Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Terribly strange bed / Wilke Collins -- Murder under the microscope / William Russell -- Three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Gallagher / Richard Harding Davis -- Red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Cheating the gallows / Israel Zangwill -- Chemistry of anarchy / Robert Barr -- Sheriff of Gullmore / Melville Grant Allen -- Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co., Ltd.' / Arthur Morrison -- Nameless man / Rodriguez Ottolengui -- His defense / Harry Stillwell Edwards -- Man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain.