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Dead and Breakfast ed. Lisa René Smith & Linda Houle (L & L Dreamspell, September 2007, 1603180222, $16.95, 260pp, tp, oa)     First annual mystery anthology by The Final Twist, a Houston, Texas based writers group. · The Stand-In · Cash Anthony · ss · The End of the Tour · Diana L. Driver · ss · Traces of Death · John Foxjohn · ss · Dead by Breakfast · Betty Gordon · ss · Veiled Deception · Betty Gordon · ss · The Legacy of Ledgemont Inn · Linda Houle · ss · Do Wah Diddy Die Already · Pauline Baird Jones · ss · Snake and Smiley · Alexis Glynn Latner · ss · The Old Pine Lodge · Lisa René Smith · ss · I Love a Parade! · Gayle Wigglesworth · ss

A Death in Texas ed. Lisa René Smith & Cherri Galbiati--- see under Cherri Galbiati.

Mammoth Book of Golden Age Detective Stories ed. Marie Smith (Robinson, July 11, 1994, 1-85487-296-6, x+517pp, tp, an) viii · Introduction · Marie Smith · in 1 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891 22 · Cheating the Gallows · Israel Zangwill · ss The Idler February 1893 34 · The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock [Ebenezer Gryce; Violet Strange] · Anna Katharine Green · na Putnam, 1895 71 · The Flitterbat Lancers [Martin Hewitt] · Arthur Morrison · nv The Windsor Magazine April 1896, as “The Case of the “Flitterbat Lancers”” 90 · The Florentine Dante [Hagar Stanley] · Fergus Hume · ss Liverpool Weekly Mercury August 7 1897, as “The First Customer and the Florentine Dante” 102 · Nine Points of the Law [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Cassell’s Magazine September 1898 116 · In the Fog · Richard Harding Davis · na R.H. Russell, 1901 163 · The Fire of London [Cecil Thorold] · Arnold Bennett · ss The Windsor Magazine June 1904 177 · Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 29 1905 195 · A Retrieved Reformation · O. Henry · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903, as “A Retrieved Reform” 202 · The Four Just Men [The Just Men] · Edgar Wallace · n. Tallis, 1905 301 · The Mysterious Railway-Passenger [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · nv The Story-teller July 1907, as “The Mysterious Traveller” translated from the French (“Le Mystérieux voyageur”, Je sais tout, February 15, 1906). 316 · The Affair of the Corridor Express [Thorpe Hazell] · Victor L. Whitechurch · ss The Royal Magazine September 1905 328 · The Diamond Master · Jacques Futrelle · na The Red Magazine December 1908 (+2) 397 · The Hard-Boiled Egg [Philo Gubb] · Ellis Parker Butler · ss The Red Book Magazine May 1913, as “Philo Gubb” 407 · The Master of Mystery · Jack London · ss Out West Magazine September 1902 418 · “Spontaneous Combustion” [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine July 1911 436 · A Wastrel’s Romance [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv The Novel Magazine August 1910, as “The Willowdale Mystery” 466 · The Honour of Israel Gow [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 25 1911, as “The Strange Justice” 480 · Smothered in Corpses · Ernest Bramah · ss The Living Age September 27 1919, as “Smothered in Thrills: A Burlesque for the Cinema” 490 · The Angel of the Lord [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 3 1911, as “The Broken Stirrup-Leather” 503 · His Last Bow: an Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine September 1917

More Ms. Murder: More of the Best Mysteries Featuring Women Detectives, by the Top Women Writers ed. Marie Smith (Xanadu, 1991, 258pp, hc, an)     Available in the US from Citadel Press. v · Introduction · Marie Smith · in 1 · “What Have You Been Doing All Day?” · Kelly H. Blau · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1973 8 · Bluebeard’s Bathtub · Margery Allingham · ss Argosy (UK) July 1956, as “Three Is a Lucky Number” 17 · Quiet Day in the County Jail · Craig Rice · ss Manhunt July 1953 31 · Front Seat · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1978, as “Truth Will Out” 44 · From Out of the Garden · Charlotte Armstrong · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1968 65 · The Girl Who Loved Graveyards · P. D. James · ss Winter’s Crimes 15 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1983 80 · Dapper Johnny Brown · Ruth McKenney · ss Collier’s May 17 1952 94 · If You See This Woman · Dolores Hitchens · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1966 110 · The Heroine · Patricia Highsmith · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1945 126 · Curses · Carol Clemeau · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1983 143 · Danger—Woman at Work · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956 152 · Hidden Springs · Barbara Callahan · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 2 1980 167 · Old Friends · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1975 182 · Decision · Helen Nielsen · ss Manhunt June 1957 196 · Contemporary Gothic · Esther Wagner · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1960, as “Miss Weird-O” 210 · Sweet Baby Jenny · Joyce Harrington · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 20 1981 230 · Meet Athalia Goode · Raleigh Bond · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 27 1982 245 · A Goodbye Sound · Florence V. Mayberry · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1974

