
The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
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Narrated by:
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Rachael Beresford
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Stephen Bowlby
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Dan Calley
Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler—"detective fiction's best editor and champion" (The Washington Post)—returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants.
Behind the velvet curtains of horse-drawn 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.
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Introduction by Otto Penzler
One Night in a Gaming-House 3
"Waters"
The Biter Bit 11
Wilkie Collins
Hunted Down 30
Charles Dickens
The Wife-Killer 44
James M'Govan
My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman
52
Eden Phillpotts
The Mystery of a Handsome Cad 66
Moll. Bourne
The Jewelled Skull 72
Dick Donovan
The Greek Interpreter 84
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step 96
C. L. Pirkis
The Opal of Carmalovitch 111
Max Pemberton
An Oak Coffin
120
L. T. Meade & Chifford Halfax
The Stanway Cameo Mystery 136
Arthur Morrison
The Divination of the Zagury
Capsules 149
Headon Hill
Five Hundred Carats 160
George Griffith
The Vanishing Diamonds 170
M. McDonnell Bodkin
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop 184
Fergus Hume
The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace 205
Emmuska Orczy
CRIME STORIES
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess,
219
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Advocate's Wedding-Day
240
Catherine Crome
Levison's Victim 248
M. E. Braddon
The Pavilion on the Links 259
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Knightsbridge Mystery 289
Charles Reade
The Three Strangers 311
Thomas Hardy
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime 335
Oscar Wilde
The Mystery of the Strong Room 345
L.. T. Meade & Robert Eustace
The Hammerpond Park Burglary 360
H. G. Wells
The Ides of March 366
E. W. Hornung
The Story of the Lost Special
378
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Episode of the Tyrolean Castle 390
Grant Allen
The Diamond Lizard 400
George R. Sims
A Prince of Swindlers 414
Guy Boothby
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
The Little Old Man of Batignolles 484
Émile Gaboriau (French)
The Deposition 512
Luigi Capuana (Italian)
Vendetta 518
Guy de Maupassant (French)
The Confession of a Woman
522
Guy de Maupassant (French)
The Swedish Match 525
Anton Chekhov (Russian)
Sleepy 538
Anton Chekhov (Russian)
Well-Woven Evidence 542
Dietrich Theden (German)
The Nail 445
Pedro de Alarcón (Spanish)
The Invisible Eye 458
Erckmann-Chatrian (French)
God Sees the Truth, but Waits 469
Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
The Moscow Theater Plot 475
Alfredo Oriani (Italian)
AMERICAN STORIES
The Purloined Letter 553
Edgar Allan Poe
A Thumb-print and What Came of It 565
Mark Tirain
My Favorite Murder 574
Ambrose Bierce
The Lady, or the Tiger?
580
Frank Stockton
The Corpus Delicti 585
Melville Davisson Post
A Difficult Problem 603
Anna Katharine Green
The Suicide of Kiaros 616
L. Frank Baum
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