Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology

ix • Introduction, by Michael Cox 1 • The purloined letter, by Edgar Allan Poe 18 • The murdered cousin, by J. S. Le Fanu 48 • Hunted down, by Charles Dickens 69 • Levison's victim, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 84 • The mystery at number seven, by Mrs Henry Wood 124 • The going out of Alessandro Pozzone, by Richard Dowling 141 • Who killed Zebedee?, by Wilkie Collins 161 • A circumstantial puzzle, by R. E. Francillon 186 • The mystery of Essex stairs, by Sir Gilbert Campbell 195 • The adventure of the blue carbuncle, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 214 • The great ruby robbery, by Grant Allen 233 • The sapient monkey, by Headon Hill 241 • Cheating the gallows, by Israel Zangwill 254 • Drawn daggers, by C. L. Pirkis 274 • The greenstone god and the stockbroker, by Fergus Hume 289 • The arrest of Captain Vandaleur, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace 303 • The accusing shadow, by Harry Blyth 342 • The ivy cottage mystery, by Arthur Morrison 365 • The Azteck opal, by Rodrigues Ottolengui 377 • The long arm, by Mary E. Wilkins 406 • The case of Euphemia Raphash, by M. P. Shiel 420 • The tin box, by Herbert Keen 437 • Murder by proxy, by M. McDonnell Bodkin 457 • The duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds, by Guy Boothby 480 • The story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith, by E. and H. Heron 493 • The lost special, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 508 • The banknote forger, by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 518 • A warning in red, by Victor L. Whitechurch and E. Conway 528 • The Fenchurch Street mystery, by Baroness Orczy 543 • The green spider, by Sax Rohmer 555 • The clue of the silver spoons, by Robert Barr 573 • Sources 576 • Select Bibliography