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Walter J. Black (1893–1958)

Author of World's Great Detective Stories

44+ Works 321 Members 2 Reviews

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Includes the names: WALTER J. BLACK, Walter J Black; 47, Walter J Black Inc, ed. Walter J. Black, Walter J. Black Co., Walter J. Black Co., Inc. Walter J. Black, WALTER J. Trans. BLACK, Walter J. Black Editors, WALTER J BLACK DETECTIVE BOOK CLUB

Works by Walter J. Black

World's Great Detective Stories (1928) — Editor — 112 copies, 2 reviews
World's Great Adventure Stories (1929) — Editor — 83 copies
World's Great Romances (1929) — Editor — 61 copies
The Works of Gustave Flaubert (1904) 5 copies
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1937) 5 copies
The Case of the Spurious Spinster | The Killing Strike | Encounter With Evil (1961) — Editor — 4 copies
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume, Tales and Poems (1944) 3 copies
The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1950) 3 copies
The Complete Works of Shakespeare 2 copies
The Works of James Boswell (1952) 2 copies
WORLD'S GREAT ROMANCES One Volume Edition 2 copies
World's Greatest Adventure Stories (1929) 2 copies
The Works of Victor Hugo: One Volume Edition 2 copies
The Complete Romances of Voltaire by Walter J Black (1927) 2 copies
The Works of Emile Zola 2 copies
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius 2 copies
The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne 2 copies
Best Known Works of Edgar Allen Poe 1 copy
The Works of Haggard 1928 1 copy
Complete Works of Classics (1927) 1 copy
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Giant International Series) (1928) 1 copy
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Comedies, Volume 1) (1965) 1 copy
The Case of the Calendar girl / Violence / Sight of Death 1 copy
The Works of William Shakespeare 1 copy
The Works of Frances Bacon 1 copy
The One Hundred and One (101) World's Great Mystery Stories 1 copy
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Red Cloth Binding with Black Label) (1927) 1 copy
Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion. (1944) 1 copy
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe 1 copy
The Works of Doyle 1 copy
The Works of H. Rider Haggard: One Volume Edition 1 copy
SHAKESPEARE, THE COMPLETE WORKS; VOL.3 THE TRAGEDIES 1 copy
World's Great Adventure Stories (1929) 1 copy
Arabian Knights (2002) 1 copy
101 World's Great Mystery Stories 1 copy
The World's Great Romances, One Volume Edition, by Walter J. Black (1929) 1 copy
Complete Works of Shakespeare Tragedies 1 copy
Bolt; A Question of Principle, The Cape Murders (1987) 1 copy
The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: One Volume Edition 1 copy
Classics Club Library - 7 Volumes, by Walter J. Black ORIGINAL EDITONS 1940's - 50's (Homer: The Odyssey & The Iliad (seperate books), Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two… (1944) 1 copy
The Works of Lord Byron (1951) 1 copy
Complete Works of Shakespeare (Histories, Vol. 2) 1 copy
Selected Works by Cicero (Classics Club) 1 copy
Shakespeare, The Complete Works: Volume III The Tragedies (1995) 1 copy
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Associated Works

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (1623) — Editor, some editions — 35,670 copies, 177 reviews
Utopia (1516) — Editor, some editions — 13,633 copies, 135 reviews
Essays and New Atlantis (2005) — Editor, some editions — 484 copies, 3 reviews
The Works of Leo Tolstoi (1904) — Editor, some editions — 440 copies, 1 review
The Works of Victor Hugo: One Volume Edition (Black's Readers Service) (1928) — Editor, some editions — 334 copies, 1 review
Plutarch: Selected Lives and Essays (2012) — Editor — 289 copies, 2 reviews
The Works of Henrik Ibsen (1867) — Editor, some editions — 278 copies
Five Great Dialogues (Classics Club) (2011) — Editor, some editions — 276 copies
Cleopatra / She / King Solomon’s Mines / Allan Quatermain (2015) — Editor, some editions — 236 copies, 1 review
The Works of Oscar Wilde (1948) — Editor, some editions — 162 copies, 1 review
The Works of Bret Harte (2013) — some editions — 108 copies
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Comedies, Volume 1) (1950) — some editions — 6 copies
The Estate of the Beckoning Lady | Dead She Was Beautiful | Sudden Squall (1955) — some editions — 6 copies

