Prologue
Dreams
Betsy Hearne
Creating Context
The Roots of Mystery • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Makes a Mystery?
Thinking Skill: Defining
- The Framing Game (short story)
- Paul Bishop
- The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (short story)
- Agatha Christie
- After Agatha Christie (poem)
- Linda Pastan
- Suspense (essay)
- Mary Higgins Clark
Cluster Two: Whodunit?
Thinking Skill: Investigating
- This One's on Me (short story)
- Edward Hunsburger
- A Poison That Leaves No Trace (short story)
- Sue Grafton
- Crop Circles (article)
- Jerome Clark/Nancy Pear
Cluster Three: How Do You Solve a Mystery?
Thinking Skill: Logical Thinking
- The Dying Detective (drama)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Michael and Molly Hardwick
- Arsenic and "Old Rough and Ready" (article)
- William Maples
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Lamb to the Slaughter (short story)
- Roald Dahl
- This Way Nobody Gets the Blame (short story)
- Lesley Grant-Adamson
- Invitation to a Murder (short story)
- Josh Pachter
- The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr
- William Brittain
