Book one: The inoffensive captain / E.C. Bentley -- The scapegoat / Christianna Brand -- The mystery of the child's toy / Leslie Charteris -- The rubber trumpet / Roy Vickers -- The Moabite cipher / R. Austin Freeman -- The little old man of Batignolles / Emile Gaboriau -- The scarlet butterfly / Dulcie Gray -- Out of paradise / E.W. Hornung -- The cave of Ali Baba / Dorothy Sayers -- Book two: Superintendent Wilson's holiday / Margaret Cole -- The treasure hunt / Edgar Wallace -- Sing a song of sixpence / Agatha Christie -- Inspector Ghote and the miracle baby / H.R.F. Keating -- The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins -- We know you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin -- Murder! / Arnold Bennett -- The eye of Apollo / G.K. Chesterton -- A matter of goblins / Michael Innes -- The woman in the big hat / Baroness Orczy -- Book three: Goldfish / Raymond Chandler -- The girl with the red-gold hair / June Thomson -- Mr. Bovey's unexpected will / L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace -- The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts -- The alibi / J.C. Squire -- The evidence of the alter-boy / Georges Simenon -- The judge corroborates / J.S. Fletcher -- Book four: The case of the Parr children / Antonia Fraser -- The Hanover Court murder / Sir Basil Thomson -- B as in bludgeon / Lawrence Treat -- The victim / P.D. James -- To protect the innocent / Elwyn Jones -- The man who grassed / John Wainwright -- The King of the gigolos / Hulbert Footner -- Lot's wife / F. Tennyson Jesse -- The black cats vanished / Ellery Queen.