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Detective Stories from the Strand

I The great detectives. The vampire of the village / G.K. Chesterton —

The dream / Agatha Christie —

The ginger king / A.E.W. Mason —

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The ministering angel / E.C. Bentley —

Tokay of the comet year / H. Warner Allen II Legal niceties. —

A point of law / Somerset Maugham —

Not guilty / Will Scott —

III The twist. The idol's eye / Sapper —

The perfect crime / Seamark —

The intruder / Augustus Muir —

Cast-iron alibi / Richard Keverne —

IV Rogues, knaves, and fortune-hunters. A deal in old masters / Aldous Huxley —

Private water / A.J. Alan —

A gift from the Nabob / D.L. Murray —

The episcopal seal / J. Maclaren-Ross —

V Mostly murder. The interruption / W.W. Jacobs —

The Chobham affair / Edgar Wallace —

By kind permission of the murdered man / Hylton Cleaver —

In view of the audience / Marguerite Steen —

The man who dreamed too much / Quentin Reynolds —

Inquest / Loel Yeo —

VI The master.

The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the creeping man / Arthur Conan Doyle —

The adventure of the lion's mane / Arthur Conan Doyle —

The adventure of the first class carriage / Ronald Knox.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 374 pages

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