The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- The adventure of the empty house / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Death at the Excelsior / P. G. Wodehouse -- The puzzle lock / R. Austin Freeman -- The love detectives / Agatha Christie -- The sealed house / Hulbert Footner -- The footsteps that ran / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Pattern for murder / Frances and Richard Lockridge -- Fourth of July picnic / Rex Stout -- Two over par / Kelley Roos -- One morning they'll hang him / Margert Allingham -- Puzzle for poppy / Patrick Quentin -- Once upon a train / Stuart Palmer and Craig Rice -- The phantom cry-baby / Lawrence G. Blochman -- Phut phat concentrates / Lilian Jackson Braun -- Before she kills / Fredric Brown -- And start with a blonde / Jack Webb -- The road to Damascus / Michael Gilbert -- Dalziel's ghost / Reginald Hill -- Interpol : the case of the modern Medusa / Edward D. Hoch -- The holes in the system / Marcia Muller -- The Desert Limited / Brill Pronzini -- Stop, thief! / Barbara D'Amato -- The adventure of the perpetual husbands / Ellen Dearmore -- The end of the Earth / Julie Smith