The bizarre imagination and stylistic sorcery of Matthew Phipps Shiel have created several sleuths unique in the annals of criminal detection. The author's firs

is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author M. P. Shiel. The first three Prince Zaleski stories had appeared in Shiel's first published wo

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