Three Guesses by David Goodis
Three Guesses by David Goodis was published in the magazine Hooded Detective in 1942. It tells the story about a Private Investigator fishing for clues to the murder of a lawyer.
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The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne was first published in 1850. The story later appeared in the collection, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales in 1852.
A Slav Soul by Alexander Kuprin
A Slav Soul by Alexander Kuprin is the title story of the short story collection A Slav Soul, and Other Stories which was published in English in 1916
The Cauldron of Oil by Wilkie Collins
The Cauldron of Oil by Wilkie Collins appeared in the collection My Miscellanies Vol II published in 1863.
The Crystal Crypt by Philip K. Dick
The Crystal Crypt by Philip K. Dick was first published in the January 1954 edition of Planet Stories and later appeared in Beyond Lies the Wub in 1988.
The Story Of The Siren By E. M. Forster
Originally published in 1920, The Story Of The Siren By E. M. Forster was later included in the collection The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. It tells the tale of a young man who has seen a siren living deep in the sea.
A Passion in the Desert by Honoré De Balzac
A Passion in the Desert by Honoré De Balzac was published in 1830 and is one of the Scenes from Military Life of La Comédie Humaine.
A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather was first published in Everybody’s Magazine in February 1904. In 1906, it appeared in Cather’s first published collection of short stories, The Troll Garden.
The Salt of the Earth by George Gissing
The Salt of the Earth by George Gissing is one of fifteen stories that make up the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906.
Death at the Excelsior by P. G. Wodehouse
Death at the Excelsior by P. G. Wodehouse was the author’s only attempt at a detective story, which he pulls off with his signature comic twists and turns.