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Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories ed. Daile Unruh & Don Bailey--- see under Don Bailey.

London Noir ed. Cathi Unsworth (Akashic Books, August 2006, 1-888451-98-X, $14.95, 270pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir] 13 · Crime and Establishment · Cathi Unsworth · in 19 · Part I: Police & Thieves 21 · Backgammon · Desmond Barry · ss; set in Soho. 36 · Loaded · Ken Bruen · ss; set in Brixton. 44 · Rigor Mortis · Stewart Home · ss; set in Ladbroke Grove. 54 · Maida Hell · Barry Adamson · nv; set in Maida Hill. 77 · Part II: I Fought the Law 79 · I Fought the Lawyer · Michael Ward · ss; set in Mayfair. 99 · I Hate His Fingers · Sylvie Simmons · ss; set in Kentish Town. 115 · Park Rites · Dan Bennett · ss; set in Clissold Park. 124 · Trouble Is a Lonesome Town · Cathi Unsworth · ss; set in King’s Cross. 142 · Chelsea Three, Scotland Yard Nil · Max Décharné · ss; set on the King’s Road. 155 · Part III: Guns on the Roof 157 · Love · Martyn Waites · ss; set in Dagenham. 176 · Sic Transit Gloria Mundi · Joolz Denby · ss; set in Bradford. 186 · New Rose · John Williams · ss; set in New Cross. 200 · Penguin Island · Jerry Sykes · nv; set in Camden Town. 223 · Part IV: London Calling 225 · She’ll Ride a White Horse · Mark Pilkington · ss; set in Dalston. 234 · South · Joe McNally · ss; set in Elephant & Castle. 242 · Who Do You Know in Heaven? · Patrick McCabe · ss; set in Aldgate. 261 · Betamax · Ken Hollings · ss; set in Canary Wharf. 282 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Lost Places by Simon Kurt Unsworth (Ash-Tree Press, March 2010, 978-1-55310-119-2, C$49.00, x+196pp, hc, co, cover by Jason Van Hollander)     This is a limited edition of 400. A world-wide edition available in the US for $49.00 and in the UK for £29.00. A special paperback edition (978-1-55310-123-9) of one hundred copies was produced for the World Horror Convention 2010. Details supplied by Denny Lien. x · Introduction · Barbara Roden · in 3 · A Different Morecambe · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 12 · Haunting Marley · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss Ghostwriter Publications, 2009 20 · The Derwentwater Shark · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 33 · When the World Goes Quiet · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 45 · Old Man’s Pantry · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss Shades of Darkness ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2008 56 · Scucca · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss A Passion for the Art of Taxidermy ed. Muriel Gray, BBC online, 2005 61 · Flappy the Bat · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 70 · A Meeting of Gemmologists · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 83 · Where Cats Go · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 88 · The Baking of Cakes · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 91 · The Lemon in the Pool · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 102 · Stevie’s Duck · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 111 · Forest Lodge · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 126 · The Station Waiting Room · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 138 · The Animal Game · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 151 · An Afternoon with Danny · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 157 · The Pennine Tower Restaurant · Simon Kurt Unsworth · nv 172 · The Church on the Island · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss At Ease with the Dead ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007 185 · Endword/Story Notes · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ms

The Pocket Treasury ed. Louis Untermeyer, Philip Van Doren Stern, Eric Swenson & Caryl Brooks (Pocket Books, February 1947, 424, 25¢, 309pp, pb, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. illustrated by Warren Hunter, also contains a quiz, not detailed vii · Foreword · The Editors · fw 1 · The Letter · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Hearst’s International April 1924 43 · Freedom · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm from “Voluntaries”, anonymously, The Atlantic Monthly October 1863, uncredited. 