This fine collection of short mysteries is edited by award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler. It includes "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins, "Recipe for Murder" by C.P. Donnell, Jr., "The Chaser" by John Collier, "I Have" by John Gardner, "A Journey" by Edith Wharton, "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber, "The Corpus Delicti" by Melville D. Post, and "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley. Penzler's selections form a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.