Contents:

• The Little House [Reginald Fortune] by H.C. Bailey
• The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] by Anthony Berkeley
• The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage [Max Carrados] by Ernest Bramah
• The Hands of Mr. Ottermole by Thomas Burke
• Sleeping Beauty by John Collier
• The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express by Freeman Wills Crofts
• Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
• Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] by Lord Dunsany
• From a View to a Kill [James Bond] by Ian Fleming
• The Murder in the Mayor’s Parlor by J.S. Fletcher
• The Aluminium Dagger [Dr. John Thorndyke] by R. Austin Freeman
• Earth to Earth by Robert Graves
• Weight and See [Insp. John Mallett] by Cyril Hare
• Great-Aunt Allie’s Flypapers by P.D. James
• Solved by Inspection by Ronald Knox
• The Duchess and Lady Torrent by A.E.W. Mason
• The Bamboozling of Mr. Gascoigne [Samuel T. Billingham] by E. Phillips Oppenheim
• Grey Lady Drive by Eden Phillpotts
• Means of Evil [“The Case of the Shaggy Caps”; Chief Inspector Wexford] by Ruth Rendell
• A Theme for Hyacinth by Julian Symons
• The Rubber Trumpet [Insp. George Rason] by Roy Vickers
• The Silver Mask by Hugh Walpole
• Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation by H.G. Wells
• About the Authors