Classic Crime Stories

The pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Imp of the Perverse / Edgar Allan Poe -- Hunted down / Charles Dickens -- An honest thief / Fiodor Dostoevski -- God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoi -- Sleepyhead / Anton Chekhov -- Revenge / Guy de Maupassant -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The lost special / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- My favorite murder / Ambrose Bierce -- The stolen bacillus / H.G. Wells -- A retrieved reformation / O. Henry -- The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Footfalls / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Back for Christmas / John Collier -- The small assassin / Ray Bradbury.