Cynthia Manson is a literary agent, formerly Director of Marketing at Davis Publications, publishers of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazines. She has also edited several anthologies.
Massive collection of thrilling short stories from dozens of great authors, including but not limited to Arthur Conan Doyle (as the mistaken listing implies). If you want to read Poe, Burroughs, Ian Fleming, Jack london, Joseph Conrad, Lawrence block, de Balzac, Harry Turtledove, Anne McCaffrey, etc., all under one cover, this is the place. Pure fun.