Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
by Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, Montague Rhodes James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H.P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke · 1982
Each story in Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror is an example of the work of an outstanding author--from Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to such modern masters as Agatha Christie, Ross Macdonald, Georges Simenon and a score of other famous names. Appearing in these pages are the world's greatest fictional detectives--Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, James Bond, Lew Archer, Ellery Queen, Inspector Maigret and Perry Mason, all at work on some of their more baffling and fascinating cases. Contents: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE TURN OF THE TIDE / C. S Forester THE SUMMER PEOPLE / Shirley Jackson THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO / Edgar Allan Poe THE THIRD FLOOR FLAT / Agatha Christie THE MAN WHO LIKED DICKENS / Evelyn Waugh WAS IT A DREAM / Guy de Maupassant THE FOURTH MAN / John Russell THE WENDIGO / Algernon Blackwood THE TOUCH OF NUTMEG MAKES IT / John Collier THE ABSENCE OF MR. GLASS / G. K. Chesterton MIRIAM / Truman capote THE LOG OF THE EVENING STAR / Alfred Noyes CASTING THE RUNES / M. R. James MAN FROM THE SOUTH / Roald Dahl THE WHOLE TOWNS SLEEPING / Ray Bradbury THE ARROW OF GOD / Leslie Charteris THE TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH / Lord D
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