Masterpieces of Mystery: Choice Cuts ed. Ellery Queen (Davis, 1979, LC:75-29775, 350pp, hc, an)
- 7 · Introduction · Ellery Queen · in
- 9 · The Man Who Explained Miracles [Sir Henry Merrivale] · Carter Dickson · na The Housewife January 1956 (+2), as “Ministry of Miracles”
- 55 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953
- 65 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Sunday Dispatch September 22 1929, as “The Uncrossed Path”
- 75 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925
- 87 · The Stolen White Elephant · Mark Twain · nv The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain, Webster, 1882
- 107 · Driving Home · Margery Sharp · ss Good Housekeeping August 1956
- 123 · The Property of a Lady [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv The Ivory Hammer, Longmans and Co., 1963
- 144 · The Trailor Murder Mystery · Abraham Lincoln · ts Quincy, Illinois Whig April 15 1846, as “A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder”
- 153 · The Supreme Court Murder [Colonel John Primrose] · Leslie Ford · na The American Magazine May 1935, as “The Clock Strikes”
- 202 · Cemetery Bait · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s December 12 1936
- 218 · The Man Who Went to Taltavul’s · David Alexander · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1956
- 232 · The Greyling Crescent Tragedy [Roger West] · John Creasey · ss (r)
- 252 · A Point in Morals · Ellen Glasgow · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine May 1899
- 265 · Human Interest Stuff · Brett Halliday · ss Adventure September 1938, as by Davis Dresser
- 278 · Object Lesson [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week September 11 1955, as “The Blackboard Gangsters”
- 289 · Bring the Killer to Justice [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · na Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1962
condensed from The Doomsters, Knopf, 1958.
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