CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

SOME LITTLE THINGS

Lynn Brock

HOT STEEL

Anthony Berkeley

THE MURDER AT WARBECK HALL

Cyril Hare

THE HOUSE OF THE POPLARS

Dorothy L. Sayers

THE HAMPSTEAD MURDER

Christopher Bush

THE SCARECROW MURDERS

Joseph Commings

THE INCIDENT OF THE DOG’S BALL

Agatha Christie

THE CASE OF THE UNLUCKY AIRMAN

Christopher St John Sprigg

THE RIDDLE OF THE BLACK SPADE

Stuart Palmer

A TORCH AT THE WINDOW

Josephine Bell

GRAND GUIGNOL

John Dickson Carr

A KNOTTY PROBLEM

Ngaio Marsh

THE ORANGE PLOT MYSTERIES:

THE ORANGE KID

Peter Cheyney

AND THE ANSWER WAS …

Ethel Lina White

HE STOOPED TO LIVE

David Hume

MR PRENDERGAST AND THE ORANGE

Nicholas Blake

THE YELLOW SPHERE

John Rhode

THE ‘EAT MORE FRUIT’ MURDER

William A. R. Collins

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