Are you prepared to confront the Invisible Man? Venture into Room 666? Investigate a pair of strange feet? If so, this collection of great short-story mysteries will give you hours of unsettling pleasure.
The unabridged stories presented here include The Mystery of Marie Roget by Edgar Allan Poe, The Queer Feet and The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton (not H. G. Wells' Invisible Man, but rather part of Chesterton's Father Brown mystery series), The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Fated Five Hundred by Robert Barr, The Aluminum Dagger by R. Austen Freeman, The Redhill Sisterhood by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, The Mystery of Room 666 by Jacques Futrelle, The Trailer Murder Mystery by Abraham Lincoln (yes, that Abraham Lincoln), and The Sherrif of Gullmore by Melville Davidson Post.
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"Great short collection of some of Poe's best." — Kasey (4 out of 5 stars)
"Great short collection of some of Poe's best."
" LOVED this thing as a kid. "
" the tales of terror were more fun than the tales of mystery... i'm not a fan of mysteries to begin with; these were particularly boring. "
Bret Harte (1836–1902) was born in Albany, New York, and was raised in New York City. He had no formal education, but he inherited a love for books. Harte wrote for the San Franciscan Golden Era paper. There he published his first condensed novels, which were brilliant parodies of the works of well-known authors, such as Dickens and Cooper. Later, he became clerk in the US branch mint. This job gave Harte time to also work for the Overland Monthly, where he published his world-famous “Luck of the Roaring Camp” and commissioned Mark Twain to write weekly articles. In 1871, Harte was hired by the Atlantic Monthly for $10,000 to write twelve stories a year, which was the highest figure paid to an American writer at the time.
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