Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, by Edited by Julian Hawthorne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories Author: Edited by Julian Hawthorne Release Date: June 28, 2004 [EBook #12758] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team 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 AMERICAN • FRENCH, ITALIAN, ETC. ENGLISH: SCOTCH • GERMAN, RUSSIAN, ETC. ENGLISH: IRISH • ORIENTAL: MODERN MAGIC MAUPASSANT • VOLTAIRE MILLE • ALARÇON ADAM • CAPUANA ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN • APULEIUS BALZAC • PLINY, THE YOUNGER "Through a Mist in the Depths of the Looking-Glass." Table of Contents HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93). The Necklace The Man with the Pale Eyes An Uncomfortable Bed Ghosts Fear The Confession The Horla PIERRE MILLE. The Miracle of Zobéide VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM. The Torture by Hope ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN (1822-99)—(1826-90).