Chilling and killing

Joan Kahn, editor of crime fiction at Harper’s, has assembled her fifth collection of stories, comprising crime fiction, true crime, and tales of the supernatural.

Contents: Preface / Jacques Barzun — What was it? / Fitz-James O’Brien — The raspberry patch / Berton Roueché — The man hunt / Milton MacKaye — Another solution / Gilbert Highet — Miss Hinch / Henry Sydnor Harrison — The withered arm / Thomas Hardy — The old shell collector / H. R. F. Keating — The man who murdered Papa Désiré / Lassiter Wren — A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell — Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier — A record of escape / Alfred Morain — The invaders / Robie Macauley — Bird of prey / John Collier — The confession of Charles Linkworth / E. F. Benson — The Broadway Central tragedy / Alfred Henry Lewis — The woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield — The escape / E. H. Lacon Watson — The doll / Francis King — Undertaker song / Damon Runyon — The woman’s ghost story / Algernon Blackwood — The trial of Jane’s aunt / Albert Borowitz