INTRODUCTION
About three months ago—­that is to say,
toward the end of May of this year of 1900—­the
writer whose name appears on the title-page received
as noteworthy a letter, an...
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M. P. Shiel's first book, Prince Zaleski (1895), opens with a short story called "The S. S." It is a mystery concerning a series of apparent suicides which are revealed to be murders perpetrated by th...
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The Purple Cloud
M(atthew) P(hipps) Shiel