Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories

by Julian Hawthorne (Editor)

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Genres: Mystery, Classics, Short Stories, Fiction, Ebooks

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1908

About the author

Julian Hawthorne was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote poetry, novels, non-fiction, a series of crime novels based on the memoirs of New York's Inspector Byrnes, and edited several collections of short stories. He attended Harvard, without graduating, and later studied civil engineering.

In 1898, Julian submitted an eyewitness account of the destruction of the United States battleship, Maine off of the island of Cuba for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal (although it has been proven that Julian was in the United States at the time of the explosion). Hawthorne's eyewitness testimony of foul play and aggression by Spain was taken as fact and helped steer the United States towards war.

In 1908 Hawthorne was invited by a college friend to join him in Canada selling shares in silver mines that did not exist. They were tried, convicted of mail fraud, and served one year in prison.

There is also at least one other author named Julian Hawthorne, who writes about unexplained mysteries.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.76⭐

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories-Volume 4

GUY DE MAUPASSANT
The Necklace 5⭐
The Man with the Pale Eyes 3⭐
An Uncomfortable Bed 4⭐
Ghosts 3⭐
Fear 5⭐
The Confession 5⭐
The Horla 5⭐

PIERRE MILLE.
The Miracle of Zobéide 3.5⭐

VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM
The Torture by Hope 5⭐

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN
The Owl's Ear 3⭐
The Invisible Eye 3.5⭐
The Waters of Death 3⭐

HONORE DE BALZAC
Melmoth Reconciled 3.5⭐
The Conscript 3⭐

JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE
Zadig the Babylonian 5⭐

PEDRO DE ALARÇON.
The Nail 3.5⭐

LUIGI CAPUANA
The Deposition 2.5⭐

LUCIUS APULEIUS (Second Century).
The Adventure of the Three Robbers 3⭐

PLINY, THE YOUNGER (First Century).
Letter to Sura 3⭐

[rick hoffman · Rating 3 out of 5]

a few were good one lenghty one was more than very difficult - Guy de Maupassant

[Brian Laws · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not good stories at all

I found this as a free book on Amazon, so I guess I got what I paid for. This book is a collection of short stories, one of six it says, that have been translated and compiled. They tend to be older stories, so I'm guessing the meaning of mystery and detective stories as we'd define them today are kind of different. The stories tended to have some sort of strange goings on or some sort of mystery to them, but frankly they just weren't that interesting. I did not really enjoy reading this book that much and I will be steering clear of the other five volumes!

[Shraavya Malli · Rating 1 out of 5]

Goodreads should have a DNF tag. This was one of the free books on Kindle. The title is misleading as the stories I read were no detective stories. They were neither mysterious nor engaging. Stories are extremely short with no purpose. The reader contributions in Readers Digest are much better than these.

[Lois · Rating 2 out of 5]

Neither mystery nor detective stories

These are simply stories of ghosts, odd happenings, and sad actions by people with sick minds. Literary I suppose, but definitely not mysteries and definitely not "the world's best."

[Veronika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some excellent stories, and some... really did not pique my interest.

[Deepa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why this book is named "World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories" is beyond my comprehension. The stories are overall ok, some better than others, but there is very little mystery and detection in them.

[Lynda Newman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not very good, at all.

[Lila · Rating 2 out of 5]

More ecclectic supernatural stories than anything else, although I did enjoy the philosophical Babylonian precursor to detective stories by Voltaire.

[Dale Van · Rating 3 out of 5]

Old classics made new.

Famous stories brought together in one volume. A good afternoon, well spent. Make sure you have a fresh pot of coffee.

[Ian Thwaites · Rating 1 out of 5]

Truly horrible—couldn't finish.

[Becky Boxberger · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love detective stories and this was a super collection. Enjoyed some stories I would never have found by some of my favorite authors in this group.

[Saul Escalona · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hi guys, to some of you, this is not kindle. I picked it from Gutenberg project.

[Christiane · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is only one outstanding short story in this volume : Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam's "The Torture by Hope", which is extraordinarily disturbing.

[Girish Ananthakrishnan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some stories are extremely superficial

[Allison · Rating 2 out of 5]

most aren't mystery or detective stories