In these seven short stories there are many different answers to life's little problems. How to plan the perfect murder - and succeed. How to choose - and keep the perfect wife or husband. How to find hidden gold. How to live for two - hundred years.. The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe, from Tales of Mystery and Imagination Sredni Vashtar Saki, from Tooth and Claw The Railway Crossing Freeman Wills Crofts, from As the Inspector Said and Other Stories The Daffodil Sky H. E. Bates, from Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories A Moment of Madness Thomas Hardy, from The Three Strangers and Other Stories The Secret Arthur C. Clarke, from The Songs of Distant Earth and Other Stories The Experiment M. R. James, from The Unquiet Grave Bookworms Club Gold Stages 3 and 4