Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 198, v1, 21 Jan 2024

This batch of stories was mostly collected from old book scans which are so much easier to process than scans from online newspapers; automatic OCR has trouble with tiny 19th century newspaper type on tatty old newsprint quality paper, where it can take half a day to unscramble one short story.

A couple of Sherlock Holmes spoofs for fun; some "strange" from Quiller-Couch and Bram Stoker; action, romance, swashbuckling... Big names and forgotten names... all in the Life+70 years public domain.

1: Dead Man's Camp / John Arthur Barry
2: Two Rounds / Ganpat
3: The Broken Violin / Warwick Deeping
4: The Lemon Drop Kid / Damon Runyon
5: Kansas City Flash / Norbert Davis
6: The Gold at Santa Maria / Rafael Sabatini
7: The Snake Farm / Sapper
8: The Man Who Cut Off My Hair / Richard Marsh
9: The Gombeen Man / Bram Stoker
10: Claude Tyack's Ordeal / Grant Allen
11: The Ruby of Khitmandu / Hugh Kingsmill
12: The Case of the Missing Patriarchs / Logan Clendening, M.D.
13: Bilter's Bargain / Seward W. Hopkins
14: Tale of Two Towns / Roy W. Hinds
15: Mutual Exchange / A. T. Quiller-Couch
16: Reflected Evidence / Scott Campbell
17: The Golden Crowns / Beatrice Grimshaw
18: Prudence Forgets Her Name / Charlton Lawrence Edholm
19: The Lazarette of the "Huntress" / William Clarke Russell
20: The Vampire of Croglin Grange / Augustus Hare
21: Mr. Catlin's Weakness / Roy Norton

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