Book Description

The murder game / Nedra Tyre -- The K. mission / Jacob Hay -- Blood-red in the morning / Hugh Pentecost -- Murder, 1986 / P. D. James -- Season's greetings / Henry T. Parry -- Dover tangles with high finance / Joyce Porter -- The bizarre case expert / William Arden -- The spy at the crime writers congress / Edward D. Hoch -- Baskets of apples and roses / Victor Canning -- The couple next door / Joyce Harrington -- The palindrome syndrome / Charlene Weir -- F as in frame-up / Lawrence Treat -- The great bread swindle / Robert Edward Eckels -- Raffles on the Riviera / Barry Perowne -- Needle in the heart / Richard Matheson -- The mutilated scholar / James Holding -- Never to be lost again / Jean Darling -- Leap day / Francis M. Nevins -- Miss Phipps discovers America / Phyllis Bentley -- The strong and the weak / Ruth Rendell -- The dead past / Thomas Walsh -- Don't cry, Sally Shy / Barbara Callahan -- The second reason / William Brittain -- Murder Dept.: Half a clue / Ellery Queen -- The K-Bar-D murders / Gerald Tomlinson -- The final twist / William Bankier -- A more-or-less crime / Edgar Wallace -- A kind of madness / David Bradt -- Beauty is as beauty does / Jack Ritchie -- The long glass man / Rosalind Ashe -- The rose murders / E. X. Ferrars -- Gentlemen's agreement / Lawrence Block -- Bread upon the waters / Robert Edward Eckels -- The spy who didn't remember / Edward D. Hoch -- Clever and quick / Christianna Brand -- A goodbye sound / Florence V. Mayberry -- A choice of murders / Patricia McGerr -- The long corridor of time / Ruth Rendell -- They'll kill the lady / Hugh Pentecost -- The bantam phantom / Lael J. Littke -- A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre -- Miss Phipps exercises her metier / Phyllis Bentley -- File #6: Beyond the shadow / Joe Gores -- Library fuzz / James Holding -- The nature of the thing / Patricia Highsmith -- The theft of the dinosaur's tail / Edward D. Hoch -- R as in rookie / Lawrence Treat -- Lobster shift / R. R. Irvine -- The curious conspiracy / Michael Gilbert -- Sauce for the goose / Patricia Highsmith -- Dr. Coffee and the whiz kid / Lawrence G. Blochman -- The crimson coach murders / Julian Symons -- Missing: One stage-struck hippie / Lawrence G. Blochman -- Double entry / Robert L. Fish -- The adventure of the honest swindler / Ellery Queen.