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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