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About Short Stories About Murder: 48 Classic Stories From All Over The Globe About Murder

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Both are heinous and most unlikely to gather any sympathy for the actual act itself from anyone, whatever the circumstances or the reasons. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could. 1 - Short Stories About Murder - An Introduction 2 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 3 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 4 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 5 - The Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant 6 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 7 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell 8 - The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens 9 - The Caballero's Way by O Henry 10 - Better Dead by J M Barrie 11 - The Easter Egg by Saki 12 - Mother Sauvage (La Mere Sauvage) by Guy de Maupassant 13 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe 14 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill 15 - In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 16 - August Heat by W F Harvey 17 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson 18 - The Green Light by Barry Pain 19 - The Hand by Guy de Maupassant 20 - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe 21 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle 22 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit 23 - Lost Hearts by M R James 24 - Ben Pitcher's Elly by Mary E Mann 25 - The Hounds of Fate by Saki 26 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo 27 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 1 by Robert W Chambers 28 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 2 by Robert W Chambers 29 - The Limping Ghost by Frederick Cowles 30 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward 31 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 32 - Talma Gordon by Pauline E Hopkins 33 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce 34 - The Murderer by Mikhail Bulgakov 35 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford 36 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery 37 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd 38 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy 39 - God Sees The Truth But Waits by Leo Tolstoy 40 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 41 - The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert 42 - The Murder in an Omnibus by Harold Begbie 43 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 44 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 45 - The Absence of Mr Glass by G K Chesterton 46 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce 47 - The Lie by Leonid Andreyev 48 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs 49 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee