A Message from Mystery Writers of America
Foreword
Introduction
H as in Homicide by Lawrence Treat
Domestic Intrigue by Donald E. Westlake
The Front Room by Michael Butterworth
The Real Bad Friend by Robert Bloch
Wide O— by Elsin Ann Gardner
Death on Christmas Eve by Ellery Queen
Gone Girl by Ross Macdonald
The President’s Half Disme by Ellery Queen
Amateur Standing Suzanne Blanc
The Peppermint-Striped Goodbye by Ron Goulart
Marmalade Wine by Joan Aiken
Counter Intelligence Robert L. Fish
The Man Who Played Too Well by Don Von Elsner
Never Hit a Lady by Fred S. Tobey
Farewell to the Faulkners by Miriam Allen deFord
The Dead Past by Al Nussbaum
The Cries of Love by Patricia Highsmith
Something Evil in the House by Celia Fremlin
The Tilt of Death by Rod Amateau and David Davis
The Moon of Montezuma by Cornell Woolrich
Afterword