Short mystery fiction has furnished a rich source of material for the performing arts. In this, Walker's second collection of stories from which popular television, stage, screen and radio mysteries were adapted, editor Eleanor Sullivan has again brought together top-notch selections from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Many of the stories in this volume are classics readers will recognize from adaptations in more than one medium. In addition to being probably the most repeated play in the history of radio, Sorry, Wrong Number has been a film, a television play, and a chilling one-act stage play.

Contents:

• Introduction by Eleanor Sullivan
• The Garden Path to Hell by Rupert Holmes
• The Gentleman from Paris by John Dickson Carr
• A Harmless Vanity by Theda O. Henle
• Safe! by Michael Gilbert
• How I am Now in Chi by John O'Hara
• The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
• Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher
• Back for Christmas by John Collier
• The Hands of Mr. Ottermole by Thomas Burke
• Cagney & Lacey by Serita Deborah Stevens
• Thirteen Lead Soldiers by H.C. McNeile
• A Girl Can't Always Have Everything by Tonita S. Gardner
• Gay Falcon by Michael Arlen
• Goodbye, Miss Lizzie Borden by Lillian de la Torre
• The Turn of the Tide by C.S. Forester
• The Best of Everything by Stanley Ellin