Legendary sleuths -- The copper beeches / 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 -- Masters of the mystery -- 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 -- Masters of suspense -- There are no snakes in Ireland / Frederick Forsyth -- The splintered Monday / Charlotte Armstrong -- The dancing detective / Cornell Woolrich -- And so died Riabouchinska / Ray Bradbury -- Ouitter, Inc. / Stephen King -- The nine-to-five man / Stanley Ellin -- The man who collected Poe / Robert Bloch -- Masterworks of crime and detection -- 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 / Lilliam de la Torre -- One thousand dollars a word / Lawrence Block.