The edge of the chair

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Contains: The Sixth Capsule or Proof by Circumstantial Evidence by Edmund Pearson Fool's Mate by Stanley Ellin The Axeman Wore Wings by Robert Tallant Stone from the Stars by Valentina Zhuravleva The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin Billy: The Seal Mission by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden [Watcher by the Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084267W) by Ambrose Bierce Tea Party by Harold Pinter Death Draws a Triangle by Edward Hale Bierstadt The Net by Robert M. Coates Prisoner of the Sand by Antoine de Saint Exupery The End of the Party by Graham Greene The Last Inhabitant of the Tuileries by Andre Castelot Jesting Pilot by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner) Shattering the Myth of John Wilkes Booth's Escape by William G. Shepherd A Piece of Steak by Jack London The Game of Murder by Gerd Gaiser On the Killing of Eratosthenes the Seducer by Kathleen Freeman The Adventure of Clapham Cook by Agatha Christie The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury "They" by Rudyard Kipling The Chair by John Bartlow Martin Old Fags by Stacy Aumonier Dead Men Working in Cane Fields by William Seabrook How the Brigadier Lost His Ear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dry September by William Faulkner Rattenbury and Stone by F. Tennyson Jesse Sing a Song of Sixpence by John Buchan The Murder in Le Mans by Janet Flanner Sleeping Beauty by John Collier The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton A Small Buried Treasure by John Fischer The Horla by Guy de Maupassant Scrawns by Dorothy L. Sayers

subjects: fiction,  literature,  American literature,  short stories,  Crime,  Detective and mystery stories,  Detective and mystery fiction,  Mystery fiction

People: Dr. Helberson,  Dr. Mancher

Places: San Francisco

Times: 19th century