This anthology of short stories amounts to, as usual, some 100,000 words, with stories by the great, the lesser known, and the unknown. They are all in the Life+70 years public domain.
V2: Now has active links from contents to stories: forgot to finish the job in V1
1: The Italian's Story / Catherine Crowe
2: The Tapestried Chamber / Sir Walter Scott
3: Taste of the Salt / S. B. H. Hurst
4: The Vain Shadow / Duncan Campbell Scott
5: The Gully of Bluemansdyke / Arthur Conan Doyle
6: Where The Goddess Chance Holds Court / James Francis Dwyer
7: Wizard or Crook / Casper Carson
8: His Silent Partner / Albert Alwing
9: The Organ-Grinder's Money-Bag / James McGovan
10: Book of Detective Stories / Anonymous
11: The Night-Doings at "Deadman’s" / Ambrose Bierce
12: The House of the Black Evil / Eric Purves
13: The Tomb / Guy de Maupassant
14: A Flutter in Souls / Ethel Lina White
15: A Retrieved Reformation / O. Henry
16: The Blood Red Rose / Rosa Praed
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