CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE DETECTIVE STORY Willard Huntington Wright 3
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH STORIES
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE Edgar Allan Poe 41
THE BITER BIT Wilkie Collins 75
THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK Anna Katharine Green 105
THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY A. Conan Doyle 147
THE LENTON CROFT ROBBERIES Arthur Morrison 173
THE PATHOLOGIST TO THE RESCUE R. Austin Freeman 197
THE STRAW MAN Melville Davisson Post 219
THE KNIGHT'S CROSS SIGNAL PROBLEM. Ernest Bramah 235
THE ORACLE OF THE DOG G. K. Chesterton 263
THE MURDER IN THE MAYOR’S PARLOR J. S. Fletcher 287
THE BUTLER Bennett Copplestone 311
THREE DEAD MEN Eden Phillpotts 353
THE LITTLE HOUSE H. C. Bailey 389
CONTINENTAL STORIES
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW Maurice Leblanc 413
THE SWEDISH MATCH Anton Chekhov 439
WELL-WOVEN EVIDENCE Dietrich Theden 461
STRANGE TRACKS Balduin Groller 475
