Jabukowski, Maxim -- The Mammoth Book of Vintage Whodunnits (2006)

Anthology of "pre-Golden Age" detective stories:

Hidden gems from the earliest days of mystery fiction. The years 1850-1905 represent the pre-Golden Age of crime writing. Drawn exclusively from those earliest days of mystery fiction, this revealing anthology includes a surprising number of authors not commonly associated today with crime fiction -- names like Alexander Dumas, Alexander Pushkin, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arnold Bennett, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Over three-quarters of the stories in this fascinating volume have not been reproduced since the 1950s. They include:

• Guy de Maupassant's "The Hand"
• Charles Dickens's "Hunted Down"
• Maurice LeBlanc's gentleman-burglar Arsene Lupin
• Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of the Three Students"
• Robert Louis Stevenson's "Markheim"
• Edgar Poe's Chevalier Auguste Dupin, the first genuine fictional detective
• Baroness Orczy's "Old Man in the Corner"
• and E. W. Hornung's immensely popular thief Raffles.

Available here: http://tinyurl.com/ydrwkd4