Previously published as: Great tales of detection. 1991.
Originally published: Odhams Press, 1936.
Content Note
Magic casket /Austin Freeman -- President of San Jacinto / H.C. Bailey -- Outside the law / Anthony Berkeley -- Regent's Park murder / Baroness Orczy -- They never get caught / Margery Allingham -- Before insulin / J.J. Connington -- Perfect murder / Stacy Aumonier -- Shadow of the shark / G.K. Chesterton -- Marionettes / O. Henry -- Diamond cut diamond / F. Britten Austin -- Murder at the microphone / Augustus Muir -- Death in the kitchen / Milward Kennedy -- Vertical line / Freeman Wills Crofts -- Clue of Monday's setting / Edgar Wallace -- Ghost of a smile / Gerard Fairlie -- Sons of the chief warder / Bertram Atkey -- Query / Seamark -- Room on the fourth floor / Ralph Straus -- Wounded God / A.E.W. Mason -- Electric king / Lord Dunsany -- Charles / A.J. Alan -- Funeral march of a marionette / John Metcalfe -- Interruption / W.W. Jacobs -- Nobody at home / C.D. Heriot -- St. Catherine's Eve / Mrs. Belloc Lowndes -- Screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford -- Idiots / Joseph Conrad -- Vampire / Sydney Horler -- Interlopers / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Travelling grave / L.P. Hartley -- Tell-tale heart / E.A. Poe -- Bird woman / H. Spicer -- Dabblers / W. Fryer Harvey -- Marsyas in Flanders / Vernon Lee -- Room / Eleanor Scott -- Florence Flannery / Marjorie Bowen -- Ghost at Massingham Mansions / Ernest Bramah -- House on the big faraway / Norman Matson -- Madam Julia's tale / Naomi Royde-Smith -- Cigarette case / Oliver Onions -- Pair of hands / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.