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First printing. The winners of the fifth annual detective short-story contest sponsored by 'Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.' While 33 stories (out of over 900 submissions) actually were awarded prizes, only 13 stories are including in this volume. Among them are the first prize winner - The Gentleman From Paris by John Dickson Carr and the story considered the best by a new-comer -The Rustling Tree by J Cameron Smith. Other stories include The lady-Killer by Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Trial of John Nobody by A H Z Carr, Once Upon A Train by Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer, The Orderly World Of Mr Appleby by Stanley Ellin, The Mystery of The Personal Ad by T S Stribling, A Boy's Will by Q Patrick, Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald, The Case of Karen Smith by Viola Brothers Shore, The Lady And THe Dragon by Peter Godfrey, One Morning They'll Hang Him by Margery Allingham and The Homesick Buick by John D. MacDonald. Introduction by Queen. 242 pp. Very good in a fair only dust jacket (some edgewear and chipping to the dj - now protected by a new archival cover.) .

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