An anthology of thirty-two stories featuring famous detectives who have appeared on TV:

• Introduction by Peter Haining
• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs [Sherlock Holmes] by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Death Cry [Craig Kennedy] by Arthur B. Reeve
• The Footprint in the Sky [“Clue in the Snow”, as by Carter Dickson; Colonel March] by John Dickson Carr
• The Adventure of the Emperor’s Dice [“The Emperor’s Dice” Ellery Queen] by Ellery Queen
• Too Many Have Lived [Sam Spade] by Dashiell Hammett
• The Case of the Irate Witness [Perry Mason] by Erle Stanley Gardner
• Walk Softly, Strangler by Robert Hart Davis
• Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate [Philip Marlowe] by Raymond Chandler
• Not—Tonight—Danger [“Dead Man’s Code”; Mike Shayne] by Brett Halliday
• It’s in the Bag [Harry Lime] by Orson Welles
• The Smart Detective [“The Saint and the Siren” Simon Templar] by Leslie Charteris
• Gideon and the Chestnut Vendor [Commander George Gideon] by J.J. Marric
• Light-Fingers by Francis Durbridge
• The All-Bad Hat [Insp. Ganesh Ghote] by H.R.F. Keating
• Stan the Killer [Insp. Jules Maigret] by Georges Simenon
• The Treasure Hunt [J.G. Reeder] by Edgar Wallace
• Van der Valk and the False Caesar [Van der Valk] by Nicolas Freeling
• The Footsteps That Ran [Lord Peter Wimsey] by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Eye of Apollo [Father Brown] by G.K. Chesterton
• Guilt-Edged Blonde [as by John Ross Macdonald; Lew Archer] by Ross Macdonald
• The World Series Murder [“This Will Kill You” Nero Wolfe; Archie Goodwin] by Rex Stout
• The Man Who Was Hammered by Jack Trevor Story
• The Garage Racketeers [Dick Barton] by Geoffrey Webb & Edward J. Mason
• Hazell and the Patriot by P.B. Yuill
• Rumpole and the Hanging Judge [Horace Rumpole] by John Mortimer
• Great-Aunt Allie’s Flypapers by P.D. James
• Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave [Jemima Shore] by Antonia Fraser
• The Case of the Perfect Maid [“The Perfect Maid” Jane Marple] by Agatha Christie
• The Snapdragon and the C.I.D. [“Murder Under the Mistletoe” Albert Campion] by Margery Allingham
• The Adventure of the Clapham Cook [Hercule Poirot] by Agatha Christie
• When the Wedding Was Over [Chief Insp. Wexford] by Ruth Rendell
• Morse’s Greatest Mystery [Insp. Morse] by Colin Dexter