The Edgar winners: 33rd annual anthology of the Mystery Writers of America

Each of these twenty-four stories won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Short Story of its year.Contents:The adventure of the mad tea-party / Ellery Queen --After-dinner story / William Irish --Catfish story / Lawrence G. Blochman --Love lies bleeding / Philip MacDonald --Lamb to the slaughter ; The landlady / Roald Dahl --The house party ; The Blessington method / Stanley Ellin --Over there, darkness / William O'Farrell --The sailing club / David Ely --Special award : this will kill you / Patrick Quentin --H as in homicide / Lawrence Treat --The chosen one / Rhys Davies --The oblong room / Edward D. Hoch --The man who fooled the world / Warner Law --Goodbye, Pops / Joe Gores --In the forests of Riga the beasts are very wild indeed / Margery Finn Brown --Moonlight gardener / Robert L. Fish --The purple shroud / Joyce Harrington --The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison --The jail / Jesse Hill Ford --Like a terrible scream / Etta Revesz --Chance after chance / Thomas Walsh --The cloud beneath the eaves / Barbara Owens.