Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes tale, The Speckled Band

Born in 1905, still kickin' and stayin" in print: Ellis Parker Butler's "Pigs Is Pigs."

Maurice Leblanc's greatest creation is the gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin. Here he is in The Queen's Necklace.

Two pieces by the English author and playwright, W. Somerset Maugham: The Portrait of a Gentleman and The Ant and the Grasshopper

Sheer delight from Rudyard Kipling, author of the best bedtime stories ever: The Just So Stories.

Wit and economy in a tale of murder by Dorothy Sayers.

A selection of Aesop’s Fables from among my favorites.

A beautifully rendered story of a turning point in a young girl’s life: Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron.”

Away from the snow, off to Monte Carlo: Somerset Maugham's "The Facts of Life."

Three stories by Saki. Who could ask for anything more?