• Publication: The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder & MysteryPublication Record # 288776
• Editor: Cynthia Asquith
• Date: 1929-00-00
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Price:
  3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 318
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Contents from Tuck, verified by OCLC record.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Hospital Nurse: A Study in Murder • (1928) • short story by Shane Leslie (variant of The Hospital Nurse)
• The Lovely Voice • (1928) • novelette by Cynthia Asquith [as by Lady Cynthia Asquith]
• A Considerable Murder • (1928) • short story by Barry Pain
• An Unrecorded Instance • (1928) • novelette by Marie Belloc Lowndes [as by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes]
• Circumstantial Evidence • (1928) • short story by Edgar Wallace
• Footprints in the Jungle • non-genre • (1927) • novelette by W. Somerset Maugham
• Shall We Join the Ladies? • (1928) • short story by J. M. Barrie
• Telling • (1927) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Islington Mystery • (1927) • short story by Arthur Machen
• The Killing-Bottle • (1927) • novelette by L. P. Hartley
• The Lovely Lady • (1927) • novelette by D. H. Lawrence
• The Prince • (1928) • short story by W. B. Maxwell
• The Smile of Karen • (1927) • novelette by Oliver Onions
• The Tarn • (1923) • short story by Hugh Walpole