• Publication: Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories: AmericanPublication Record # 568675
• Editor: Julian Hawthorne
• Date: 1908-00-00
• Publisher: The Review of Reviews Co.
• Pages: 304
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Webpages: archive.org
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 9632852
  • Reginald-1: 06943

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • "Riddle Stories": Introduction • essay by Julian Hawthorne
• 21 • By the Waters of Paradise • (1886) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 47 • The Shadows on the Wall • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 65 • The Corpus Delicti • novelette by Melville Davisson Post [as by Melville D. Post]
• 97 • An Heiress from Redhorse • non-genre • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Lady from Redhorse)
• 103 • The Man and the Snake • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 112 • The Oblong Box • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 124 • The Gold-Bug • non-genre • (1843) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 165 • Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams • [The Money-Diggers • 4] • novelette by Washington Irving (variant of Wolfert Webber; or, Golden Dreams 1824)
• 189 • Adventure of the Black Fisherman • [The Money-Diggers • 5] • novelette by Washington Irving (variant of The Adventure of the Black Fisherman 1824)
• 222 • Wieland's Madness • novelette by Charles Brockden Brown