Short Fiction Various: Past Masters (2019); v2, 15 Dec 2019

[Pulpmeister]

Trawling in Newspaper archives I gradually accumulate waifs and strays in the form of short stories. Often these are uncollected in book form, or are in collections so obscure that they can't be found. A few of those waifs and strays appear here, plus an assortment of crime/detective stories from other collections, some of which are on these forums, to make up a volume and give those waifs and strays a home of sorts.

(This is now V2, as I accidentally included a Max Pemberton story in V1, which still has a couple of years to go in copyright. I have substituted an A E W Mason short.)

1: The Conscientious Burglar / Grant Allen
2: Mr. Senn's Past / E. Phillips Oppenheim
3: The Prince of Wurttenburg / Stephen Leacock
4: The New Catacomb / Arthur Conan Doyle
5: The Ginger King / A E W Mason
6: The Slane Mystery / Edgar Wallace
7: Cheese / Ethel Lina White
8: The Tragedy of a Third Smoker / C J Cutcliffe Hyne
9: The Azoff Diamonds / Fred M. White
10: Sheer Profit / William Le Queux
11: The Silent Witness / Max Brand
12: The Tea-Leaf / Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace
13: The Vanishing of Mrs. Fraser / Sir Basil Thomson
14: Locked In / E. Charles Vivian
15: Will You Walk Into My Parlour? / "Sapper" (H C McNeile)
16: Tobias the Terrible / Damon Runyon
17: The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel / A E W Mason
18: The Great Portrait Mystery / R Austin Freeman
19: The Yellow Dog / J S Fletcher
20: The Empty Match Box / Aidan de Brune

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