The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

xxi, 554 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Clarence Rook: The Stir Outside the Cafe Royal; Arthur Conan Doyle: Silver Blaze; Austin Freeman: The Mysterious Visitor; Arthur Morrison: The Case of Laker, Absconded; G. K. Chesterton: The Oracle of the Dog; E. C. Bentley: The Genuine Tabard; H. C. Bailey: The Dead Leaves; Freeman Wills Crofts: The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express; John Rhode: The Purple Line; Ronald Knox: Solved by Inspection; Roy Vickers: The Henpecked Murderer; G. D. H. Cole and M. Cole: Superintendent Wilson's Holiday; Agatha Christie: The Witness for the Prosecution; Anthony Berkeley: The Avenging Chance; Dorothy L. Sayers: Murder at Pentecost; Ngaio Marsh: Death on the Air; Cyril Hare: Mis Burnside's Dilemma; Gladys Mitchell: Daisy Bell; Margery Allingham: Three is a Lucky Number; Nicholas Blake: The Assassins' Club; Carter Dickinson: The House in Goblin Wood; Michael Innes: The Furies; Christianna Brand: The Hornets' Nest; Julian Symons: The Murderer; Michael Gilbert: The Killing of Michael Finnegan; Michael Underwood: Murder at St. Oswald's; P. D. James: Great Aunt Allie's Flypapers; Edmund Crispin and Geoffrey Bush: Baker Dies; H. R. F. Keating: A Dangerous Thing; Ruth Rendell: Thornapple; Robert Barnard: The Oxford Way of Death; Reginald Hill: Bring Back the Cat!; Simon Brett: How's Your Mother?; Acknowledgements; Biographical Notes.