CONTENTS

Introduction 7

1 FOUL PLAY: Stories of Murder and Death 1

Events at Drimaghleen by William Trevor 13

The Hand and the Word by Gerald Griffin 30

The Hanging of Myles Joyce by James Joyce 56

Telling by Elizabeth Bowen 58

A Study in White by Nicholas Blake 66

Rats by Rearden Connor 80

2 LAW BREAKING: Cases of Theft and Robbery 89

The Curse of Kishogue by Samuel Lover 91

Negative Evidence by Richard Dowling 98

A Lunatic at Large by George A. Birmingham 108

The Glass Panel by Eimar O'Duffy 120

The Sting by Flann O'Brien 133

The Informers by Brendan Behan 136

Fixer by Brian Cleeve 144

3 CRIME PASSIONEL: Tales of Jealousy and Revenge 159

Murder at Cobbler's Hulk by Sean O'Faolain 161

Two Bottles of Relish by Lord Dunsany 184

Girl of My Dreams by Peter Chevney 197

All in the Way You Look at It by Edmund Crispin 212

In the Train by Frank O’Connor 222

Maiden's Leap by Benedict Kiely

4 THE DETECTIVES: Police and Private Investigators 259

The Law is the Law by Liam O'Flaherty 261

The Vanishing Diamonds by M. McDonnell Bodkin 275

Justice Evaded by Dorothea Conyers 297

East Wind by Freeman Wills Crofts 310

Chailey's Folly by L.A. G. Strong 326

Murder in Repose by Peter Tremayne 337

Mugging in Harcourt Street by Cathal O Sandair 359

Solution to A Study in White by Nicholas Blake 364

Acknowledgements