Introduction: Hey, presto! / Mike Ashley
Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards
The odour of sanctity / Kate Ellis
A traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer
The silver curtain / John Dickson Carr
The stolen Saint Simon / Michael Kurland
The problem of the crowded cemetery / Edward D. Hoch
Death rides the elevator / Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg
The burglar who smelled smoke / Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block
No way out / Michael Collins
Off the face of the earth / Clayton Rawson
Murder strips off / Amy Myers
Out of his head / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post
The adventure of the Jacobean house / C.N. & A.M. Williamson
The motor boat / Jacques Futrelle
Murder in the air / Peter Tremayne
The pulp connection / Bill Pronzini
Stag night / Marilyn Todd
Mr Strang accepts a challenge / William Brittain
The legs that walked / H.R.F. Keating
The next big thing / Peter T. Garratt
The second drug / Richard A. Lupoff
Ice elation / Susanna Gregory
The mystery of the taxi-cab / Howel Evans
Heartstopper / Frank M. Robinson
Blind eyes / Edward Marston
The amorous corpse / Peter Lovesey
Afterword: Impossible crimes / Mike Ashley.