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World's Great Detective Stories (One Volume Edition - 1928) by Walter J. Black
This is a wonderful book with an interesting assortment of short mystery and detective stories. As this book was published in 1928, all of the stories were written before that date, many of them centuries earlier. It included numerous works by famous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Voltaire, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, and many more, both famous and not so famous. Almost all of the stories were unknown to me, so it show more was a joy to read, and also to find so many good stories in one volume. This compilation also included several stories which were attributed to French or British prison records, criminal records, chronicles, and biographies. It was interesting to compare the various writing styles as well as the historical aspects of each story. It was well worth reading. show less
Jun 13, 20111 other review
TChesney147 reviews
World's Great Detective Stories by Walter J. Black
I was especially pleased with being introduced to the following:
Jimmie Dale (by F. L. Packard).
Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen: The Thinking Machine (by Jacques Futrelle), with detective Mallory.
James Tierney, Inc. (by John A. Moroso), with Frothingham Phillips, Mickey Reilley, William Winthrop (Boston Willie) and Miss Nellie Regan (stenographer).
But, Ouida writes very long sentences.
And there was too much unknown and untranslated French.
Jul 13, 2009 (Edited)1 other review

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Alphonse Daudet Contributor
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Guy de Maupassant Contributor
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Mark Twain Contributor
Rudyard Kipling Contributor
A. Conan Doyle Contributor
Leo Tolstoi Contributor
Edgar Allan Poe Contributor
Alarcon Pedro de Contributor
Nathaniel Hawthorne Contributor
Alexandre Dumas Contributor
Robert Louis Stevenson Contributor
Arthur B. Reeve Contributor
Ouida Contributor
Émile Gaboriau Contributor
Frank L. Packard Contributor
Eugène Sue Contributor
Anna Katharine Green Contributor
Miguel de Cervantes Contributor
Arthur C. Train Contributor
Eugene Francois Vidocq Contributor
Arthur Sherburne Hardy Contributor
Mateo Aleman Contributor
Oscar Wilde Contributor
Joseph S. Fletcher Contributor
Dietrich Theden Contributor
Don Juan Manuel Contributor
Richard Connell Contributor
F. D. Millet Contributor
Walter Davenport Contributor
John A Moroso Contributor
Harris Dickson Contributor
Jacques Futrelle Contributor
E. Phillips Oppenheim Contributor
Alfred Henry Lewis Contributor
Maurice Leblanc Contributor
Thomas Hardy Contributor
Sax Rohmer Contributor
Edgar Wallace Contributor
Anatole France Contributor
Rafael Sabatini Contributor
William Henry Murray Contributor
Johann Zscokke Contributor
Eberhardt Contributor
Hugh Clifford Contributor
La Motte Fouque Contributor
Chief J. P. Beckworth Contributor
G. R. Widman Contributor
Spitta-Bey Contributor
W. Clark Russell Contributor
Doctor J. Soffing Contributor
S. Nowell Contributor
Ivan Turgenieff Contributor
Alexander S. Pushkin Contributor
Karl von Munchhausen Contributor
Carlos Varras Contributor
Doctor J. Grimm Contributor
Rafael de Zayas Enríquez Contributor
Professor T. Dimsdale Contributor
Lothar Contributor
Counsellor F. Gottschalck Contributor
Captain F. Marryat Contributor
Nathaniel P. Willis Contributor
Otmar Contributor
Michael Artzybashev Contributor
Gentile Sermini Contributor
Gunner M. Smith Contributor
George M. McCrie Contributor
D. de Pereyra Contributor
Lewis Tieck Contributor
Paul Du Chaillu Contributor
Ricardo Palma Contributor
Thomas Paine Contributor
Joseph Addison Contributor
Olive Schreiner Contributor
Maxim Gorky Contributor
Arthur Machen Contributor
William Morris Contributor
H. Rider Haggard Contributor
Nikolai Gogol Contributor
Prosper Merimee Contributor
Washington Irving Contributor
Ambrose Bierce Contributor
Émile Zola Contributor
Jonathan Swift Contributor
Jules Verne Contributor
Herman Melville Contributor
Plato Contributor
Bret Harte Contributor
Eugene Field Contributor
Charles Reade Contributor
Théophile Gautier Contributor
Selma Lagerlof Contributor
Paul Heyse Contributor
Verner von Heidenstam Contributor
Adam de l'Isle Contributor
S. R. Crockett Contributor
Francois Coppee Contributor
J. Fenimore Cooper Contributor
William Wilkie Collins Contributor
Egerton Castle Contributor
Carlo Gozzi Contributor
Barry Pain Contributor
Leonid Andreyev Contributor
Pierre Loti Contributor
Cotton Mather Contributor
Christopher Columbus Contributor
Bernhard Ingemann Contributor
John Creasey
Amber Dean
Erle Stanley Gardner

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