The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century

Isaac Asimov Harry Stillwell Edwards Grant Allen Mark Twain Melville Davisson Post Wilkie Collins Israel Zangwill Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Martin H. Greenberg Thomas Hardy Arthur Morrison Robert Barr Rodriguez Ottolengui Arthur Conan Doyle William Russell Charles G. Waugh Richard Harding Davis

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Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Purloined letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / Edgar Allan Poe Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins Murder under the microscope / William Russell Three strangers / Thomas Hardy Gallagher / Richard Harding Davis [Red-headed league](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W) / Arthur Conan Doyle Cheating the gallows / Israel Zangwill Chemistry of anarchy / Robert Barr Sheriff of Gullmore / Melville Davisson Post The Episode of the Mexican Seer / Grant Allen Affair of the 'Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co., Limited' / Arthur Morrison Nameless man / Rodriguez Ottolengui His defense / Harry Stillwell Edwards Man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain

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English Detective and mystery storiesEnglish fictionDetective and mystery storiesFictionMystery and detective storiesmonogramsChildren's fictionbanksdetective fictionEncyclopædia Britannicapawnbrokerspolice inspectorsred hair