Mystery Stories

Pages: 224
Published: 1996
Language: English

The green arches / Joan Aiken -- The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui -- Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë -- The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon -- The thing in the pond / Paul Ernst -- Smart ice cream / Paul Jennings -- The pelican / Ann Pilling -- The adventures of Johnnie Waverly / Agatha Christie -- The tower / Carl Jung -- The scythe / Ray Bradbury -- A sea above the sky / Thomas Wright -- A vine on the house / Ambrose Bierce -- The master / Diana Wynne Jones.

Mystery Short Stories

Authors

Eleanor Farjeon

An English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire (Wikipedia).

Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848) was an English novelist and poet, best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a classic of English literature. The second-eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, between Charlotte and Anne, she grew up in the parsonage at Haworth, Yorkshire. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell, first in the 1846 poetry collection shared with her sisters and then with Wuthering Heights. She died of tuberculosis at thirty.

Helen Cresswell

Helen Cresswell is the author behind chilling collections like Ghost Stories and Tales of Horror and Mystery. If you enjoy a good scare and a puzzling plot, her work is definitely worth checking out.

Joan Aiken

Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. - Wikipedia

Rodrigues Ottolengui

Rodrigues Ottolengui wrote engaging mystery and crime stories, often featuring clever plots and deductions. His notable works include Mystery Stories and An Artist in Crime, though he also authored a surprising non-fiction book on dentistry.