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eBook details
- Title: Masterpieces of Mystery Detective
- Author : Edgar Allan Poe
- Release Date : January 08, 2016
- Genre: Short Stories,Books,Mysteries & Thrillers,Romance,Suspense,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 505 KB
Description
The detective story heretofore has been based upon one of two methods: analysis or deduction. The former was Poe's, to take the typical example; the latter is Conan Doyle's. Of late the discoveries of science have been brought into play in this field of fiction with notable results. The most prominent of such innovators, indeed the first one, is Arthur Reeve, an American writer, whose "Black Hand" will be found in this collection; which has endeavoured within its limited space to cover the field from the start—the detective story—wholly the outgrowth of the more highly developed police methods which have sprung into being within little more than half a century, being only so old
Contents
The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Hand
Arthur B. Reeve
The Biter Bit
Wilkie Collins
Missing: Page Thirteen
Anna Katherine Green
A Scandal In Bohemia
A. Conan Doyle
The Rope Of Fear
Mary E. And Thomas W. Hanshew
The Safety Match
Anton Chekhov
Some Scotland Yard Stories
Sir Robert Anderson