Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain’s country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America’s darkest cities. **Contents:** The adventure of the Abbey Grange / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — A marriage tragedy / Wilkie Collins — Lord Chizelrigg’s missing fortune / Robert Barr — The Fordwych Castle mystery / Emmuska, Baroness Orczy — The blue scarab / R. Austin Freeman — The doom of the Darnaways / G. K. Chesterton — The shadow on the glass / Dame Agatha Christie — The queen’s square / Dorothy L. Sayers — Death on the air / Dame Ngaio Marsh — The same to us / Margery Allingham — The Hunt Ball / Freeman Wills Crofts — The incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr — The long shot / Nicholas Blake — Jeeves and the stolen Venus / P. G. Wodehouse — Death in the sun / Michael Innes — An unlocked window / Ethel Lina White — The wood-for-the-trees / Philip MacDonald — The man on the roof / Christianna Brand — The death of Amy Robsart / Cyril Hare — Fen Hall / Ruth Rendell — A very desirable residence / P. D. James — The Worcester enigma / James Miles