Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 260: v1, 3 May 2026

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Twenty stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain. There are some familiar sleuths in this issue: Jaques Futrelle's "thinking machine" S F X Van Dusen; Austin Freeman's Dr Thorndyke; Arthur B Reeve's scientific detective Craig Kennedy; and on the flip side E W Hornung's gentleman jewel thief Raffles.

1: The Whiffet / Albert Payson Terhune
2: The King's Thumb / Frederick Irving Anderson
3: The Unknown Masterpiece / Frederick Irving Anderson
4: The Scarecrow / Max Afford
5: The Logic That Failed / Gerald Biss
6: Bombastes Furioso / Hugh Walpole
7: Mrs. Stoot and Her Ear-Rings / Basil Thomson
8: Billie Finds the Answer / "Sapper"
9: The Germ of Death / Arthur B. Reeve
10: The Cuneiform Inscription / Melville Davisson Post
11: How Gillan Was Done / Ward Edson
12: Review: The Thirty-nine Steps, 1915 (John Buchan) / Terry Walker
13: The Ghost in Brocade / Fergus Hume
14: Pandora's Box / R. Austin Freeman
15: To Pay Paul / Randolph Bedford
16: Michael Was Murdered / Percy Stanway Tapp
17: To Catch a Thief / E. W. Hornung
18: The Superfluous Finger / Jacques Futrelle
19: The Honourable Billy / G. B. Burgin
20: The Accusing Camera / Ward Edson

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