An edition of The Great Book of Thrillers
(1935)
The Great Book of Thrillers
by H. Douglas Thomson
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A bumper anthology divided into “Stories of Mystery and Adventure”, “Stories of Crime and Detection” and “Stories of the Supernatural”.
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Table of Contents
7 • Introduction • essay by H. Douglas Thomson
21 • H2, Etc. • (1932) • short story by A. J. Alan
26 • The Smell in the Library • (1923) • novelette by Michael Arlen
45 • The Man in the Bell • (1821) • short story by W. E. Aytoun
51 • The Mysterious Mansion • non-genre • (1906) • short story by Honoré de Balzac (trans. of La Grande Bretèche [1832])
65 • The Folding Doors • (1912) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
80 • The Lady of Glenwith Grange • non-genre • (1856) • novelette by Wilkie Collins
100 • The New Sun • (1913) • short story by J. S. Fletcher
118 • Hot Water • short story by Val Gielgud
126 • The Island • (1924) • short story by L. P. Hartley
141 • Edward Randolph's Portrait • (1838) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
152 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
166 • The Story of the Greek Slave • (1934) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by Captain Frederick Marryat]
181 • The Blue Room • short story by Prosper Mérimée (trans. of La chambre bleue [1866])
193 • The Café of Terror • (1925) • short story by E. Phillips Oppenheim
206 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
217 • The Tarn • (1923) • short story by Hugh Walpole
230 • The Resurrectionist • (1833) • short story by Samuel Warren
245 • The Avenging Chance • (1929) • short story by A. B. Cox (1893-1971) [as by Anthony Berkeley]
261 • The Witness for the Prosecution • non-genre • (1924) • novelette by Agatha Christie
283 • A Lesson in Crime • short story by G. D. H. Cole and Margaret I. Cole
295 • Mr. Pemberton's Commission • short story by Freeman Wills Crofts
308 • Who Killed Castelvetri? • (1928) • novelette by Gilbert Frankau
328 • The Aluminium Dagger • (1909) • novelette by R. Austin Freeman
352 • The Gylston Slander • (1920) • short story by Herbert Jenkins
371 • Arsène Lupin in Prison • [Arsène Lupin • 2] • (1907) • novelette by Maurice Leblanc (trans. of La vie extraordinaire d'Arsène Lupin en prison 1905)
389 • The Fenchurch Street Mystery • (1901) • short story by Baroness Orczy [as by Baroness Emmuska Orczy]
406 • Peacock House • (1926) • novelette by Eden Phillpotts
437 • The Vanishing Diamond • non-genre • novelette by John Rhode
453 • Bitter Almonds • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
465 • The Shadow Man • novella by Edgar Wallace
519 • The Gardener • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
532 • The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
578 • The Italian's Story • (1859) • short story by Catherine Crowe
594 • The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley • (1722) • short story by Daniel Defoe
602 • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt • (1865) • short story by Charles Dickens
613 • Madam Crowl's Ghost • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
629 • Black Coffee • (1929) • short story by Jeffery Farnol
642 • The Black Ferry • short story by John Galt (variant of The Book of Life [1831])
653 • The Dreamland Bride • novelette by Théophile Gautier (trans. of La morte amoureuse [1836])
673 • Mary Burnet • (1828) • novelette by James Hogg
694 • The Three Sisters • (1914) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
703 • Mr. Kempe • (1925) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
728 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
744 • The Frontier Guards • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield
750 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
761 • The Sphinx Without a Secret • (1887) • short story by Oscar Wilde
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