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CONTENTS

The Modern Detective Story continued


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