“The Border-line Case” by Margery Allingham. Published in Mr. Campion: Criminologist by Margery Allingham, published by Doubleday. Copyright 1937 by Margery Allingham. Reprinted by permission of Rights Limited, a Chorion Group Company. All rights reserved.

“The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke” by Lynne Wood Block and Lawrence Block. Originally published in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall 1997. Copyright by Lynne Wood Block and Lawrence Block. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

“The Laughing Butcher” by Fredric Brown. Originally published in Mystery Book, Fall 1948. Copyright 1948 by Fredric Brown. Reprinted by permission of Barry Malzberg.

“The Wrong Problem” by John Dickson Carr. Originally published in The London Evening Standard, August 14, 1936. Copyright 1936 by John Dickson Carr. Reprinted by permission of David Higham.

“The Man Who Liked Toys” by Leslie Charteris. Originally published in Boodle (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1934). Copyright 1934 by Leslie Charteris. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Leslie Charteris and Gelfman-Schneider Associates.

“The Dream” by Agatha Christie. Originally published in The Regatta Mystery (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1939). Copyright 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939 by Agatha Christie Mallowan; renewed 1967. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

“In a Telephone Cabinet” by G. D. H. and M. I. Cole. Originally published in Superintendent Wilson’s Holiday (London, Collins, 1928). Copyright 1928 by G. D. H. and M. I. Cole. Reprinted by permission of David Higham.

“The Glass Gravestone” by Joseph Commings. Originally published in The Saint Magazine, October 1966. Copyright 1966 by Joseph Commings. Reprinted by permission of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, on behalf of the author’s estate.

“The Flying Hat” by Vincent Cornier. Originally published in The Storyteller, May 1929. Copyright 1929 by Vincent Cornier. Reprinted by permission of Liz Joseph.

“Beware of the Trains” by Edmund Crispin. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1951. Copyright 1951 by Edmund Crispin. Reprinted by permission of Rights Limited, a Chorion Group Company. All rights reserved.

“Blind Man’s Hood” by Carter Dickson. Originally published in The Strand Magazine, April 1938. Copyright 1938 by John Dickson Carr. Reprinted by permission of David Higham.

“The Two Bottles of Relish” by Lord Dunsany. Originally published in Time & Tide magazine, November 12, 1932. Copyright 1932 by Lord Dunsany; renewed by the Estate of Lord Dunsany. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of Lord Dunsany.

“Waiting for Godstow” by Martin Edwards. Originally published in The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries (London, Robinson, 2000). Copyright 2000 by Martin Edwards. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Twelfth Statue” by Stanley Ellin. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February 1967. Copyright 1967 by Stanley Ellin; renewed 1995. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

“The Odour of Sanctity” by Kate Ellis. Originally published in The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries (London, Robinson, 2000). Copyright 2000 by Kate Ellis. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent, A. M. Heath.

“A Traveller’s Tale” by Margaret Frazer. Originally published in The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries (London, Robinson, 2000). Copyright 2000 by Gail Frazer. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Bird in the Hand” by Erle Stanley Gardner. Originally published in Detective Fiction Weekly, April 9, 1932. Copyright 1932 by Erle Stanley Gardner; renewed. Reprinted by permission of Queen Literary Agency.

“The Flung-Back Lid” by Peter Godfrey. Originally published in John Creasey’s Crime Selection 1979 (London, Gollancz, 1979). Copyright 1979 by Peter Godfrey. Reprinted by permission of Ronald Godfrey.

“Mike, Alex, or Rufus” by Dashiell Hammett. Originally published in Black Mask magazine, January 1925. Copyright 1925 by Dashiell Hammett; renewed. Reprinted by permission of the Dashiell Hammett Literary Property Trust.

“The Man from Nowhere” by Edward D. Hoch. Originally published in Famous Detective Stories, June 1956. Copyright 1956 by Edward D. Hoch.“The Theft of the Bermuda Penny” by Edward D. Hoch. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 1975. Copyright 1975 by Edward D. Hoch.“The Problem of the Old Oak Tree” by Edward D. Hoch. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1978. Copyright 1978 by Edward D. Hoch. Reprinted by permission of Patricia M. Hoch.

