Eugene Thwing (1866–1936)

Mixed bag of detective short stories. I didn't like Detzer's stuff, which is comprised of stories from the point of view of a U.S. Army investigator, and which are set in 1918-1919 in France. O'Higgins stuff, involving a young scamp who successfully schemes his way into a detective agency, is much funnier and more enjoyable. Jenkins' stuff is somewhere in the middle, with "The Missing Heavyweight" being the best, in spite of a bit of anti-Semitic stuff.

I read this allowed on a camping trip, one story a night, as we gathered around the fire. I'm sure the atmosphere lent a certain charm to the work, but none the less, I enjoyed it. The stories were excellent, intriguing, with twisting plots, devious villains and grand surprises. I highly recommend.

This volume has storoes by ERnest Bramah, Sax Rohmer, Arthur Somers Roche, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Gilbert Frankau, Evelyn Johnson and Gretta Palmer.

includes two Sherlock Holmes stories, The Three Garridebs and The Mazarin Stone, which I would call closer to Doyle's worst rather than best, some intereesting stories by VIncent Starrett the well-known Sherlockian --rather like Holmes transplanted to Chicago, two stories by Maurice Leblanc (on the French super criminal Arsene Lupin) and stories by Henry C. Rowland and Henry Smith Williams.