The Best Crime Stories Ever Told

By Dorothy L. Sayers, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville

Subjects: short stories, horror, horror stories, American Detective and mystery stories, English Detective and mystery stories, catalepsy, fixation, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, coroners, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Crime, fiction, horror tales, inquests, monomania, mountain lions

Description: Introduction by Otto Penzler Detection and mystery. Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr The ordinary hair-pins / E.C. Bentley The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts Blind gap moor / J. S. Fletcher The Regent's Park murder / Baroness Orczy Mystery and horror. Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier The leech of Folkestone / R. H. Barham A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm Cut-throat farm / J. D. Beresford [Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) / Ambrose Bierce Secret worship / Algernon Blackwood No. 17 / Mrs. E. Bland The open boat / Stephan Crane Riesenberg / Ford Madox Ford The prayer / Violet Hunt The well / W. W.Jacobs Mr. Justice Harbottle / J. S. Le Fanu The haunted and the haunters / Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton The great return / Arthur Machen The story of the Greek slave / Frederick Marryat Anty Bligh /John Masefield The bell-tower / Herman Melville The library window / Mrs. Oliphant Rose Rose / Barry Pain [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) / Edgar Allan Poe The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Sredni vashtar "saki"/ (H. H. Munro) Called to the rescue / Henry Spicer The inexperienced ghost / H. G. W. Wells.