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    <extent>704 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The folding doors / Marjorie Bowen -- The lady of Glenwith Grange / Wilkie Collins -- The new sun / J.S. Fletcher -- Edward Randolph's portrait / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The spectre bridegroom / Washington Irving -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe -- The tarn / Hugh Walpole -- The avenging chance / Anthony Berkeley -- The witness for the prosecution / Agatha Christie -- A lesson in crime / G.D.H. and M. Cole -- Mr. Pemberton's commission / Freeman Wills Crofts -- The aluminium dagger / R. Austin Freeman -- The Glyston slander / Herbert Jenkins -- Ars�ene Lupin in prison / Maurice Leblanc -- Peacock House / Eden Phillpotts -- Bitter almonds / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The ghost of Dorothy Dingley / Daniel Defoe -- To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens -- Mr. Kempe / Walter de la Mare -- The tapestried chamber / Sir Walter Scott -- The red room / H.G. Wells -- The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by H. Douglas Thomson.</note>
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