Creator
[Anonymous]
Title
Book of Detective Stories, a Monthly Publication of “Multum in Parvo Library.”
Coverage
Boston:
Publisher
A. B. Courtney
Date
1894
Description
This small, sixteen-page, unprepossessing volume—Volume 1, No. 11, of the “Multum in Parvo Library”—precedes The Long Arm and Other Detective Tales (1895), which Ellery Queen called “an important book—the first legitimate detective story anthology ever published.” However, these stories are purported to come “from the diary of a New York detective,” so therefore from a single pen—making it no different than Doyle’s Adventures, which preceded it by two years. However, it is a very early collection of short stories in an unusual, and inexpensive, format.
Source
From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson