Contents The Case of Elizabeth Canning The Murder of Escovedo The Campden Mystery The Case of Allan Breck The Cardinal's Necklace The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser: The Child of Europe The Gowrie Conspiracy The Strange Case of Daniel Dunglas Home The Case of Captain Green Queen Oglethorpe The Chevalier D'Eon Saint-Germain the Deathless The Mystery of the Kirks The End of Jeanne de la Motte Andrew Lang was an English critic and general writer, born at Selkirk, Scotland in 1844. He was educated at St. Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. He contributed largely to periodical literature, writing sometimes light papers on current topis, and sometimes masterly essays on French literature, on scientific subjects, and on comparative mythology.