Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 205. v1, 4 March 2025

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18 short stories, 2 of them fairly long, in the Life + 70 years public domain, collected from newspapers, magazines and other sources. Sydney Horler appears for the first time in this series; he was a popular thriller writer in the style of Edgar Wallace, Sapper and the like who flourished between the wars and a little into the postwar era, and who died in 1954. There is a longish story by H Bedford-Jones, giving a dramatised account of the historic Monitor vs Merrimac battle of two ironclad steamers during the US Civil War. Plus stories by some other familiar names.

1: The Necklace of the Nine Gems / Ambrose Pratt
2: You Can't Touch Dotty / James Hilton
3: Sinister Street / Sydney Horler
4: The Ferryman's Dog / William Babington Maxwell
5: Homing the Goose / Harold Mercer
6: A Spot of Murder / Peter Cheyney
7: Experiment / Maxwell Struthers Burt
8: That Spot / Jack London
9: The Call / Algernon Blackwood
10: Haircut / Ring W. Lardner
11: Iron Coffins / H. Bedford-Jones
12: The Passion Years / Arthur Gask
13: The House Hunter / Francis Gribble
14: The Elusive Counterfeits / Elliott Flower
15: The Romance of Madame de Chanteloup / William Edward Norris
16: A Bag of Gold / Beatrice Grimshaw
17: The Spanish Prisoner / P. C. Wren
18: The Etching / Hugh Walpole

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