Detective stories : masterpieces of mystery /

Detective stories : masterpieces of mystery /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (1 electronic document (306 pages))
Language:	English
Subject:	Ghost stories. Detective and mystery stories. Detective and mystery stories. Ghost stories. Electronic books. Detective and mystery fiction.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11232495

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Other authors / contributors:	French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936.
ISBN:	9781775418269 177541826X
Notes:	Archived by the National Library of New Zealand. Title from PDF cover (viewed on Aug. 3, 2011). "First published in 1920"--Title page verso. Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional.
Summary:	Annotation Joseph Lewis French introduces his edition of detective stories with the statement: "We did not readily realize what Poe had done when he created Auguste Dupin." Detective fiction is indeed a recent literary tradition, and French's collection celebrates it with writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Table of Contents:

The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
The black hand / Arthur B. Reeve
The biter bit / Wilkie Collins
Missing : page thirteen / Anna Katherine Green
A scandal in Bohemia / A. Conan Doyle
The rope of fear / Mary E. and Thomas W. Hanshew
The safety match / Anton Chekhov
Some Scotland Yard stories / Robert Anderson.