The lock and key library; the most interesting stories of all nations.

Half title: The lock and key library; classic mystery and detective stories of all nations.[v. 10] Real life. A flight into Texas / Arthur Train -- Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department / P.H. Woodward -- Saint-Germain the deathless ; The man in the iron mask / Andrew Lang -- A conjurer's confessions / M. Robert-Houdin -- Fraudulent spiritualism unveiled / David P. Abbott -- More tricks of "spiritualism" / Hereward Carrington -- How spirits materialize / Anonymous -- Inspector Bucket's job / Charles Dickens.[v. 9] American. By the waters of paradise / F. Marion Crawford -- The shadows on the wall / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The corpus delicti / Melville D. Post -- An heiress from Redhorse ; The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce -- The oblong box ; The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe -- Wolfert Webber, or, Golden dreams ; Adventure of the black fisherman / Washington Irving -- Wieland's madness / Charles Brockden Brown -- The golden ingot ; My wife's tempter / Fitzjames O'Brien -- The minister's black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Horror: a true tale / Anonymous.[v. 8] Modern English. My own true ghost story ; The sending of Dana Da ; In the house of Suddhoo ; His wedded wife / Rudyard Kipling -- A case of identity ; A scandal in Bohemia ; The Red-Headed League / A. Conan Doyle -- The baron's quarry / Egerton Castle -- The fowl in the pot / Stanley J. Weyman -- The dream woman / Wilkie Collins -- The lost duchess / Anonymous -- The minor canon / Anonymous -- The pipe / Anonymous -- The puzzle / Anonymous -- The great Valdez sapphire / Anonymous.[v. 7] Old time English. The haunted house ; No. 1 Branch Line: The signal man / Charles Dickens -- The haunted and the haunters, or, The house and the brain ; The incantation / Bulwer-Lytton --The avenger / Thomas De Quincey -- Melmoth the wanderer / Charles Robert Maturin -- A mystery with a moral / Laurence Sterne -- On being found out ; The notch in the ax / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Bourgonef / Anonymous --The closed cabinet / Anonymous.[v. 6] French novels. Count Kostia / Victor Cherbuliez -- André Cornélis / Paul Bourget -- The last of the Costellos / Anonymous -- Lady Betty's indiscretion / Anonymous.[v. 5] Modern French. The crime of the boulevard / Jules Claretie -- The necklace ; The man with the pale eyes ; An uncomfortable bed ; Ghosts ; Fear ; The confessions ; The horla, or, Modern ghosts / Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant -- The miracle of Zobéide / Pierre Mille -- The torture of hope / Villiers de lʹIsle Adam -- The owl's ear ; The invisible eye ; The waters of death ; The man-wolf / Erckmann-Chatrian.[v. 4] Classic French. Ines de Las Sierras / Charles Nodier -- An episode of the Terror ; Madame Firmiani ; Z. Marcas ; Melmoth reconciled ; The conscript / Honoré de Balzac -- Zadig the Babylonian / Francois Marie Aroute de Voltaire -- D'Artagnan, detective / Alexander Dumas.[v. 3] German. The skeleton in the house / Friedrich Spielhagen -- The man in the bottle / Gustav Meyrink -- Christian Lahusen's Baron / Dietrich Theden -- Andrea Delfin / Paul Heyse -- The singer / Wilhelm Hauff -- The deserted house / Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffman -- The versegy case / Karl Rosner -- The story in the notebook / August Groner -- Well-woven evidence / Dietrich Theden.[v. 2] Mediterranean. Italian and Spanish mystery stories: Shadows / J.M. Palmarini ; The gray spot / Camillo Boito ; The stories of the Castile of Trezza / Giovanni Verga ; The imp in the mirror / Antonio Fogazzaro ; The deposition / Luigi Capuana ; The nail / Pedro de Alarcon ; The Moscow Theatre plot / Alredeo Oriani -- Oriental mystery stories: The power of eloquence (Japanese) ; The dishonest goldsmith and the ingenious painter (Turkish) ; The craft of the three sharpers (Arabic) ; The cheerful workman (Arabic) ; The robber and the woman (Arabic) ; The wonderful stone (Chinese) ; The weaver who became a leach (Arabic) ; Visākhā (Tibetan) ; Told by the constable (Arabic) ; The unjust sentence (Chinese) ; The scar on the throat (Arabic) ; Devasmitá (Sanskrit) ; The sharpers and the money-lender (Arabic) ; The withered hand (Arabic) ; The melancholist and the sharper (Arabic) ; Lakshadatta and Labdhadatta (Sanskrit) ; The cunning crone (Arabic) ; Judgement of the Soloman (Chinese) ; The sultan and his three sons (Arabic) ; Tale of a demon (Sanskrit) ; The jar of olives and the boy Kazi (Arabic) ; Another Solomon (Chinese) ; Calamity Ahamad and Habzalom Bazazah (Arabic) ; A man-hating maiden (Sanskrit) ; Told by the constable (Arabic) ; The clever thief (Tibetan) ; The king who made mats (Persian) ; The brahma who lost his treasure (Sanskrit) ; The duel of the two sharpers (Arabic) ; The lady of Kazi (Persian) ; Mahaushadha (Tibetan) ; Avicenna and the observant young man (Turkish) -- Ancient Latin and Greek mystery stories: The thief versus King Rhampsinitus / Herodotus ; The Oracle: Its test by Croesus, Its repulse of the Persians, Behind the secnes / Herodotus ; The adventure of the three robbers / Lucius Apuleius ; Letter to Sura / Pliny the Younger.[v. 1] North Europe. The queen of spades / Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin -- The general's will / Vera Jelihovsky -- Crime and punishment / [abridged] Feodor Mikhalovitch Dostoyevsky -- The safety match / Anton Chekhoff -- Knights of industry / Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski -- The amputated arms / Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe -- The manuscript / Otto Larssen -- The sealed room / Bernhard Severin Ingemann -- The rector of Veilbye / Steen Steensen Blicher -- The living death / Ferencz Molmar -- Thirteen at table / Maurus Jokai -- The dancing bear / Etienne Barsony -- The tower room / Arthur Elck.North Europe -- Mediterranean -- German -- Classic French -- Modern French -- French novels -- Old time English -- Modern English -- American -- Real life.Mode of access: Internet