Contents

• The speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The little mystery / E.C. Bentley
• The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie
• Emil and the detectives (an extract) / Erich Kästner
• The inspiration of Mr. Budd / Dorothy L. Sayers
• From the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan
• Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon
• Murder at St. Oswald’s / Michael Underwood
• The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov
• The Newdick helicopter / Leslie Charteris
• Cold money / Ellery Queen
• More from the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan
• The one- handed murderer / Italo Calvino (an Italian folktale)
• Fingerprinting a ghost / Tony Fletcher (from Memories of murder)
• It’s a hard world / Andrew Vachss
• Maddened by mystery / Stephen Leacock