The Literature of Crime by Ellery Queen

Author:Ellery Queen [Queen, Ellery]
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT

by MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain is the author of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (a swindling story, and one of the earliest), “A Medieval Romance” (a riddle story), THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, and THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (all three containing passages of crime and detection), “The Stolen White Elephant” (a detective story), THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD’NHEAD WILSON (a detective novel), “Tom Sawyer, Detective” (just what the title implies), A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY (with no less a detective than Sherlock Holmes himself), and A MURDER, A MYSTERY, AND A MARRIAGE (in which Mark Twain ran the gamut of crime, mystery, and detection). Did you dream that Mark Twain, one of the greatest writers in the entire history of literature, contributed so much to the literature of crime? Few people realize it. Only a few years ago, a well-known critic remarked to us: “I had completely forgotten that Mark Twain wrote detective stories. The other day I picked up ‘The Stolen White Elephant’ which I hadn’t read since I was a boy, and do you know, it was just as funny as ever!”. . .

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