Retrieved reformation / O. Henry
Paul's case / Willa Cather
Problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle
Blind man's buff / Frederick Irving Anderson
Naboth's vineyard / Melville Davisson Post
Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell
Gutting of Couffignal / Dashiell Hammett
Blue murder / Wilbur Daniel Steele
Perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman
Baby in the icebox / James M. Cain
Sense of humor / Damon Runyan
Red wind / Raymond Chandler
Catbird seat / James Thurber
Rear window / Cornell Woolrich
Error in chemistry / William Faulkner
Nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman
Adventure of the president's half disme / Ellery Queen
Homesick Buick / John D. MacDonald
Gone girl / Ross Macdonald
Moment of decision / Stanley Ellin
First offense / Evan Hunter
Couple next door / Margaret Millar
Day of the execution / Henry Slesar
Terrapin / Patricia Highsmith
Possibility of evil / Shirley Jackson
Comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor
Good man, bad man / Jerome Weidman
Goodbye, Pops / Joe Gores
Whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison
Do with me what you will / Joyce Carol Oates
Quitters, Inc. / Stephen King
Absence of Emily / Jack Ritchie
By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block
Three-Dot Po / Sara Paretsky
Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton
Too many crooks / Donald E. Westlake
Hot springs / James Crumley
Dark snow / Brendan DuBois
Red clay / Michael Malone
Running out of dog / Dennis Lehane.
