Crime stories. Arson plus -- Slippery fingers -- Crooked souls -- The tenth clew -- Zigzags of treachery -- The house in Turk Street -- The girl with the silver eyes -- Women, politics and murder -- The golden horseshoe -- Nightmare town -- The Whosis Kid -- The scorched face -- Dead yellow women -- The gutting of Couffignal -- The assistant murderer -- Creeping Siamese -- The big knock-over -- $106,000 blood money -- The Main death -- This king business -- Fly paper -- The farewell murder -- Woman in the dark -- Two sharp knives -- Other writings. The thin man : an early typescript -- From the memoirs of a private detective -- Suggestions to detective story writers.