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.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegoriesfirst carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism.Robert Barr (16 September 1849 21 October 1912[1]) was[2] a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. Robert Barr was well-spoken, well-cultured due to travel, and considered a "socializer."Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 27 June 1942), whose name was recorded after his birth as Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features.Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.