Metropolitan Mysteries (2025) is another of Martin Edwards’ wonderful anthologies. This one focuses on London and the mostly famous detectives who investigate the many crimes committed in that city.

If you glance at the Table of Contents, you’ll see a large number of Big Name Mystery Writers–Sayers, Conan Doyle, Baroness Orczy, Anthony Berkley, Anthony Gilbert, Carter Dickson/John Dickson Carr–mixed in with some lesser known authors.

These 18 mystery stories from 1908 to 1963 feature Lord Peter Wimsey, Dr. Gideon Fell, Superintendent Aldgate, and, of course, Sherlock Holmes. If you’re in the mood for some classic mystery stories from that era, check out Metropolitan Crimes. GRADE: A

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction / Martin Edwards — ix

A Note from the Publisher — xv

The vindictive story of the footsteps that ran / Dorothy L. Sayers — 1

The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans / Arthur Conan Doyle — 24

The miser of Maida Vale / Baroness Orczy — 64

The real thing / Henry Wade — 102

These artists! / Henry Wade — 122

The case of the faulty drier / Josephine Bell — 141

Unsound mind / Anthony Berkley — 153

Man in Bond Street / Anthony Gilbert — 173

Death on Nelson’s Column / Eric Bennett — 184

The crime in nobody’s room / Carter Dickson — 208

The locked room / John Dickson Carr — 232

Sergeant Dobbin works it out / J. Jefferson Farjeon — 254

Mum knows best / Margery Allingham — 267

Sergeant Pockle in Parliament / William Fienburgh — 277

Murder in St. James’s / Malcolm Gair — 285

The most hated man in London / Patricia Moyes — 292

The dead man climbed upstairs / Raymond Postgate — 298

Back in five years / Michael Gilbert — 309