The suicide of Kiaros / L. Frank Baum. Anna Katharine Green -- The biter bit / Wilkie Collins -- Hunted down / Charles Dickens -- The wife-killer / James M'Govan -- My adventure in the flying Scotsman / Eden Phillpotts -- The mystery of a handsome cad / Moll. Bourne -- The jewelled skull / Dick Donovan -- The Greek interpreter / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The black bag left on a door-step / C. L. Pirkis -- The opal of Carmalovitch / Max Pemberton -- An oak coffin / L. T. Meade & Clifford Halifax -- The Stanway cameo mystery / Arthur Morrison -- The divination of the Zagury capsules / Headon Hill -- Five hundred carats / George Griffith -- The vanishing diamonds / M. McDonnell Bodkin -- Hagar of the pawn-shop / Fergus Hume -- The robbery in Phillimore Terrace / Emmuska Orczy -- Passage in the secret history of an Irish countess / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The advocate's wedding day / Catherine Crowe -- Levison's victim / M. E. Braddon -- The Pavilion on the links / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Knightsbridge mystery / Charles Reade -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime / Oscar Wilde -- The mystery of the strong room / L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- The Hammerpond Park burglary / H. G. Wells -- The ides of March / E. W. Hornung -- The story of the lost special / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The episode of the Tyrolean Castle / Grant Allen -- The diamond lizard / George R. Sims -- A prince of swindlers / Guy Boothby -- The nail / Pedro de AlarcĖĪn -- The invisible eye / Erckmann-Chatrian -- God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy -- The Moscow theater plot / Alfredo Oriani -- The little old man of Batignolles / mile Gaboriau -- The deposition / Luigi Capuana -- Vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The confession of a woman / Guy de Maupassant -- The Swedish match / Anton Chekhov -- Sleepy / Anton Chekhov -- Well-woven evidence / Dietrich Theden -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- A thumb-print and what came of it / Mark Twain -- My favorite murder / Ambrose Bierce -- The lady, or the tiger? / Frank Stockton -- The corpus delicti / Melville Davisson Post -- A difficult problem / Anna Katharine Green -- The suicide of Kiaros / L. Frank Baum.
Summary:
Presents a collection of mystery and detective stories written and published during the Victorian era.
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