Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 240, v1, 28 Oct 2025

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22 short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, sourced from newspapers, magazines and books.

A cumulative index of Past Masters # 1-240 can be found in pdf format in the "other book" uploads section.

1: Three Thousand Dollars / Anna Katharine Green
2: The Man That Died at Alma / Gilbert Parker
3: The Professor's Mummy / Fergus Hume
4: The Scented Poppies / Dion Fortune
5: The Burgomaster in a Bottle / Erckmann-Chatrian
6: The Crow's Requiem / Erckmann-Chatrian
7: The Coolest of Criminals / Val Jameson
8: The Coach / Violet Hunt
9: How the Baby Found the Clue / Headon Hill
10: The Voices / Bertram Atkey
11: The Golden Ball of the Argonauts / Charles E. Van Loan
12: The Watchers / Mary Simpson
13: Innocents of Broadway / O. Henry
14: The Indiscretions of Lord Tamworth / E. Phillips Oppenheim
15: Reverend Pendlebury’s Past / Richard Connell
16: Sredni Vashtar / "Saki"
17: The Haunted Dolls' House / M. R. James
18: Footprints on the Seashore / Nathaniel Hawthorne
19: How He Left the Hotel / Louisa Baldwin
20: "Softy" / E. Clinch
21: "American, Sir!" / Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
22: The Magic Casket / R. Austin Freeman

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