Contents:

• Book One: Crime: Criminals and Killers
  • Man With a Hobby by Robert Bloch
  • Accident by Agatha Christie
  • Evidence in Camera by Margery Allingham
  • Round Trip by W. R. Burnett
  • Morning Visit by James Hadley Chase
  • Murder Comes Easy by Evan Hunter
  • The Flaw in the System by Jim Thompson
  • Blurred View by John D. MacDonald
  • The Sweetest Man in the World by Donald E. Westlake
  • Prediction by Chester Himes
  • Going Through the Motions by Lawrence Block
  • The Corder Figure by Peter Lovesey
  • Gravy Train by James Ellroy
  • A Flash of White by Andrew Vachss
  • Remain Nameless by Lynda La Plante
• Book Two: Detection: Police and Detectives
  • A Case of Christmas Spirit by Nicholas Rhea
  • The Second Skin by Michael Gilbert
  • Blood Brothers by Christianna Brand
  • Duello by Henry Wade
  • The Suitcase by Freeman Wills Crofts
  • Confirmation by John Harvey
  • Auld Lang Syne by Ian Rankin
  • Sweating It Out with Dover by Joyce Porter
  • Clutching at Straws by Ruth Rendell
  • The Burglar by Colin Dexter
  • Where the Snow Lay Dinted by Reginald Hill
  • The Little Copplestone Mystery by Ngaio Marsh
  • Gideon and the Young Toughs by John Creasey
  • Before Insulin by J. J. Connington
  • The Memorial Service by Michael Innes
• Book Three: Punishment: Private Eyes and Investigators
  • Somewhere in the City by Marcia Muller
  • A Classic Forgery by Roy Vickers
  • The Adventure of the Abergavenny Murder by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Raffles and the Dangerous Game by Barry Perowne
  • The Smashing of Another Racket by Leslie Charteris
  • They Can Only Hang You Once by Dashiell Hammett
  • Black Out by Peter Cheyney
  • The Sleeping Dog by Ross Macdonald
  • Caribbean Clues by Patricia McGerr
  • Virgil Tibbs and the Fallen Body by John Ball
  • Full Moon by George Baxt
  • Willing to Kill by Don Pendleton
  • The Bottle Dungeon by Antonia Fraser
  • The Takamoku Joseki by Sara Paretsky
  • She Didn’t Come Home by Sue Grafton