No suspense collection is complete without this anthology. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, the stories in this volume represent many of the biggest names in detective and suspense fiction: Ellery Queen, Harold Q. Masur, Celia Fremlin, Jack Ritchie, Patricia Highsmith and Bill Pronzini are only a few of the prize-winning authors in this amazing volume.

a book to remember...

In this book you will investigate crime with such Famous Detectives as

Perry Mason

Nero Wolfe

Ellery Queen

and read stories of detection and suspense by such Famous Mystery Writers as

Agatha Christie

John Dickson Carr

George Harmon Coxe

Charlotte Armstrong

Hugh Pentecost

and be surprised at tales of mystery and crime by such Famous Literary Figures as

W. Somerset Maugham

Ben Hecht,

John Van Druten

A book to remember, a book to read and reread — a book to treasure and keep permanently in your library...