Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detectiveeither professional, amateur or retiredinvestigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular. Join the world's most famous researchers in this seven short stories selected by critic August Nemo: – The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Blue Cross by G. K. Chesterton – Traces of Crime by Mary Fortune – The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe – The Case of the Dixon Torpedo by Arthur Morrison – The Coin Of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah – The Crooked Man by Arthur Conan Doyle For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
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Эдгар Аллан По. 7 best short stories - Detective Fiction
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Red-Headed League
The Blue Cross
Traces of Crime
The Purloined Letter
The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
The Coin of Dionysius
The Crooked Man
Authors
About the Publisher
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Title Page
Introduction
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"Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four pound a week."
"As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have lost nothing by them."
