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The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 [Editor]; Castle, Egerton, 1858-1920 [Contributor]; Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 [Contributor]; Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 [Contributor]; Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 [Contributor]; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Contributor]; Weyman, Stanley John, 1855-1928 [Contributor]

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English — English source edition. Subject: Fiction.

FictionShort storiesDetective and mystery stories, English
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The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all nations: American

Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 [Editor]; Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? [Contributor]; Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 [Contributor]; Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion), 1854-1909 [Contributor]; Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 [Contributor]; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 [Contributor]; Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 [Contributor]; O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828-1862 [Contributor]; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 [Contributor]; Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 [Contributor]

The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all nations: American — English source edition. Subject: Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery storiesShort stories, American
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The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: North Europe — Russian — Swedish — Danish — Hungarian

Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 [Editor]; Bársony, István, 1855-1928 [Contributor]; Bergsøe, Vilhelm, 1835-1911 [Contributor]; Blicher, Steen Steensen, 1782-1848 [Contributor]; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 [Contributor]; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 [Contributor]; Elck, Arthur [Contributor]; Ingemann, Bernhard Severin, 1789-1862 [Contributor]; Jókai, Mór, 1825-1904 [Contributor]; Krestovskii, Vs. Vl. (Vsevolod Vladimirovich), 1840-1895 [Contributor]; Larssen, Otto, 1864-1910 [Contributor]; Molnár, Ferenc, 1878-1952 [Contributor]; Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 [Contributor]; Zhelikhovskaia, V. P. (Vera Petrovna), 1835-1896 [Contributor]

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The Make-Believe Man

Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916

The Make-Believe Man — English source edition. Subject: Fiction.

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