One of Starret's grandest story collections. Features three unpublished novelettes, The Great Portrait Mystery, Escape!, and The Repentant Burglar. Also included is the hard to find The Blue Door, Chopsticks of Confucius, The Man Across the Passage. The Fingernail Clue, Murder International Inc, his Stevensonian-like Wanted: A Coward, and others from his days as a writer for the detective and mystery pulp magazines of the 1920s and 30s, which aptly demonstrate the skills of a master storyteller.