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My particular friend, Ward Mortimer, was one of the best men of his day at everything connected with Oriental archaeology. He had written largely upon… Read More »The Jew’s Breastplate

Bishop’s Crossing is a small village lying ten miles in a south-westerly direction from Liverpool. Here in the early seventies there settled a doctor named… Read More »The Black Doctor

It WAS a curious thing, said the private tutor; one of those grotesque and whimsical incidents which occur to one as one goes through life.… Read More »The Japanned Box

There are many who will still bear in mind the singular circumstances which, under the heading of the Rugby Mystery, filled many columns of the… Read More »The Man with the Watches

A curious experience? said the Doctor. Yes, my friends, I have had one very curious experience. I never expect to have another, for it is… Read More »The Beetle-Hunter

The confession of Herbert de Lernac, now lying under sentence of death at Marseilles, has thrown a light upon one of the most inexplicable crimes… Read More »The Lost Special

It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections, but no actual money in his pocket, and no… Read More »The Brazilian Cat

The following narrative was found among the papers of Dr. James Hardcastle, who died of phthisis on February 4th, 1908, at 36, Upper Coventry Flats,… Read More »The Terror of Blue John Gap

The relations between Douglas Stone and the notorious Lady Sannox were very well known both among the fashionable circles of which she was a brilliant… Read More »The Case of Lady Sannox

“Look here, Burger,” said Kennedy, “I do wish that you would confide in me.” The two famous students of Roman remains sat together in Kennedy’s… Read More »The New Catacomb