Stolen manuscripts, immense reading rooms, rain falling on English pubs—all this and more feature in this collection of fourteen short stories from the Golden Age of detective fiction. The celebrated "Death Walks in Marble Halls" centers around a murder in the New York Public Library. In "The Missing Shakespeare Manuscript," Dr. Samuel Johnson exposes literary fraud. This volume also includes Vincent Starrett's "The Unique Hamlet," considered by many to be the best non-Doyle Holmes story ever written.