The World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories is a collection of nine-teen stories by ten world renown authors. Included are: HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT - The Necklace, The Man with the Pale Eyes, An Uncomfortable Bed, Ghosts, Fear, The Confession, The Horla, or Modern Ghosts, PIERRE MILLE - The Miracle of Zobeide, VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM - The Torture by Hope, ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN - The Owl's Ear, The Invisible Eye, The Waters of Death, HONORE DE BALZAC - Melmoth Reconciled, The Conscript, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE - Zadig the Babylonian, PEDRO DE ALARCON - The Nail, LUIGI CAPUANA - The Deposition, LUCIUS APULEIUS - The Adventure of the Three Robbers, PLINY, THE YOUNGER - Letter to Sura."