Frontispiece, photographic plates facing p. 96, 131, 179 a nd 202, a nd illustrations on p. 51, 147 a nd 193, some signed by Jack Flanagan
Includes bibliographies
Legend of the Moo r 's legacy / Washington Irving -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet -- The Sire de Male troit's doo r / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- A gala dress / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garla nd -- On the stairs / Arthur Mo r rison -- A blackjack bargainer / ",O. Henry", (William Sydney Po r ter) -- The well / William Wydmark Jacobs -- The comfo r ter / Elizabeth Jo r dan -- ",Molly McGuire, fourteen", / Frederick Stuart Greene