Ms. Murder: The Best Mysteries Featuring Women Detectives, by the Top Women Writers ed. Marie Smith (Xanadu, 1989, 274pp, hc, an)     Available in the US from Citadel Press. 5 · Introduction · Marie Smith · in 9 · The Lover of St. Lys [Solange Fontaine] · F. Tennyson Jesse · ss The Premier Magazine #58, February 1919 26 · Tape-Measure Murder [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week November 16 1941 38 · The Mackenzie Case · Viola Brothers Shore · nv Mystery League January 1934 57 · Easter Devil [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator June 1934 81 · The Gilded Pupil · Ethel Lina White · nv Detective Stories of To-Day ed. Raymond Postgate, Faber and Faber, 1940 95 · Scrawns · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Story-teller December 1932, as “Interlude at Scrawns” 107 · The Lipstick · Mary Roberts Rinehart · nv Cosmopolitan July 1942 132 · A Light on Murder · Gladys Mitchell · ss The Evening Standard February 15 1950 140 · The Absent Hat Pin · D. B. Olsen · ss 1947 155 · Miss Phipps and the Invisible Murderer [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1966 170 · The Mother Goose Madman · Betty Ren Wright · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1959 178 · The Splintered Monday · Charlotte Armstrong · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1966 195 · Paintbox Place · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 10 1980, as “The Paintbox Houses” 211 · The Writing on the Wall [Selena Mead] · Patricia McGerr · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1978 217 · The Case of the Parr Children [Jemima Shore] · Antonia Fraser · nv 1979 242 · Once Upon a Time [Kate Fansler] · Amanda Cross · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1987 259 · Three-Dot Po [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984

Nobel Crimes ed. Marie Smith (Xanadu, October 22, 1992, 1-85480-180-5, £7.99, viii+263pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 17 crime stories by winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. “The Miraculous Revenge” by George Bernard Shaw is listed on the back cover and in the acknowledgements but is not in the book. v · Introduction · Marie Smith · in 1 · In the Darkness · Heinrich Böll; translated by Leila Vennewitz · ss The Stories of Heinrich Böll by Heinrich Böll, Secker & Warburg, 1986 10 · Ransom · Pearl S. Buck · nv Cosmopolitan October 1938 37 · The Gentleman from San Francisco · Ivan Bunin · nv The Dial January 1922 59 · The Guest · Albert Camus · ss (r) 73 · Macavity: The Mystery Cat · T. S. Eliot · pm Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, Faber and Faber, 1939 75 · Smoke [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1932 103 · The Majesty of Justice · Anatole France · ss (r) 126 · Blackmail · John Galsworthy · ss MacLean’s December 15 1922 138 · The Moment Before the Gun Went Off · Nadine Gordimer · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1988 144 · The Killers [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927 154 · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap by Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray” 166 · The Post-Mortem Murder · Sinclair Lewis · nv The Century Magazine May 1921 192 · The Woman Who Came at Six O’Clock · Gabriel García Márquez · ss Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, Harper & Row, 1978 translated from the Spanish (“La mujer que llegaba a las seis”, El espectador, 1950). 204 · All Passion Spent · Luigi Pirandello; translated by Frederick May · ss 1965 213 · The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X · Bertrand Russell · ss Go Christmas 1951, uncredited. 236 · Under the Knife · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Short Friday and Other Stories by Isaac B. Singer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964 translated from the Yiddish (“Unter’n meser”). 251 · The Murder · John Steinbeck · ss North American Review April 1934

The Final Cut by Matthew Smith (Black Flame US, March 2005, 1-84416-135-8, $6.99, 248pp, pb, n., cover by Dylan Teague) [Judge Dredd]     Reprint (Black Flame 2005) novelization based on the world of the comics. Copyrighted by Rebellion A/S. First US edition.

The Best of Michael Marshall Smith by Michael Marshall Smith (Subterranean Press, December 2020, 978-1-59606-950-3, $45.00, 561pp, hc, co, cover by Stefan Koidl)     Also available in a slipcased edition, limited to 250 numbered, signed, copies, including an exclusive bonus hardcover, The Bonus of Michael Marshall Smith ($150.00). Also available in a traycased edition, limited to 26 lettered, signed, copies, including an exclusive bonus hardcover, The Bonus of Michael Marshall Smith ($600.00). Details taken from publisher website. 9 · The Handover · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Dark Terrors 5 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2000 23 · Save As… · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Interzone #115, January 1997 37 · Being Right · Michael Marshall Smith · ss More Tomorrow & Other Stories by Michael Marshall Smith, Earthling Publications, 2003 53 · Hell Hath Enlarged Herself · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors 2 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 1996 79 · More Tomorrow · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 1995 111 · The Motel Business · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 125 · Dear Alison · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Dracula ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997 137 · The Man Who Drew Cats · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Voices 2 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1990 155 · This Is Now · Michael Marshall Smith · ss BBCi Cult Vampire Magazine (online) 2004 169 · To Receive Is Better · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1994 177 · They Also Serve · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Cat Stories by Michael Marshall Smith, Earthling Publications, 2001 197 · The Scariest Thing in the World · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories ed. Stephen Jones, Skyhorse Publishing, 2018 211 · The Seventeenth Kind · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Subterranean #8, 2011 231 · What You Make It · Michael Marshall Smith · nv What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith, HarperCollins UK, 1999 253 · Not Waving · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Twists of the Tale ed. Ellen Datlow, Dell, 1996 281 · Later · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993 289 · Walking Wounded · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors 3 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 1997 307 · The Gist · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Subterranean Press, May 2013 339 · Author of the Death · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Everything You Need by Michael Marshall Smith, Earthling Publications, 2013 353 · The Dark Land · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Darklands ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1991 377 · Different Now · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Scaremongers ed. Andrew Haigh, Tanjen, 1997 383 · The Things He Said · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Travellers in Darkness ed. Stephen Jones, World Horror Convention 2007, 2007 395 · The Window of Erich Zann [The Lovecraft Squad] · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dreaming ed. Stephen Jones, Pegasus Books, 2018 425 · Everything You Need · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Everything You Need by Michael Marshall Smith, Earthling Publications, 2013 437 · What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Nightjar Press, 2009 445 · Failure [Straw Men] · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Psycho-Mania! ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2013, as by Michael Marshall 459 · Charms · Michael Marshall Smith · ss AbeSea 1997 471 · The Burning Woods · Michael Marshall Smith · na I Am the Abyss ed. Chris Morey, Dark Regions Press, 2018 509 · Shit Happens · Michael Marshall Smith · nv The Devil and the Deep ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books, 2018 531 · Always · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Darklands 2 ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1992 539 · Best of—Story Notes · Michael Marshall Smith · ms

The Bonus of Michael Marshall Smith by Michael Marshall Smith (Subterranean Press, December 2020, hc, co)     Distributed with the limited editions of The Best of Michael Marshall Smith. Details taken from publisher website. · REMtemps™ · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Postscripts #10, Spring 2007 · One One Three · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Postscripts #10, Spring 2007 · Look Inside Me · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Fearie Tales ed. Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books, 2013 · The Chain · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer, 2013 · Story Notes · Michael Marshall Smith · ms (r)

