Kicked out of his parental home by his scheming young stepmother, a young country boy, Arthur Mervyn arrives in Philadelphia. Here he finds the city in the throes of a deadly yellow-fever epidemic. However, he finds a small job as a clerk and is determined to make his way in the world. He soon discovers that his employer is a con man and a murderer. One night, Arthur helps him dispose of a body in the river. While they're struggling with the corpse, the employer is swept away by the current. ...
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The Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories is a six-volume edition, which contains one hundred and one tales written by authors as diverse and separated by history as Pliny the Younger (first century AD), Voltaire (17th century) and Guy de Maupassant (19th century) and also from different parts of the world. This volume which is the first, contains twenty interesting stories, and an introduction by the editor. The fascinating aspect of mystery stories is that sometimes the ...
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01 – By the Waters of Paradise, part 1, by Francis Marion Crawford
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03 – The Shadow on the Wall, part 1, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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07 – An Heiress from Redhorse, by Ambrose Bierce
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10 – The Gold Bug, part 1, by Edgar Allan Poe
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14 – Adventure of the Black Fisherman, part 1, by Washington Irving
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16 – Wieland’s Madness, part 1, by Charles Brockden Brown
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19 – Wieland’s Madness, part 4, by Charles Brockden Brown
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20 – Wieland’s Madness, part 5, by Charles Brockden Brown
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