1946 1st year edition; Sheridan House Publishers, New York; hardbound in wheat boards with green and red lettering on cover and spine; very good condition with very minimal aging and unmarked pages; no dust jacket.
 
KIRKUS REVIEW
High level selection for this anthology of real and fictional crime stories which includes top notch fanciers, Roughead and Pearson, accounts from the Newgate Calendar, fiction from Collier, Forester, Chesterton, Huxley, Glaspell, Christie, Sayers, Palmer, Hammett, and a spoof from Leacock. There are essays on a good murder, rules for murderesses, a survey of wholesale murders, and Father Brown, Peter Wimsey and Sam Slade among the sleuths. Among the anthologies- better taste and more smiles.