Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 267, v1, 22 July 2026

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20 short stories - including a longish novelette, in the Life+70 yrs public domain.

1: Paper Lanterns / Beatrice Redpath
2: Death in the Desert / William J. Makin
3: Coppo Calls on the Duchess / J. S. Fletcher
4: why mehitabel jumped / Don Marquis
5: The Changed Diamond Brooch / William Crawford Honeyman
6: Twins / H. M. Somer
7: The Passing of Marcus O'Brien / Jack London
8: When Thieves Fall Off / Charles Emmet van Loan
9: The Man with the Watches / Arthur Conan Doyle
10: Penny For Luck / E. C. Buley
11: The Steward and the Sharps / Edgar Wallace
12: Flash! / Richard Connell
13: The Horror of the Automaton / Guy Thorne
14: The Cupboard / Jeffery Farnol
15: The Princess Joceliande / A. E. W. Mason
16: A Drayload of Britons / Ernest Francis O'Ferrall
17: The "Dragon" of Swafton / Ernest Bramah
18: The Rubber Dagger / Arthur B. Reeve
19: Homicide at Norhasset / Valentine Williams
20: Fakes and Pains / Mark Hellinger

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