- Publication: The Great Book of ThrillersPublication Record # 710880
- Editor: H. Douglas Thomson
- Date: 1935-00-00
- Publisher: Odhams Press
- Pages: 768
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
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Notes: Additional data from The Supernatural Index.
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External IDs:
- Bleiler Supernatural: 1596
- OCLC/WorldCat: 13475298
- Reginald-1: 14092
Anthology Title:
The Great Book of Thrillers • anthology by H. Douglas Thomson
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 7 • Introduction (The Great Book of Thrillers) • 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?Honore 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?Prosper Merimee(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?Theophile 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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Reginald1 | Verified | Rtrace | 2019-04-06 10:41:26 |
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