This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1930. âThe Stretelli Case and Other Mystery Storiesâ is a collection of short stories, some also published in other collections of Wallaceâs works. This volume includes: âCode No. 2â, âRed Beardâ, âThe Man Who Killed Himselfâ, âThe Mediaeval Mindâ, and many more. This is a nice collection of eleven short stories loosely classified as âmysteriesâ; while thriller elements are certainly present in most of them, the stories, with one exception, are indeed mysteries of one sort or another. Several stories feature detectives per se; most of them have people under pressure who must decipher baffling situations in order to correct deformations in the social structure.