A collection of twenty-five true crime stories culled from the pages of old pulp magazines features works by such masters of detective fiction as Jim Thompson, Dashiell Hammett, Robert Bloch, Ellery Queen, Harlan Ellison, and others. Simultaneous.

"The Shambles of Ed Gein" by Robert Bloch
"A Killer with Women" by Charles Burgess
"Madame Murder" by D. L. Champion
"Mystery Man Lucks and His Missing Bucks" by Harlan Ellison
"The Dancing Beauty and the Fatal Trap" by Robert Faherty
"The Footprint in the Snow" by Bruno Fischer
"The Scar-faced Fugitive and the Murdered Maid" by Leslie Ford
"The Case of the Movie Murder" by Erle Stanley Gardner
"Murder with Music" by Brett Halliday
"Who Killed Bob Teal" by Dashiell Hammett
"A Scream in the Dark" by Nunnally Johnson
"Strangled" by Day Keene
"Shield of the Innocent" by Eleazar Lipsky
"Once Aboard the Lugger" by Stuart Palmer
"The Last of Mrs Maybrick" by Patrick Quentin
"Murder in Chicago" by Craig Rice
"Case of the Catalogue Clue" by Jim Thompson
"The Body in Sector R" by Lawrence Treat
"Germany's Mistress of Crime" by S.S. Van Dine
"Clue of the Poison Pen" by Lionel White
"Invaders from the Sky" by Harry Whittington