Foreword by Martin Edwards --
Publisher's note --
The youngest brother / Sara Dobie Bauer --
Murder! / Arnold Bennett --
The Tilling Shaw murder / Ernest Bramah --
The thirty-nine steps / John Buchan --
The man who was Thursday --
G.K. Chesterton --
The secret agent / Joseph Conrad --
The vigil / Joseph Cusamano --
Afriti / David R. Downing --
The adventures of the second stain / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The moabite cipher / R. Austin Freeman --
Spooks / Shane Halbach --
Kim / Rudyard Kipling --
Under the shield / Stephen Kotowych --
Induction / Colt Leasure --
The mysterious railway passenger / Maurice Leblanc --
To catch a mole / Jonathan MacGregor --
The empathy bomb / Jo Miles --
The defenestration of Prague / Josh Pachter --
We who steal faces / Tony Pi --
The black hand / Arthur B. Reeve --
The creaking door / Sapper --
Spies and taboos / S.L. Scott --
The hula-hoop heart / Dan Stout --
No regrets on fourth street / Lauren C. Teffeau --
The ebony box / Ellen Wood
Foreword by Martin Edwards --
Publisher's note --
The youngest brother / Sara Dobie Bauer --
Murder! / Arnold Bennett --
The Tilling Shaw murder / Ernest Bramah --
The thirty-nine steps / John Buchan --
The man who was Thursday --
G.K. Chesterton --
The secret agent / Joseph Conrad --
The vigil / Joseph Cusamano --
Afriti / David R. Downing --
The adventures of the second stain / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The moabite cipher / R. Austin Freeman --
Spooks / Shane Halbach --
Kim / Rudyard Kipling --
Under the shield / Stephen Kotowych --
Induction / Colt Leasure --
The mysterious railway passenger / Maurice Leblanc --
To catch a mole / Jonathan MacGregor --
The empathy bomb / Jo Miles --
The defenestration of Prague / Josh Pachter --
We who steal faces / Tony Pi --
The black hand / Arthur B. Reeve --
The creaking door / Sapper --
Spies and taboos / S.L. Scott --
The hula-hoop heart / Dan Stout --
No regrets on fourth street / Lauren C. Teffeau --
The ebony box / Ellen Wood