Victorian tales of mystery and detection

Alternate Titles

• The Oxford Book of Victorian Detective Stories

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1. [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) by Edgar Allan Poe 2. The Murdered Cousin by J. S. Le Fanu 3. Hunted Down by Charles Dickens 4. Levison’s Victim by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 5. The Mystery at Number Seven by Mrs Henry Wood 6. The Going Out of Alessandro Pozzone by Richard Dowling 7. Who Killed Zebedee? by Wilkie Collins 8. A Circumstantial Puzzle by R. E. Francillon 9. The Mystery of Essex Stairs by Sir Gilbert Campbell 10. [The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 11. The Great Ruby Robbery by Grant Allen 12. The Sapient Monkey by Headon Hill 13. Cheating the Gallows by Israel Zangwill 14. Drawn Daggers by C. L. Pirkis 15. The Greenstone God and the Stockbroker by Fergus Hume 16. The Arrest of Captain Vandaleur by L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace 17. The Accusing Shadow by Harry Blyth 18. The Ivy Cottage Mystery by Arthur Morrison 19. The Azteck Opal by Rodrigues Ottolengui 20. The Long Arm by Mary E. Wilkins 21. The Case of Euphemia Raphash by M. P. Shiel 22. The Tin Box by Herbert Keen 23. Murder by Proxy by M. McDonnell Bodkin 24. The Duchess of Wiltshire’s Diamonds by Guy Boothby 25. The Story of The Spaniards, Hammersmith by E. and H. Heron 26. The Lost Special by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 27. The Banknote Forger by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 28. A Warning in Red by Victor L. Whitechurch & E. Conway 29. The Fenchurch Street Mystery by Baroness Orczy 30. The Green Spider by Sax Rohmer 31. The Clue of the Silver Spoons by Robert Barr

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