Forty stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines of the late 1800s. In this volume: The Great Ruby Robbery; The Episode Of The Mexican Seer and The Episode of The Diamond Links, Grant Allen; The Black Bag Left On A Doorstep and The Murder AtTroyte's Hill, C.L. Pirkis; An Oak Coffin; Without Witnesses and The Ponsonby Diamonds, L.T. Meade and Clifford Halifax, M.D.; The LossOf Sammy Crockett; The Case Of Mr. Foggat; The Case Of The Dixon Torpedo and The Stanway Cameo Mystery, Arthur Morrison; The Story Of The Man With The Watches; The Story Of The Lost Special; The Story of The Black Doctor; The Story Of The Jew's Breastplate, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Stir Outside The Cafè Royal, Clarence Rook; An Unposted Letter, Newton MacTavish; The Glasgow Mystery; The York Mystery; The Liverpool Mystery; The Brighton Mystery; The Edinburgh Mystery; The Dublin Mystery and The Birmingham Mystery, Baroness E. Orczy; Madame Sara; The Blood-Red Cross and The Face Of The Abbot, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace; In The Fog; TheQueen's Messenger and The Solicitor's Story, Richard Harding Davis; The Mystery Of The Five Hundred Diamonds, Robert Barr; The Fire Of London; A Comedy On The Gold Coast; A Bracelet At Bruges; A Solution Of The Algiers Mystery; In The Capital Of The Sahara and 'Lo! Twas A Gala Night!' Arnold Bennett; The Hammerpond Mystery, H.G. Wells. With illustrations from the original publications and information on the authors.