1. Foreword/Ogden Nash. 2. Introduction/Eudora Welty. 3. The Scorched Face/Dashiell Hammett. 4. The Murder of Arnold Rothstein/Russel Crouse. 5. The Splintered Monday/Charlotte Armstrong. 6. The Mysterious Occurrence in Lambeth/G.P.R. James. 7. The Guest/Albert Camus. 8. The Sandyford Mystery/William Roughead. 9. The Grandstand Complex/Horace McCoy. 10. The Other Place/Robert Borger. 11. The Blue Hotel/Stephen Crane. 12. Other than a Good One/Joseph Henry Jackson. 13. The Hashish Man/Lord Dunsany. 14. The True Story/Dylan Thomas. 15. The Manhattan Well Murder/E. S. Gould. 16. The Way Up To Heaven/Roald Dahl. 17. The Haunt4ed and the Haunters/Edward Bulwer-Lytton. 18. Escape from the Bastille/Jean Henry Latude. 19. Miss Holland's Elopment/Edmund Pearson. 20. The Peasant Girl/Algis Budrys. 21. A Strange Murderer/Maxim Gorky. 22. Lost Hearts/M. R. James. 23. A Marriage Tragedy/Wilkie Collins. 24. The Sea Raiders/H. G. Wells. 25. The Waste Land/Alan Paton. 26. The Death of Agrippina, The Mother of Nero/Tacitus. 27. Beheaded in Error/from Ching-pen t'ung-hsu hsiao-shuo. 28. A Manner of Legacy/Donn Byrne. 29. A Sort of Genius/James Thurber. Funny the Way Thing Work Out/John D. MacDonald. 30. Captain John Porteous/from The Newgate Calendar. 31. The End/Jorge Luis Borges. 32. Operation Enticement/Henry Cecil. 33. To The South Sea Islands/Thor Heyerdahl. 34. Cambric Tea/Marjorie Bowen. 25. A Ghost of a Head/Anonymous. 26. A Winter's Tale/Helen Eustis. 27. The Murder at the Towers/E. V. Knox
