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Best Detective Stories of the Year: 12th Annual Collection ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1957, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 254pp, hc, an) 9 · Three Wives Too Many · Kenneth Fearing · nv Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1956 31 · A Criminal Mind · John D. MacDonald · ss Cosmopolitan November 1956 46 · Midnight Kill · William Fay · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 9 1956 63 · The Trouble with Ruth · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1957 76 · Terror Town · Ellery Queen · nv Argosy August 1956 106 · This Was Willi’s Day · Aaron Marc Stein · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956 133 · The Last Spin · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt September 1956 143 · No, Not Like Yesterday [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv The Saint Detective Magazine November 1956 176 · Intrigue in Diamonds · Oscar Schisgall · ss This Week August 12 1956 184 · Within the Law · John Cunningham · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 19 1956 206 · One More Mile to Go · F. J. Smith · ss Manhunt June 1956 215 · The Bizarre Affair of the Seven Nudes · Robert J. Levin · nv Male 1956

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 13th Annual Collection ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1958, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 249pp, hc, an) 5 · Introduction · David C. Cooke · in 13 · The Day of the Execution · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1957 24 · Kitchen Kill · Jonathan Craig · nv Manhunt September 1957 47 · You Bet Your Life [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1957 69 · The Last Dark Step · Margaret Manners · ss Argosy October 1957, as by Martin Manners 85 · The Bullets Lied · John D. MacDonald · ss This Week January 6 1957 92 · Million Dollar Gesture · William Campbell Gault · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1958 128 · The Geniuses · Max Franklin · nv Manhunt June 1957 151 · Bull in a China Shop · C. B. Gilford · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1957 165 · So Pale, So Cold, So Fair · Leigh Brackett · nv Argosy July 1957 202 · Silhouette of a Killer · T. E. Brooks · ss This Week September 22 1957 212 · Say It with Flowers [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv Manhunt September 1957 239 · Secret Recipe · Charles Mergendahl · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1958

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 14th Annual Collection ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1959, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 255pp, hc, an)     Also available in the U.K. (Boardman 1960 as Best American Detective Stories of the Year: 10th Annual Collection. 9 · Suppose You Were on the Jury · Thomas Flanagan · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1958 25 · Over There—Darkness · William O’Farrell · ss Sleuth Mystery Magazine October 1958 41 · Sinner or Saint · Donald E. Westlake · nv Mystery Digest December 1958 64 · The Dark Corner · Frank Ward · na Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine January 1959 116 · Ambitious Cop · Jack Dillon · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 13 1958 134 · Wife Missing [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1958 163 · To Crack a Safe · J. W. Aaron · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1958 183 · One More Clue [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv Manhunt April 1958 205 · The Day the Children Vanished · Hugh Pentecost · nv This Week April 20 1958 (+2), as “The Children Vanished” 239 · Your Witness · Helen Nielsen · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1958

Best of the Best Detective Stories ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1960, LC:60-11550, $3.95, 279pp, hc, an)     15th volume in the Best Detective Stories of the Year series. ix · Introduction · David C. Cooke · in 15 · Body in the Barn · Margaret Manners · ss Argosy February 1945 33 · The Perfectionist · Margaret St. Clair · ss Mystery Book Magazine May 1946 49 · Revenge · Samuel Blas · ss Collier’s January 11 1947 58 · Being a Murderer Myself · Arthur Williams · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #57, August 1948 75 · Blackmail · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss The American Magazine December 1949 94 · A Boy’s Will · Q. Patrick · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #79, June 1950 112 · The Kiss-Off · John P. Foran · ss Male 1951 125 · For Value Received [Lloyd Chalmers] · Richard Deming · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #105, August 1952 139 · The Killer Is Loose · John & Ward Hawkins · nv The Saturday Evening Post June 13 1953 174 · Chinese Puzzle · Richard Marsten · nv Manhunt July 1954 193 · First Offense · Evan Hunter · nv Manhunt December 1955 215 · Three Wives Too Many · Kenneth Fearing · nv Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1956 239 · The Day of the Execution · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1957 250 · Over There—Darkness · William O’Farrell · ss Sleuth Mystery Magazine October 1958 267 · Bottle of Death · Gilbert Ralston · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 21 1959

Murder by 14 ed. David C. Cooke (Grove Press, 195?, $1.45, 384pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Merlin 1955 as My Best Murder Story) anthology.

