| Description |
xi, 623 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Vintage Crime/Black Lizard" |
| Contents |
One night in a gaming-house / "Waters" -- The biter bit / Wilkie Collins -- Hunted down / Charles Dickens -- The wife-killer / James M'Govan -- My adventure in the flying Scotsman / Eden Phillpotts -- The mystery of a handsome cad / Moll. Bourne -- The jewelled skull / Dick Donovan -- The Greek interpreter / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The black bag left on a door-step / C. L. Pirkis -- The opal of Carmalovitch / Max Pemberton -- An oak coffin / L. T. Meade & Clifford Halifax -- The Stanway cameo mystery / Arthur Morrison -- The divination of the Zagury capsules / Headon Hill -- Five hundred carats / George Griffith -- The vanishing diamonds / M. McDonnell Bodkin -- Hagar of the pawn-shop / Fergus Hume -- The robbery in Phillimore Terrace / Emmuska Orczy -- Passage in the secret history of an Irish countess / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The advocate's wedding day / Catherine Crowe -- Levison's victim / M. E. Braddon -- The Pavilion on the links / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Knightsbridge mystery / Charles Reade -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime / Oscar Wilde -- The mystery of the strong room / L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- The Hammerpond Park burglary / H. G. Wells -- The ides of March / E. W. Hornung -- The story of the lost special / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The episode of the Tyrolean Castle / Grant Allen -- The diamond lizard / George R. Sims -- A prince of swindlers / Guy Boothby -- The nail / Pedro de Alar̤cn -- The invisible eye / Erckmann-Chatrian -- God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy -- The Moscow theater plot / Alfredo Oriani -- The little old man of Batignolles / Emile Gaboriau -- The deposition / Luigi Capuana -- Vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The confession of a woman / Guy de Maupassant -- The Swedish match / Anton Chekhov -- Sleepy / Anton Chekhov -- Well-woven evidence / Dietrich Theden -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- A thumb-print and what came of it / Mark Twain -- My favorite murder / Ambrose Bierce -- The lady, or the tiger? / Frank Stockton -- The corpus delicti / Melville Davisson Post -- A difficult problem / Anna Katharine Green -- The suicide of Kiaros / L. Frank Baum. |
| Summary |
"Penzler returns with a new anthology assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants in these exhilarating mysteries. Behind the velvet curtains of horsedrawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book series, Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling, suspenseful Victorian mysteries. This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Guy de Maupassant among other legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries."--Publisher. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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Serial murderers -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Historical fiction, American.
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London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Added Title |
Victorian mysteries |
| ISBN |
9780593311028 |
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0593311027 |
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