Contents: Money to burn / Margery Allingham -- Ice storm / Jerome Barry -- The dog that wouldn't talk / Lawrence G. Blochman -- Aren't our police wonderful? / Christianna Brand -- The Pearly Gates are open / Gladys Cluff -- Courage isn't everything / George Harmon Coxe -- Sam Rall's private ghost / Bruno Fischer -- Proposal perilous / Morris Hershman -- A roof in Manhattan / Hilda Lawrence -- Sybilla / Margaret Manners -- Kid stuff / Ellery Queen -- Quiet day in the county jail / Craig Rice -- The fixed fight / Sidney Rowland -- Journey backward into time / Georges Simenon -- Decoy / C.L. Sweeney, Jr. -- Murder me twice / Lawrence Treat -- I killed John Harrington / Thomas Walsh.