"They say that writers are really divided into two types; which exactly corresponds to cut-throats and poisoners. The cut-throats are those who, realising that the murder story must cut short the life, decide also to cut the story short. It is their pride as artists to deal in daggers; and startle the unfortunate reader with the stab of the short story." - G. K. Chesterton
A volume of translated stories, three of which have never been published in English before. They run as LEBLANC - Arsene Lupin in Prison
RICARDO PALMA - The Gallows Remnant
RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA - In a Grove
LUIGI CAPUANA - The Deposition
ARNOULD GALOPIN - The Dark Affair of Green Park
JOSE DE MEDEIROS E ALBUQUERQUE - The Vengeance of Felix
RABINDRANATH TAGORE - The Detective
KAREL CAPEK - The Poet
ISRAEL ZANGWILL- The Big Bow Mystery
HANNS HEINZ EWERS - The Spider
ENRIQUE JARDIEL PONCELA - The 38 and a Half Murders at Hull Castle