An anthology of 49 crime stories, 700+ pages, listed as edited by Anon, but evidently edited by Michael Stapleton, who wrote the introduction. A greatly abridged version (containing 24 of the stories) was subsequently published in the U.S. in 1990.

Contents:

• Introduction by Michael Stapleton (Ed.)
• The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Angler’s Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange [“The Lady of Glenwith Grange”] by William Collins
• The New Catacomb [“Burger’s Secret”] by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Hammer of God by G.K. Chesterton
• The Interruption by W.W. Jacobs
• The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley
• The Almost Perfect Crime by Henry Holt
• The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Farewell Murder by Dashiell Hammett
• They Never Get Caught by Margery Allingham
• The Siamese Cat by George Goodchild
• The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] by Anthony Berkeley
• The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Man Who Knew How by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Poetical Policeman by Edgar Wallace
• S.O.S. by Agatha Christie
• Wireless by Agatha Christie
• The Mallet by James Hilton
• Dusk to Dawn by Cornell Woolrich
• The Murder by John Steinbeck
• Eyewitness [revised from Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 28 ’39] by Robert Arthur
• Puzzle for Poppy [Peter & Iris Duluth] by Patrick Quentin
• The Homesick Buick by John D. MacDonald
• The Enemy [Mike Russell] by Charlotte Armstrong
• The Conspirators [Insp. Patrick Petrella] by Michael Gilbert
• Double Image by Roy Vickers
• Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
• The Way Up to Heaven by Roald Dahl
• The Necessity of His Condition by Avram Davidson
• The Unsuspected by Jay Wilson
• You Can’t Be a Little Girl All Your Life by Stanley Ellin
• A Day of Encounters by Anthony Gilbert
• Foxer by Brian Cleeve
• Special Release by Eric Parr
• Love Affair by Julian Symons
• Scatter His Ashes by Elizabeth Ferrars
• Jericho and the Two Ways to Die [John Jericho] by Hugh Pentecost
• The Niece from Scotland by Christianna Brand
• Carrot for a Chestnut by Dick Francis
• This One’s a Beauty [Captain Rogan] by Patricia McGerr
• The Perfect Servant by Helen Nielsen
• Judgement by Mary Kelly
• Fixation by Miles Tripp
• A Quite Conventional Death by John Garforth
• The Victim by P.D. James
• Suicide or Murder? by Jane Aiken Hodge
• Accommodation Vacant by Celia Fremlin
• Scandal at Sandkop by James McClure
• The Man from the White Mountains by Ted Willis