Half a dozen people supping at a table in one of the upper-Broadway all-night restaurants were making too ... Read more
Surprise Endings Short Stories
Total Stories: 258
THE GREAT FRENCH DETECTIVE, IN AUSTIN A Successful Political Intrigue CHAPTER I It is not generally known that ... Read more
The most disreputable thing in Yancey Goree’s law office was Goree himself, sprawled in his creakv old arm- ... Read more
“The knights are dead; Their swords are rust. Except a few who have to hust- Le all the ... Read more
At the United States end of an international river bridge, four armed rangers sweltered in a little ‘dobe ... Read more
Cherokee was the civic father of Yellowhammer. Yellowhammer was a new mining town constructed mainly of canvas and ... Read more
[Note. The man who told me these things was for several years an outlaw in the Southwest and ... Read more
I don’t suppose it will knock any of you people off your perch to read a contribution from ... Read more
It has been indicated that disaffection followed the elevation of Losada to the presidency. This feeling continued to ... Read more
Returning from a hunting trip, I waited at the little town of Los Pinos, in New Mexico, for ... Read more
Half of this story can be found in the records of the Police Department; the other half belong ... Read more
When Major Pendleton Talbot, of Mobile, sir, and his daughter, Miss Lydia Talbot, came to Washington to reside, ... Read more