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Century of Thrillers

uncredited

First published 1937
Publisher President Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages viii+367, vi+373, vi+370

In 3 volumes. The Library of Congress, Worldcat, {{Reginald1}}, {{Bleiler78}} and {{Tuck}} all list this as a single publication of three volumes. Presumably it was published and sold as a set.

No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Death and Company Dashiell Hammett Short Story
13 The Magic of Fear Edgar Wallace Short Story
29 The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan Agatha Christie Novelette
44 The Adventure of the Speckled Band Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
69 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
89 The Prussian Officer D. H. Lawrence Novelette
110 Tchériapin Sax Rohmer Short Story
127 The Queer Feet G. K. Chesterton Novelette
145 The Pavilion on the Links Robert Louis Stevenson Novella
195 The Taipan W. Somerset Maugham Short Story
203 The Great Bear E. Phillips Oppenheim Novelette
223 The Squaw Bram Stoker Short Story
234 Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty Stacy Aumonier Short Story
250 The Gold-Bug Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
283 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
290 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
322 The Mystery of Marie Rogêt Edgar Allan Poe Novella
106|2106 One of the Missing Ambrose Bierce Short Story
107|3107 Diver's Drops N. A. Temple Ellis Novelette
118|2118 The Affair at Coulter's Notch Ambrose Bierce Short Story
127|2127 The Gentleman from America Michael Arlen Short Story
131|3131 The Story of the Bagman's Uncle Charles Dickens Short Story
145|2145 Night Guy de Maupassant Short Story
148|3148 A Madman's Manuscript Charles Dickens Short Story
150|2150 The Drowned Man Guy de Maupassant Short Story
157|2157 The Upper Berth F. Marion Crawford Novelette
15|3015 The Ivory God Joseph S. Fletcher Short Story
166|3166 The Trial for Murder Charles Dickens Short Story
177|3177 The Cards Sydney Parkman Short Story
178|2178 The Silent Bullet Arthur B. Reeve Short Story
190|3190 The Birthday of the Infanta Oscar Wilde Short Story
195|2195 When the World Was Young Jack London Short Story
208|3208 The Last Leaf O. Henry Short Story
211|2211 The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed Wilkie Collins Short Story
214|3214 Roger Malvin's Burial Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
227|2227 The Biter Bit Wilkie Collins Novelette
233|3233 The Ebony Box Mrs. Henry Wood Novelette
255|2255 The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock Anna Katharine Green Novella
286|3286 Wandering Willie's Tale Sir Walter Scott Short Story
28|3028 The Spectre of Tappington Richard Harris Barham Novelette
295|2295 Sir Dominick Sarsfield Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
304|3304 The Two Drovers Sir Walter Scott Novelette
310|2310 Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
329|3329 My Adventure at Chiselhurst A. J. Alan Short Fiction
339|3339 The Hair A. J. Alan Short Story
342|2342 The Woman's Ghost Story Algernon Blackwood Short Story
347|3347 The Thing in the Hall E. F. Benson Short Story
351|2351 The Knights of the Silver Dagger Ashton Wolfe Novelette
359|3359 A Pair of Hands Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch Short Story
3|2003 Locked Doors Mary Roberts Rinehart Novella
3|3003 The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand Joseph S. Fletcher Short Story
47|2047 Pollock and the Porroh Man H. G. Wells Short Story
53|3053 The Squire's Story Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Short Story
62|2062 The Adventure of the Three Lame Men Ellery Queen Short Story
68|3068 The Corpus Delicti Melville Davisson Post Novelette
85|2085 Tale of the Piper Donn Byrne Short Story
89|2089 A Gentleman for a Night Octavus Roy Cohen Novelette
94|3094 The Mortal Immortal Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Short Story
v Introduction (Century of Thrillers, Volume I) uncredited Essay