This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Mystery and Detective.For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:- Robert Barr:- An Alpine Divorce- "And the Rigour of the Game"- Gentlemen: The King!- The Hour and the Man- The Man Who was not on the Passenger List- Which Was the Murderer?- Not According to the Code- Arthur Conan Doyle:- A Scandal In Bohemia- The Five Orange Pips- The Disintegration Machine- When the World Screamed- The Great Keinplatz Experiment- The Horror of the Heights- The Ring of Thoth- G. K. Chesterton:- The Blue Cross- The Invisible Man- The Man Who Was Thursday A Nightmare- The Strange Crime of John Boulnois- The Three Tools of Death- The Wrong Shape- The Mistake of the Machine- Ernest Bramah:- The Secret of Headlam Height- The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown- The Holloway Flat Tragedy- The Curious Circumstances Of The Two Left Shoes- The Ingenious Mind Of Mr. Rigby Lacksome- The Crime At The House In Culver Street- The Strange Case Of Cyril Bycourt- E. Phillips Oppenheim:- The Noxious Gift.- Traske and the Bracelet.- The Atruscan Silver mine.- The Defeat of Rundermere.- The End of John DykesBurglar.- A Woman Intervenes.- The Regeneration of Jacobs.