This work contains the following stories:
H. C. Bailey: 'The Holy Well'
Arnold Bennett: 'Murder!'
Margot Bennett: 'Murder for Posterity'
Christianna Brand: 'Aren’t Our Police Wonderful?'
John Dickson Carr: 'The Clue of the Red Wig'
Agatha Christie: 'Triangle at Rhodes'
Hylton Cleaver: 'By Kind Permission of the Murdered Man'
Courtney Ryley Cooper: 'Suspect Unknown'
C. J. Donnel: 'Recipe for Murder'
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Empty House'
Stanley Ellin: 'The Speciality of the House'
C. S. Forester: 'The Letters in Evidence'
R. Austin Freeman: 'Phyllis Annesley's Peril'
Veronica Parker Johns: 'No Trace'
R. E. Kendall: 'Listen, Listen!'
Hilda Lawrence: 'A Roof in Manhattan'
Philip Macdonald: 'Ten O'Clock'
H. A. Manhood: 'Wilful Murder'
Somerset Maugham: 'The Letter'
Edna St. Vincent Millay: 'The Murder in the Fishing Cat'
Nigel Morland: 'He Got What She Wanted'
E. Nesbit: 'In the Dark'
E. Phillips Oppenheim: 'The Undiscovered Murderer'
Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'
Damon Runyon: 'Sense of Humour'
Dorothy L. Sayers: 'The Fountain Plays'
L. A. G. Strong: 'The Sleeve'
Roy Vickers: 'The Rubber Trumpet'
Arthur Williams: 'Being a Murderer Myself'
David Winser: 'The Boat Race Murder'
Loel Yeo: 'Inquest'