My Best Murder Story ed. David C. Cooke (Merlin Press, 1955, LC:55-11544, $3.50, 384pp, hc, an)     Includes authors’ reasons for selecting each story. Also available in the U.K. (Boardman 1957) and as Murder by 14 (Grove). 7 · Foreword · David C. Cooke · fw 9 · The Aldine Folio Murders · Lawrence G. Blochman · nv The Dolphin 1940 38 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949 69 · Always Trust a Cop · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #105, August 1952 92 · Spider [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator May 1934 122 · Ask Me Another [Oliver Quade] · Frank Gruber · ss Black Mask June 1937 146 · A Matter of Life and Death · John & Ward Hawkins · na Cosmopolitan June 1947 199 · Snafu Murder [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #25, November 1945 223 · Portrait of a Murderer · Q. Patrick · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1942 247 · Challenge to the Reader · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #42, May 1947 265 · The Mad Tea-Party [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Redbook Magazine October 1934 306 · The Last Man Alive · Craig Rice · na The Pursuit Detective Story Magazine #1, September 1953 328 · The Owl Hoots Twice · Sax Rohmer · ss Collier’s February 14 1948 345 · The Eleventh Juror · Vincent Starrett · nv Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories August 1927 369 · The Nightmare · David C. Cooke · ss 15 Story Detective February 1951

Best of Fiction Magazine ed. Judy Cooke & Elizabeth Bunster (J.M. Dent, March 1986, 0-460-02464-7, £4.95, 312pp, tp, an)     Anthology with stories by Brian Aldiss, Alasdair Gray, Russell Hoban, etc. 1 · Foreword · Judy Cooke · fw 2 · The Bolt Hotel · Simon Burt · ss Fiction 1982 12 · Mad About the Boy · Georgina Hammick · ss Fiction 1985 30 · Buying a Dress · James Lasdun · pm Fiction 1985 34 · Box of Dreams · Maggie Brooks · ss Fiction 1984 46 · Lost in a Nightmare · Richard Rayner · ss Fiction 1986 54 · Sketches of London Pubs · Paul Cox · il Fiction 1986 58 · Full Fathom Five · Marina Warner · ss Fiction 1985 68 · Neighbours · V. S. Pritchett · ss The New Yorker July 5 1982 86 · Feeding the Old Man · Tim Aspinall · ss Fiction 1982 98 · My Boat · Raymond Carver · pm Fiction 1985 99 · Where Water Comes Together with Other Water · Raymond Carver · pm Fiction 1985 102 · Show Me Yours · Russell Hoban · vi Fiction 1983 106 · Scream When You Burn · Charles Bukowski · ss Fiction 1983 114 · Prend ce Sac, Mendiant! · Frederic Raphael · pm Fiction 1986 116 · Train Talk · Allan Massie · ss Fiction 1982 124 · Fairy Tale · Janice Elliott · ss Fiction 1982 132 · The Local Reporter · George MacBeth · pm Fiction 1985 136 · Flying Injuries · Helen Harris · ss Fiction 1983 142 · The Green Boy · Lisa St. Aubin de Terán · ss Fiction 1983 152 · Snakes and Lovers · Lucy Pinney · ss Fiction 1985 160 · Feet · Duncan Bush · ss Fiction 1982 168 · The Love Object · Gillian Tindall · ss Fiction 1982 182 · Imaginary Meadows · Aidan Higgins · ss Fiction 1982 192 · Christmas 1931 · Dirk Bogarde · ss Fiction 1982 200 · The Art of Stanley Middleton · A. S. Byatt · ar Fiction 1985 208 · Like a Gangster on the Night of the Long Knives, But Somewhat in a Dream · Amos Oz · ar Fiction 1982 218 · In Conversation with Alasdair Gray · Christopher Swan & Frank Delaney · iv Fiction 1982 224 · In Conversation with Anthony Burgess · Richard Rayner & Jonathan Meades · iv Fiction 1984 230 · Love Me Do · John Saul · ss Fiction 1985 236 · The Tipperary Fanale · Desmond Hogan · ss Fiction 1986 250 · Sunny Jim in Love · Hugo Williams · pm Fiction 1985 251 · Sunny Jim’s House · Hugo Williams · pm Fiction 1985 252 · Cornwall · Steve Ellis · pm Fiction 1985 253 · Visiting Home · Steve Ellis · pm Fiction 1985 254 · An old plate’s farewell to the table (after Geoffrey of Vinsauf) · Steve Ellis · pm Fiction 1985 255 · Saint Francis’s “Cantico di Frate Sole” (Done Into Hollywood Gangsterese) · Steve Ellis · pm Fiction 1985 256 · The Creamery Manager · John McGahern · ss Fiction 1986 266 · Empire Building · Deborah Moggach · ss Fiction 1985 284 · Vietnam Encore · Brian W. Aldiss · nv 306 · Notes on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Dare You: Stories to Surprise You ed. Wendy Cooling (Dolphin, November 10, 1997, 1-85881-604-1, £1.00, 71pp, pb, oa, cover by George Smith)     Young-adult anthology of 5 original stories, 2 of genre interest. 1 · The Sarah Song · Ruth Symes · ss 17 · Anna the Detective · Leon Rosselson · ss 37 · My Brother the Rabbit · Mary Hooper · ss; genre. 45 · The Amazing Mr Endicott · Eric Brown · ss; genre. 59 · Chicken · Mary Hoffman · ss

Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium Books, July 2015, 978-0-9889124-4-1, $15.95, 224pp, tp, co, cover by Kay Nielsen)     Collection of five stories, one original. Introduction by Gene Wolfe. 11 · Introducing C. S. E. Cooney · Gene Wolfe · ar 14 · Life on the Sun · C. S. E. Cooney · nv Black Gate Online Fiction February 11 2013 38 · The Bone Swans of Amandale · C. S. E. Cooney · na 100 · Martyr’s Gem · C. S. E. Cooney · na GigaNotoSaurus May 1 2013 143 · How the Milkmaid Struck a Bargain with the Crooked One · C. S. E. Cooney · na GigaNotoSaurus November 1 2013 183 · The Big Bah-Ha · C. S. E. Cooney · na Drollerie Press, 2010

The Beautiful Red by James Cooper (Atomic Fez, April 2010, 978-0-9811597-0-6, $19.99, vii+223pp, tp, co, cover by David Gentry)     Collection of 12 stories, five original. Foreword by Christopher Fowler. vii · The Dying of the Light · Christopher Fowler · fw 3 · The Good Book · James Cooper · vi 5 · There’s Something Wrong with Pappy · James Cooper · ss Black Static #8, December 2008/January 2009 26 · Eight Small Men · James Cooper · nv Black Static #15, February/March 2010 70 · F001/01 · James Cooper · vi 73 · The Family Face · James Cooper · ss Postscripts #18, Spring 2009 97 · Albion · James Cooper · ss 114 · Learning to Live in a Pretty Little Town · James Cooper · vi 115 · Because Your Blood Is Darker Than Mine · James Cooper · ss Black Static #10, April/May 2009 139 · We Are the Pigs · James Cooper & Alistair Mowbray · nv 166 · In Each Dark Body There Lies · James Cooper · vi The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories ed. Ian Alexander Martin, Humdrumming, 2007 168 · The Hack · James Cooper & Andrew Jury · nv The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories ed. Ian Alexander Martin, Humdrumming, 2008 203 · My Secret Children · James Cooper · ss Black Static #13, October/November 2009 227 · Original Publishing Information · [uncredited] · bi 229 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg

