Mark Twain’s Medieval Romance

This collection of suspenseful stories from legendary authors will test your detective instincts and imagination. A premier anthology of some of the finest mystery stories in literary history, including tales from Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Aldous Huxley, O. Henry, and Mark Twain. Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classicstories in this continually arresting collection come with anirresistible challenge: At their end they leave it to you, thereader, to determine how they end. For ultimately it's the reader who authors the fate of thebrave youth as he contemplates which of the two doors inthe king's arena he will choose in Frank Stockton's famousand unforgettable ';The Lady, or the Tiger?' And which of thetwo brothers in three-time Edgar-winner Stanley Ellin's ';UnreasonableDoubt' shoots a bullet square in the middle oftheir rich uncle's forehead? And just what not-so-sweet secretis the prim Miss Spence hiding behind her smile in AldousHuxley's deliciously enigmatic tale? You decide. In all, as in ';The Moment of Decision'a chilling tale thatseals an escape artist inside an airless stone cell with a heavywooden door, which may or may not openthe moment ofdecision is yours.

This collection of suspenseful stories from legendary authors will test your detective instincts and imagination. A premier anthology of some of the finest mystery stories in literary history, including tales from Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Aldous Huxley, O. Henry, and Mark Twain. Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classicstories in this continually arresting collection come with anirresistible challenge: At their end they leave it to you, thereader, to determine how they end. For ultimately it's the reader who authors the fate of thebrave youth as he contemplates which of the two doors inthe king's arena he will choose in Frank Stockton's famousand unforgettable ';The Lady, or the Tiger?' And which of thetwo brothers in three-time Edgar-winner Stanley Ellin's ';UnreasonableDoubt' shoots a bullet square in the middle oftheir rich uncle's forehead? And just what not-so-sweet secretis the prim Miss Spence hiding behind her smile in AldousHuxley's deliciously enigmatic tale? You decide. In all, as in ';The Moment of Decision'a chilling tale thatseals an escape artist inside an airless stone cell with a heavywooden door, which may or may not openthe moment ofdecision is yours.