Surprising twists, red herrings, danger, malevolence and suspense are the ingridients of this gripping anthology of classic and modern stories by such well-known authors
Includes the following 65 stories:
EVIDENCE IN CAMERA—Margery Allingham
THE CASE OF THE EMERALD SKY—Eric Ambler
ACID TEST—Margot Arnold
EYEWITNESS—Robert Arthur
THE MURDER OF THE MANDARIN—Arnold Bennett
NEMESIS—Phyllis Bentley
THE AVENGING CHANCE—Anthony Berkeley
SWEETS TO THE SWEET—Robert Bloch
NIGHTMARE IN YELLOW—Fredric Brown
THE HANDS OF MR. OTTERMOLE—Thomas Burke
BABY—Ramsey Campbell
A NOTE FOR THE MILKMAN—Sidney Carroll
THE HAMMER OF GOD—G. K. Chesterton
ACCIDENT—Agatha Christie
CORONER’S INQUEST—Marc Connelly
BANQUO’S CHAIR—Rupert Croft-Cooke
ESMERALDA—John Keir Cross
LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER—Roald Dahl
THE TRIAL FOR MURDER—Charles Dickens
THE CORPSE LIGHT—Dick Donovan
THE VEILED LODGER—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
SURPRISE! SURPRISE!—Roger F. Dunkley
THE TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH—Lord Dunsany
THE KILL—Peter Fleming
SOMETHING TO DO WITH FIGURES—Miriam Allen de Ford
THE TURN OF THE TIDE—C. S. Forester
THE BLOOD ON THE INNOCENTS—Celia Fremlin
THE SQUIRE’S STORY—Mrs. Gaskell
EARTH TO EARTH—Robert Graves
MRS. MANIFOLD—Stephen Grendon
THE TWO VAYNES—L. P. Hartley
AUGUST HEAT—W. F. Harvey
DARK JOURNEY—Francis Iles
THE WELL—W. W. Jacobs
MOMENT OF POWER—P. D. James
ANOTHER SHOT IN THE LOCKER—Michael Kent
THE RETURN OF IMRAY—Rudyard Kipling
THE LADY WITH THE HATCHET—Maurice Leblanc
A THOUSAND DEATHS—Jack London
HOMICIDAL HICCUP—John D. MacDonald
THE SOUND OF MURDER—William P. McGivern
AN OFFICIAL POSITION—W. Somerset Maugham
VENDETTA—Guy de Maupassant
SUCH A GOOD IDEA—Andrea Newman
THE REGENT’S PARK MURDER—Baroness Orczy
THE BLIND SPOT—Barry Perowne
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO—Edgar Allan Poe
THE HOUSE BY THE HEADLAND—Sapper
SUSPICION—Dorothy L. Sayers
THE SECOND STEP—Margery Sharp
THE CASE OF ARNOLD SCHUTTRINGER—Georges Simenon
THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR—Pauline C. Smith
THE KING OF SPADES—Nancy Spain
THE PORTOBELLO ROAD—Muriel Spark
BLUE MURDER—Wilbur Daniel Steele
THE MURDER—John Steinbeck
MARKHEIM—Robert Louis Stevenson
THE SECRET OF THE GROWING GOLD—Bram Stoker
A THEME FOR HYACINTH—Julian Symons
MISS SMITH—William Trevor
THE TREASURE HUNT—Edgar Wallace
THE SNOW—Hugh Walpole
THE CONE—H. G. Wells
IN THE FOG—Dennis Wheatley
THE CYPRIAN BEES—Anthony Wynne