Great Classic Crime Stories: Tales of Murder, Robbery, Extortion, Blackmail, Forgery, and Worse

Written by Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry and G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers.

1. Charles by A. J. Alan
2. The Magic Casket by R. Austin Freeman
3. The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah
4. The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton
5. His Brother’s Keeper by W. W. Jacobs
6. The Murder of the Mandarin by Arnold Bennett
7. The Murder of the Countess Görlitz by S. Baring-Gould
8. The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton
9. The Burglary by Arnold Bennett
10. The Perfect Murder by Stacy Aumonier
11. Blackmail by John Galsworthy
12. The Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. To be taken in Water by George Walter Thornbury
14. The Man who stole a Meeting House by John Townsend Trowbridge
15. The Great Bank Forgery by Sir Basil Thomson
16. Diamond Cut Diamond by F. Britten Austin
17. My Adventure at Chislehurst by A. J. Alan
18. The Marionettes by O. Henry
19. The Inn of the Two Witches by Joseph Conrad
20. The Man with the Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
21. The Saloon Passenger by E. W. Hornung
22. The Severed Hand by Wilhelm Hauff
23. Moon’s Gibbet by Egerton Castle
24. A Lucky Number by S. B. Hale
25. The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller
26. The Tête Noire by Charles Allston Collins
27. The Downfall of Mulligans by Banjo Patterson
28. Hunted Down by Charles Dickens
29. Old Fags by Stacy Aumonier
30. My Favorite Murder by Ambrose Bierce
31. The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
32. A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Aug 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781467695503

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, critic and war veteran. Bierce fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army following an 1866 expedition across the Great Plains. Bierce’s harrowing experiences during the Civil War, particularly those at the Battle of Shiloh, shaped a writing career that included editorials, novels, short stories and poetry. Among his most famous works are “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Boarded Window,” “Chickamauga,” and What I Saw of Shiloh. While on a tour of Civil-War battlefields in 1913, Bierce is believed to have joined Pancho Villa’s army before disappearing in the chaos of the Mexican Revolution.