30 Stories to Remember

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The split second / Daphne du Maurier -- The theft of the Mona Lisa / Karl Decker -- The soldiers' peaches / Stuart Cloete -- A night to remember (from the book) / Walter Lord -- Aerial football: the new game / George Bernard Shaw -- Courtship of my cousin Doone / Walter D. Edmonds -- Hotel room (from the book) / Cornell Woolrich -- [Two soldiers](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16245831W) / William Faulkner -- How we kept Mother's Day / Stephen Leacock -- The witness for the prosecution / Agatha Christie -- The incredible journey / Sheila Burnford -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Act one (from the book) / Moss Hart -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Gigi / Colette -- The little minister (from the book) / James M. Barrie -- The alien corn / W. Somerset Maugham -- A profile in courage (from the book) / John F. Kennedy -- The company of the Marjolaine / John Buchan -- First day finish (from The friendly persuasion) / Jessamyn West -- [The adventure of the priory school](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518319W) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Death and Professor Raikes / Alice Duer Miller -- Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- Mrs. 'arris goes to Paris / Paul Gallico -- "They" / Rudyard Kipling -- Son of a tinker / Maurice Walsh -- History lesson / Arthur C. Clarke -- The truth about the flood (from The bible as history) / Werner Keller -- A candle for St. Jude / Rumer Godden.

subjects: Collections,  Short stories,  fiction,  cattle,  forges,  hanging,  horse gaits,  horseshoes,  moorland,  preparatory schools,  Private investigators,  ransoms,  Romani,  school caps,  traps,  Manuscripts,  English Manuscripts,  Facsimiles

People: Pete,  Old Man Killegrew,  Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Arthur Conan Doyle,  Thorneycroft Huxtable,  Lord Saltire,  Duke of Holdernesse,  Heidegger,  James Wilder,  Reuben Hayes

Places: England,  Priory School,  Northern England,  Fighting Cock Inn,  Chesterfield,  Australia