A field of opium poppies in the countryside outside Mexico City. The teeming streets of Jakarta, Indonesia. The Governor’s palace in the Lima, Peru, of Conquistador days. The ancient temples of Karnak and Luxor beside the Egyptian Nile.
These are the settings for just a few of the stories in this collection, the second in a new series of Ellery Queen anthologies consisting of stories never before published in the United States, most of them never before published anywhere.
Featured are stories by such internationally known mystery writers as Clark Howard, Antonia Fraser, Hillary Waugh, Frank Sisk, Tim Heald, and Edward D. Hoch, and an unfinished Melville Davisson Post story, finished by John F. Suter. There is also a stunning short novel by William Bankier. The collection represents an extremely diverse mix foreign and familiar, past end present, light and dark — all of it prime reading.

CONTENTS:
FRANK SISK Ashes for an Urn
TIM HEALD The Case of the Frozen Diplomat
ANTHEA COHEN On Her Feet Again
DON GILBERT The Canoe
EDWARD WELLEN Born Victims
MELVILLE DAVISSON POST and JOHN F. SUTER The Tree in the Forest DONALD OLSON Another Me
ERNEST SAVAGE The Girl and the Ghost
DOROTHY BENJAMIN Things Will Look Brighter in the Morning
THEODORE de la TORRE BUENO The Murder of the Governor
HILLARY WAUGH The Beneficiaries
FRED BURGESS Exit, Stage Right
JOHN LUT2 All Business
JANE PAYNTER The Miracle
ISAK ROMUN Christmas Is Over
LAVONNE SIMS Beyond My Lace Curtain
JAMES HOLDING The Grave Robber
CLARK HOWARD The Dublin Eye
EDWARD D. HOCH Last Year's Murder
ANTONIA FRASER Your Appointment Is Cancelled
WILLIAM BANKIER Beliveau Pays