Includes index.

Part one, The act. "The murderer's wine"/ Charles Baudelaire, art/adaptation by Alex Exkman-Lawn -- Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky, art/adaptation by Rick Geary -- "A fratricide" / Franz Kafka, art/adaptation by Peter Kuper -- The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain, art/adaptation by Sarah Benkin -- Strangers on a train / Patricia Highsmith, art/adaptation by Megan Kelso -- A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess, art/adaptation by Karrie Fransman -- In cold blood / Truman Capote, art/adaptation by Emi Gennis -- Mr. Mercedes / Stepen King, art/adaptation by Sarah Crosby -- Part two, Criminals. Justine / Marquis de Sade, art/adaptation by R. Sikoryak -- "The body snatcher" / Robert Louis Stevenson, art/adaptation by Kriota Willberg -- "The power of eloquence" (a tale from Japan) / Kikuchi Jun, art/adaptation by James Wragg -- "Two gallants" (from Dubliners) / James Joyce, art/adaptation by Robert Berry -- "Sherlock Holmes arrives too late" (an Arsene Lupin story) / Maurice Leblanc, art/adaptation by Jane Mai -- Miracle of the rose / Jean Genet, art/adaptation by Gareth Brookes -- Pimp / Iceberg Slim, art/adaptation by Ellice Weaver -- Headhunters / Jo Nesbø, art/adaptation by Jackie Roche -- Part three, Whodunit. The judgment of Solomon / From the first book of Kings, art/adaptation by Keren Katz -- Oedipus Tyrannus / Sophocles, art/adaptation by Benjamin Frisch -- "The three apples" / from the Arabian nights, art/adaptation by Glynnis Fawkes -- "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Edgar Allan Poe, art/adaptation by Theo Ellsworth -- "The adventure of the Speckled band" (a Sherlock Holmes story) / Arthur Conan Doyle, art/adaptation by Suzy Kim ; illustrated by Patrick Gabrielli -- "Talma Gordon" / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, art/adaptation by C. Frakes -- The mysterious affair at styles (a Hercule Poirot mystery) / Agatha Christie, art/adaptation by Ovadia Benishu -- Part four, Judgment. Jesus and the adulteress / From the Gospel of John, art/adaptation by Roberta Gregory -- "Simona and Pasquino" (from The Decameron) / Boccaccio, art/adaptation by David W. Tripp -- The Scarlett letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne, art/adaptation by Sophia Wiedeman -- Part five, Punishment. Prometheus bound / Aeschylus, art/adaptation by Ellis Rosen -- The house of the dead / Fyodor Dostoevsky, art/adaptation by Hadar Reuven -- "The ballad of reading Gaol" and "Takase Bune" / Oscar Wilde and Mori Õgai, art/adaptation by Caroline Picard -- "In the penal colony" / Franz Kafka, art/adaptation by Kate Gasheen.