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Mark Twain's Medieval Romance And Other Classic Mystery Stories

Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continually arresting collection come with an irresistible challenge: At their end they leave it to you, the reader, to determine how they end.

For ultimately it’s the reader who authors the fate of the brave youth as he contemplates which of the two doors in the king’s arena he will choose in Frank Stockton’s famous and unforgettable “The Lady, or the Tiger?” And which of the two brothers in three-time Edgar-winner Stanley Ellin’s “Unreasonable Doubt” shoots a bullet square in the middle of their rich uncle’s forehead? And just what not-so-sweet secret is the prim Miss Spence hiding behind her smile in Aldous Huxley’s deliciously enigmatic tale? you decide.

In all, as in “The Moment of Decision” — a chilling tale that seals an escape artist inside an airless stone cell with a heavy wooden door, which may or may not open — the moment of decision is yours.

Unreasonable doubt /​ Stanley Ellin

A dilemma /​ S. Weir Mitchell

Nunc Dimittis /​ Roald Dahl

The lady, or the tiger? /​ Frank Stockton

The discourager of hesitancy /​ Frank Stockton

The lady and the tiger /​ Jack Moffitt

The blind spot /​ Barry Perowne

The mysterious card /​ Cleveland Moffett

The mysterious card unveiled /​ Cleveland Moffett

Karmesin and the meter /​ Gerald Kersh

One hundred in the dark /​ Owen Johnson

The whole town's sleeping /​ Ray Bradbury

At midnight, in the month of June /​ Ray Bradbury

Thimble, thimble /​ O. Henry

The Gioconda smile /​ Aldous Huxley

Tea for two /​ Laurie York Erskine

The lady and the dragon /​ Peter Godfrey

A medieval romance /​ Mark Twain

The moment of decision /​ Stanley Ellin

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 301
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781605982793
  • Genres
  • mystery
  • Release date
  • 2012