Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense

xvi, 651 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton; The Submarine Plans by Agatha Christie; The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers; Death on the Air by Dame Ngaio Marsh; Help Wanted, Male by Rex Stout; Midnight Blue by Ross MacDonald; Abraham Lincoln's Clue by Ellery Queen; The Fever Tree by Ruth Rendell; Twenty-One Good Men and True by Dick Francis; The Victim by P.D. James; Little Terror by Robert Barnard; The Dream Is Better by Julian Symons; The Homesick Buick by John D. MacDonald; Danger Out of the Past by Erle Stanley Gardner; The Case of the Emerald Sky by Eric Ambler; Strictly Diplomatic by John Dickson Carr; The African Tree-Beavers by Michael Gilbert; There Are No Snakes in Ireland by Frederick Forsyth; The Splintered Monday by Charlotte Armstrong; The Dancing Detective by Cornell Woolrich; And So Died Riabouchinska by Ray Bradbury; Quitters, Inc. by Stephen King; The Nine-to-Five Man by Stanley Ellin; The Man Who Collected Poe by Robert Bloch; The Nuggy Bar by Simon Brett; The Theft of the Four of Spades by Edward D. Hoch; The Parker Shotgun by Sue Grafton; Lucky Penny by Linda Barnes; Never Shake a Family Tree by Donald E. Westlake; The Marked Man by Ursula Curtiss; Have a Nice Death by Antonia Fraser; The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain; The Cross of Lorraine by Isaac Asimov; The Worst Crime Known to Man by Reginald Hill; The Honest Blackmailer, by Patricia Moyes; Cat's-Paw by Bill Pronzini; A Nice Place to Stay by Nedra Tyre; Milday Bigamy by Lillian de la Torre; One Thousand Dollars a Word by Lawrence Block.