This collection of 11 short stories is by the American author and Olympian water polo player, Rex Beach. He was best known for his novel The Spoilers, which centered on corruption by officials connected with a goldmine.

Rex Beach (1877-1949) was an American novelist and playwright. He was born in to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel, The Spoilers was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska. The Spoilers became one of the best selling novels of 1906. His adventure novels were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s.

"The Crimson Tide: A Novel" by Robert W. Chambers Robert William Chambers was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories. In this book, he takes readers to an America in the first few years of the 20th century. At a time full of change, the expectations of the men and women of high society are in flux. Starting with the introduction of the woman's battalion and following characters through love, and adventures navigating the status quo, this book remains a fascinating book to this day.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Private eye Bill Crane is back, in his fifth and final case, working and drinking as usual with his old sidekick, Doc Williams, and a new member of the gang, Ann Fortune, who is posing as his girlfriend - and disapproves of his carousing. The trio has been sent to a Chicago suburb to investigate a murder and death threats made to the family of an industrial magnate. Alternately impeded and abetted by the many attractive women of the family, Crane cracks the case in his own inimitable way, following a trail of clues including the perfume of gardenias, the lipstick marks on the dead man's face and the crimson cat.