The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe A Scandal in Bohemia / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A costume piece / E. W. Hornung The case of Miss Elliott / Baroness Orczy The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle The blue cross / G. K. Chesterton The case of Oscar Brodski / R. Austin Freeman The staircase at heart's delight / Anna Katharine Green The gutting of Couffignal / Dashiell Hammett Pastorale / James M. Cain I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler Slowly, slowly in the wind / Patricia Highsmith By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block