Ellery Queen's poetic justice : 23 stories of crime, mystery, and detection by world-famous poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Dylan Thomas / Ellery Queen (comp)

An authorised reprint of a hardcover ed. published by the New American Library

The pardoner's tale Geoffrey Chaucer-- The Vicar of Wakefield sells a horse Oliver Goldsmith -- The two drovers Sir Walter Scott -- Darvell George Gordon, Lord Byron-- The notary of Perigueux Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The man of the crowd Edgar Allan Poe -- One wicked impulse! Walt Whitman -- My maiden brief W. S. Gilbert -- The three strangers Thomas Hardy -- Markheim Robert Louis Stevenson -- The crucifixion of the outcast William Butler Yeats -- The return of Imray Ruydard Kipling -- The blast of the book G. K. Chesterton -- A Raines law arrest John Masefield -- Whitemail Joyce Kilmer -- Smith and Jones Conrad Aiken -- The murder in the fishing cat Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Testimony after death Mark Van Doren -- The Steinpilz method Robert Graves -- A gentleman of fortune Stephen Vincent Benet -- The three D's Ogden Nash -- The club Muriel Rukeyser -- The old woman upstairs Dylan Thomas -- L'Envoi by Ellery Queen,