44 · Love and Death among the Molluscs · M. F. K. Fisher · ar Consider the Oyster, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941 50 · The Eighty-Yard Run · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire January 1941 69 · Catherine Parr · Maurice Baring · pl Diminutive Dramas by Maurice Baring, Houghton Mifflin, 1911 77 · Some Like Them Cold · Ring Lardner · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 1 1921 102 · The Shooting of Billy the Kid · Walter Noble Burns · ar The Saga of Billy the Kid, Doubleday, 1925 127 · The Visit · Andy Logan · ss Swarthmore Dodo 1940 137 · The Standard of Living · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker September 20 1941 145 · Story of a Farmer · Clarence Day · ar The Crow’s Nest by Clarence Day, Jr., Knopf, 1921 [Ref. George Washington] 151 · Rope Enough · John Collier · ss The New Yorker November 18 1939 160 · The Rich Boy · F. Scott Fitzgerald · na The Red Book Magazine January 1926 (+1) 206 · From Pillar to Post or How to Raise a Dog · Jack Goodman & Alan Green · ar How to Do Practically Anything, Simon & Schuster, 1942 217 · The Reticence of Lady Anne · “Saki” · ss The Westminster Gazette January 16 1907 221 · Common Cause · William Wordsworth · pm (r) 222 · Bats · Ivan T. Sanderson · ar Animal Treasure by Ivan T. Sanderson, The Viking Press, 1937 257 · The Tortures of Week-End Visiting · Robert Benchley · hu (r) 265 · untitled (“He prayeth best who loveth best…”) · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm (r) 265 · Epitaph on a Hare · William Cowper · pm (r) 267 · To the Cuckoo · Michael Bruce · pm (r) 268 · Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog · Oliver Goldsmith · pm from The Vicar of Wakefield, R. Collins, 1766 269 · On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup · William Oldys · pm (r) 270 · The Robin’s Grave · Samuel Rogers · pm (r) 270 · To a Skylark · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 271 · To a Waterfowl · William Cullen Bryant · pm Poems by William Cullen Bryant, Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, 1834 272 · The Owl and the Pussy-Cat · Edward Lear · pm Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets by Edward Lear, 1870 273 · The Snake · Emily Dickinson · pm The Springfield Republican February 14 1866 274 · The Camel · Charles Edward Carryl · pm (r) 276 · The Blackbird · W. E. Henley · pm (r) 276 · The Runaway · Robert Frost · pm The Amherst Monthly June 1918 277 · The Circus Postered Barn · Elizabeth Coatsworth · pm (r) 278 · Native Land · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r); given as “This is my own, my native land!” in the Table of Contents. 279 · One Crowded Hour · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r) 279 · This Republic · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm from “The Building of the Ship”, 1849 280 · Freedom · James Russell Lowell · pm from “Ode to Liberty” (r) 280 · The New Colossus: Mother of Exiles · Emma Lazarus · pm (r) 281 · The Virginians Are Coming Again · Vachel Lindsay · pm (r) 285 · A Gentle Echo on Woman · Jonathan Swift · pm (r) 287 · Heaven · George Herbert · pm (r) 288 · Bonaparte and the Echo · [uncredited] · pm (r) 289 · Echo · John Godfrey Saxe · pm (r) 291 · Richard Taylor-His Life and Hard Works · The Editors · bg [Ref. Richard Taylor]

The Best American Short Stories 1984 ed. John Updike & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1984, tp, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. ix · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms (r) xi · Introduction · John Updike · in (r) 1 · The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance · Lee K. Abbott · ss Georgia Review 1983 13 · The Naked Lady · Madison Smartt Bell · ss The Crescent Review #1, 1983 19 · Unknown Feathers · Dianne Benedict · ss MSS 1982 35 · In the Red Room · Paul Bowles · ss Antæus 1981 45 · The Cure · Mary Ward Brown · ss Ascent 1983 56 · Gent · Rick DeMarinis · ss CutBank 1983 72 · A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv Black Warrior Review Spring 1983 95 · Lena · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker October 31 1983 106 · Inexorable Progress · Mary Hood · ss Georgia Review 1983 123 · The Artificial Moonlight · Donald Justice · ss Antæus #49/50, Spring/Summer 1983 140 · Morrison’s Reaction · Stephen Kirk · ss Greensboro Review 1983 150 · Thorofare · Susan Minot · ss The New Yorker June 27 1983 161 · Glimpse Into Another Country · Wright Morris · ss The New Yorker September 26 1983 177 · Nairobi · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Paris Review 1983 184 · Rosa · Cynthia Ozick · nv The New Yorker March 21 1983 223 · The Cold Room · Lowry Pei · ss Stories 1983 238 · Things to Be Thrown Away · Jonathan Penner · ss The Yale Review Spring 1983 243 · Bruns · Norman Rush · ss The New Yorker April 4 1983 255 · Foreign Shores · James Salter · ss Esquire September 1983 271 · Caddies’ Day · Jeanne Schinto · ss Greensboro Review 1983

