The Forties: The Clue of the red wig / John Dickson Carr -- Lost star / C. Daly King -- The Bloomsbury wonder / Thomas Burke -- Dressing-up / W.R. Burnett -- Malice Domestic / Philip MacDonald. The Fifties: As simple as ABC / Ellery Queen -- Money to burn / Margery Allingham -- The Gentlest of the brothers / David Alexander -- One-way street / Anthony Armstrong -- Murder at the dog show / Mignon G. Eberhart. The Sixties: Change of climate / Ursula Curtiss -- Life in our time / Robert Bloch -- The special gift / Celia Fremlin -- A Neat and tidy job / George Harmon Coxe -- Run-If you can / Charlotte Armstrong. The Seventies: Reasons unknown / Stanley Ellin -- Three ways to rob a bank / Harold R. Daniels -- The Perfect servant / Helen Nielsen -- The Marked man / David Ely -- Flowers that bloom in the Spring / Julian Symons. The Eighties: The Jackal and the tiger / Michael Gilbert -- The Fix / Robert Twohy -- One moment of madness / Edward D. Hoch -- Loopy / Ruth Rendell -- The Plateau / Clark Howard