The Stolen White Elephant: (Mark Twain Masterpiece Collection) (Mark Twain Classics) (Penguin Little Black Classics)

by Mark Twain

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Three detective stories by Mark Twain with an introduction by Walter Mosely, the modern master of mystery writing, and an afterword by noted scholar Lillian S. Robinson. "The Stolen White Elephant" is a broad farce mocking the self-proclaimed omniscience of many fictional detectives, told entirely in the form of a series of ridiculous telegraphs. Revolving around the theft of a literal white elephant, the gift of the King of Siam, this manifestly absurd story is nevertheless modeled after the real life efforts of a blundering New York Police Department to recover the corpse of one Alexander T. Stewart, stolen...Read more
  • ISBN10 1499122098
  • ISBN13 9781499122091
  • Publish Date 11 April 2014 (first published 1 November 1989)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 28
  • Language English