“The Sands of Thyme” by Michael Innes. Originally published in Appleby Talking (London, Gollancz, 1954). Copyright 1954 by J. I. M. Stewart. Reprinted by permission of Coolabi PLC.

“All at Once, No Alice” by William Irish. Originally published in Argosy magazine, March 2, 1940. Copyright 1940 by Cornell Woolrich; renewed 1967. Reprinted by permission of JP Morgan Chase as Trustee for the Claire Woolrich Memorial Scholarship Fund.

“The Strange Case of Steinkelwintz” by MacKinlay Kantor. Originally published in Chicago Daily News Midweek, 1929. Copyright 1929 by MacKinlay Kantor. Reprinted by permission of the Donald Maass Literary Agency on behalf of the Estate of MacKinlay Kantor.

“The Locked Bathroom” by H. R. F. Keating. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2, 1980. Copyright 1980 by H. R. F. Keating. Reprinted by permission of Sheila Mitchell Keating.

“The Crewel Needle” by Gerald Kersh. Originally published in Lilliput magazine, May/June 1953. Copyright 1953 by Gerald Kersh. Reprinted by permission of New World Authors on behalf of the Estate of Gerald Kersh.“The Episode of the Codex’ Curse” by C. Daly King. Originally published in The Curious Mr. Tarrant (London, Collins, 1935). Copyright 1935 by C. Daly King. “The Episode of the Torment IV” by C. Daly King. Originally published in The Curious Mr. Tarrant (London, Collins, 1935). Copyright 1935 by C. Daly King. Reprinted by permission of Valerie King Beatts.

“The Doctor’s Case” by Stephen King. Originally published in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (New York, Carroll & Graf, 1987) and subsequently in Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King. Copyright 1993 by Stephen King. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

“The Crooked Picture” by John Lutz. Originally published in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. magazine, November 1967. Copyright 1967 by Renown Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“No Way Out” by Dennis Lynds. Originally published in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, February 1964. Copyright 1964 by Dennis Lynds. Reprinted by permission of Gayle H. Lynds 2007 Revocable Trust.

“The Day the Children Vanished” by Judson Philips. Originally published in This Week Magazine, 1958. Copyright 1958, 1986 by Hugh Pentecost. “Room Number Twenty-Three” by Judson Philips. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Copyright 1949 by Hugh Pentecost. Reprinted by permission of Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents., Inc.

“Where Have You Gone, Sam Spade?” by Bill Pronzini. Originally published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January 30, 1980. Copyright 1980 by Davis Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The House of Haunts” by Ellery Queen. Originally published in Detective Story magazine, November 1935. Copyright 1935 by Ellery Queen; renewed. Reprinted by permission of Richard Dannay on behalf of The Frederic Dannay Literary Property Trust (as co-trustee), and The Manfred B. Lee Family Literary Property Trust (as attorney-in-fact), joint owners of the copyright in the contribution.

“Nothing Is Impossible” by Clayton Rawson. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1958. Copyright 1958 by Clayton Rawson; renewed 1986. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

“The Poisoned Dow ’08” by Dorothy L. Sayers. Originally published in The Passing Show, February 25, 1933, and subsequently in Hangman’s Holiday. Copyright 1933 by Dorothy L. Sayers Fleming; renewed 1961 by Lloyds Bank Ltd., Executor of the Estates of Dorothy L. Sayers. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

“The Little House at Croix-Rousse” by Georges Simenon. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 1947. Copyright 1947 by Georges Simenon. Reprinted by permission of Georges Simenon Ltd., a Chorion Group Company. All rights reserved.

“Death Out of Thin Air” by Stuart Towne. Originally published in Red Star Mystery Magazine, August 1940. Copyright 1940 by Clayton Rawson; renewed 1968. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

“A Knife Between Brothers” by Manly Wade Wellman. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February 1947. Copyright 1947 by Manly Wade Wellman. Reprinted by permission of David A. Drake.

“Department of Impossible Crimes” by James Yaffe. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1943. Copyright 1943 by James Yaffe; renewed 1982 by James Yaffe. Reprinted by permission of the author. All rights reserved.