Thieves and Detectives

In this book, you will find the best short stories of the two writers - first published in Bulgarian here. Curious, entertaining, with an unexpected end, this book will be a real pleasure for lovers of criminal classics.

E. W. Hornung

 • Nine Points of the Law

 • Out of Paradisе

 • A Trap to Catch a Cracksman

 • The Gift of the Emperor

 • No Sinecure

 • To Catch a Thief

Ernest Bramah

 • The Coin of Dionysius

 • The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem

 • The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage

 • The Tilling Shaw Mystery

 • The Comedy at Fountain Cottage

 • The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868[1] - 27 June 1942), born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.