CLASSIC MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES
EDITED BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE
MODERN ENGLISH
Rudyard Kipling A. Conan Doyle
Egerton Castle
Stanley J. Weyman Wilkie Collins
Robert Louis Stevenson
NEW YORK
THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO.
1909
"And Sent out a Jet of Fire from His Nostrils"
Drawing by Power O'Malley.
To illustrate "In the House of Suddhoo," by Rudyard Kipling
| Rudyard Kipling |
| My Own True Ghost Story |
| The Sending of Dana Da |
| In the House of Suddhoo |
| His Wedded Wife |
| A. Conan Doyle |
| A Case of Identity |
| A Scandal in Bohemia |
| The Red-Headed League |
| Egerton Castle |
| The Baron's Quarry |
| Stanley J. Weyman |
| The Fowl in the Pot |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Pavilion on the Links |
| Wilkie Collins |
| The Dream Woman |
| The First Narrative |
| The Second Narrative |
| The Third Narrative |
| Fourth (and Last) Narrative |
| Anonymous |
| The Lost Duchess |
| The Minor Canon |
| The Pipe |
| The Puzzle |
| The Great Valdez Sapphire |
Rudyard Kipling
My Own True Ghost Story
As I came through the Desert thus it was—
As I came through the Desert.
The City of Dreadful Night.
Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant. But he will insist upon treating his ghosts—he has published half a workshopful of them—with levity. He makes his ghost-seers talk familiarly, and, in some cases, flirt outrageously, with the phantoms. You may treat anything, from a Viceroy to a Vernacular Paper, with