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Also Edited by Otto Penzler
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
The Victorians and Edwardians (British)
THE MYSTERIOUS COUNTESS
Anonymous
THE UNRAVELED MYSTERY
Andrew Forrester, Jr.
THE REDHILL SISTERHOOD
C. L. Pirkis
THE DIAMOND LIZARD
George R. Sims
THE STIR OUTSIDE THE CAFÉ ROYAL
Clarence Rook
THE MANDARIN
Fergus Hume
THE OUTSIDE LEDGE: A CABLEGRAM MYSTERY
L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace
THE FREWIN MINIATURES
Emmuska Orczy
CONSCIENCE
Richard Marsh
THE HIDDEN VIOLIN
M. McDonnell Bodkin
Before World War I (American)
CHRISTABEL’S CRYSTAL
Carolyn Wells
THE BULLET FROM NOWHERE
Hugh C. Weir
AN INTANGIBLE CLEW
Anna Katharine Green
PLANTED
James Oppenheim
The Pulp Era
THE WIZARD’S SAFE
Valentine
RED HOT
Frederick Nebel
THE DOMINO LADY COLLECTS
Lars Anderson
THE LETTERS AND THE LAW
T. T. Flynn
THE OLD MAIDS DIE
Whitman Chambers
TOO MANY CLIENTS
D. B. McCandless
RAT RUNAROUND
Roger Torrey
MURDER WITH MUSIC AND COKE FOR CO-EDS
Adolphe Barreaux
CHILLER-DILLER
Richard Sale
THE PASSING OF ANNE MARSH
Arthur Leo Zagat
The Golden Age
THE SECRET ADVERSARY
Agatha Christie
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
Frederic Arnold Kummer
LOCKED DOORS
Mary Roberts Rinehart
THE TEA-LEAF
Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace
THE ALMOST PERFECT MURDER
Hulbert Footner
THE LOVER OF ST. LYS
F. Tennyson Jesse
MISOGYNY AT MOUGINS
Gilbert Frankau
INTRODUCING SUSAN DARE
Mignon G. Eberhart
THE BLOODY CRESCENDO
Vincent Starrett
BURGLARS MUST DINE
E. Phillips Oppenheim
THE MISSING CHARACTER
Phyllis Bentley
MURDER IN THE MOVIES
Karl Detzer
THE GILDED PUPIL
Ethel Lina White
THE CASE OF THE HUNDRED CATS
Gladys Mitchell
Mid-Century
MURDER WITH FLOWERS
Q. Patrick
VACANCY WITH CORPSE
H. H. Holmes
THE RIDDLE OF THE BLACK MUSEUM
Stuart Palmer
MEREDITH’S MURDER
Charlotte Armstrong
FLOWERS FOR AN ANGEL
Nigel Morland
THERE’S DEATH FOR REMEMBRANCE
Frances & Richard Lockridge
MOM SINGS AN ARIA
James Yaffe
The Modern Era
ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE
Marcia Muller
BLOOD TYPES
Julie Smith
A POISON THAT LEAVES NO TRACE
Sue Grafton
DISCARDS
Faye Kellerman
SPOOKED
Carolyn G. Hart
MAKING LEMONADE
Barbara Paul
LOUISE
Max Allan Collins
STRUNG OUT
Sara Paretsky
BENEATH THE LILACS
Nevada Barr
MISS GIBSON
Linda Barnes
HEADACHES AND BAD DREAMS
Lawrence Block
AN AFFAIR OF INCONVENIENCE
Anne Perry
BEAUBIEN
Deborah Morgan
DOUBLE-CROSSING DELANCEY
S. J. Rozan
THE SHOESHINE MAN’S REGRETS
Laura Lippman
DUST UP
Wendy Hornsby
THE CASE OF THE PARR CHILDREN
Antonia Fraser
FAST
Jeffery Deaver
Bad Girls
THE WINGED ASSASSIN
THE BLOOD-RED CROSS
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY
John Kendrick Bangs
THE WOMAN FROM THE EAST
Edgar Wallace
SHE KNEW WHAT TO DO
Joseph Shearing
THE FORGERS
Arthur B. Reeve
THE MEANEST MAN IN EUROPE
David Durham
FOUR SQUARE JANE UNMASKED
THE ADVENTURE OF THE HEADLESS STATUE
Eugene Thomas
THE MADAME GOES DRAMATIC
Perry Paul
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
Joyce Carol Oates
Permissions Acknowledgments