The Thriller: The chase, the plot, the ticking clock

The fast-moving forerunners of the modern thriller — Buchan’s Thirty-Nine Steps, Childers’s Riddle of the Sands, and Edgar Wallace’s crime machine.

In this collection

• The Story of Little Black Sambo
• Sam Joplin's Epigastric Nerve
• Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
• Rain In The Doorway
• The Twelfth
• Tricks of Light
• The Californian's Tale
• Star Bright
• Babylon, Volume 2
• Lost but Safe
• I'll Build myself a Gallant Ship. (Solo or Quartette)
• The Man Who Swears
• The Vegetable Kingdom
• The Frost King and how the Fairies Conquered Him
• An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
• Blackgum Ag'in' Thunder. John Gayther
• Whittington and his Cat
• The Portrait of Mr. W. H
• Ib and Christine
• Outside the Universe
• A Tiger's Skin
• The Little Sister: the Story of Suyettar and the Nine Brothers
• The Apple
• Mark, Printed on the Opposing Page
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