In this newly revised edition, Howard Haycraft presents an all-star collection of tales written by the acknowledged masters of the art and science of crime and its detection.  The cast: Edgar Allen Poe, A. Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Jacques Futrelle, Mellville Davisson Post, E. C. Bentley, Agatha Christie, H.C. Bailey, Ellery Queen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rex Stout, Carter Dickson and Cornell Woolrich.  These names offer a clue to the quality of the stories, many of which appear in an anthology for the first time.