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The Bolted Door

Edith Wharton

First published October 1910
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Hubert Granice decides to escape from a life of futile failure by confessing to the unsolved murder of his cousin ten years earlier. Unfortunately, no one he talks to believes him--he has an alibi and he can't produce any evidence against himself.

Non-speculative murder story. First published in Scribner's, March 1909.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1910 Tales of Men and Ghosts Charles Scribner's Sons Collection 1
July 1995 The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 1 Project Gutenberg Collection
October 2003 Tales of Men and Ghosts Project Gutenberg Collection
April 2005 Cover Tales of Men and Ghosts Wildside Press Collection
January 2010 Cover Tales of Men and Ghosts ValdeBooks Collection 1
April 2013 Cover Tales of Men and Ghosts CreateSpace Collection
July 2013 Cover Tales of Men and Ghosts LibriVox Collection |1
September 2015 Cover Chilling Ghost Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 427
November 2016 Cover Chilling Ghost Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology |427