Table of Contents
The gold-bug /Edgar Allan Poe --Hunted down /Charles Dickens --The stolen white elephant /Mark Twain --Ransom /Pearl S. Buck --The adventure of the glass-domed clock /Ellery Queen --The arrow of God /Leslie Charteris --A passage to Benares /T.S. Stribling --The case of the emerald sky /Eric Ambler --The other hangman /John Dickson Carr --The couple next door /Margaret Millar --Danger out of the past /Erle Stanley Gardner --A matter of public notice /Dorothy Salisbury Davis --The cat's-paw /Stanley Ellin --The road to Damascus /Michael Gilbert --Midnight blue /Ross MacDonald --I'll die tomorrow /Mickey Spillane --For all the rude people /Jack Ritchie --Hangover /John D. MacDonald --The Santa Claus club /Julian Symons --The wager /Robert L. Fish --A fool about money /Ngaio Marsh --And three to get ready-- /H.L. Gold --"J" /Ed McBain --Burial moments three /Edward D. Hoch --The murder ;Fatal woman /Joyce Carol Oates --Agony column /Barry N. Malzberg --Last rendezvous /Jean L. Backus --The real shape of the coast /John Lutz --Hercule Poirot in the year 2010 /Jon L. Breen --Merrill-go-round /Marcia Muller --A craving for originality /Bill Pronzini --Tranquility Base /Asa Baber --The cabin in the hollow /Joyce Harrington --Peckerman /Robert S. Phillips --A simple, willing attempt /Elizabeth Morton --Crime wave in pinhole /Julie Smith --Watching Marcia /Michael D. Resnick --Somebody cares /Talmage Powell --Jode's last hunt /Brian Garfield --Many mansions / Robert Silverberg --My son the murderer /Bernard Malamud.