CONTENTS

Part I: The Ancient World

The Locked Tomb Mystery - Elizabeth Peters
The Thief versus King Rhampsinitus - Herodotus
Socrates Solves a Murder - Brèni James
Mightier than the Sword [SPQR]- John Maddox Roberts
The Treasury Thefts - Wallace Nichols
A Byzantine Mystery [John the Eunuch] - Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
He Came with the Rain [Judge Dee] - Robert van Gulik
The High King’s Sword [Sister Fidelma] - Peter Tremayne

Part II: The Middle Ages

The Price of Light [Brother Cadfael] - Ellis Peters
The Confession of Brother Athelstan - Paul Harding
The Witch’s Tale - Margaret Frazer
Father Hugh and the Deadly Scythe [Father Hugh] - Mary Monica Pulver
Leonardo Da Vinci, Detective - Theodore Mathieson
A Sad and Bloody Hour - Joe Gores

Part III: Regency and Gaslight

The Christmas Masque [Captain Jeremy Cork]- S.S.Rafferty
Murder Lock’d In [Dr. Sam: Johnson]- Lillian de la Torre
Captain Nash and the Wroth Inheritance - Raymond Butler
The Doomdorf Mystery [Uncle Abner]- Melville Davisson Post
Murder in the Rue Royale [C. Auguste Dupin] - Michael Harrison
The Gentleman from Paris - John Dickson Carr
The Golden Nugget Poker Game - Edward D. Hoch

Part IV: Holmes and Beyond

The Case of the Deptford Horror - Adrian Conan Doyle
Five Rings in Reno - R. L. Stevens