The annual roundup includes a number of newcomers along with many reliable familiars in this field, and perhaps special mention here for Edmund Crispin's hard to explain murder in a prison cell; Margery Allingham's disappearance which parallels the Marie Celeste; Esther Wagner's baby-sitting vampire, Miss Weird-O; and Henry Slesar, Stanley Ellin, the Lockridges, a first published, posthumous Dashiell Hammett, and Anthony Boucher to complete this new collection. Established entertainment.