The mystery book / edited by H. Douglas Thomson
1934, First Edition. London : Odhams Press. Very good copy in the original black, decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #468614
Physical description; 1086 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Notes; Short stories. Contents; Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier -- A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm -- The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce -- A terribly strange bed / W. Wilkie Collins -- The black veil / Charles Dickens -- The ivory god / J.S. Fletcher -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The smile of La Gioconda / Morley Roberts -- The invisible man / H.G. Wells -- The game played in the dark / Ernest Bramah -- The missing baronet / G.D.H. and M.I. Cole -- The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts -- The adventure of the Speckled Band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cave of Ali Baba / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The last séance / Agatha Christie -- Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- Out of the deep / Walter de la Mare -- The turn of the screw / Henry James -- The witch aunt / Charles Lamb -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories, English. Ghost stories, English. Horror tales, English. Short stories, English 20th century. H. Douglas Thomson editor.
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