• Publication: Great Short Stories of Detection: Part II, Mystery and HorrorPublication Record # 299131
• Editor: Dorothy L. Sayers
• Date: 1939-07-00
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 619
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: • Price from Tuck • "Eleventh impression (first edition of the two-volume form) July 1939" • OCLC lists all the stories
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 317817802
  • Reginald-1: 12734A
• Bibliographic Comments: View Publication comment (GRTSHRTSTR1928)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• Martin's Close • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• Moxon's Master • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• Nobody's House • (1927) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• Proof • (1919) • short story by Naomi Royde-Smith
• Seaton's Aunt • (1922) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• The Story of the Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
• Tchériapin • (1920) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• The Anticipator • (1898) • short story by Morley Roberts
• The Avenging of Ann Leete • (1923) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• The Bad Lands • (1920) • short story by John Metcalfe
• The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• The Dancing Partner • (1928) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• The Hair • (1928) • short story by A. J. Alan
• The Misanthrope • (1918) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• The Novel of the Black Seal • (1928) • novelette by Arthur Machen (variant of Novel of the Black Seal 1895)
• The Open Door • (1881) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
• The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• The Seventh Man • (1928) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• The Trial for Murder • (1928) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
• Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair