Number Seven, Queer Street is a collection of supernatural

Supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction is a literary genre exploiting or requiring as plot devices or themes some contradictions of the commonplace natural world and materialist assumptions about it....

 detective

Detective fiction

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 short stories

Short Stories

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 by author Margery Lawrence

Margery Lawrence

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. It was first published by Robert Hale in the UK

United Kingdom

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 in 1945

1945 in literature

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. The first US

United States

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 edition was published in 1966

1966 in literature

The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 14 - Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity"....

 by Mycroft & Moran

Mycroft & Moran

Mycroft & Moran was an imprint of Arkham House publishers and was created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945. The imprint was created to publish weird detective stories and the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth...

in an edition of 2,027 copies and omits the last two stories. The stories are about Lawrence's supernatural detective Miles Pennoyer.

Contents

Number Seven, Queer Street contains the following tales:

1. "Foreword"
2. "The Case of the Bronze Door"
3. "The Case of the Haunted Cathedral"
4. "The Case of Ella McLeod"
5. "The Case of the White Snake"
6. "The Case of the Moonchild"
7. "The Case of the Young Man with the Scar"
8. "The Case of the Leannabh Sidhe"