• Publication: Best Murder StoriesPublication Record # 996086
• Editor: Cyril Ray
• Date: date unknown
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Price:
  22/-^?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: 224
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Webpages: archive.org
• Notes: Info from Archive.org copy. "First published in mcmlxv" on copyright page. Price on front flap also printed as £1.10; back cover list of "Faber Anthologies" has a price of 18s for this one so it is a later printing, likely between 1968 and 1971 when both pounds and shillings prices were used.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 11 • Introduction (Best Murder Stories) • (1965) • essay by Cyril Ray
• 13 • The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It • non-genre • (1941) • short story by John Collier
• 23 • The Way Up to Heaven • non-genre • (1954) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 37 • Various Temptations • non-genre • (1947) • short story by William Sansom
• 55 • Telling • (1927) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 63 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
• 115 • A Nice Touch • non-genre • (1958) • short story by Mann Rubin
• 125 • The Cone • non-genre • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells