The Boy's Book of Great Detective Stories (1938)

by Howard Haycraft (Editor)

Other authors: Samuel Hopkins Adams (Contributor), Edwin Balmer (Contributor), Robert Barr (Contributor), G. K. Chesterton (Contributor), R. Austin Freeman (Contributor) — 8 more, Jacques Futrelle (Contributor), Maurice Leblanc (Contributor), William MacHarg (Contributor), Arthur Morrison (Contributor), Baroness Orczy (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Melville Davisson Post (Contributor), Arthur B. Reeve (Contributor)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Haycraft, Howard	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Adams, Samuel Hopkins	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Balmer, Edwin	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Barr, Robert	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Chesterton, G. K.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Freeman, R. Austin	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Futrelle, Jacques	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Leblanc, Maurice	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
MacHarg, William	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Morrison, Arthur	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Orczy, Baroness	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Poe, Edgar Allan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Post, Melville Davisson	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Reeve, Arthur B.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Doyle, Arthur Conan	Contributor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Aluminium Dagger [short story] by R. Austin Freeman

Selections from The Boys' Book of Great Detective Stories by Howard Haycraft

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1938

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Contents:

The purloined letter / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The adventure of the speckled band / by A. Conan Doyle -- The case of the Dixon torpedo / by Arthur Morrison -- Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / by Robert Barr -- The problem of cell 13 / by Jacques Futrelle -- The aluminium dagger / by R. Austin Freeman -- Shadowed by death / by Maurice Leblanc -- The Fenchurch Street mystery / by Baroness Orczy -- The man higher up / by Edwin Balmer & William MacHarg -- The man who spoke Latin / by Samuel Hopkins Adams -- The invisible man / by G.K. Chesterton -- The age of miracles / by Melville Davisson Post --The Black Hand / by Arthur B. Reeve.

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