Great detectives: a century of the best mysteries from England and America

Foreword / David Willis McCullough --

The big bow mystery / Israel Zangwill --

The queen's square / Dorothy L. Sayers --

The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton --

The girl in the train / Agatha Christie --

The murder on the lotus pond / Robert van Gulik --

Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner --

The Sam Spade stories: A man called Spade ; They can only hang you once ; Too many have lived / Dashiell Hammett --

The hunchback cat / Edmund Crispin --

Trouble is my business / Raymond Chandler --

The adventure of Abraham Lincoln's clue / Ellery Queen --

See no evil / Rex Stout --

Yesterday I lived! / Ray Bradbury --

The chill / Ross Macdonald --

The murder of Santa Claus / P.D. James --

Never shake a family tree / Donald E. Westlake --

Death notes / Ruth Rendell --

Sadie when she died / Ed McBain.