• Publication: The Omnibus of CrimePublication Record # 727910
• Editor: Dorothy L. Sayers
• Date: 1937-00-00
• Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.
• Pages: 1177
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Webpages: archive.org
• Notes:

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • No date or number line.
  • Contains a copyright statement for Sayers' introduction (1929), but not for the book itself.
  • OCLC lists a 1931 & a 1937 Garden City edition. The Internet Archive copy has a gift inscription dated 1937 so it is assumed it is the 1937 Garden City edition.
  • Contents are divided into two main sections ("Detection and Mystery" and "Mystery and Horror") which are further subdivided into smaller sections. Only contents from genre sections, authors above the threshold, or stories already in database are included below.
  • "The Story of Hercules and Cacus" is from The Aenid, Book VIII. Translated by Mr. Robert Bevan.
  • Internet Archive copy is missing dust jacket.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 11057639 1084024061

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Introduction (The Omnibus of Crime) • (1929) • essay by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 56 • The Story of Hercules and Cacus • [The Aeneid] • (1929) • short fiction by Virgil [as by Publius Vergilius Maro]
• 117 • The Mystery of Marie Rogêt • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1842) • novella by Edgar Allan Poe
• 161 • The Adventure of the Priory School • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1929) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 190 • The Ghost at Massingham Mansions • non-genre • [Max Carrados] • (1923) • novelette by Ernest Bramah
• 474 • The Hammer of God • non-genre • [Father Brown] • (1911) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• 525 • The Gioconda Smile • non-genre • (1921) • novelette by Aldous Huxley
• 589 • The Open Door • (1881) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
• 627 • The Story of the Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 644 • The Trial for Murder • (1928) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
• 654 • Martin's Close • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• 672 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• 714 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 717 • The Novel of the Black Seal • (1928) • novelette by Arthur Machen (variant of Novel of the Black Seal 1895)
• 753 • Tchériapin • (1920) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• 769 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 779 • The Hair • (1928) • short story by A. J. Alan
• 787 • Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 800 • Moxon's Master • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• 809 • The Dancing Partner • (1928) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• 816 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 825 • The Avenging of Ann Leete • (1923) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 837 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 842 • The Anticipator • (1898) • short story by Morley Roberts
• 847 • The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 867 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair
• 887 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 918 • The Misanthrope • (1918) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• 926 • The Bad Lands • (1920) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 936 • Nobody's House • (1927) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 947 • The Seventh Man • (1928) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 959 • Proof • (1919) • short story by Naomi Royde-Smith
• 969 • Seaton's Aunt • (1922) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 996 • Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 1013 • The Gentleman from America • (1924) • short story by Michael Arlen
• 1030 • The Narrow Way • [Vision (Roberts) • 1] • (1923) • short story by R. Ellis Roberts
• 1044 • Sawney Bean and His Family • (1843) • short fiction by Traditional
• 1048 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 1060 • The Corsican Sisters • (1925) • novella by Violet Hunt
• 1136 • The End of a Show • (1901) • short story by Barry Pain
• 1139 • The Cone • non-genre • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 1150 • The Separate Room • (1917) • short story by Ethel Colburn Mayne