Robert Louis Stevenson
GREAT
SHORT STORIES
Edited by William Patten
A NEW COLLECTION
OF FAMOUS EXAMPLES
FROM THE LITERATURES
OF FRANCE,
ENGLAND AND AMERICA
VOLUME I
DETECTIVE
STORIES
P. F. COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1906
BY P. F. COLLIER & SON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE] By Edgar Allan Poe
[THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET] By Edgar Allan Poe
[THE PURLOINED LETTER] By Edgar Allan Poe
[THE SIGN OF THE FOUR] By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I. [The Science of Deduction]
II. [The Statement of the Case]
III. [In Quest of a Solution]
IV. [The Story of the Bald-headed Man]
V. [The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge]
VI. [Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration]
VII. [The Episode of the Barrel]
VIII. [The Baker Street Irregulars]
IX. [A Break in the Chain]
X. [The End of the Islander]
XI. [The Great Agra Treasure]
XII. [The Strange Story of Jonathan Small]
[A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA] By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK] By Anna Katharine Green
[THE RAJAH'S DIAMOND] By Robert Louis Stevenson
[Story of the Bandbox]
[Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders]
[Story of the House with the Green Blinds]
[The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective]
[THE MYSTERY OF THE STEEL DISK] By Broughton Brandenburg
[THE CHRONICLES OF ADDINGTON PEACE] By B. Fletcher Robinson
[The Vanished Millionaire]