Great Classic Crime Stories: Tales of Murder, Robbery, Extortion, Blackmail, Forgery, and Worse

A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers.

1. "Charles", by A. J. Alan
2. "The Magic Casket", by R. Austin Freeman
3. "The Game Played in the Dark", by Ernest Bramah
4. "The Hammer of God", by G. K. Chesterton
5. "His Brother’s Keeper", by W. W. Jacobs
6. "The Murder of the Mandarin", by Arnold Bennett
7. "The Murder of the Countess Görlitz", by S. Baring-Gould
8. "The Shadow of the Shark", by G. K. Chesterton
9. "The Burglary", by Arnold Bennett
10. "The Perfect Murder", by Stacy Aumonier
11. "Blackmail", by John Galsworthy
12. "The Honest Thief", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. "To Be Taken in Water", by George Walter Thornbury
14. "The Man Who Stole a Meeting House", by John Townsend Trowbridge
15. "The Great Bank Forgery", by Sir Basil Thomson
16. "Diamond Cut Diamond", by F. Britten Austin
17. "My Adventure at Chislehurst", by A. J. Alan
18. "The Marionettes", by O. Henry
19. "The Inn of the Two Witches", by Joseph Conrad
20. "The Man with the Watches", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
21. "The Saloon Passenger", by E. W. Hornung
22. "The Severed Hand", by Wilhelm Hauff
23. "Moon’s Gibbet", by Egerton Castle
24. "A Lucky Number", by S. B. Hale
25. "The Criminal from Lost Honour", by Friedrich Schiller
26. "The Tête Noire", by Charles Allston Collins
27. "The Downfall of Mulligans", by Banjo Patterson
28. "Hunted Down", by Charles Dickens
29. "Old Fags", by Stacy Aumonier
30. "My Favorite Murder", by Ambrose Bierce
31. "The Three Strangers", by Thomas Hardy
32. "A Bottomless Grave", by Ambrose Bierce