Agents & Spies Short Stories

Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of empire and traditional war have been replaced by cyber warfare but the subtle, lethal methods of agents and spies remain the same, and so has the power of great writing, with stories here to chill and intrigue every reader. Classic authors include Arnold Bennett, Ernest Bramah, John Buchan, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Rudyard Kipling, Maurice Leblanc, Arthur B. Reeve, Sapper, Ellen Wood.Contents:• Foreword by Martin Edwards• Publisher's note• The youngest brother / Sara Dobie Bauer• Murder! / Arnold Bennett• The Tilling Shaw murder / Ernest Bramah• The thirty-nine steps / John Buchan• The man who was Thursday (chapters I-VIII) / G.K. Chesterton• The secret agent (chapters I-V) / Joseph Conrad• The vigil / Joseph Cusamano• Afriti / David R. Downing• The adventures of the second stain / Arthur Conan Doyle• The moabite cipher / R. Austin Freeman• Spooks / Shane Halbach• Kim (chapters I-IV) / Rudyard Kipling• Under the shield / Stephen Kotowych• Induction / Colt Leasure• The mysterious railway passenger / Maurice Leblanc• To catch a mole / Jonathan MacGregor• The empathy bomb / Jo Miles• The defenestration of Prague / Josh Pachter• We who steal faces / Tony Pi• The black hand / Arthur B. Reeve• The creaking door / Sapper• Spies and taboos / S.L. Scott• The hula-hoop heart / Dan Stout• No regrets on fourth street / Lauren C. Teffeau• The ebony box / Ellen Wood