In the 21 stories in Murder Most Postal, all by masters of the mystery genre, the mail takes centre stage. Edgar Allan Poe is here with his classic detective tale of a letter gone astray and the cunning way in which it is retrieved. Lawrence Block tells of the correspondence between a death-row inmate and the brother of the woman he killed, and of the deadly consequences for both. Ellery Queen investigates a puzzling philatelic theft. And Matt Costello writes of letters in cyberspace, as a man pours out his heart to a stranger in a chat room in the last messages he will ever write. The stories and their authors are: "Like a Bone in the Throat" by Lawrence Block * "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe * "An Act of Violence" by William F. Nolan * "The Corbett Correspondence" by "Agent No. 5 and Agent No. 6" * "Agony Column" by Barry N. Malzberg * "Graduation" by Richard Christian Matheson * "Someone Who Understands Me" by Matthew Costello * "Letter to the Editor" by Morris Hershman * "The Coveted Correspondence" by Ralph McInerny * "A Nice Cup of Tea" by Kate Kingsbury * "Letter to His Son" by Simon Brett * "The Poisoned Pen" by Arthur B. Reeve * "A Literary Death" by Martin H.
Greenberg * "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta" by August Derleth * "Letter From a Very Worried Man" by Henry Slesar * "Pure Rotten" by John Lutz * "Computers Don't Argue" by Gordon R. Dickson * "A Letter to Amy" by Joyce Harrington * "The Adventure of the One Penny Black" by Ellery Queen * "Make Yourselves at Home" by Joan Hess * "Deadlier Than the Mail" by Evan Hunter