Edited by Eleanor Sullivan

"Bad scene" is American slang for an unpleasant experience, and that is precisely what befalls the characters in these twenty-five stories gathered by one of the most widely acclaimed editors in the mystery-suspense genre, from the pages of its longest standing magazine.

CONTENTS

Introduction - Eleanor Sullivan
The Question - Stanley Ellin
The Old Barn on the Pond - Ursula Curtiss
Her Heart's Home - Mary McMullen
The Phonograph Murder - Helen Reilly
Testimony of a Witness - McGarry Morley
The Night Calhoun Was Off Duty - Thomas Walsh
The Missing Mortgagee - R. Austin Freeman
The Beauty in That House - Florence V. Mayberry
Man in Hiding - Vincent Starrett
Mrs. Kendall's Trunk - Robert Twohy
Franz Kafka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen - Charles West, Jr.
Falling Object - William Brittain
The Mysterious Death in Percy Street - Baroness Orczy
The Good Times Always End - David Morrell
The Men in Black Raincoats - Pete Hamill
Monday Is a Quiet Place - Marjorie Carleton
The Shop that Exchanged Evils - Lord Dunsany
The Bag Man - Brooke Weld
The Neighbors - John Galsworthy
A Question of Neighborliness - David Ely
Who's the Blonde? - John D. MacDonald
In a Country Churchyard - Robert L. Fish
Déjà Vu - Mary Barrett
Fishing Can Be Fatal - Stephen Wasylyk
Rear Window - Cornell Woolrich