This volume contains the following stories:
Ambrose Bierce: 'A Watcher By the Dead'
Ernest Bramah: 'The Coin of Dionysius'
John Dickson Carr: 'The Proverbial Murder'
G. K. Chesterton: 'The Wrong Shape'
Agatha Christie: 'The Submarine Plans'
Edmund Crispin and Geoffrey Bush: 'Who Killed Baker?'
Ursula Curtiss: 'Change of Climate'
Roald Dahl: 'The Landlady'
Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Copper Beeches'
Stanley Ellin: 'The Question '
William Faulkner: 'Smoke'
Jacques Futrelle: 'The Phantom Motor'
Michael Gilbert: 'Counterplot'
Graham Greene: 'The Case for the Defence'
Patricia Highsmith: 'The Mobile Bed-Object'
Edward D. Hoch: 'The Most Dangerous Man'
P. D. James: 'The Victim'
Q. Patrick: 'All the Way to the Moon'
Edgar Allan Poe: '"Thou Art The Man"'
Ellery Queen: 'The Adventure of the Bearded Lady'
Ruth Rendell: 'The Clinging Woman'
Dorothy L. Sayers: 'The Man Who Knew How'
Georges Simenon: 'Inspector Maigret Pursues'
Roy Vickers: 'The Man Who Murdered in Public'
Arthur Williams: 'Being a Murderer Myself'