Publisher's Synopsis
In 1950, experts at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine voted on the best detective stories ever written - the result was this dazzling dozen. Includes "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Red-Headed League" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Suspicion" by Dorothy L. Sayers, and crime classics by G. K. Chesterton, Aldous Huxley, Dorothy Sayers, and others.