories written by occultist Aleister Crowley.He is portrayed as a mystic, magician, world traveller, high society figure and great detective who is advanced in years but possesses a thorough insight into human psychology.
Killer in the Rain is a collection of short stories, including the eponymous title story, written by hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler. The collection features eight short stories originally published in pulp magazines between 1935 and 1941. At Chandler's request, the stories remained uncollected during his lifetime and ...