The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
by Otto Penzler, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Melville Davisson Post, E. W. Hornung, Edith Wharton, Jack London, O. Henry, Jacques Futrelle, Robert Barr, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Frederick Irving Anderson, Vincent Starrett, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Burke, Georges Simenon, Logan Clendening, James Gould Cozzens, Lord Dunsany, John Collier, Ben Ray Redman, Robert Bloch, Barry Perowne, James Thurber, C. P. Donnel, Harry Kemelman, Ogden Nash, Stanley Ellin, A. A. Milne, Ellery Queen, Evan Hunter, Mickey Spillane, Jack Ritchie, Patricia Highsmith, Edward D. Hoch, Isaac Asimov, John Gardner, Stephen King, Clark Howard, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block, Stephen Greenleaf, James Ellroy, Sara Paretsky, Harlan Ellison, Charles McCarry, Elmore Leonard
/ Edgar Allan Poe
A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
T / Arthur Conan Doyle
The corpus delecti / Melville Davisson Post
Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung
A journey / Edith Wharton
The leopard man's story / Jack London
A retrieved reformation / O. Henry
The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle
The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr
The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton
The infallible Godahl / Frederick Irving Anderson
The adventure of the unique "Hamlet" / Vincent Starrett
The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley
Haircut / Ring Lardner
The killers / Ernest Hemingway
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke
The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon
The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening
Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens
The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany
The chaser / John Collier
The perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman
Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch
The blind spot / Barry Perowne
The catbird seat / James Thurber
Recipe for murder / C.P. Donnel Jr.
The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman
Kill or be killed / Ogden Nash
The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin
Nearly perfect / A.A. Milne
The Gettysburg Bugle / Ellery Queen
The last spin / Evan Hunter
Stand up and die! / Mickey Spillane
A new leaf / Jack Ritchie
The snail-watcher / Patricia Highsmith
The long way down / Edward D. Hoch
The man who never told a lie / Isaac Asimov
I have / John Gardner
/ Stephen King
Horn man / Clark Howard
The new girl friend / Ruth Rendell
By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block
Iris / Stephen Greenleaf
High Darktown / James Ellroy
The Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky
Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison
The hand of Carlos / Charles McCarry
Karen makes out / Elmore Leonard
