The annual which rounds up a dozen or so from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and features some distinguished detectives and a minority of new names. John Dickson Carr does an imitation of the Purloined Letter. Craig Rice and Stuart Palmer combine their characters; John J. Malone and Hildegarde Withers; there's a Campion story by Margery Allingham; Stanley Ellin's Bluebeard, Quentin Patrick's victimization of a man by a child, a horror story, a special award first western detective story, etc. Slick as well as quick.