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Harvey finds his old friend Ben living like a hermit afraid to spend the money he embezzled, but Harvey is sure he has it and that it must be hidden somewhere in this old house. When he is sure Ben is asleep, Harvey lets himself out and slips quietly down the hall to the stairs. The fire is still throwing a good light as he moves around the room searching systematically checking the floorboards and the walls when suddenly Ben appears and challenges him.

A good story about a cop who discovers that he's living in the same building with a homicidal maniac.

There comes a time when a meek stock broker gets fed up with his humdrum life and chucks it all for romance and adventure in Florida...and actually finds both!

An idea develops which involves a bridge, until the boiling point is finally reached! Kelly never knew exactly when it was that he decided to kill her. Thinking it over afterwards, he realized that murder is something like a pot boiling over. The fire is underneath for a long time and nothing happens, and then all at once the heat reaches a certain point and there it blows, and you look back in horror to find that you've killed someone....

A dead body is found floating with a £5,000 cheque in his pocket. He was killed by a fountain pen!

It was past midnight when Jerry Coonan left the cocktail bar with a tall blond in a mink coat. On the way out, he gave the high sign to Red Stafford and Shorty Burton sitting idly at the bar, waiting for the tip off, and as he guided her out the front door, he could see them get off their stools and prepare to leave. Jerry chuckled softly to himself; the blond was dumb and rich. The diamond pendant around her neck ought to bring $10,000 at least, and he’d mentally appraised the square cut emerald on her hand, $5,000 more...

William Conrad plays a detective named Conrad. The country’s largest news magazine wrote him up under crime described as massive, soft spoken, and methodical. Howard Martine was all of these and more. He was a man who believed in a planned existence whether it was business, matrimony, or murder. Howard Martine never took chances....

The woman's husband is disappointed enough to get a whistleresque idea while atop a mule going down the Grand Canyon! Steve was in his glory. Never in his wildest dreams had he ever believed a thing like this could come to pass. Here they were, just the two of them at Carol Crandall’s special table at the Top of The Mark in San Francisco.

Esther was lying in bed half asleep when the clock struck midnight and a voice spoke to her. It sounded to her like her bother Tom, and it warned her that her husband Charles must not go to the house of Waverley - that it would bring death and sorrow. Esther begged her husband not to go to the house tonight, even though he was going to find out what had happened to her brother, Tom Hargreaves.

A man's first wife returns from the dead for a horrible revenge.

A good story about an actor who commits murder and then tries to convince the police that he's insane

The French conquerors impose a strange doom on a noble Spanish family.

An old story told in modern terms, with the expected wild ending.

A man promises to bury his dying friend, but fails to keep his promise. A strange revenge.

An excellent ghost story; ancient prophecy and the unburied dead.

Messier Lehan had been plaguing Messier LeCoque for years to let him write up some of his interesting criminal cases. He considered him the most popular citizen of Paris and certainly the greatest detective of the time. And he finally gave in and agreed to allow him to write up his last case for his paper, The Murder of the Little Pig, alias Henri Coudrai the little hairdresser.

As they ride along in their carriage, beyond them on the road they see a man hailing them to stop. It is a tall man in a cape and wide brimmed hat, and he tells Heir Gerard Dahl that he has been waiting for him to return from Rotterdam. Dahl is the uncle and guardian of Rose Falderkaust, and the caped man tells him that he will visit him tonight at seven o’clock at his studio on an urgent matter.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard is baffled by a strange case involving an apparent madman bent on smashing plaster busts of Napoleon. When the case takes a violent turn, the inspector calls in his friend Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant consulting detective. While Lestrade concentrates all his efforts on the murder investigation, Holmes realizes that the key to the mystery lies in the smashed statues.

Holmes takes on a case involving the theft of imitation pearls and a silver-plated tea service, while Watson considers the whole investigation a waste of time.

Miss Dobney, Lady Frances Carfax's former housekeeper, who was used to get letters from her mistress on a regular basis, is alarmed by her sudden silence. She asks Sherlock Holmes to ascertain her whereabouts. The detective is quite worried about this young woman, who's travelling on her own, carrying valuable jewelry with her.