Out of Us All: Studies in Creative Fiction ed. Susan Cooper (University of London Press Ltd., 1969, 340-06347-5, 160pp, tp, an) 7 · Preface · Susan Cooper · pr _007 · Words · Edward Thomas · pm (r) 11 · Captivity and Freedom 11 · St. Joan · George Bernard Shaw · ex Constable, 1924 16 · The Prisoners · Stephen Spender · pm (r) 17 · Running Away from School · René Cutforth · ts Lilliput April 1956 20 · The Fowler · W. W. Gibson · pm Grit Story Section #1824, January 5 1930 21 · I Had a Dove · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats by John Keats, Reeves & Turner, 1883 21 · Escape Alone · David Howarth · ss (r) 25 · Freedom · Paul · pm (r) 26 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 28 · Memories 28 · The Almond Tree · Walter de la Mare · ex The English Review August 1909 29 · Poem in October · Dylan Thomas · pm (r) 31 · Cider with Rosie · Laurie Lee · ex The Hogarth Press, 1959 34 · Free Fall · William Golding · ex Faber and Faber, 1959 38 · A Memory · William Allingham · pm (r) 38 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 40 · Neighbourhoods 40 · Quite Early One Morning · Dylan Thomas · ex J.M. Dent, 1954 44 · God Made Sunday · Walter Macken · ex Macmillan, 1962 46 · Suburban Dream · Edwin Muir · pm (r) 47 · Magnolia Buildings · Elizabeth Stucley · ex The Bodley Head, 1960 49 · Ring of Bright Water · Gavin Maxwell · ex World Books, 1962 52 · A Northern Factory Town (Seen from an Upper Slum-Window) · Herbert Palmer · pm (r) 53 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 56 · The Sea 56 · The Cruel Sea · Nicholas Monsarrat · ex Cassell, 1951 64 · The Sea · Eva L. Ogden · pm The Century Magazine December 1881 65 · God Made Sunday · Walter Macken · ex Macmillan, 1962 68 · The Shell · Mary Webb · pm (r) 68 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 70 · Love 70 · God Made Sunday · Walter Macken · ex Macmillan, 1962 75 · The Picnic · John Logan · pm (r) 77 · The Fourteenth of October · Bryher · ex Pantheon, 1952 82 · A Birthday · Christina Rossetti · pm Macmillan’s Magazine April 1861 82 · The Snow Goose · Paul Gallico · ex The Saturday Evening Post November 9 1940 87 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 89 · Journeys 89 · Pied Piper · Nevil Shute · ex Heinemann, 1942 94 · The Bridge · J. R. Anderson · pm (r) 95 · Adlestrop · Edward Thomas · pm (r) 96 · Selected Writings · Truman Capote · ex Random House, 1963 100 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 102 · Nature 102 · Loveliest of Trees · A. E. Housman · pm (r) 103 · Ring of Bright Water · Gavin Maxwell · ex World Books, 1962 104 · Gone to Earth · Mary Webb · ex Constable, 1917 105 · Cider with Rosie · Laurie Lee · ex The Hogarth Press, 1959 107 · Tall Nettles · Edward Thomas · pm (r) 108 · Autumn · Robert Gittings · pm (r) 108 · Autumn Scene · John Galsworthy · ms (r) 109 · And Ladders Leaning Against Damson Trees · Frank Kendon · pm (r) 110 · Orlando · Virginia Woolf · ex The Hogarth Press, October 1928 112 · The Fog · F. R. McCreary · pm (r) 112 · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening · Robert Frost · pm New Hampshire by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1923 113 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 115 · Gangs and Rebels 115 · The Destructors · Graham Greene · ex Picture Post July 24 1954 (+1) 120 · Incendiary · Vernon Scannell · pm (r) 120 · Children of the Sun · Morris West · ex Heinemann, 1957 124 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 126 · Animals 126 · Tarka the Otter · Henry Williamson · ex Putnam, 1927 132 · Four Little Foxes · Lew Sarett · pm (r) 133 · The Call of the Wild · Jack London · ex Macmillan US, 1903 136 · Mountain Lion · D. H. Lawrence · pm (r) 138 · Charles, the Story of a Friendship · Michael Joseph · ex Michael Joseph, 1943 140 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms 142 · Schooldays 142 · Cider with Rosie · Laurie Lee · ex The Hogarth Press, 1959 148 · Holiday · Julian Mitchell · pm (r) 148 · There Is a Happy Land · Keith Waterhouse · ex Michael Joseph, 1957 153 · Out of School · Hal Summers · pm (r) 154 · The Warden’s Niece · Gillian Avery · ex Collins, 1957 157 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms