Librivox Mystery BookshelfPredecessors |
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These stories come before the beginning of what is
known as Mystery Fiction. They contain mystery elements, even if they
are not what we would traditionally think of as mysteries. Pedro de Alarcon The Nail - Short story - 22nd and 23rd sections of the collection Anonymous The Lost Duchess - Short story - 6th story in collection Lucius Apuleius (2nd century) The Adventure of the Three Robbers - Short story - Section 25 of the collection Honore de Balzac Melmoth Reconciled - Short story - sections 14-16 of the collection The Conscript - Short story - section 17 of the collection Guy de Maupassant The Necklace - Short story - Section 1 of the collection The Man With the Pale Eyes - Short story - Section 2 of the collection An Uncomfortable Bed - Short story - Section 3 of the collection Ghosts - Short story - Section 4 of the collection Fear - Short story - Section 5 of the collection The Confession - Short story - Section 6 of the collection The Horla, or Modern Ghosts - Short story - Section 7-8 of the collection Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Short story Pliny the Younger (1st century AD) Letter to Sura - Short story - 26th section in collection Voltaire Zadig the Babylonian - Novella - Sections 18-21 of collection
- Mike Grost's recommended reading - A Hayworth-Queen Cornerstone - Link to etext - Available on Amazon.com |