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Murder Is a Public Matter by Ross Macdonald; copyright 1948 by Kenneth Millar; reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Inc.
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! by Paul Gallico; copyright 1956 by Paul Gallico; reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Inc.
The Man Who Sang in Church by Edgar Wallace; copyright 1927 by Edgar Wallace; copyright renewed 1955 by Patricia Marion Caldecott Frere; reprinted by permission of Brandt & Brandt.
The Earring by Cornell Woolrich; copyright 1943 by Cornell Woolrich; reprinted by permission of the author.
Dark Journey by Francis Iles; copyright 1934 by Anthony Berkeley Cox, renewed; reprinted by permission of the author.
The Patron Saint of the Impossible by Rufus King; © 1958 by Davis Publications, Inc.; reprinted by permission of Paul R. Reynolds, Inc.
Miss Phipps Goes to School by Phyllis Bentley; © 1957 by Mercury Publications, Inc.; reprinted by permission of A. D. Peters Sc Co.
The Greatest Monster of Them All by Bryce Walton; © 1959 by Bryce Walton; reprinted by permission of Theron Raines.
Mithridates the King by Morley Roberts; reprinted by permission of Helena Ward and A. P. Watt & Son.
The Bluebeard Murderer by Quentin Reynolds; © 1936 by Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., renewed; reprinted by permission of Littauer Sc Wilkinson.
Eva? Caroline? by Allan Vaughan Elston; © 1949 by Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; reprinted by permission of Paul R. Reynolds, Inc.
Midnight Adventure by Michael Arlen; copyright 1938 by Michael Arlen, renewed; reprinted by permission of A. Watkins, Inc.
Dinner for Two by Roy Vickers; copyright 1948 by The American Mercury, Inc.; reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Adventure of the Martian Crown Jewels by Poul Anderson; © 1958 by Mercury Publications, Inc.; reprinted by permission of the author and his agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
Open File by Richard Deming; copyright 1953 by Mercury Publications, Inc.; reprinted by permission of the author and his agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
Soho Night’s Entertainment by Frank Swinnerton; © 1957 by Frank Swinnerton; reprinted by permission of Hope Leresche & Steele.
Miser’s Gold by Ellery Queen; copyright 1950, 1954 by Ellery Queen; reprinted by permission of the author.
Immune to Murder by Rex Stout; copyright 1955 by Rex Stout; reprinted by permission of the author.