The 50 greatest mysteries of all time

The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins The three strangers / Thomas Hardy The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle The corpus delecti / Melville Davisson Post Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung A journey / Edith Wharton The leopard man's story / Jack London A retrieved reformation / O. Henry The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton The infallible Godahl / Frederick Irving Anderson The adventure of the unique "Hamlet" / Vincent Starrett The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley Haircut / Ring Lardner The killers / Ernest Hemingway The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany

The chaser / John Collier

The perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman

Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch

The blind spot / Barry Perowne

The catbird seat / James Thurber

Recipe for murder / C.P. Donnel Jr.

The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman

Kill or be killed / Ogden Nash

The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin

Nearly perfect / A.A. Milne

The Gettysburg Bugle / Ellery Queen

The last spin / Evan Hunter

Stand up and die! / Mickey Spillane

A new leaf / Jack Ritchie

The snail-watcher / Patricia Highsmith

The long way down / Edward D. Hoch

The man who never told a lie / Isaac Asimov

I have / John Gardner

Quitters, Inc. / Stephen King

Horn man / Clark Howard

The new girl friend / Ruth Rendell

By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block

Iris / Stephen Greenleaf

High Darktown / James Ellroy

The Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky

Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison

The hand of Carlos / Charles McCarry

Karen makes out / Elmore Leonard.