The Mammoth book of golden age detective stories. cover

The Mammoth book of golden age detective stories.

by Marie Smith

[A Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W) / A. Conan Doyle Cheating the gallows / Israel Zangwill The doctor, his wife and the clock (novella) / Anna Katherine Green The flitterbat lancers / Arthur Morrison The florentine dante / Fergus Hume Nine points of the law / E.W. Hornung In the fog (novella) Richard Harding Davis The fire of London / Arnold Bennett Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr A retrieved information / O. Henry The four just men (complete novel) / Edgar Wallace The mysterious railway-passenger / The affair of the corridor express / Victor L. Whitechurch The diamond master (complete short novel) / Jacques Futrelle The hard-boiled egg / Ellis Parker Butler The master of mystery / Jack London A wastrel's romance (novella) R. Austin Freeman The honour of Israel Gow / G.K. Chesterton Smothered in corpses / Ernest Bramah The angel of the Lord / Melville Davisson Post His last bow: and epilogue of Sherlock Holmes / Sir Arthur Conon Doyle

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?