This volume contains the following stories:

Gaboriau, Emile: 'Missing!'
Dent, John Charles: 'The Gerrard Street Mystery'
Conan Doyle, A.: 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle'
Freeman, R. Austin: 'A Mystery of the Sand-Hills'
Leblanc, Maurice: 'The Bridge That Broke'
Rosencrantz, Palle: 'A Sensible Course of Action'
MacHarg, William: 'Murder Makes It Worse'
Futrelle, Jacques: 'The Stolen Rubens'
O'Higgins, Harvey J.: 'The Marshall Murder'
Chandler, Raymond: 'No Crime in the Mountains'
Gardner, Erle Stanley: 'The Case of the Irate Witness'
Christie, Agatha: 'The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb'
Hammett, Dashiell: 'Death and Company'
Thurber, James: 'Macbeth Murder Mystery'
Borges, Jorge Luis: 'Death and the Compass'
Simenon, Georges: 'Maigret's Memoirs [Extract]'
Queen, Ellery: '"My Queer Dean!"'
Matsumoto, Seicho: 'The Cooperative Defendant'
Gulik, Robert van: 'The Murder on the Lotus Pond'
Levi, Paolo: 'The Ravine'
Butler, Gwendoline: 'Bloody Windsor'
Skvorecky, Josef: 'The Classic Semerak Case'
Cross, Amanda: 'Arrie and Jasper'
van de Wettering, Janwillem: 'The Deadly Egg'
Wood, Ted: 'Pit Bull'
Melville, James: 'Santa-San Solves It'
Kaminsky, Stuart M.: 'Find Miriam'
Natuski, Shizuko: 'Divine Punishment'
Caudwell, Sarah: 'An Acquaintance with Mr. Collins'
Grafton, Sue: 'A Little Missionary Work'
Banville, Vincent: 'Body Count'
Edwards, Ruth Dudley: 'Father Brown in Muncie, Indiana'
Paretsky, Sara: 'Dealer's Choice'
Kirstila, Pentti: 'Brown Eyes and Green Hair'
Disher, Garry: 'My Brother Jack'
Robinson, Peter: 'Summer Rain'
Rankin, Ian: 'The Dean Curse'