Mostly worth it for the last two titles by Marsh and Davis ( )

Four classic Victorian detective stories selected by Graham and Hugh Greene.

"The Great Tontine" by Hawley Smart
"The Rome Express" by Major Arthur Griffiths
"In the Fog" by Richard Harding Davis
"The Beetle" by Richard Marsh

The last two were the best.

"The Great Tontine" got a bit boring after the first 100 pages, so I skipped to the end to see what happened.

"The Rome Express" was a murder mystery set in the sleeping compartment of a train (shades of "Murder on The Orient Express") and featured a rather unpleasant English army officer sneering at the French police, which I found irritating.

"In the Fog" was set in a gentleman's club, with five of the members comparing notes over the dinner table about a murder that happened during the previous night's pea-souper.

"The Beetle" was a scary tale of mysterious Arabs, hypnotism, and scarabs. ( )