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• A Little Place Off the Edgware Road • (1939) • short story by Graham Greene
• For All the Rude People • non-genre • (1961) • short story by Jack Ritchie
• Hobgoblin • (1979) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• I Had a Hunch, and... • (1959) • short story by Talmage Powell
• Murder, 1986 • (1970) • novelette by P. D. James
• Music from the Dark • (1935) • novelette by Cornell Woolrich (variant of Dark Melody of Madness)
• New Murders for Old • (1939) • short story by John Dickson Carr
• Nine-Finger Jack • (1951) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• No Place for Magic • (1954) • short story by Maurice Procter
• The American's Tale • (1880) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Angel of the Lord • [Uncle Abner] • (1911) • short story by Melville Davisson Post
• The Blessington Method • (1956) • short story by Stanley Ellin
• The Convenient Monster • [Simon Templar] • (1959) • novelette by Leslie Charteris
• The Criminal • (1972) • short story by Joe Gores [as by Joseph N. Gores]
• The Fallen Angel • (1955) • short story by Evan Hunter
• The Fantastic Mystery: A Neglected Genre • (1979) • essay by Charles G. Waugh
• The Finger of Stone • (1920) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• The Forbidden Word • (1972) • short story by Edward D. Hoch [as by R. L. Stevens]
• The Human Zero • (1931) • novelette by Erle Stanley Gardner
• The Legend of Joe Lee • (1964) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• The Man Who Collected "The Shadow" • (1971) • short story by Bill Pronzini
• The One-to-Ten Affair • (1969) • novelette by Michael Gilbert (I)
• The Red Signal • (1924) • short story by Agatha Christie
• The Strange Children • (1955) • short story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
• The Tragedies in the Greek Room • [Moris Klaw] • (1913) • novelette by Sax Rohmer
• The Veiled Woman • (1952) • novella by Howard Browne and Mickey Spillane [as by Mickey Spillane]
• The Winner • (1970) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• Three Day Magic • (1948) • novella by Charlotte Armstrong