The speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The little mystery / E.C. Bentley -- The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie -- Emil and the detectives (an extract) / Erich Kästner -- The inspiration of Mr. Budd / Dorothy L. Sayers -- From the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- Murder at St. Oswald's / Michael Underwood -- The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov -- The Newdick helicopter / Leslie Charteris -- Cold money / Ellery Queen -- More from the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan -- The one-handed murderer / Italo Calvino (an Italian folktale) -- Fingerprinting a ghost / Tony Fletcher (from Memories of murder) -- It's a hard world / Andrew Vachss -- Maddened by mystery / Stephen Leacock.