The Penguin book of great law & order stories

the long version

Contents: The Snatching of Bookie Bob by Damon Runyon Ginger and the Kingsmarkham Chalk Circle by Ruth Rendell The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Biter Bit by William Wilkie Collins The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe Murder! by Arnold Bennett The King in Yellow by Raymond Chandler The Absence of Mr Glass by G.K. Chesterton The Heroine by Patricia Highsmith Hunted Down by Charles Dickens Rumpole and the Tap End by John Mortimer The Woman in the Big Hat by Baroness Orczy Inspector Ghote and the Miracle Baby by H.R.F. Keating The Evidence of the Altar-Boy by Georges Simenon A Very Commonplace Murder by P.D. James