Short Stories About Trickery & Deception

As a general rule we are a trusting lot. You say something and, whilst I might disagree, I believe you are acting in good faith. Of course this may be just the beginning of a ruse. If I trust you I might let down my guard, I might seek to share and to create a bond between us. But, if you can't be trusted, if you have an ulterior motive I might lose out.

In the hands of authors such as Maxim Gorky, Ella D'Arcy, Rudyard Kipling, Ivan Turgenev and may others reality may not be what it quite seems.

1 - Short Stories About Trickery & Deception - An Introduction
2 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling
3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling
4 - Chelkash - Part 1 by Maxim Gorky
5 - Chelkash - Part 2 by Maxim Gorky
6 - Chelkash - Part 3 by Maxim Gorky
7 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton
8 - The She-Wolf by Saki
9 - Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet by O Henry
10 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart
11 - Mrs Packletide's Tiger by Saki
12 - As the Crow Flies by John Davys Beresford
13 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft
14 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev
15 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy
16 - The Connoisseur by Perceval Gibbon
17 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin
18 - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli
19 - The Open Window by Saki
20 - Revenge by Samuel Blas
21 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill
22 - Putois by Anatole France
23 - Post Mortem by Barry Pain