The Essential Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the most comprehensive edition of one of the world's greatest horror stories. Here is the complete, authoritative edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of duality, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts and legends--everything you ever wanted to know about literature's most famous split personality. The volume also includes a selection of Stevenson's short fiction, including Thrawn Janet, Body Snatcher, Merry Men, and Markheim, and there is a selected filmography of the various film versions of Jekyll and Hyde

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"Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement." --The New York Times

When private detective Philip Marlowe's latest client, Orfamay Quest, hires him to find her missing brother for the paltry sum of twenty dollars, Marlowe discovers that it's far from a simple missing persons case. Not when it involves mobsters, blackmail, beautiful women . . ....