Summary:
Offers a collection of classic detective stories by such mystery writers as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
Contents:
- The speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The little mystery / E.C. Bentley
- The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie
- Emil and the detectives (an extract) / Erich Kästner
- The inspiration of Mr. Budd / Dorothy L. Sayers
- From the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan
- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon
- Murder at St. Oswald's / Michael Underwood
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- The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov
- The Newdick helicopter / Leslie Charteris
- Cold money / Ellery Queen
- More from the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan
- The one-handed murderer / Italo Calvino (an Italian folktale)
- Fingerprinting a ghost / Tony Fletcher (from Memories of murder)
- It's a hard world / Andrew Vachss
- Maddened by mystery / Stephen Leacock.
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