Student text that includes tales of terror like The Black Cat (Poe), The Monkey's Paw (Jacobs) and 3 others. Detective stories like The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Doyle) and The Second Gong (Christie) and 2 others. Four trials, famous and infamous like Unreasonable Doubt (Ellin) and stories of crimes with a twist like Suspicion (Sayers) and 3 more. Suggested excercises are at the end of each story for the student to perform.