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by Jean-Pierre Naugrette

Collins essentially invented the detective novel before Conan Doyle, and this Victorian mystery has the same intricate puzzle-box construction you'd find in the Borges/Bioy Casares anthology—multiple narrators, false leads, and a solution that rewards careful attention. What makes it special is how Collins treats the mystery as a social problem as much as an intellectual game, something that anthology clearly valued in its selections.

by Caroline Graham

Graham has that same restraint and misdirection you'd recognize from the shorter stories in your anthology—she trusts readers to notice what matters while she's describing the English village landscape. The mystery unfolds through observation rather than exposition, and there's a psychological acuity to how she reveals character that echoes Silvina Ocampo's work in particular.

by Dashiell Hammett

Here's where I'm nudging you slightly sideways: Hammett writes detective fiction with the hard-boiled economy of a short story writer, which means every sentence does multiple jobs at once. Coming from an anthology curated by two masters of the form, you'll appreciate how Hammett's dialogue and pacing create suspense without elaborate plotting—it's closer to the Poe and Stevenson selections than to the cozy tradition.

by E. R. Eddison

This is my surprise recommendation, and here's why it works: Eddison builds an entire world with the same architectural precision that Borges brought to his labyrinths and Casares to his paradoxes. It's fantasy, yes, but it reads like an elaborate puzzle-box narrative where the world's rules matter as much as the plot—there's an intellectual pleasure in untangling how everything connects that mirrors what drew you to detective fiction in the first place.

by Josephine Tey

Tey approaches mystery from a legal and logical angle that would have appealed to Borges—she's interested in how we construct truth from evidence, and what happens when the obvious narrative turns out to be incomplete. Her protagonist is a solicitor, not a detective, which gives the investigation a different texture, and she shares that quality with the anthology's best stories of building suspense through careful reasoning rather than action.