The Pocket Mystery Reader ed. Lee Wright (Pocket, June 1942, 172, 25¢, 363pp, pb, an)
- ix · Introduction · Lee Wright · in
- 3 · The Farewell Murder [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · na Black Mask February 1930
- 47 · The House of Three Candles · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss This Week November 6 1938
- 56 · The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928
- 89 · The Man Who Liked Dickens · Evelyn Waugh · ss Cosmopolitan September 1933
- 106 · The Absent-Minded Coterie [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905
- 148 · The Hounds of Fate · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 13 1911
- 156 · The Price of the Head · John Russell · ss Collier’s May 20 1916
- 170 · Cocaine · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask October 1940, as “C-Jag”
- 215 · Twenty Cents Worth of Murder · Stephen Leacock · ar The Saturday Review of Literature July 8 1939
- 220 · Watson Was a Woman · Rex Stout · hu The Saturday Review of Literature March 1 1941
- 229 · “Whodunit” · Elliot Paul · ar The Atlantic Monthly July 1941
- 238 · About These Mystery Stories · P. G. Wodehouse · ar The Saturday Evening Post May 25 1929
- 246 · The Perfect Murder · Edmund Pearson · ar Scribner’s Magazine July 1937
- 259 · Dictators, Democrats, and Detectives · Howard Haycraft · ar Murder for Pleasure by Howard Haycraft, D. Appleton-Century, 1941
- 267 · Katharine Nairn · William Roughead · ar Murder and More Murder by William Roughead, Sheridan House, 1939
- 299 · The Adventure of the Mark of Cain · Ellery Queen · pl
- 321 · Bramah · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm The Atlantic Monthly November 1857, as “Brahma”, uncredited.
- 321 · The Jackdaw of Rheims · Thomas Ingoldsby · pm The Ingoldsby Legends, Third Series by Richard Barham, Bentley, 1847, as by Richard Barham
- 326 · What the Bullet Sang · Bret Harte · pm Harper’s Weekly August 26 1876
- 327 · Lord Randal · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 328 · Ballad of the Gibbet · Francois Villon · pm (r)
- 329 · My Last Duchess · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Italy”
- 331 · The City in the Sea · Edgar Allan Poe · pm American Review April 1845
revised from “The Doomed City” (Poems, 1831).
- 333 · Faustine · Algernon Charles Swinburne · pm (r)
- 339 · On the Eve of His Execution · Chidiock Tichborne · pm (r)
- 339 · The Bridge of Sighs · Thomas Hood · pm The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood, Frederick Warne, 1890
- 343 · La Belle Dame Sans Merci · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats, Edward Moxon, 1848
written in 1819. A somewhat different version was published in The Indicator, May 10, 1820.
- 347 · The Problem of the Amnesia Case · [uncredited] · pz The Baffle Book by Lassiter Wren & Randle McKay, Doubleday, 1928
- 349 · The Abandoned Picnic · [uncredited] · pz The Baffle Book by Lassiter Wren & Randle McKay, Doubleday, 1928
- 352 · The One Armed Soldier · [uncredited] · pz The Second Baffle Book by Lassiter Wren & Randle McKay, Doubleday, 1929
- 358 · How Well Do You Know Your Famous Detectives? · [uncredited] · pz (r)
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