Period Short Stories for September

Six short stories have been added to the "Vintage Short Mystery Classics" series this month. To wit: "The Shed Chamber," Laura E. Richards' adventure of a juvenile farm sleuth; "The Ghost Ship," a fantastical spoof by Richard Middleton; "The Executioner," a heart-rending Napoleonic tale of the ultimate familial dilemma by Honoré de Balzac; "The Fenchurch Street Mystery," Baroness Orczy's introduction of the Old Man in the Corner to the realm of armchair sleuths; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe's ground-breaking detective story; and "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley," the first short story of intrigue Arthur Conan Doyle ever had published (predating Sherlock Holmes).

These tales can be downloaded free in PDF format from www.hornpipe.com/mysclas.htm.