Contributors include Margaret Armstrong (The Splintered Monday), Robert Bloch (Life in Our Time), Lawrence G. Blochman (Dr. Coffee and the Philanderer's Brain), John Creasey (The Greyling Crescent Tragedy), James Cross (The HKZMP GSV BZMP Case), Ursula Curtiss (Good Neighbor), Stanley Ellin (Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl), Robert L. Fish (The Adventure of the Widow's Weeds), Fletcher Flora (The Seasons Come, the Seasons Go), Anthony Gilbert (Sleep Is the Enemy), Dolores Hitchens (If You See This Woman), Michael Innes (Death in the Sun), Hugh Pentecost (Jericho and the Nuisance Clue), Arthur Porges (In Compartment 813), Jean Potts (The Inner Voices), James Powell (The Friends of Hector Jouvet), Holly Roth (The Game's the Thing), Shakespeare (The Simpcox Miracle), Lawrence Treat (M As in Mugged), Cornell Woolrich (It Only Takes a Minute to Die), James Yaffe (Mom Sings an Aria)