Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgments" (p. [iv]-vi).

Origin of the detective business / Newton Newkirk -- The unreckonable factor / Samuel Hopkins Adams -- Murder a ︡la Hollywood / Steve Allen -- A matter of timing / Charlotte Armstrong -- The way round / Phyllis Bentley -- The living bracelet / Robert Bloch -- The sheriff decides / Roark Bradford -- The wedding dress/ Louis Bromfield -- Town wanted / Fredric Brown -- Coroner's inquest / Marc Connelly -- The showdown / Thomas B. Costain -- Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens -- The speech / Lord Dunsany -- The neighbors / John Galsworthy -- Over my dead body / Anthony Gilbert -- Moonshine / W. Heidenfeld -- Karmesin, swindler / Gerald Kersh -- The limitations of Pambé Serang / Rudyard Kipling -- The Leopard Man's story / Jack London -- Robbie always pays / Philip MacDonald -- How Pearl Button was kidnaped / Katherine Mansfield -- The best policy / Ferenc Molnár -- Kill or be killed / Ogden Nash -- A death in the stadium / Robert Nathan -- Conscience / Elmer Rice -- The true story / Dylan Thomas -- Rein ne va pluz / Alexander Woollcott -- Somebody on the phone / Cornell Woolrich -- Bridal pond / Zona Gale -- Through the wall / Victor Canning -- The blue wash mystery / Anna Katharine Green -- Haunted ground / Oliver La Farge -- Death of an old man / Arthur Miller -- Dove Dulcet hitches his wagon / Christopher Morley -- The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- An ingenius defense / Ananymous -- Sancho Panza, detective / Miquel de Cervantes -- Hugh-a-bye, my baby / Anton Chekhov -- The pair of gloves / Charles Dickens -- The man of the knive / Alexandre Dumas -- Vendetta ; The expense of justice / Guy de Maupassant -- My watch / Mart Twain -- The dog and the horse / Voltaire -- An irreducible detective story / Stephen Leacock -- The adventure of the Paradol Chamber / John Dickson Carr -- The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening -- A case of identies / Margaret Norris -- The unseen door / Margery Allingham -- The case of the Pinchbeck Locket / Eric Ambler -- The initialed case / Lawrence G. Blochman -- Crime on Mars / Carthur C. Clarke -- The simplicity of the act / George Harmon Coxe -- The crime by the river / Edmund Crispin -- Recipe for murder / C.P. Donnel, Jr. -- The Downshire Terror / Andrew Garve -- Tea shop assassin / Michael Gilbert -- Chicago nights' entertainments / Ben Hecht -- After twenty years / O. Henry -- Inspector Appleby's first case / Michael Innes -- The scent of murder / Frances and Richard Lockridge -- The nose of a beagle / Arthur Purges -- A lump of sugar / Ellery Queen -- Death on Saturday night / Patrick Quentin -- The man who swallowed a horse / Craig Rice -- London night's entertainment / Margery Sharp -- The little house at Crois-Rousse / Georges Simenon -- Santa Claus beat / Rex Stout -- As if by magic / Julian Symons -- The ultimate clue / Anthony Boucher.