7 best short stories--Detective Fiction

ebook 7 Best Short Stories: Specials

By Arthur Conan Doyle

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Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to Detective Fiction.

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular.

This book contains

- The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- The Blue Cross by G. K. Chesterton.
- Traces of Crime by Mary Fortune.
- The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe.
- The Case of the Dixon Torpedo by Arthur Morrison.
- The Coin Of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah.
- The Crooked Man by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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7 best short stories--Detective Fiction