Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 202, v1, 13 Feb 2025

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Short stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain, collected from newspapers, magazines, collections and anthologies, with, as usual, some from Australian newspapers, as The Australian National Library hs its newspaper collection to 1955 scanned and on-line, with downloadable text files produced by automatic OCR.

A diverse assortment. The first story, interestingly, is about the fight against ivory poaching, from as far back as 1933.

1: The Ivory Killers / Gordon MacCreagh
2: A Son of the Gods / Ambrose Bierce
3: The Target / W. Pett Ridge
4: Crazy Rhythm / Max Brand
5: The Theft at the English Provident Bank / Baroness Orczy
6: Foiled! / J. P. Bewick
7: A Set of Rogues / Vernon Ralston
8: The Secret of the Envelope / Headon Hill
9: Ten Years After / Dryblower
10: Beautiful Death / Beatrice Grimshaw
11: A Psychological Shipwreck / Ambrose Bierce
12: The Silkworms of Florence / Clifford Ashdown
13: The Curse of the Golden Cross / G. K. Chesterton
14: Across the Way / Robert Grant
15: The Phantom Model / Hume Nisbet
16: The Mythical Third / Alice C. Tomholt
17: A Perverted Punishment / Ambrose Pratt
18: The Tinsmith / Margaret Busbee Shipp
19: Behind The Portieres / Edward W. Townsend
20: Great Faithful Heart / F. A. M. Webster
21: The Wounded God / A. E. W. Mason
22: Scaffolding / Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
23: The Case of the Ward Lane Tabernacle / Arthur Morrison

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