Title: The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
Description: [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / Edgar Allan Poe
A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
T[he red-headed league](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W) / Arthur Conan Doyle
The corpus delecti / Melville Davisson Post
Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung
A journey / Edith Wharton
The leopard man's story / Jack London
A retrieved reformation / O. Henry
The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle
The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr
The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton
The infallible Godahl / Frederick Irving Anderson
The adventure of the unique "Hamlet" / Vincent Starrett
The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley
Haircut / Ring Lardner
The killers / Ernest Hemingway
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke
The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon
The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening
Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens
The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany
The chaser / John Collier
The perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman
Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch
The blind spot / Barry Perowne
The catbird seat / James Thurber
Recipe for murder / C.P. Donnel Jr.
The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman
Kill or be killed / Ogden Nash
The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin
Nearly perfect / A.A. Milne
The Gettysburg Bugle / Ellery Queen
The last spin / Evan Hunter
Stand up and die! / Mickey Spillane
A new leaf / Jack Ritchie
The snail-watcher / Patricia Highsmith
The long way down / Edward D. Hoch
The man who never told a lie / Isaac Asimov
I have / John Gardner
[Quitters, Inc.](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149153W) / Stephen King
Horn man / Clark Howard
The new girl friend / Ruth Rendell
By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block
Iris / Stephen Greenleaf
High Darktown / James Ellroy
The Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky
Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison
The hand of Carlos / Charles McCarry
Karen makes out / Elmore Leonard
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Mystery fiction, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, banks, detective fiction, Encyclopædia Britannica, pawnbrokers, police inspectors, red hair, smoking cessation, cigarette habit, smoking, word of mouth, lung cancer, aversion training, drug withdrawl, mafia, mob enforcers, electroconvulsive therapy
Places: Paris, London, Baker Street, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New Jersey, rabbit room
People: C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Duncan Ross, Police Inspector Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay, Archie, Richard Morrison, Jimmy McCann, Victor Donatti, Cindy Morrison
Time periods: 1890