Everything You Need by Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications, September 16, 2013, 978-0-9838071-4-8, $45.00, 278pp, hc, co, cover by Vincent Chong)     Collection of 17 stories, five original, with notes on the origins of each by Smith. Illustrated by Vinent Chong. Limited to 1000 numbered, signed, copies. Also available in a traycased edition, limited to 26 lettered, signed, copies ($500.00). Details taken from online listing. 7 · This Is Now · Michael Marshall Smith · ss BBCi Cult Vampire Magazine (online) 2004 23 · Unbelief · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Stories ed. Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, William Morrow, 2010 33 · Walking Wounded · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors 3 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 1997 55 · The Seventeenth Kind · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Subterranean #8, 2011 77 · A Place for Everything · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Postscripts #10, Spring 2007, as “And a Place for Everything” 83 · The Last Barbecue · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2012, as “Getting It Right” 93 · The Stuff That Goes On in Their Heads · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Swallowed by the Cracks ed. Bill Breedlove & John Everson, Dark Arts Books, 2011 111 · Unnoticed · Michael Marshall Smith · nv 133 · The Good Listener · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 145 · Different Now · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Scaremongers ed. Andrew Haigh, Tanjen, 1997 153 · Author of the Death · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 167 · Sad, Dark Thing · Michael Marshall Smith · ss A Book of Horrors ed. Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books, 2011 185 · What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Nightjar Press, 2009 195 · The Things He Said · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Travellers in Darkness ed. Stephen Jones, World Horror Convention 2007, 2007 209 · Substitutions · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Black Wings ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2010 231 · The Woodcutter · Michael Marshall Smith · nv 255 · Everything You Need · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 269 · Story Notes · Michael Marshall Smith · ms

The Gist by Michael Marshall Smith (Subterranean Press, May 2013, 978-1-59606-561-1, $35.00, 77pp, hc, nv)     Fantasy story about a lost book, written by Smith, translated into French by Benoît Domis, then translated back into English by Nicholas Royle. All three versions are presented here. A leatherbound signed, limited edition of 300 is also available.

More Tomorrow & Other Stories by Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications, October 2003, 0-9744203-0-1, $40.00, 487pp, hc, co, cover by John Picacio)     Collection of 30 stories, four original. Introduction by Stephen Jones; afterword by Smith. This is a signed, limited edition of 1000; a traycased lettered edition of 26 signed by Smith, Jones, and Picacio with an additional original piece by Smith (-1-X, $250.00) is also available. 11 · Alias Smith & Jones · Stephen Jones · in 17 · More Tomorrow · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 1995 45 · Being Right · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 59 · Hell Hath Enlarged Herself · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors 2 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 1996 81 · Save As… · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Interzone #115, January 1997 93 · The Handover · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Dark Terrors 5 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2000 105 · What You Make It · Michael Marshall Smith · nv What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith, HarperCollins UK, 1999 125 · Maybe Next Time · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 137 · The Book of Irrational Numbers · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 999 ed. Al Sarrantonio, Avon, 1999 151 · When God Lived in Kentish Town · Michael Marshall Smith · ss HarperCollins UK, 1998 163 · The Man Who Drew Cats · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Voices 2 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1990 179 · A Place to Stay · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors 4 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 1998 199 · The Dark Land · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Darklands ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1991 219 · To See the Sea · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Shadows Over Innsmouth ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer, 1994 247 · Two Shot · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction ed. Al Sarrantonio, Roc, 2001 263 · Last Glance Back · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Girls’ Night Out/Boys’ Night In ed. Jessica Adams, Chris Manby & Fiona Walker, HarperCollins UK, 2001 275 · They Also Serve · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Cat Stories by Michael Marshall Smith, Earthling Publications, 2001 293 · Dear Alison · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Dracula ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997 303 · To Receive Is Better · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1994 309 · The Munchies · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 317 · Always · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Darklands 2 ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1992 325 · Not Waving · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Twists of the Tale ed. Ellen Datlow, Dell, 1996 351 · Everybody Goes · Michael Marshall Smith · ss When God Lived in Kentish Town & Others by Michael Marshall Smith, W. H. Smith, 1998 357 · Dying · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Omni December 1994 375 · Charms · Michael Marshall Smith · ss AbeSea 1997 385 · Open Doors · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 393 · Later · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993 399 · More Bitter Than Death · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Voices 5 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1993 415 · A Long Walk, for the Last Time · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Dark Terrors 6 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002 421 · The Vaccinator · Michael Marshall Smith · na PS Publishing, 1999 465 · Enough Pizza · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Ex Files ed. Nicholas Royle, Quartet, 1998 479 · On Not Writing (An Afterword) · Michael Marshall Smith · aw · Happy Holidays! · Michael Marshall Smith · ss; in lettered edition only.