Masterpieces of Mystery: Riddle Stories

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Support Public Domain: like and share http://facebook.com/BookLiberationFrontIn 1920, Joseph Lewis French gathered together some tales that he called 'riddle stories'. In the preface it identifies a riddle story as "the most naive form of the mystery story. It may contain a certain element of the supernatural - be tinged with mysticism - but its motive and the revelation thereof must be frankly materialistic - of the earth, earthy." The short stories included in this anthology are:The Mysterious Card by Cleveland Moffett - Couldn't wait to see what the card actually said.The Great Valdez Sapphire by Anonymous - Just okay, but has a good ending.The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe - It's Poe; of course it's good. Is the movie on DVD?The Birth Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Typical Hawthorne. Sad, sad, sad.A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins - Very clever bad guys with very clever tools.The Torture by Hope by Villiers de l'Isle Adam - Good thing we have the Geneva Convention now.The Box with the Iron Clamps by Florence Marryat - Gruesome.My Fascinating Friend by William Archer - Truly a fascinating story. Surprising ending.The Lost Room by Fitz-James O'Brien - Odd. Not sure how to explain the happenings.

Genre: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional (fancy, right?)