Project Gutenberg 2005-06-04 Public domain in the USA. 744 Hawthorne, Julian 1846 1934 Castle, Egerton 1858 1920 Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 Collins, William Wilkie Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859 1930 Conan Doyle, Arthur, Sir Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A. Conan Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 Kipling, R. (Rudyard) Kipling, Joseph Rudyard Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850 1894 Stevenson, R. L. (Robert Louis) Weyman, Stanley John 1855 1928 Weyman, Stanley J. (Stanley John) The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Rudyard Kipling: -- My Own True Ghost Story -- The Sending of Dana Da -- In the House of Suddhoo -- His Wedded Wife -- A. Conan Doyle: A Case of Identity -- A Scandal in Bohemia -- The Red-Headed League -- Egerton Castle: The Baron's Quarry -- Stanley J. Weyman: The Fowl in the Pot -- Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links -- Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman -- Anonymous: The Lost Duchess -- The Minor Canon -- The Pipe -- The Puzzle -- The Great Valdez Sapphire Produced by Don Lainson. Text file originally posted in January, 2000 with an html conversion added by Walter Deboeuf in 2003. The present text and html files were produced by Suzanne Shell, M, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; "The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English" edited by Julian Hawthorne is a collection of classic mystery and detective stories compiled in the early 20th century. This anthology features notable authors such as Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, and Wilkie Collins, showcasing suspenseful tales that delve into crime, the supernatural, and the intricacies of human nature. The book offers a glimpse into the genre’s evolution, reflecting social conditions and the human psyche through its distinctive narratives. The opening of the anthology provides a vivid introduction to a spectral tale by Rudyard Kipling called "My Own True Ghost Story," where the protagonist encounters eerie happenings in a dilapidated dâk-bungalow in India. The protagonist narrates experiences filled with tension and atmospheric dread, detailing ghostly sounds and the unsettling presence of unseen entities during a stormy night. These initial sketches set the tone for the collection, weaving themes of fear, the unknown, and the human response to uncanny events, while establishing a sense of place and cultural backdrop essential to many of the stories included in the anthology. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/2038/2038-h/images/cover-tb.jpg Reading ease score: 80.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Fiction Short stories Detective and mystery stories, English PR Text Short Stories Category: Short Stories Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: British Literature 747869 2025-07-01T11:33:01.696531 text/html 776445 2020-12-31T14:46:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 884674 2020-12-31T14:46:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 916142 2025-07-01T11:33:09.632421 application/epub+zip 927193 2025-07-01T11:33:02.725488 application/epub+zip 337950 2025-07-01T11:33:02.206482 application/epub+zip 1147143 2025-07-01T11:33:15.558413 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1097993 2025-07-01T11:33:09.056409 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 513610 2022-09-01T13:26:22.217658 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 716266 2025-07-01T11:33:00.218465 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 715741 2020-12-31T14:46:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 274595 2020-12-31T14:46:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 715740 2020-12-31T14:46:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 274502 2020-12-31T14:46:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 26316 2025-07-01T11:33:15.732380 application/rdf+xml 12597 2025-07-01T11:33:02.295460 image/jpeg 1785 2025-07-01T11:33:02.251438 image/jpeg 882689 2025-07-01T11:33:01.772503 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia