Man Higher Up, the (1908) [Short Story]
by O. Henry
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Summary
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A con artist tells of an encounter in the desert with a young burglar convinced of being the most resourceful of crooks.
Originally published in The Gentle Grafter, 1908. Reprinted in:
Argosy (UK), October 1927
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia), December 1961
Original title: The Man Higher Up
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Crime/Caper
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Gentle Grafter, the (1908) [Collection]
Author: O. Henry
Fifty Great Short Stories (1952) [Anthology]
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, Alexander Pushkin
, Anton Chekhov
, John Steinbeck
, H. G. Wells
, Edith Wharton
, Virginia Woolf
, Anatole France
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Joseph Conrad
, Lord Dunsany
, Thomas Wolfe
, Robert Louis Stevenson
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, E.B. White
, Carson McCullers
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, John O'Hara
, Katherine Mansfield
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100 Selected Stories by O. Henry (1993) [Collection]
Author: O. Henry
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