THE LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY

THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES OF ALL NATIONS

Edited by Julian Hawthorne

AMERICAN

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE

“Riddle Stories”

F. MARION CRAWFORD (1854–)
By the Waters of Paradise

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1862–)
The Shadows on the Wall

MELVILLE D. POST (1871–)
The Corpus Delicti