Within these pages you will meet such fascinating sleuths as G. K. Chesterton's Mr Pond; Ernest Bramah's remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by running his sensitive fingers over the print; Craig Kennedy, 'the American Sherlock Holmes' created by Arthur B. Reeve; and/acques Futrelle's 'Thinking Machine' Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen.
The reader will also find tales by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle - all created to thrill and intrigue you.
INTRODUCTION
The Purloined Letter
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Silver Blaze
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Ghost of Fountain Lane
C. L. PIRKIS
Who Killed Zebedee?
WILKIE COLLINS
The Great Ruby Robbery
GRANT ALLEN
The Murder of the Mandarin
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Purple Death
WILLIAM LE QUEUX
The White Pillars Murder
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Sapient Monkey
HEADON HILL
Clues
EDGAR WALLACE
The Curzon Street Conundrum
DAVID STUART DAVIES
The Trial for Murder
CHARLES DICKENS
The Black Diamond
ARTHUR B. REEVE
The Vanished Crown
ERNEST BRAMAH
The Lost Special
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Dollar Chasers
EARL DERR BIGGERS
The Amber Beads
FERGUS HUME
The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box
VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH
The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks
M. P. SHIEL
The Manor House Mystery?
J. S. FLETCHER
Abel Crew
MRS HENRY WOOD
The Well
W. W. JACOBS
Cheating the Gallows
ISRAEL ZANGWILL
The Return of Imray
RUDYARD KIPLING
The Treasure Hunt
EDGAR WALLACE
The Problem of Cell 13
JACQUES FUTRELLE
The Murder at the Duck Club
HESKETH PRICHARD
Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty
STACY AUMONIER
The Secret of the Fox Hunter
WILLIAM LE QUEUX
A Schoolmaster Abroad
E. W. HORNUNG
The Missing Millionaire
HARRY BLYTH
The Invisible Man
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Riddle of the Visiting Angel
DAVID STUART DAVIES
In the Grip of the Green Demon
ROBERT BARR
The Murdered Cousin
J. s. LE FANU
The Shadow in the Comer
M. E. BRADDON
The Problem of Dead Wood Hall
DICK DONOVAN
The Invisible Ray
ARTHUR B. REEVE
The Black Cross
ARTHUR B. REEVE
The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage
ERNEST B RAMAH
The Secret of Headlam Height
ERNEST BRAMAH
The Secret Garden
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Stolen White Elephant
MARK TWAIN
The Absent-Minded Coterie
ROBERT BARR
The Mystery at Number Seven
MRS HENRY WOOD
The Green Mamba
EDGAR WALLACE
The Accusing Shadow
HARRY BLYTH
The Gylston Slander
HERBERT JENKINS
The Curse of the Griswold Phantom
DAVID STUART DAVIES
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
FERGUS HUME
