The story of the young robber / Washington Irving --
The rifle / William Leggett --
Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe --
The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
Remarkable case of arrest for murder / Abraham Lincoln --
The fatal secret / Daniel Webster --
The danseuse / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
A double tragedy: an actor's story / Louisa May Alcott --
The two sisters; or, The avenger / Allan Pinkerton --
The lady, or the tiger? and The discourager of hesitancy / Frank Stockton --
A thumb-print and what came of it / Mark Twain --
My favorite murder / Ambrose Bierce --
The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt --
Gallegher / Richard Harding Davis --
'Round the opium lamp / William Norr --
Lingo Dan / Percival Pollard --
The nameless man and the Montezuma emerald / Rodrigues Ottolengui --
The doctor, his wife, and the clock / Anna Katharine Green --
A very strange case / William M. Hinkley --
The long arm / Mary E. Wilkins --
The mysterious card and The mysterious card unveiled / Cleveland Moffett --
Tom Sawyer, detective / Mark Twain --
The corpus delicti / Melville Davisson Post --
The suicide of Kiaros / L. Frank Baum --
The purple emperor / Robert W. Chambers --
At Pinney's ranch / Edward Bellamy --
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane --
A cup of cold water / Edith Wharton --
The detective's pretty neighbor / Nicholas Carter --
A point in morals / Ellen Glasgow --
A thousand deaths / Jack London.