Index:The omnibus of crime (1929).pdf

Title	The Omnibus of Crime
Author	Edited by Dorothy L. Sayers
Year	1929
Source	pdf
Progress	To be proofread
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CONTENTS

Introduction 9

1 DETECTION AND MYSTERY

Primitives

1 ORIENTAL

The History of Bel (Analysis of Material Evidence) 41

The History of Susanna (Analysis of Testimony) 42

2 LATIN

The Story of Hercules and Cacus (Fabrication of False Clues) 45

3 GREEK

The Story of Rhampsinitus’ Treasure-House (Psychological

Method of Detection: Plot and Counterplot) 47

The Modern Detective Story

1 THE STORY OF PURE SENSATION

a The Solution discovered by Chance

Mrs. Henry Wood, The Ebony Box 49

b The Clues known to the Detective but withheld from the Reader

C. Hedley Barker, The Ace of Trouble 89

2 THE STORY OF PURE ANALYSIS

Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogét 93

3 TALES OF MIXED TYPE

a Amateur Detectives or Private Consultants

A. Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Priory School 127

Ernest Bramah, The Ghost at Massingham Mansions 150

F. A. M. Webster, The Secret of the Singular Cipher 169

C.E. Bechhofer Roberts, The English Filter 179

b The Journalist Detective

E. C. Bentley, The Clever Cockatoo 191

c The Police Detective

Eden Phillpotts, Prince Charlie’s Dirk 202

Robert Barr, The Absent-minded Coterie 238

d The Scientific and Medical Detective

L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, The Face in the Dark 266

Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace, Mr. Belton’s Immunity 278

Anthony Wynne, The Cyprian Bees 292

F. Britten Austin, Diamond Cut Diamond 305

e Specialists

Chess: Raymund Allen, A Happy Solution 324

Cards: Percival Wilde, The Adventure of the Fallen Angels 335

Railways: Victor L. Whitechurch, Sir Gilbert Murrell’s Picture 363

f The Intuitive Detective

G. K. Chesterton, The Hammer of God 373

H. C. Bailey, The Long Barrow 384

g The Comic Detective

Sir Basil Thomson, The Hanover Court Murder 401

4 THE INTERPRETATION OF REAL LIFE

Aldous Huxley, The Gioconda Smile 413

Marie Belloc Lowndes, Her Last Adventure 434

5 THE ROMANCE OF CRIME

E. W. Hornung, The Wrong House 451

2 SUPERNATURAL

MACROCOSMOS

1 TALES OF GHOSTS AND HAUNTING

Mrs. Oliphant, The Open Door 463

Charles Dickens, The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle 492

Charles A. Collins and Charles Dickens, The Trial for Murder 505

M. R. James, Martin’s Close 513

Robert Hichens, How Love Came to Professor Guildea 527

“Saki,” The Open Window 560

Macrocosmos continued

2 TALES OF MAGIC

Witchcraft

Arthur Machen, The Novel of the Black Seal 562

Sax Rohmer, Tchériapin 590

W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey’s Paw 602

A. J. Alan, The Hair 610

Vampires

E. F. Benson, Mrs. Amworth 616

The Frankenstein Theme

Ambrose Bierce, Moxon’s Master 627

Jerome K. Jerome, The Dancing-Partner 634

Possession and the Dead Alive

R. L. Stevenson, Thrawn Janet 639

Marjorie Bowen, The Avenging of Ann Leete 646

Tales of Doom and Destiny

W. F. Harvey, August Heat 656

Morley Roberts, The Anticipator 660

Joseph Conrad, The Brute 664

May Sinclair, Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched 679

3 TALES OF NIGHTMARES AND THE BORDERLAND OF THE MIND

J. S. Le Fanu, Green Tea 694

J. D. Beresford, The Misanthrope 719

John Metcalfe, The Bad Lands 725

A. M. Burrage, Nobody’s House 733

A. C. Quiller-Couch, The Seventh Man 742

N. Royde-Smith, Proof 751

Walter de la Mare, Seaton’s Aunt 758

Edward Lucas White, Lukundoo 780

3 HUMAN AND INHUMAN

MICROCOSMOS

1 TALES OF DISEASE AND MADNESS

Michael Arlen, The Gentleman from America 793

R. Ellis Roberts, The Narrow Way 806

2 TALES OF BLOOD AND CRUELTY

Traditional Tale of the Lowlands, Sawney Bean and His Family 817

Bram Stoker, The Squaw 821

Violet Hunt, The Corsican Sisters 829

Barry Pain, The End of a Show 888

H. G. Wells, The Cone 891

Ethel Colburn Mayne, The Separate Room 899