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The big book of Victorian mysteries

Call Number

  • MYSTERY BIG (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, 2021.

Physical Description

xi, 623 pages ; 24 cm

Notes

"Vintage Crime/Black Lizard."

Contents

  • One night in a gaming-house / The Biter bit / Hunted down / The Wife-killer / My adventure in the flying Scotsman / The Mystery of a handsome cad / The Jewelled skull / The Greek interpreter / The Black bag left on a door-step / The Opal of Carmalovitch / An Oak coffin / The Stanway cameo mystery / The Divination of the Zagury capsules / Five hundred carats / The Vanishing diamonds / Hagar of the pawn-shop / The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace / Passage in the secret history of an Irish countess / The Advocate's wedding day / Levison's victim / The Pavilion on the links / The Knightsbridge mystery / The Three strangers / Lord Arthur Savile's crime / The Mystery of the strong room / The Hammerpond Park burglary / The Ides of March / The Story of the lost special / The Episode of the Tyrolean Castle / The Diamond lizard / A Prince of swindlers / The Nail / The Invisible eye / God sees the truth, but waits / The Moscow theater plot / The Little old man of Batignolles / The Deposition / Vendetta / The Confession of a woman / The Swedish match / Sleepy / Well-woven evidence / The Purloined letter / A Thumb-print and what came of it / My favorite murder / The Lady, or the tiger? / The Corpus delicti / A Difficult problem / The Suicide of Kiaros

Added Authors

Otto Penzler