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The Pipe and The Puzzle
Anonymous · 1909 · Mystery & Detective, Horror & Gothic
Two rival collectors test a carved pipe whose ornament seems uncannily alive, drawing a scientific friend and an unflappable former soldier into their experiment. In a second tale, an inlaid puzzle box opens a quarrel over ingenuity, ownership and the price of wonder.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 14 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The World of The Pipe and The PuzzleThe principal London geography of the two stories.
Pugh's Collector's RoomA source-grounded place and movement study.
The Pipe ExperimentA source-grounded place and movement study.
The Collectors' LondonA source-grounded place and movement study.
Two Objects, Two TemptationsThe curiosities and questions that bind the paired stories.
The Pipe and The Puzzle — Principal CharactersThe approved identity source for Pugh, Joseph Tress, Brasher and Robert Haines.
Pugh — The Imaginative CollectorAn approved Motor 1 identity and continuity study.
Joseph Tress — The Sardonic RivalAn approved Motor 1 identity and continuity study.
This edition
- Title
- The Pipe and The Puzzle
- Author
- Anonymous
- First published
- 1909
- Illustrated plates
- 51 original artworks · 14 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 4 · about 15,036 words
- Reading time
- 1 h
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #2038
Neighbours in the library
Chosen by what they share with The Pipe and The Puzzle — the same genre.