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Index
Cover
Other Titles
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction by Otto Penzler
The Victorians
At the Edge of the Crater: L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace
The Episode of the Mexican Seer: Grant Allen
The Body Snatcher: Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula’s Guest: Bram Stoker
The Narrative of Mr. James Rigby: Arthur Morrison
The Ides of March: E. W. Hornung
Nineteenth-Century Americans
The Story of a Young Robber: Washington Irving
Moon-Face: Jack London
The Shadow of Quong Lung: C. W. Doyle
The Edwardians
The Fire of London: Arnold Bennett
Madame Sara: L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace
The Affair of the Man Who Called Himself Hamilton Cleek: Thomas W. Hanshew
The Mysterious Railway Passenger: Maurice Leblanc
An Unposted Letter: Newton MacTavish
The Adventure of “The Brain”: Bertram Atkey
The Kailyard Novel: Clifford Ashdown
The Parole of Gevil-Hay: K. & Hesketh Prichard
The Hammerpond Park Burglary: H. G. Wells
The Zayat Kiss: Sax Rohmer
Early Twentieth-Century Americans
The Infallible Godahl: Frederick Irving Anderson
The Caballero’s Way: O. Henry
Conscience in Art: O. Henry
The Unpublishable Memoirs: A. S. W. Rosenbach
The Universal Covered Carpet Tack Company: George Randolph Chester
Boston Blackie’s Code: Jack Boyle
The Gray Seal: Frank L. Packard
The Dignity of Honest Labor: Percival Pollard
The Eyes of the Countess Gerda: May Edginton
The Willow Walk: Sinclair Lewis
A Retrieved Reformation: O. Henry
Between the World Wars
The Burglar: John Russell
Portrait of a Murderer: Q. Patrick
Karmesin and the Big Flea: Gerald Kersh
The Very Raffles-Like Episode of Castor and Pollux, Diamonds De Luxe: Harry Stephen Keeler
The Most Dangerous Game: Richard Connell
Four Square Jane: Edgar Wallace
A Fortune in Tin: Edgar Wallace
The Genuine Old Master: David Durham
The Colonel Gives a Party: Everett Rhodes Castle
Footsteps of Fear: Vincent Starrett
The Signed Masterpiece: Frederick Irving Anderson
The Hands of Mr. Ottermole: Thomas Burke
“His Lady” to the Rescue: Bruce Graeme
On Getting an Introduction: Edgar Wallace
The Fifteen Murderers: Ben Hecht
The Damsel in Distress: Leslie Charteris
The Pulp Era
After-Dinner Story: William Irish
The Mystery of the Golden Skull: Donald E. Keyhoe
We Are All Dead: Bruno Fischer
Horror Insured: Paul Ernst
A Shock for the Countess: C. S. Montanye
A Shabby Millionaire: Christopher B. Booth
Crimson Shackles: Frederick C. Davis
The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon: Eugene Thomas
The Copper Bowl: George Fielding Eliot
Post–World War II
The Cat-Woman: Erle Stanley Gardner
The Kid Stacks a Deck: Erle Stanley Gardner
The Theft from the Empty Room: Edward D. Hoch
The Shill: Stephen Marlowe
The Dr. Sherrock Commission: Frank McAuliffe
In Round Figures: Erle Stanley Gardner
The Racket Buster: Erle Stanley Gardner
Sweet Music: Robert L. Fish
The Moderns
The Ehrengraf Experience: Lawrence Block
Quarry’s Luck: Max Allan Collins
The Partnership: David Morrell
Blackburn Sins: Bradley Denton
The Black Spot: Loren D. Estleman
Car Trouble: Jas. R. Petrin
Keller on the Spot: Lawrence Block
Boudin Noir: R. T. Lawton
Like a Thief in the Night: Lawrence Block
Too Many Crooks: Donald E. Westlake
Permissions Acknowledgments
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