The Edgar winners Book

Each of these twenty-four stories won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Short Story of its year. Contents: The adventure of the mad tea-party / Ellery Queen -- After-dinner story / William Irish -- Catfish story / Lawrence G. Blochman -- Love lies bleeding / Philip MacDonald -- Lamb to the slaughter ; The landlady / Roald Dahl -- The house party ; The Blessington method / Stanley Ellin -- Over there, darkness / William O'Farrell -- The sailing club / David Ely -- Special award : this will kill you / Patrick Quentin -- H as in homicide / Lawrence Treat -- The chosen one / Rhys Davies -- The oblong room / Edward D. Hoch -- The man who fooled the world / Warner Law -- Goodbye, Pops / Joe Gores -- In the forests of Riga the beasts are very wild indeed / Margery Finn Brown -- Moonlight gardener / Robert L. Fish -- The purple shroud / Joyce Harrington -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- The jail / Jesse Hill Ford -- Like a terrible scream / Etta Revesz -- Chance after chance / Thomas Walsh -- The cloud beneath the eaves / Barbara Owens.