This work contains the following stories:
Leonard R. Gribble: 'The Jigsaw'
Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Purloined Letter'
Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Gold-Bug'
E. Phillips Oppenheim: 'The Great West Raid'
Gavin Holt: 'The Aztec Skull'
Eden Philpotts: 'The Iron Pineapple'
H. de Vere Stackpoole: 'The Rope of Pearls'
Edgar Wallace: 'The Mind Readers'
Frank King: 'Death on the 8-45'
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts: 'The Persistent House Hunters'
Alan Melville: 'The Waste-Paper basket'
George Goodchild: 'Death in the Dance'
G. D. H. & M. Cole: 'A Lesson in Crime'
William Wilkie Collins: 'The Biter Bit'
Anthony Berkeley: 'The Avenging Chance'
E. C. Bentley: 'The Inoffensive Captain'
G. K. Chesterton: 'The Secret Garden'
Selwyn Jepson: 'By the Sword'
Milward Kennedy: 'Superflous Murder'
Christopher Bush: 'The Hampstead Murder'
Mrs Belloc Lowndes: 'A Labour of Hercules'
W. F. Harvey: 'The Lake'
G. R. Malloch: 'In Confidence'
J. J. Bell: 'A Thread of Scarlet'
Thomas Burke: 'The Yellow Imps'
Henry Wade: 'The Three Keys'
Dorothy L. Sayers: 'The Image in the Mirror'
Anthony Marsden: 'Heredity'
H. C. Bailey: 'The Young Doctor'
Agatha Christie: 'Sing a Song of Sixpence'
F. A. Kummer: 'Pig's Feet'
Mark Twain: 'The Stolen White Elephant'
Earl Derr Biggers: 'The Dollar Chasers'
H. S. Harrison: 'Miss Hinch'
Hulbert Footner: 'The Sealed House'
Herbert Shaw: 'Strong Brother John'
J. S. Fletcher: 'From Behind the Barrier'
Gilbert Frankau: 'Who Killed Castelvetri?'