THE MYSTERY OF HUNTER'S LODGE by AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT INVESTIGATES
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Release Date: 05/14/2025
BEST OF (#70 OF 524) AN ADVENTURE IN THE UPPER SEA by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
In "Adventure In the Upper Sea" by Jack london, a balloon pilot recounts a harrowing incident involving a young boy during a public show in Oakland CA in this riveting jack London tale.
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THE DAY OF THE DOG (PT 2) ROBERT B. McCUTCHEON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
In part two the young attorney and his client figure out an ingenious way to get past the bulldog and then have to decide the safest way to get to Chicago. Deputies will be watching the train stations- so the going will be tough.
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THE DAY OF THE DOG (PT 1) by GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
In part one a junior partner in a Chicago law firm travels by train, and then by foot, to an Illinois farm at which his firm's client, a young widow named Mrs. Delaney, is staying with relatives. His mission: to show her what she is legally entitled to with the sale of her husband's property. She has been told otherwise by her crooked relatives, who find a way, using a vicious bulldog, to trap first the young lawyer, and then Mrs. Delaney, on the roof of the carriage house.
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BEST OF (#64 of 569) GALLEGHER A NEWSPAPER STORY by R.H. DAVIS
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
A street smart boy named Gallegher finds work at a Philadelphia newspaper and quickly proves his worth by identifying a murderer.
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THE WNNNG BALL by ZANE GREY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
A minor league manager unexpectedly tells his team they are headed for Canada to play an exhibition game and they run into tougher competition than expected., forcing them to employ "the rabbit"- a hot baseball which is nearly impossible to catch.
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A RUDYARD KIPLING DOUBLE PLAY COURAGE and FALSE DAWN
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
'Courage' is actually a very moving poem- a father's advice to his son. False Dawn had me holding my sides through parts of this story as our narrator, who we presume is working at a government post in India, accompanies a small party of locals who have decided to have a picnic about 6 miles from the village in the middle of nowhere when a rain and then dust storm kicks up. Check out our short stories by category at www.bestof1001stories.com!
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BEST OF (#63 of 568) OVER THE STELVIO PASS by ROBERT BARR
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
An Englishman checks in at a small mountain inn in Switzerland and immediately discovers a beautiful young lady who happens to be the daughter of the proprietor. He has no idea that his presence is ruining the plans of another young man, an Italian, who owns a sharp knife and a vile temper.
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THE ACTOR AND THE ALIBI A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY by G.K.CHESTERTON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Mundon Mandeville runs a thoroughly disliked repertoire theater company and is murdered inside a windowless room in the building although everyone involved has an alibi. Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective. He is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton, published between 1910 and 1936. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's...
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THE JELLYBEAN by F.SCOTT FITZGERALD
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
The story was written as a sequel to “The Ice Palace,” and Clark Darrow appears in both. The omniscient narrator, who ensures that close observation is paid to Powell’s story, draws in the reader. The opening line – “Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean”- labels the protagonist immediately, and as a character he remains within the stereotype Fitzgerald indicates, though he almost manages to break free. The history of Powell’s life presents a tale of a family fallen on hard times. Powell is humiliated by the whisperings of the social set and chooses notoriety over...
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BEST OF (#62 of 567) THE MISSING WILL A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY by AGATHA CHRISTIE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
In this classic Poirot mystery Hastings and Poirot are asked to clear up a very unusual settlement in which the sole heir, a young woman, is challenged by her now deceased grandfather to find a will in which she will receive all his fortune. If she does not find it- it all goes to charity. In his eyes, he was testing her to see if she was deserving of it....does she pass the test?
info_outlineYes- Poirot is BACK!...despite the terrible review we received a couple years ago complaining that my French sounds like its been infusd with Russian.. I was moved by that, and left for a year to study at the Sarbonne, at which time I was reminded that Poirot's character was born in lived as a child in in Portugal, and often took trips with his father to Moscowbefore the fall of the Romanovs-so I had to spend some time there as well. then it was back to the states to study the shows on PBS with David Suchet who does a tolerable job with Poirot- whats a few Emmy's anyway? Someday I will win the equivalent of an Emmy- what's that in podcasting- a Poddy?...for my interpretation of a (in this story) flu-weakened Poirot who hasn't lost his crime solving ability yet, Hastings. So there. Now on with the show.
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge is a short story written by Agatha Christie, which was first published in The Sketch in May 1923 in the U.K. The story was published in the U.S. in The Blue Book Magazine in June 1924 as "The Hunter's Lodge Case". In 1924 also, the story appeared as part of the collection Poirot Investigates.