Tough guys & dangerous dames / [electronic resource] edited by Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan Dziemanowicz, and Martin H. Greenberg.

Sail / Lester Dent -- The magician murder / Raoul Whitfield -- Black / Paul Cain -- The king in yellow / Raymond Chandler -- Chains of darkness / Frederick Nebel -- The arm of Mother Manzoli / Merle Constiner -- Murder in the red / Norbert Davis -- Brand of Kane / Hugh B. Cave -- Two biers for Buster / William Campbell Gault -- Blond cargo / Fred MacIsaac -- Mr. Sinister / Carroll John Daly -- The kid clips a coupon / Erle Stanley Gardner -- Tarantula bait / Paul Chadwick -- The sinister sphere / Fred C. Davis -- The lady is a corpse! / John D. MacDonald -- The lunatic plague / Donald Wandrei --Slack wires / Arthur J. Burks -- Homicide hunch / Robert Leslie Bellem -- Power of the puppets / Fritz Leiber -- Death is a vampire / Robert Bloch -- Death at the main / Frank Gruber -- I feel bad killing you / Leigh Brackett -- The case of the frozen corpses / Ray Cummings -- Names in the black book / Robert E. Howard.