• Publication: The Great Book of ThrillersPublication Record # 710880
• Editor: H. Douglas Thomson
• Date: 1935-00-00
• Publisher: Odhams Press
• Pages: 768
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Additional data from The Supernatural Index.
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1596
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 13475298
  • Reginald-1: 14092

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 • 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