Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories ed. Donald E. Westlake (Oxford University Press US, November 1996, 0-19-510321-1, $25.00, 519pp, hc, an)
- 1 · Introduction · Donald E. Westlake · in
- 7 · The Locked Room
- 9 · The Shadow of the Goat [Henri Bencolin] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Haverfordian November 1926
- 27 · What, No Butler? · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s August 5 1933
- 40 · The Leopold Locked Room [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1971
- 59 · The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr · William Brittain · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1965
- 67 · Only One Among You
- 69 · The Secret Garden [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 3 1910, as “The Secret of the Sealed Garden”
- 88 · The Necklace of Pearls [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Radio Times December 18 1931
- 99 · They Can Only Hang You Once [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · ss Collier’s November 19 1932
- 113 · Busted Blossoms [Toby Peters] · Stuart M. Kaminsky · ss Mean Streets ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1986
- 125 · The Caper
- 127 · A Costume Piece [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Cassell’s Magazine July 1898
- 143 · The Impossible Theft · John F. Suter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1964
- 157 · Don’t Know Much About Art · Simon Brett · nv Winter’s Crimes 16 ed. Hilary Hale, Macmillan UK, 1984
- 182 · The Ultimate Caper · Donald E. Westlake · ss The New York Times May 11 1975
- 187 · The Armchair Detective
- 189 · The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · nv The Royal Magazine July 1901
- 206 · The Blue Geranium [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss The Story-teller December 1929
- 221 · The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss MD June 1965, as “Abraham Lincoln’s Clue”
- 238 · The Affair of the Twisted Scarf [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · nv The American Magazine September 1950, as “The Twisted Scarf”
- 285 · Come Into My Parlor
- 287 · The Landlady · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker November 28 1959
- 297 · The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #78, May 1950
- 316 · Bless This House · Christianna Brand · ss Winter’s Crimes 2 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1970
- 329 · Someday I’ll Plant More Walnut Trees · Lawrence Block · ss Some Days You Get the Bear by Lawrence Block, Morrow, 1993
- 345 · I Confess!
- 347 · “Thou Art the Man” · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1844
- 362 · The Adventure of the Dying Detective [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Collier’s November 22 1913
- 378 · The Master of Mystery · Jack London · ss Out West Magazine September 1902
- 390 · The Fat Man · Isak Dinesen · ss Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales by Isak Dinesen, University of Chicago, 1977
translated from the Danish (1975).
- 401 · Hoist on their Own Petards
- 403 · Midnight in Beauchamp Row · Anna Katharine Green · ss A Difficult Problem and Other Stories by Anna Katharine Green, F.P. Lupton, 1900
- 416 · I’ll Be Waiting [Tony Reseck] · Raymond Chandler · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 14 1939
- 432 · The Possibility of Evil · Shirley Jackson · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 18 1965
- 443 · The Secret Lover · Peter Lovesey · ss Winter’s Crimes 17 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1985
- 455 · Over the Edge
- 457 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.
- 479 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929
- 497 · Tang · Chester Himes · ss Black on Black, Baby Sister and Selected Writings by Chester Himes, Doubleday, 1973
- 504 · Little Apple Hard to Peel · Fredric Brown · ss Detective Tales February 1942
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