Unfamiliar stories from familiar authors, plus some excellent choices from the work of lesser-known mystery writers, all wrapped in a neat package by mystery author and historian Martin Edwards.

A tramp breaks into a deserted house, looking for a place to stay - and finds the odd things happening in that house are matched or exceeded by the even odder things happening in the opposite house across the street.

A writer of lurid melodrams finds himself living in one in this century-old classic.

Was somebody cooking the books at the National Calculating Company? Accountant Clarence Fortinbras was just the man to find out - until he met an untimely end.