Mystery Short Stories

The detective short story at its best — a puzzle, a sleuth, and a solution, all in a single sitting.

A crime solved before bedtime

In this collection

• The 64-Square Madhouse
• The French Powder Mystery
• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
• The Piccadilly Puzzle
• The Ship and Her Master
• The Wheel
• The Four just Men
• The Cold Snap
• The Club-Footed Grocer
• Hieroglyphic Tales
• Rats in the Belfry
• The Clue
• The Gipsy Prophecy
• Major Wilbraham
• The Case of Lady Sannox
• Whither Thou Goest
• The Cafe of Terror
• In the House of Suddhoo
• Ang-Bang-Pang
• The Pink Shop
• The King Diamond
• The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
• The Lady, or the Tiger?
• The House in the Forest
• An Egyptian Hornet
• Above the Dark Tumult: An Adventure
• Superjoemulloy
• Max Carrados Mysteries
• The Frontier
• The Sexton's Adventure
• A Point of Law
• Jack the Skipper
• The Achievements of Luther Trant
• A Chinese Solomon
• Another Solomon

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