Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories

Rich, varied collection of 14 extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories, many never before published in book form: Kipling’s “The Return of Imray”; “The Tragedy of the Life Raft” by Jacques Futrelle; “The Copper Beeches” by Arthur Conan Doyle; plus hard-to-find tales by G.K. Chesterton, Catherine L. Pirkis, Silas K. Hocking, others.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Arthur Morrison – The Case of the Lost Foreigner
Catherine L. Pirkis – The Ghost of Fountain Lane
Rudyard Kipling – The Return of Imray
Headon Hill – The Divination of the Zagury Capsules
Baroness Orczy – The York Mystery
George R. Sims – The Haverstock Hill Murder
R. Austin Freeman – The Dead Hand
L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace – Mr. Bovey’s Unexpected Will
Silas K. Hocking – A Perverted Genius
G. K. Chesterton – The Eye of Apollo
Robert W. Chambers – The Purple Emperor
Jacques Futrelle – The Tragedy of the Life Raft
E. and H. Heron – The Story of Baelbrow