Bulbeck, Laura (ed) - Crime & Mystery / Булбек, Лаура (ред) - Преступления и расследования [2016, EPUB, ENG]

The Coin of Dionysius / Монета Дионисия by Ernest Bramah The Cost of Security by Tara Campbell The Blue Cross / Сапфировый крест by G. K. Chesterton Brother Griffith's Story of the Biter Bit / Попался! by Wilkie Collins In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis Hunted Down / Пойман с поличным by Charles Dickens Skitter and Click by Jennifer Dornan-Fish Paperboxing Art by James Dorr The Red-Headed League / Союз рыжих by Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Speckled Band / Пёстрая лента by Arthur Conan Doyle Home Run by Marcelle Dubé The Aluminium Dagger by R. Austin Freeman Suggestive Thoughts by H. L. Fullerton The Problem of Cell 13 / Загадка тринадцатой камеры by Jacques Futrelle I Am Nightmare by Jennifer Gifford A Mysterious Case by Anna Katharine Green The Rome Express / Римский экспресс by Arthur Griffiths A Trap to Catch a Cracksman / Ловушка для взломщика by E. W. Hornung Three Words by Nathan Hystad The Marionettist by John A. Karr Mechanical Love by Kin S. Law The Arrest of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc The Master of Mystery / Великий кудесник by Jack London The Lenton Croft Robberies / Кража в Лентон-Крофте by Arthur Morrison iMurder by Josh Pachter Creature of the Thaumatrope by Tony Pi The Murders in the Rue Morgue / Убийство на улице Морг by Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter / Украденное письмо by Edgar Allan Poe The Whipping Boy by Conor Powers-Smith The Invisible Ray by Arthur B. Reeve The Man Wore Motley by Stephen D. Rogers The House by Steve Shrott Catzized by Annette Siketa Ghosts, Bigfoot, and Free Lunches by Dan Stout Blood and Silver Beneath the Many Moons by Brian Trent Murder on the Cogsworthy Express by Cameron Trost The Stolen White Elephant / Похищение белого слона by Mark Twain Sentimental Simpson by Edgar Wallace Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture / Картина сэра Гилберта Маррелла by Victor L. Whitechurch Chains of Command by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley and Ruth Nestvold Cheating the Gallows / Обманутая виселица by Israel Zangwill

ACCORDING TO certain signs, the Amateur Detective thought his French window had been forced by a left-handed man who wore square-toed boots, the muddy print of the latter against the enamel of the door seemed to prove this beyond doubt. The direction of the knife-cuts in the putty about the window-glass supported the left-handed view. Another point: Only a left-handed man would have thought of sawing through the left fold of the shutter. The occupier of Wisteria Lodge explained all this to the real detective, who sat stolidly on the other side of the table in the occupier’s dining-room at three o’clock in the morning, listening to the interesting hypothesis. “I think if you look for a left-handed man with square-toed boots – or they may be shoes,” said the householder quietly, even gently, “you will discover the robber.” “Ah,” said the real detective, and swallowed his whisky deliberately. . . .