Edited by Eleanor Sullivan "Bad scene" is American slang for an unpleasant experience, and that is precisely what befalls the characters in these twenty-five stories gathered by one of the most widely acclaimed editors in the mystery-suspense genre, from the pages of its longest standing magazine. CONTENTS Introduction - Eleanor Sullivan The Question - Stanley Ellin The Old Barn on the Pond - Ursula Curtiss Her Heart's Home - Mary McMullen The Phonograph Murder - Helen Reilly Testimony of a Witness - McGarry Morley The Night Calhoun Was Off Duty - Thomas Walsh The Missing Mortgagee - R. Austin Freeman The Beauty in That House - Florence V. Mayberry Man in Hiding - Vincent Starrett Mrs. Kendall's Trunk - Robert Twohy Franz Kafka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen - Charles West, Jr. Falling Object - William Brittain The Mysterious Death in Percy Street - Baroness Orczy The Good Times Always End - David Morrell The Men in Black Raincoats - Pete Hamill Monday Is a Quiet Place - Marjorie Carleton The Shop that Exchanged Evils - Lord Dunsany The Bag Man - Brooke Weld The Neighbors - John Galsworthy A Question of Neighborliness - David Ely Who's the Blonde? - John D. MacDonald In a Country Churchyard - Robert L. Fish Déjà Vu - Mary Barrett Fishing Can Be Fatal - Stephen Wasylyk Rear Window - Cornell Woolrich