Masterpieces of Mystery Detective

The detective story heretofore has been based upon one of two methods: analysis or deduction. The former was Poe's, to take the typical example; the latter is Conan Doyle's. Of late the discoveries of science have been brought into play in this field of fiction with notable results. The most prominent of such innovators, indeed the first one, is Arthur Reeve, an American writer, whose "Black Hand" will be found in this collection; which has endeavoured within its limited space to cover the field from the start—the detective story—wholly the outgrowth of the more highly developed police methods which have sprung into being within little more than half a century, being only so old


Contents

The Purloined Letter

    Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Hand

    Arthur B. Reeve

The Biter Bit

    Wilkie Collins

Missing: Page Thirteen

    Anna Katherine Green

A Scandal In Bohemia

    A. Conan Doyle

The Rope Of Fear

    Mary E. And Thomas W. Hanshew

The Safety Match

    Anton Chekhov

Some Scotland Yard Stories

    Sir Robert Anderson