"A scintillating new collection of the best Victorian detective stories--as suspenseful and entertaining as anything written today!"--P. [4] of cover

Introduction: Prophets looking backward / by Michael Sims -- Secret cell / by William E. Burton -- Murders in the Rue Morgue / by Edgar Allan Poe -- On duty with Inspector Field / by Charles Dickens -- Diary of Anne Rodway / by Wilkie Collins -- You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan / by Alexandre Dumas -- Arrested on suspicion / by Andrew Forrester Jr. -- Dead witness; or, The bush waterhole / by W. W. (Mary Fortune) -- Mysterious human leg / by James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman) -- Little old man of Batignolles / by Émile Gaboriau -- Science of deduction / by Arthur Conan Doyle -- Whitechapel mystery / by Anonymous -- Assassin's natal autograph / by Mark Twain -- Murder at Troyte's Hill / by C. L. Pirkis -- Haverstock Hill murder / by George R. Sims -- Stolen cigar-case / by Bret Harte -- Absent-minded coterie / by Robert Barr -- Hammer of God / by G. K. Chesterton -- Angel of the lord / by Melville Davisson Post -- Crime at Big Tree Portage / by Hesketh Prichard -- Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage / by Ernest Bramah -- Case of Padages Palmer / by Harvey O'Higgins -- An intangible clue / by Anna Katharine Green