Mysterious Pleasures ed. Martin Edwards (Little, Brown, November 6, 2003, 0-316-72563-3, 371pp, tp, an)
Anthology of 23 stories (eight new) celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Crime Writers’ Association.
- vi · Foreword · Hilary Bonner · fw
- v11 · Introduction · Martin Edwards · in
- 1 · One Morning They’ll Hang Him [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #81, August 1950
- 19 · The Blood Bargain · Eric Ambler · ss Winter’s Crimes 2 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1970
- 35 · Everybody’s Girl [Charlie Peace] · Robert Barnard · nv
- 51 · The Mystery of the Child’s Toy · Leslie Charteris · ss The American Magazine September 1933, as “The Man Who Liked Toys”
- 69 · The Chief Witness [Roger West] · John Creasey · nv John Creasey Mystery Magazine November 1957
- 91 · Indian Rope Trick · Lionel Davidson · nv Winter’s Crimes 13 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1981
- 113 · Something Spooky on Geophys · Lindsey Davis · ss
- 125 · The Double Crossing · Colin Dexter · ss
- 135 · The Gift · Dick Francis · nv Winter’s Crimes 5 ed. Virginia Whitaker, Macmillan UK, 1973
- 157 · The Twist · Antonia Fraser · ss Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave and Other Stories by Antonia Fraser, Bloomsbury, 1991
- 161 · Judith · Michael Gilbert · ss Midwinter Mysteries 3 ed. Hilary Hale, Little, Brown UK, 1993
- 175 · Name of Smith [Francis Pettigrew] · Cyril Hare · nv The Evening Standard July 5 1952
- 181 · The Game of Dog · Reginald Hill · ss
- 197 · The Hound of the Hanging Gardens · H. R. F. Keating · ss
- 209 · The Man Who Jumped for England · Peter Lovesey · ss
- 223 · The Interview · Ed McBain · ss Playboy October 1971, as “The Sardinian Incident” by Evan Hunter
- 241 · The Consolation Blonde · Val McDermid · ss
- 253 · At the “Century of Progress” · Sara Paretsky · nv Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Summer 1999, as “Murder at the “Century of Progress””
- 279 · Guide to Doom · Ellis Peters · ss This Week November 10 1963
- 285 · Tell Me Who to Kill [Insp. John Rebus] · Ian Rankin · nv
first distributed as a photocopied typescript given to attendess of a reading by Rankin at a charity event in Edinburgh in early 2003.
- 309 · When the Wedding Was Over [Chief Insp. Wexford] · Ruth Rendell · nv Means of Evil by Ruth Rendell, Hutchinson, 1979
- 335 · The Tigers of Subtopia · Julian Symons · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1965, as “The Tiger’s Stripe”
- 355 · Mugs · Margaret Yorke · ss A Classic Christmas Crime ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion, 1995
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