Project Gutenberg 2009-08-15 Public domain in the USA. 123 French, Joseph Lewis 1858 1936 Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle Stories Reading ease score: 78.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. The Mysterious Card / Cleveland Moffett The Great Valdez Sapphire / Anonymous The Oblong Box / Edgar Allan Poe The Birth Mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne A Terribly Strange Bed / Wilkie Collins The Torture by Hope / Villiers de l'Isle Adam The Box with the Iron Clamps / Florence Marryat My Fascinating Friend / William Archer The Lost Room / Fitz-James O'Brien. Produced by David Clarke, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle Stories" by Joseph Lewis French is a collection of mystery short stories edited in the early 20th century. This compilation aims to showcase the art of the riddle story, a subgenre intertwining elements of mystery and human psychology, while allowing readers to engage their intellect. The stories included represent a broad palette of authors and styles, hinting at a rich exploration of the people and situations that create mysterious conundrums. The opening portion introduces the first story, "The Mysterious Card" by Cleveland Moffett, which follows Richard Burwell, an American in Paris who receives a mysterious card from an enigmatic woman. His attempt to understand the card's cryptic message leads him into a whirlwind of strange occurrences, including evictions from hotels and a mysterious detention by police. The narrative quickly escalates as Burwell's quest for the card's meaning impacts his personal and social life, leading to suspicion and dire consequences that unravel his former stability. As the tension of the story unfolds, the reader is drawn into a spell of intrigue revolving around miscommunication, societal norms, and the search for hidden truths. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories Detective and mystery stories Ghost stories PN Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 394734 394749 2024-10-12T16:51:46.387151 2023-09-13T07:31:45.728297 text/html text/html 395172 2021-01-05T10:44:55 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 152817 2021-01-05T10:44:55 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 249699 2024-10-12T16:51:55.743260 application/epub+zip 254398 2024-10-12T16:51:50.477146 application/epub+zip 219754 2024-10-12T16:51:49.010196 application/epub+zip 530016 2024-10-12T16:51:59.648111 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 510675 2024-10-12T16:51:54.669155 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 409428 2022-09-13T16:43:39.469684 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 378812 378589 2024-10-12T16:51:45.660187 2023-09-13T07:31:45.169276 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 378546 2021-01-05T10:44:55 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 149053 2021-01-05T10:44:55 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 378540 2021-01-05T10:44:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 148961 2021-01-05T10:44:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22576 2024-10-12T16:51:59.798082 application/rdf+xml 23468 2024-10-12T16:51:49.565173 image/jpeg 4848 2024-10-12T16:51:49.287162 image/jpeg 246766 2024-10-12T16:51:46.423182 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia