The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century

Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Purloined letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins Murder under the microscope / William Russell Three strangers / Thomas Hardy Gallagher / Richard Harding Davis [Red-headed league]( / Arthur Conan Doyle Cheating the gallows / Israel Zangwill Chemistry of anarchy / Robert Barr Sheriff of Gullmore / Melville Davisson Post The Episode of the Mexican Seer / Grant Allen Affair of the 'Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co., Limited' / Arthur Morrison Nameless man / Rodriguez Ottolengui His defense / Harry Stillwell Edwards Man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain