The big book of Victorian mysteries
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593311028
- ISBN: 0593311027
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Physical Description:
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xi, 623 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York, NY : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard original"--Title page verso. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | One night in a gaming-house / "Waters" -- Biter bit / Wilkie Collins -- Hunted down / Charles Dickens -- Wife-killer / James M'Govan -- My adventure in the flying Scotsman / Eden Phillpotts -- Mystery of a handsome cad / Moll. Bourne -- Jewelled skull / Dick Donovan -- Greek interpreter / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Black bag left on a door-step / C. L. Pirkis -- Opal of Carmalovitch / Max Pemberton -- An oak coffin / L. T. Meade & Clifford Halifax -- Stanway cameo mystery / Arthur Morrison -- Divination of the Zagury capsules / Headon Hill -- Five hundred carats / George Griffith -- Vanishing diamonds / M. McDonnell Bodkin -- Hagar of the pawn-shop / Fergus Hume -- Robbery in Phillimore Terrace / Emmuska Orczy -- Passage in the secret history of an Irish countess / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- Advocate's wedding day / Catherine Crowe -- Levison's victim / M. E. Braddon -- Pavilion on the links / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Knightsbridge mystery / Charles Reade -- Three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime / Oscar Wilde -- Mystery of the strong room / L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- Hammerpond Park burglary / H. G. Wells -- Ides of March / E. W. Hornung -- Story of the lost special / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Episode of the Tyrolean Castle / Grant Allen -- Diamond lizard / George R. Sims -- A prince of swindlers / Guy Boothby -- Nail / Pedro de Alarcón -- Invisible eye / Erckmann-Chatrian -- God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy -- Moscow theater plot / Alfredo Oriani -- Little old man of Batignolles / Émile Gaboriau -- Deposition / Luigi Capuana -- Vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- Confession of a woman / Guy de Maupassant -- Swedish match / Anton Chekhov -- Sleepy / Anton Chekhov -- Well-woven evidence / Dietrich Theden -- Purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- A thumb-print and what came of it / Mark Twain -- My favorite murder / Ambrose Bierce -- Lady, or the tiger? / Frank Stockton -- Corpus delicti / Melville Davisson Post -- A difficult problem / Anna Katharine Green -- Suicide of Kiaros / L. Frank Baum. |
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Short stories. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fontana Regional Library.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jackson County Public Library | F BIG (Text) | 39493109383291 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
