There has been murder done，and the murderer was a man．He was more than six feet high，was in the prime of life，had small feet for his height，wore coarse，square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar．He came here with his victim in a fourwheeled cab．which was drawn by a horse with three old shoes and one new one on his off foreleg．In all probability the murderer had a florid face．and the fingernails ofhis right hand were remarkably long．These are only a few indications，but they may assist you．

The Shadows of Shcrlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crirne fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was ensconced in his roorns at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o’My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmoont. On the other side of the law,there are gentlernen crooks Raffles and Simon Carn- the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: The Purloincd Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Stolen Cigar Casc (a parody of Sherlock Holmes) by Bret Harte, The Swedish Match by Anton Chekhov, Ninc Points of the Law by E.W. ttornung, The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Brarnah and The Great Pearl Mystery by Baroness 0rczy.

The Purloined Letter

EDGAR ALLAN POE

The Biter Bit

WILKIE COLLINS

The Stolen Cigar-Case

BRETT HARTE

A Princess"s Vengeance

C. L. PIRKIS

T

he Absent-Minded Coterie

ROBERT BARR

The Swedish Match

ANTON CHEKHOV

The Secrets of the Black Brotherhood

DICK DONOVAN

The Episode of the Diamond Links

GRANT ALLEN

A Clever Capture

GUY CLIFFORD

Nine Points of the Law

E. W. HORNUNG

The Stir outside the Carl Royal

CLARENCE ROOK

The Duchess of Wiltshire"s Diamonds

GUY BOOTHBY

The Problem of Dressing Room A

JACQUES FUTRELLE

The Hundred- Thousand-Dollar Robbery

HESKETH PRICHARD

The Surrey Cattle-Maiming Mystery

HERBERT JENKINS

The Ghost at Massingham Mansions

ERNEST BRAMAH

Sexton Blake and the Time-Killer

ANONYMOUS

One Possessed

E. W. HORNUNG

The Great Pearl Mystery

BARONESS ORCZY