Tales of Terror and Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle

315 pages
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Thirteen stories from the creator of Sherlock Holmes, from monsters in the upper atmosphere to a cursed leather funnel and a creature in a Derbyshire cave. Collected in 1922, they show Doyle's darker side.

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