London After Midnight: A Conducted Tour ed. Peter Haining (Little, Brown UK, January 5, 1996, 0-316-87573-2, £16.99, 342pp, hc, an, cover: [photo] by James Walker)
Anthology of 22 stories, each with an introduction by Haining. A trade paperback edition (-87981-9, £9.99) was announced but not seen.
- 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in (r)
- 3 · Section One: Black Spots
- 5 · The Knife · Robert Arthur · ss The Mysterious Traveler Magazine November 1951
- 14 · Fu Manchu and the Frightened Redhead [Fu Manchu; (Sir Denis) Nayland Smith] · Sax Rohmer · ss This Week February 1 1959
- 25 · The Funspot-Street Affair · Thomas Burke · ss Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, Associated Newspapers, 1935
- 31 · The Girl Who Loved Graveyards · P. D. James · ss Winter’s Crimes 15 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1983
- 49 · The Most Hated Man in London · Patricia Moyes · ss 1961
- 54 · Flight from Fleet Street · Carter Dickson · pl The London Mystery Magazine #14, February/March 1952, as by John Dickson Carr
first broadcast on CBS Radio, July 5, 1948.
- 69 · Dangerous Game [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 12 1981
- 90 · Karmesin the Murderer [Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss The People #3295, December 24 1944, as “Inscrutable Providence”
- 99 · The Day Lucky’s Luck Ran Out · Allan Prior · ss The Daily Mail November 1981
- 105 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories by Graham Greene, Heinemann, 1947
- 113 · People Don’t Do Such Things · Ruth Rendell · ss The Fallen Curtain by Ruth Rendell, Hutchinson, 1976
- 127 · Section Two: City Sleuths
- 129 · The Elusive Bullet [Dr. Lancelot Priestley] · John Rhode · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931
- 148 · The Adventure of the Worst Man in London [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Collier’s Weekly March 26 1904, as “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”; this is the manuscript title.
- 169 · The Bottle Party [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv The Strand Magazine October 1939
- 193 · Aces High · Peter Cheyney · ss (r)
- 204 · Yellow Iris [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Strand Magazine July 1937
- 222 · Trent and the Fool-Proof Lift [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss (r)
- 240 · The Cave of Ali Baba [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba”
- 274 · Border-Line Case [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Evening Standard August 25 1936
- 285 · The Santa Claus Club [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss Suspense (UK) December 1960
- 298 · The Incautious Burglar [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine October 1940, as “A Guest in the House”
- 317 · The Bones of the Case · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine
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