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Jim Shorthouse was stranded high and dry in a large American city, and he went to find living quarters. One night he came home tired after a long day's work, and heard someone unlock his door and...

The guy that alluded to marriages germinating in heaven certainly got off on the wrong foot. I was prospectin' a claim on Caribou Creek, and Justus Morrow was watching a dance at the Gold Belt when...

The brilliant and versatile Edmund Kirke was dead. The whole house rose to greet the beautiful Tostee when she reappeared. We were theatre-going people and the united Irma and Tostee troupes...

The Prime Minister asks Holmes to investigate the theft of a letter of exceptional diplomatic importance.

The four men on Zip Coon Ledge had not got fairly settled to their morning's work, when one of them ran off to meet the advancing horseman and hand a brown envelope to their messenger. Jackson...

The military came together on paper under glass to shine on me!

A wise master told the tenants of a meadow not to mow the weed, but they did not heed the advice and the meadow grew more and more infested. He says we ought not to mow the meadow, but they say we...

The Miami Indians were Aztecs in the ages before history began, and the Frenchmen who visited them were sent by the governor of Canada to lay claim to the Ohio valley for his king. The Miamis...

After accepting a post as a music teacher at a country house, a woman begins to worry when she is followed by a mysterious stranger on her w

The Lord of Montcontour, a brave soldier of Tours, put his other son in a monastery, but decided to give his second son in marriage to a maiden. The old lady Virtue, long time a widow, lived...

This time he is a race car driver who struggles with recurrent sing-song strings of rhyming words that run through his mind. He can't access the mythology of race car drivers in television shows.

A most dreadful thing has happened - a horrible murder has been committed. Mr. Marchmont certified that the man was dead, and Thorndyke produced a small folding camera, a telescopic tripod, a...