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•  Great Tales of Mystery • (1960) • interior artwork by Edward Pagram
• The Purloined Letter • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1844) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1924) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage • [Max Carrados] • (1914) • novelette by Ernest Bramah
• The Queer Feet • non-genre • [Father Brown] • (1910) • novelette by G. K. Chesterton
• The Treasure Hunt • [J. G. Reeder] • (1924) • short story by Edgar Wallace
• The Biter Bit • non-genre • (1960) • short fiction by Wilkie Collins [as by William Wilkie Collins]
• The Absent-Minded Coterie • (1906) • novelette by Robert Barr
• The Lenton-Croft Robberies • [Martin Hewitt] • (1960) • short story by Arthur Morrison (variant of The Lenton Croft Robberies 1894)
• The Blue Sequin • (1908) • short story by R. Austin Freeman
• The Level Crossing • (1933) • short story by Freeman Wills Crofts
• The Appalliing Politician • (1960) • short fiction by Leslie Charteris