The Giant Book of Great Detective Stories

Previously published separately as *The First*, *Second* and *Third Bedside Book of Great Detective Stories*

**Contents** E.C. BENTLEY The Inoffensive Captain

CHRISTIANNA BRAND The Scapegoat

LESLIE CHARTERIS The Mystery of the Child's Toy

ROY VICKERS The Rubber Trumpet

R. AUSTIN FREEMAN The Moabite Cipher

EMILE GABORIAU The Little Old Man of Batignolles

DULCIE GRAY The Scarlet Butterfly

E.W. HORNUNG Out of Paradise

DOROTHY SAYERS The Cave of Ali Baba

MARGARET COLE Superintendent Wilson's Holiday

EDGAR WALLACE The Treasure Hunt

AGATHA CHRISTIE Sing a Song of Sixpence

H.R.F. KEATING Inspector Ghote and the Miracle Baby

WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS The Biter Bit

EDMUND CRISPIN We Know You're Busy Writing...

ARNOLD BENNETT Murder!

G.K. CHESTERTON The Eye of Apollo

MICHAEL INNES A Matter of Goblins

BARONESS ORCZY The Woman in the Big Hat

RAYMOND CHANDLER Goldfish

JUNE THOMSON The Girl with the Red-Gold Hair

L.T. MEADE and ROBERT EUSTACE Mr Bovey's Unexpected Will

FREEMAN WILLS CROFT The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express

J.C. SQUIRE The Alibi

GEORGES SIMENON The Evidence of the Altar-Boy

J.S. FLETCHER The Judge Corroborates