The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century

By Richard Harding Davis, Israel Zangwill, Arthur Conan Doyle, Martin H. Greenberg, Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Melville Davisson Post, Robert Barr, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, William Russell, Charles G. Waugh, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Morrison, Isaac Asimov, Rodriguez Ottolengui, Harry Stillwell Edwards

Subjects: Encyclopædia Britannica, Mystery and detective stories, banks, English fiction, English Detective and mystery stories, police inspectors, pawnbrokers, red hair, detective fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, monograms, Detective and mystery stories

Description: Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Purloined letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W) / 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