The game’s afoot. Introducing Violet Strange, debutante and discreet criminal investigator, in Anna Katharine Green’s “An Intangible Clue.”

Frank R. Stockton’s endlessly discussible “The Lady, or the Tiger?”

Ring Lardner at his amused and observant best: “Alibi Ike.”

One of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s unforgettable characters, Abel Armstrong embodies wonder, affirmation, and sweetness in the face of great personal loss, sharing generously with a young man experiencing his own unnamed troubles. “Abel and His Great Adventure.”

Two short stories by Kate Chopin: Desiree's Baby and A Pair of Silk Stockings

Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves (please don’t call him a butler; he is a gentleman’s personal gentleman) are in New York, somewhat on the lam from Aunt Agatha. But he can’t avoid her entirely when an imposing friend of hers shows up. Join the fun in P. G. Wodehouse’s “Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest.”

Cracking codes, fathoming a code maker. John Buchan’s “The Loathly Opposite.”

A compact story, taking on themes of guilt, atonement, and redemption.

In celebration of the return of spring, two short pieces by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Odell Shepard.

Just for the fun of it, one of P. G. Wodehouse’s beloved characters, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Urkidge, as always scheming to make a buck or a pound without actually working.