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Title: Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
Author: Edited by Julian Hawthorne
Release Date: June 28, 2004 [EBook #12758]
Language: English
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LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES
EDITED BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE
One Hundred and One Tales of Mystery
By Famous Authors of East and West
In Six Volumes
New York
The Review of Reviews Company
1907
AMERICAN :: FRENCH, ITALIAN, ETC.
ENGLISH: SCOTCH :: GERMAN, RUSSIAN, ETC.
ENGLISH: IRISH :: ORIENTAL: MODERN MAGIC
MAUPASSANT VOLTAIRE
MILLE ALARCON
ADAM CAPUANA
ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN APULEIUS
BALZAC PLINY, THE YOUNGER
[Illustration: "Through a Mist in the Depths of the Looking-Glass."
To illustrate "The Horla," by Guy de Maupassant]
_Table of Contents_
HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).
The Necklace
The Man with the Pale Eyes
An Uncomfortable Bed
Ghosts
Fear
The Confession
The Horla
PIERRE MILLE.
The Miracle of Zobeide
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM.
The Torture by Hope
ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN (1822-99)--(1826-90).
The Owl's Ear
The Invisible Eye
The Waters of Death
HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850).
Melmoth Reconciled
The Conscript
JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778).
Zadig the Babylonian
PEDRO DE ALARCON.
The Nail
LUIGI CAPUANA (1839-00).
The Deposition
LUCIUS APULEIUS (Second Century).
The Adventure of the Three Robbers
PLINY, THE YOUNGER (First Century).
Letter to Sura
_French--Italian--Spanish--Latin Mystery Stories_
HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT
_The Necklace_
She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if
by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks. She had no dowry,
no expectations, no means of bei
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