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The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories; The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations (c. 1909)
edited by Julian Hawthorne
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A series in ten volumes. May share some content with Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, also edited by Hawthorne

4953937The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories; The Most Interesting Stories of All Nationsc. 1909Julian Hawthorne

List of volumes:

  1. North Europe: Russian—Swedish—Danish—Hungarian
    Russian, Swedish, Danish
    Hungarian
  2. Mediterranean: Italian—Spanish—Oriental—Ancient Latin and Greek (1909) (start transcription)
    Italian and Spanish
    Oriental
    Introduction by Charles Johnston: A Web of World-Old Oriental Tales
    • "The Power of Eloquence" (Japanese)
    • "The Dishonest Goldsmith and the Ingenious Painter" (Turkish)
    • "The Craft of the Three Sharpers" (Arabic)
    • "The Cheerful Workman" (Arabic)
    • "The Robber and the Woman" (Arabic)
    • "The Wonderful Stone" (Chinese)
    • "The Weaver Who Became a Leach" (Arabic)
    • "Visakha" (Tibetan)
    • "Told by the Constable" (Arabic)
    • "The Unjust Sentence" (Chinese)
    • "The Scar on the Throat" (Arabic)
    • "Devasmita" (Sanskrit)
    • "The Sharpers and the Money-lender" (Arabic)
    • "The Withered Hand" (Turkish)
    • "The Melancholist and the Sharper" (Arabic)
    • "Lakshadatta and Labdhadatta" (Sanskrit)
    • "The Cunning Crone" (Arabic)
    • "Judgment of a Solomon" (Chinese)
    • "The Sultan and His Three Sons" (Arabic)
    • "Tale of a Demon" (Sanskrit)
    • "The Jar of Olives and the Boy Kazi" (Arabic)
    • "Another Solomon" (Chinese)
    • "Calamity Ahmad and Habzalom Bazazah" (Arabic)
    • "A Man-Hating Maiden" (Sanskrit)
    • "Told by the Constable" (Arabic)
    • "The Clever Thief" (Tibetan)
    • "The King Who Made Mats" (Persian)
    • "The Brahman Who Lost His Treasure" (Sanskrit)
    • "The Duel of the Two Sharpers" (Arabic)
    • "The Lady and the Kazi" (Persian)
    • "Mahaushadha" (Tibetan)
    • "Avicenna and the Observant Young Man" (Turkish)
    Ancient Latin and Greek
    Herodotus
    • "The Thief Versus King Rhampsinitus"
    • "The Oracle—Its Test By Crœsus"
    • "The Oracle—Behind the Scenes"
    Lucius Apuleius
    • "The Adventure of the Three Robbers"
    Pliny, the Younger
    • "Letter to Sura"
  3. German
  4. Classic French
  5. Modern French
  6. French Novels (1912) (external scan)
  7. Old Time English
  8. Modern English
  9. American
  10. Real Life
    Detective Stories from Real Life
    True Stories of Modern Magic

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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