A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers.

• 1. "Charles", by A. J. Alan
• 2. "The Magic Casket", by R. Austin Freeman
• 3. The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah
• 4. "The Hammer of God", by G. K. Chesterton
• 5. "His Brother’s Keeper", by W. W. Jacobs
• 6. "The Murder of the Mandarin", by Arnold Bennett
• 7. "The Murder of the Countess Görlitz", by S. Baring-Gould
• 8. "The Shadow of the Shark", by G. K. Chesterton
• 9. "The Burglary", by Arnold Bennett
• 10. "The Perfect Murder", by Stacy Aumonier
• 11. "Blackmail", by John Galsworthy
• 12. "The Honest Thief", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• 13. "To Be Taken in Water", by George Walter Thornbury
• 14. "The Man Who Stole a Meeting House", by John Townsend Trowbridge
• 15. "The Great Bank Forgery", by Sir Basil Thomson
• 16. "Diamond Cut Diamond", by F. Britten Austin
• 17. "My Adventure at Chislehurst", by A. J. Alan
• 18. "The Marionettes", by O. Henry
• 19. "The Inn of the Two Witches", by Joseph Conrad
• 20. "The Man with the Watches", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 21. "The Saloon Passenger", by E. W. Hornung
• 22. "The Severed Hand", by Wilhelm Hauff
• 23. "Moon’s Gibbet", by Egerton Castle
• 24. "A Lucky Number", by S. B. Hale
• 25. "The Criminal from Lost Honour", by Friedrich Schiller
• 26. "The Tête Noire", by Charles Allston Collins
• 27. "The Downfall of Mulligans", by Banjo Patterson
• 28. "Hunted Down", by Charles Dickens
• 29. "Old Fags", by Stacy Aumonier
• 30. "My Favorite Murder", by Ambrose Bierce
• 31. "The Three Strangers", by Thomas Hardy
• 32. "A Bottomless Grave", by Ambrose Bierce