The Best American Short Stories of the Century ed. John Updike & Katrina Kenison (Houghton Mifflin, April 2000, 0-395-84367-7, $18.95, 864pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. vii · Foreword · [uncredited] · fw xv · Introduction · John Updike · in 1 · Zelig · Benjamin Rosenblatt · ss The Bellman #476, August 28 1915 7 · Little Selves · Mary Lerner · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1916 18 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917 based on material from the play “Trifles”. 38 · The Other Woman · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Little Review May/June 1920 45 · The Golden Honeymoon · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1922 60 · Blood-Burning Moon · Jean Toomer · ss Prairie March/April 1923 68 · The Killers [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927 77 · Double Birthday · Willa Cather · nv The Forum February 1929 100 · Wild Plums · Grace Stone Coates · ss The Frontier March 1929 105 · Theft · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Gyroscope November 1929 111 · That Evening Sun Go Down · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931 127 · Here We Are · Dorothy Parker · ss Cosmopolitan March 1931 136 · Crazy Sunday · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss The American Mercury October 1932 153 · My Dead Brother Comes to America · Alexander Godin · ss The Windsor Quarterly 1934 159 · Resurrection of a Life · William Saroyan · ss Story #28, November 1934 169 · Christmas Gift · Robert Penn Warren · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1937 179 · Bright and Morning Star · Richard Wright · nv New Masses May 10 1938 211 · The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1939 224 · The Peach Stone · Paul Horgan · nv The Yale Review Summer 1942 241 · “That in Aleppo Once…” · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1943 250 · The Interior Castle · Jean Stafford · ss Partisan Review November/December 1946 264 · Miami-New York · Martha Gellhorn · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1947 281 · The Second Tree from the Corner · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker May 31 1947 286 · The Farmer’s Children · Elizabeth Bishop · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1948 295 · Death of a Favorite · J. F. Powers · ss The New Yorker July 1 1950 312 · The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin · Tennessee Williams · ss Flair February 1950 325 · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954 348 · Greenleaf · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1956 369 · The Ledge · Lawrence Sargent Hall · ss The Hudson Review Winter 1958/1959 384 · Defender of the Faith · Philip Roth · nv The New Yorker March 14 1959 411 · Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers · Stanley Elkin · nv Perspective Winter 1961 438 · The German Refugee · Bernard Malamud · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 14 1963, as “The Refugee” 450 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 466 · The Rotifer · Mary Ladd Gavell · ss Psychiatry May 1967 477 · Gold Coast · James Alan McPherson · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1968 493 · The Key · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss The New Yorker December 6 1969 503 · A City of Churches · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 22 1972 507 · How to Win · Rosellen Brown · ss Redbook September 1974 520 · Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 27 1975 533 · Verona: A Young Woman Speaks · Harold Brodkey · ss Esquire July 1977 539 · A Silver Dish · Saul Bellow · nv The New Yorker September 25 1978 565 · Gesturing · John Updike · ss Playboy January 1979 576 · The Shawl · Cynthia Ozick · ss The New Yorker May 26 1980 581 · Where I’m Calling From · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker March 15 1982 595 · Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985 600 · The Way We Live Now · Susan Sontag · ss The New Yorker November 24 1986 616 · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986 633 · Meneseteung · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker January 11 1988 652 · You’re Ugly, Too · Lorrie Moore · nv The New Yorker July 3 1989 671 · I Want to Live! · Thom Jones · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1992 688 · In the Gloaming · Alice Elliott Dark · ss The New Yorker May 3 1993 705 · Proper Library · Carolyn Ferrell · ss Ploughshares Spring 1993 720 · Birthmates · Gish Jen · ss Ploughshares Winter 1994/1995 735 · Soon · Pam Durban · ss The Southern Review 1996 754 · The Half-Skinned Steer · Annie Proulx · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1997 769 · The Best Girlfriend You Never Had · Pam Houston · nv Other Voices 1998 789 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 797 · Index of the Best American Short Stories, 1915—1999 · [uncredited] · ix