- G.D.H. and Margaret Cole, "The Toys of Death:" An engaging little old layd solves a baffling murder on the south coast of England.

-Mignon Eberhart, "The Calico Dog:" Susan Dare accepts what is certainly "an invitation to murder" when she gets involved iwth conflicting claimants to a large fortune.

-Marcia Muller, "The Broken Men:" San Francisco investigator Sharon McCone guards two famous participants in a clown festival and gets enmeshed in homicide.

-Cornell Woolrich, "The Book that Squealed:" A defaced library book leads to kidnapping and murder in a classic puzzler solved by a librarian.