Short Stories from the Strand

This anthology reprints short fiction first published in The Strand Magazine, the London monthly that from the 1890s onward mixed popular detection, humor, and adventure for a wide readership. Typical pieces include Sherlock Holmes cases and other detective puzzles, comic sketches, and tales of crime, travel, and the uncanny by writers who sold to that market. Settings are often late-Victorian and Edwardian London, with excursions to country houses and abroad. There is no continuous plot. The book is a sampler of magazine stories, not a history of the periodical and not a single author's canon.

Bound in grey-brown cloth, covers blocked in black and gold with a picture. Maroon endpapers and page tops. Gold slipcase.