Stacy Aumonier's anticipation of Alfred Hitchcock: "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty"

In an age of scams, you might enjoy learning about the old “green goods” caper: O. Henry, “Shearing the Wolf.”

All the evidence points to one person, but Hercule Poirot keeps asking questions and solves “The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan.”

Werner Bergengruen takes an amused and skeptical look at misleading national identities in his story “The Sand Doctor.”

A tender story by Kate Chopin: "Love on the Bon-Dieu"

Sudden and high adventure in the most stolid and regular of lives: "A Source of Irritation" by Stacy Aumonier

A romance set in the theater in Belle Époque Paris: Leonard Merrick’s “The Doll in the Pink Silks Dress”A romance set in the theater in Belle Époque Paris: Leonard Merrick’s “The Doll in the Pink Silks Dress”

A trickster's tale: The Betting Scotchman

Anatole France's charming tale of the elusive gardener, "Putois"

The second and concluding part of Thomas Mann's "Mario and the Magician"