Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон

      

      Published by COLLINS CRIME CLUB

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      First published in Great Britain as Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

      by Longmans, Green & Co. 1886

      Published as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by The Detective Story Club Ltd

      for Wm Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1929

      ‘The Body Snatcher’ first published by Pall Mall Gazette 1884

      ‘Markheim’ first published in Unwin’s Christmas Annual 1885

       The Untold Sequel of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

      first published by Pinckney Pub. Co. 1890

      ‘Dr Jekyl’ first published by The Christopher Publishing House 1931

      Introduction © Richard Dalby 2015

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1929, 2015

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008137212

      Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780008137229

      Version: 2015-08-19

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       INTRODUCTION

       STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

       Dedication

       CHAPTER I: STORY OF THE DOOR

       CHAPTER II: SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE

       CHAPTER III: DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE

       CHAPTER IV: THE CAREW MURDER CASE

       CHAPTER V: INCIDENT OF THE LETTER

       CHAPTER VI: REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON

       CHAPTER VII: INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW

      

       CHAPTER VIII: THE LAST NIGHT

      

       CHAPTER IX: DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE

      

       CHAPTER X: HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE

      

       AFTERWORD

      

       THE UNTOLD SEQUEL OF THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: BY FRANCIS H. LITTLE

      

       CHAPTER I

      

       CHAPTER II

      

       CHAPTER III: CONFESSION OF EDWARD HYDE

      

       THE BODY SNATCHER: BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

      

       MARKHEIM: BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

      

       DR. JEKYL: BY ROBERT J. MCLAUGHLIN

       Dedication

      

       THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB

      

       About the Publisher

       INTRODUCTION

      AS a modest and self-effacing author who was initially convinced that ‘my fame will not last more than four years’, Robert Louis Stevenson would have been amazed at his subsequent great fame and renown. Celebrated as a brilliant essayist, novelist and children’s poet, in a literary career that lasted barely twenty years, he was also a master of finely wrought horror, culminating in his celebrated ‘shilling shocker’, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in 1886.

      A tormented, guilt-ridden work, Jekyll and Hyde grew out of Stevenson’s early youth in Edinburgh during which he became