Bibliography included in introduction.

The great detectives: The purloined letter / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The mystery of Mrs. Dickinson / by Nicholas Carter -- The lenton croft robberies / by Arthur Morrison -- The S.S. / by M.P. Shiel -- The Dublin mystery / by Baroness Orczy -- The problem of cell 13 / by Jacques Futrelle -- The absent-minded coterie / by Robert Barr -- Thr red silk scarf / by Maurice Leblanc -- The puzzle lock / by R. Austin Freeman -- The secret garden / by Gilbert K. Chesterton -- The man who spoke Latin / by Samuel Hopkins Adams -- The doomdorf mystery / by Melville Davisson Post -- The sweet shot / by E.C. Bentley -- The tragedy at Brokenbend cottage / by Ernest Bramah -- The pink edge / by Frank Froest and George Dilnot -- The long dinner / H.C. Bailey -- A chess problem / by Agatha Christie -- The owl at the window / by G.D.H. and M.I. Cole -- A matter of taste / by Dorothy L. Sayers -- The Cyprian Bees / by Anthony Wynne -- Solved by inspection / by Ronald A. Knox -- The avenging chance / by Anthony Berkeley -- The border-line case / by Margery Allingham -- The two bottles of relish / by Lord Dunsany -- A man called Spade / by Dashiell Hammett -- The resurrection of Chin Lee / by T.S. Stribling -- The mad tea party / by Ellery Queen -- The crime in nobody's room / by Carter Dickson -- The great women detectives: The tea leaf / by Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace --

The Mackenzie case / by Viola Brothers Shore -- Introducing Susan Dare / by Mignon Eberhart -- The great humorous detective stories: The treasure hunt / by Mary Roberts Rinehart -- The disappearance of Mrs. Leigh Gordon / by Agatha Christie -- The mystery of the missing wash / by Octavus Roy Cohen -- The great thieves: The criminologists' club / by E.W. Hornung -- Arsene Lupin in prison / by Maurice Leblanc -- Blind man's buff / by Frederick Irving Anderson -- The stolen romney / by Edgar Wallace -- The saint in Paris adventure / by Leslie Charteris -- The great crime stories: The clock / by A.E.W. Mason -- The most dangerous game / by Richard Connell -- The eleventh juror / by Vincent Starrett -- Philomal cottage / by Agatha Christie -- Faith, hope and charity / by Irvin S. Cobb -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / by Thomas Burke -- Treasure trove / by F. Tennyson Jesse -- Suspicion / by Dorothy L. Sayers -- The silver mask / by Hugh Walpole -- Ransom / by Pearl S. Buck -- The detective story to end detective stories: The perfect crime / by Ben Ray Redman.