• Publication: Fifty Masterpieces of MysteryPublication Record # 551416
• Editor: uncredited
• Date: 1937-07-00
• Publisher: Odhams Press
• Pages: 768
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Month of publication and contents from The Supernatural Index. The non-genre stories "The Marionettes" by O. Henry and "The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head" by Dorothy L. Sayers have been omitted from the contents here.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 13227738
  • Reginald-1: 10543

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 35 • The Magic Casket • novelette by R. Austin Freeman
• 57 • The President of San Jacinto • novelette by H. C. Bailey
• 79 • Outside the Law • short story by A. B. Cox (1893-1971) [as by Anthony Berkeley]
• 90 • The Regent's Park Murder • short story by Baroness Orczy [as by Baroness Emmuska Orczy]
• 103 • They Never Get Caught • non-genre • (1934) • short story by Margery Allingham
• 125 • Before Insulin • short story by J. J. Connington
• 134 • The Perfect Murder • (1926) • short story by Stacy Aumonier
• 150 • The Shadow of the Shark • (1921) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• 183 • Diamond Cut Diamond • non-genre • novelette by F. Britten Austin
• 207 • Murder at the Microphone • short story by Augustus Muir
• 221 • Death in the Kitchen • short story by Milward Kennedy
• 225 • The Vertical Line • short story by Freeman Wills Crofts
• 239 • The Clue of Monday's Settling • (1929) • short story by Edgar Wallace
• 252 • The Ghost of a Smile • short story by Gerard Fairlei
• 269 • Sons of the Chief Warder • novelette by Bertram Atkey
• 291 • Query • non-genre • (1931) • short story by Austin J. Small [as by Seamark]
• 302 • The Room on the Fourth Floor • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Ralph Straus
• 312 • The Wounded God • (1934) • short story by A. E. W. Mason
• 333 • The Electric King • [Jorkens] • (1930) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 352 • Charles • (1928) • short story by A. J. Alan
• 360 • The Funeral March of a Marionette • (1927) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 370 • The Interruption • non-genre • (1925) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 382 • Nobody at Home • short story by C. D. Heriot
• 386 • The Blood-Stained Pavement • short story by Agatha Christie
• 396 • St. Catherine's Eve • (1913) • novelette by Marie Belloc Lowndes
• 423 • The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 451 • The Idiots • non-genre • (1896) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 474 • The Vampire • (1930) • short story by Sydney Horler
• 480 • The Interlopers • (1912) • short story by Saki
• 486 • The Travelling Grave • (1929) • novelette by L. P. Hartley
• 508 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 513 • The Bird Woman • (1863) • short story by Henry Spicer
• 516 • The Dabblers • (1928) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
• 526 • Marsyas in Flanders • (1900) • short story by Vernon Lee
• 538 • The Room • (1923) • short story by Eleanor Scott
• 555 • Florence Flannery • (1924) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 574 • The Ghost at Massingham Mansions • non-genre • [Max Carrados] • (1923) • novelette by Ernest Bramah
• 598 • The House on Big Faraway • (1934) • short story by Norman Matson
• 608 • Madam Julia's Tale • (1932) • novelette by Naomi Royde-Smith
• 631 • Sea Air • (1933) • short story by L. A. G. Strong
• 647 • The Buick Saloon • (1930) • short story by Ann Bridge
• 662 • The Token • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair
• 675 • The Cigarette Case • (1910) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 687 • A Pair of Hands • (1898) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch
• 699 • Blind Man's Buff • short story by H. Russell Wakefield [as by Sir H. Russell Wakefield]
• 706 • The Man Who Was Milligan • (1923) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 715 • The Ghost • (1926) • short story by Richard Hughes
• 720 • The Room Over the Kitchen • (1923) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 725 • Mr. Justice Harbottle • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 756 • The Dead Man of Varley Grange • (1878) • short story by uncredited