Masterpieces of mystery and suspense / [electronic resource] compiled by Martin H. Greenberg.

The copper beaches / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The blue cross / G.K. Chesterton -- The submarine plans / Agatha Christie -- The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Death on the air / Dame Ngaio Marsh -- Help wanted, male / Rex Stout -- Midnight blue / Ross Macdonald -- Abraham Lincoln's clue / Ellery Queen -- The fever tree / Ruth Rendell -- Twenty-one good men and true / Dick Francis -- The victim / P.D. James -- Little terror / Robert Barnard -- The dream is better / Julian Symons -- The homesick buick / John D. MacDonald -- Danger out of the past / Erle Stanley Gardner.

The case of the emerald sky / Eric Ambler -- Strictly diplomatic / John Dickson Carr -- The african tree-beavers / Michael Gilbert -- There are no snakes in Ireland / Frederick Forsyth -- The splintered Monday / Charlotte Armstrong -- The dancing detective / Cornell Woolrich -- And so died Riabouchinska / Ray Bradbury -- Quitters, Inc. / Stephen King -- The nine-to-five man / Stanley Ellin -- The man who collected Poe / Robert Bloch -- The nuggy bar / Simon Brett -- The theft of the four of spades / Edward D. Hoch -- The Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton -- Lucky Penny / Linda Barnes.

Never shake a family tree / Donald E. Westlake -- The marked man / Ursula Curtiss -- Have a nice death / Antonia Fraser -- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain -- The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov -- The worst crime known to man / Reginald Hill -- The honest blackmailer / Patricia Moyes -- Cat's-paw / Bill Pronzini -- A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre -- Milady Bigamy / Lillian de al Torre -- One thousand dollars a word / Lawrence Block.