LIBRARY OF
THE WORLD'S BEST
MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES

Edited By Julian Hawthorne

One Hundred and One Tales of Mystery
By Famous Authors of East and West

In Six Volumes

New York
The Review of Reviews Company

1907

Library Card Details:

Description:  This is one of the six volumes of mystery and detective stories by famous authors from the Eastern and Western cultures.  It spans writers from the 1st century up to 1800s.

Classification:  Literature / Short Stories & Conte

                          Mystery & Suspense / Detective

Publication Date:  1907

Length:  19 short mystery or detective stories

Illustrations:  1 B&W drawing

Book attributes:  Printable / No code required to open book

Book ID:  GC-WBM-Various

Download Size:  874 kb

Sample Text from eBook:

Table of Contents

HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).

1. The Necklace

2. The Man with the Pale Eyes

3. An Uncomfortable Bed

4. Ghosts

5. Fear

6. The Confession

7. The Horla

PIERRE MILLE.

1. The Miracle of Zobéide

VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM.

1. The Torture by Hope

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN (1822-99)—(1826-90).

1. The Owl's Ear

2. The Invisible Eye

3. The Waters of Death

HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850).

1. Melmoth Reconciled

2. The Conscript

JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778).

1. Zadig the Babylonian

PEDRO DE ALARÇON.

1. The Nail

LUIGI CAPUANA (1839-00).

1. The Deposition

LUCIUS APULEIUS (Second Century).

1. The Adventure of the Three Robbers

PLINY, THE YOUNGER (First Century).

1. Letter to Sura

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ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN

The Owl's Ear

As for Dr. Weber, he was a tall, lean man, invariably dressed in a sky-blue coat with codfish tails and deerskin breeches. He wore a hat of flexible straw and boots with bright yellow tops, on the front of which hung two silver tassels. He talked little; his laugh was like a nervous attack, and his gray eyes, usually calm and meditative, shone with singular brilliance at the least sign of contradiction. Every morning he fetched a turn round about the mountain, letting his horse ramble at a venture, whistling forever the same tune, some negro melody or other. Lastly, this rum chap had brought from Haiti a lot of bandboxes filled with queer insects—some black and reddish brown, big as eggs; others little and shimmering like sparks. He seemed to set greater store by them than by his patients, and, from time to time, on coming back from his rides, he brought a quantity of butterflies pinned to his hat brim.

Scarcely was he settled in Hâselnoss's vast house when he peopled the back yard with outlandish birds—Barbary geese with scarlet cheeks, Guinea hens, and a white peacock, which perched habitually on the garden wall, and which divided with the negress the admiration of the mountaineers.

If I enter into these details, Master Frantz, it's because they recall my early youth; Dr. Christian found himself to be at the same time my cousin and my tutor, and as early as on his return to Germany he had come to take me and install me in his house at Spinbronn. The black Agatha at first sight inspired me with some fright, and I only got seasoned to that fantastic visage with considerable difficulty; but she was such a good woman—she knew so well how to make spiced patties, she hummed such strange songs in a guttural voice, snapping her fingers and keeping time with a heavy shuffle, that I ended by taking her in fast friendship.