Classic Mystery Stories From A Suitcase Of Suspense: Reader's Digest

A lovely sampler of mystery from the great writers of the last two centuries. In this volume: The Signalman, Charles Dickens: (1866): In the days when the railroad is still a wonder, a practical-minded man meets a railway worker who experiences supernatural visions. The BottleImp, Robert Louis Stevenson (1891): An imp, a little demon, lives in a bottle and grants the bottle's owner every wish - but there are steep conditions to the ownership of the bottle, and wishes are granted at an awful price... The Silver Mirror, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1908): An accountant is on the trail of an outwardly respectable fraudster and must wade through twenty ledgers to prove his case. As he works, tiredness begins to take its toll and the large antique silver mirror nearby no longer shows his reflection... The Waxwork, A.M. Burrage (1931) : Hewson, a freelance journalist, volunteers to stay overnight in the wax museum's “Murderer’s Den”. It's all rather routine for the jaded newspaperman, but in the small hours and the silence, he believes that there might be something else, something sinister, in the building with him… Puddle, Arthur Porges (1972): A man recollects how he was bullied as a child and then he overcomes his fear of puddles - or so he thinks... The Night Wire, H.F. Arnold (1926): A telegraph operator's transcriptions of the commonplace talk from across the globe become a nightmare when a story comes in - of a heavy mist in a graveyard, the vanishing of the villagers and then the arrival of lights... Finney's Wonder Tonic, Alan Austin: A hedonistic, Bohemian artist finds love across a century when he discovers he can mail things to the past - and receive replies. Man From The South, Roald Dahl (1948): An older South American gent and a young American naval cadet engage in a strange and macabre gambling game.