Short Fiction Various: Past Masters Thirty-Nine, v1, 6 Aug 2021)

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Another anthology of short fiction in the Life + 70 public domain, gathered from magazines and newspapers. Robert Reeves with a couple of "Cellini Smith" stories plus one other; a Dickens short story in which he spoofs is own "A Christmas Carol"; a Hugh Pendexter tale of the then frontier at the time of the American War of Independence. The last story, a novelette, is by Charles Beadle, an American author who moved to France in 1920, and was there when the Germans occupied. One source suggests a death date of 1944.

1: Alcoholics Calamitous / Robert Reeves
2: Bail Bait / Robert Reeves
3: Private Jones / Alun Lewis
4: Filamena's Hula / Randolph Bedford
5: The Man Who Held the Wires / Randolph Bedford
6: To be Taken with a Grain of Salt / Charles Dickens
7: The Doom of London / Robert Barr
8: Pan / Winifred Graham
9: Dance Macabre / Robert Reeves
10: Last Across / Max Pemberton
11: Grimgriffenhoof / Florence Warden
12: Sir Patrick Armagh's Knife / Guy Thorne
13: Pinched / Lewis Allen
14: The Missing Pearls / Lillian Bamburg
15: A New Keeper of the Wampum / Hugh Pendexter
16: The Double Scoop / Charles Beadle

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