Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and Other Stories

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, first published in 1891. The book includes: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Lord Savile is told by a palm reader that it is his destiny to become a murderer - a path he sets out to confirm): The Canterville Ghost (a family from America move into an English house, and are completely undeterred by the ghost that is trying to frighten them away): The Sphinx Without a Secret (Lord Murchison tells his friend a tale of a mysterious woman he used to know): The Model Millionaire (Hughie Erskine is being prevented from marrying the woman he loves because of his poverty); and, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (a man attempts to discover the identity of the 'fair youth' in Shakespeare's Sonnets.)