Dover Publications

Classic Mystery Stories

Douglas G. Greene

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Table of contents
  • Title Page2
  • Copyright Page3
  • A Celebration of the Detective Story4
  • Table of Contents5
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue6
  • Three “Detective” Anecdotes19
  • I.—The Pair of Gloves19
  • II.—The Artful Touch20
  • III.—The Sofa21
  • The Biter Bit23
  • FROM CHIEF INSPECTOR THEAKSTONE, OF THE DETECTIVE POLICE, TO SERGEANT BULMER, OF THE SAME FORCE.23
  • FROM MR. MATTHEW SHARPIN TO CHIEF INSPECTOR THEAKSTONE.23
  • FROM CHIEF INSPECTOR THEAKSTONE TO MR. MATTHEW SHARPIN.23
  • FROM MR. MATTHEW SHARPIE TO CHIEF INSPECTOR THEAKSTONE.24
  • FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.26
  • FROM CHIEF INSPECTOR THEAKSTONE TO SERGEANT BULMER.30
  • FROM SERGEANT BULMER TO CHIEF INSPECTOR THEAKSTONE.30
  • FROM CHIEF INSPECTOR THEAKSTONE TO MR. MATTHEW SHARPIN.32
  • NOTE ON THE PRECEDING CORRESPONDENCE, ADDED BY MR. THEAKSTONE.32
  • A Singular Abduction34
  • The Leopard Man’s Story39
  • The Phantom Motor41
  • The Gap in the Trail44
  • The Million-Dollar Dog47
  • The Bag of Sand55
  • 155
  • 255
  • 357
  • 457
  • 558
  • The Denton Boudoir Mystery62
  • Naboth’s Vineyard68
  • A Jury of Her Peers73
  • The Ordinary Hairpins81
  • The Archduke’s Tea88
  • DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS96
Book details
  • Vendor Dover Publications
  • SKU 9780486112275
  • ISBN-13 9780486112275
  • Author Douglas G. Greene
  • Category Fiction
  • Subject Classics

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A tribute to the first great age of fictional sleuthing, this delightful collection of 13 mystery classics is devoted to the genuine tale of ratiocination, in which the detective solves the crime by investigation and observation, by using his or her wits. Included among these gems, written between 1841 and 1920, are Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," widely acknowledged as the first detective story; Charles Dickens' "Three Detective Anecdotes," in which a policeman is the detective-hero; Jack London's "The Leopard Man's Story," featuring an unusually grisly but thoroughly plausible murder method; "The Phantom Motor," by Jacques Futrelle; as well as tales by Wilkie Collins, Gelett Burgess, Susan Glaspell, E. C. Bentley, Rodrigues Ottolengui, Baroness Orczy, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Meville Davisson Post, and H. C. Bailey. Douglas G. Green, a widely recognized authority in the field of mystery fiction, provides an Introduction and informative headnotes for the stories.