Great Tales of Action and Adventure

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Contains: The bamboo trap by Robert S. Lemmon Leiningen versus the ants by Carl Stephenson The blue cross by G.K. Chesterton [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8776206W) by Richard Connell The fourth man by John Russell The interlopers by "Saki" (H.H. Munro) [The adventure of the dancing men](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262417W/Adventure_of_the_Dancing_Men) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) by Edgar Allen Poe Rescue party by Arthur C. Clarke August heat by William Fryer Harvey To build a fire by Jack London Action by C.E. Montague.

subjects: American fiction,  American Horror tales,  American literature,  American Short stories,  Children's fiction,  fear,  Fiction,  horror,  short stories,  Horror stories,  pendulums,  Spanish Inquisition,  Adventure stories,  survival of the fittest,  animal trapping,  trapping pits,  knouts,  hunting dogs,  Cossacks,  deaf-mutes,  snow leopards,  jaguars,  Islands,  Juvenile fiction,  Hunting stories,  Juvenile works,  Hunting,  Human hunting,  Big game sport,  Travel fiction,  Americans,  crime bosses,  frequency analysis,  hanging,  murder-suicide,  penal labour,  stick figures,  substitution ciphers,  weddings

People: Father Time,  Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Hilton Cubitt,  Elsie Patrick,  Abe Slaney,  Sanger Rainsford,  General Zaroff,  Whitney,  Ivan,  The Great White Czar

Places: Toledo,  Ridling Thorpe Manor,  Norfolk,  United States,  Chicago,  England,  Caribbean,  Amazon rainforest,  Ship-Trap Island,  Tibet

Times: 20th century