Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

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New Mystery [v1 #1, July/August 1991] ($5.00, ii+46pp+, quarto, cover by F. Solano Lopez & Carlos Sampayo)

[Mysteries in Non-Genre Publications: 1991]

Portrait of an Eye Kathy Acker (Pantheon 0-679-40619-0, Feb ’92 [Jun ’92], $15.00, 310pp, tp) Omnibus of three short novels, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula (TVRT Press 1975), which is a crime novel about a Mississippi murderess and her love affair with a lawyer, plus I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining (Traveler’s Digest Editions 1980) and The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (TVRT Press 1978).

The Allingham Case-Book Margery Allingham (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-889-1, 1992, $3.95, 272pp, pb) Reprint (P. & M. Youngman Carter 1969) collection of 18 mystery stories.

Mr. Campion’s Lucky Day and Other Stories Margery Allingham (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-890-5, 1992, $3.95, 240pp, pb) Reprint (P. & M. Youngman Carter 1973 as The Allingham Minibus: More Short Stories) collection of 18 mystery stories.

Crime, Punishment and Resurrection Michael Collins (Fine, 1992, hc) [Dan Fortune]

Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories Arthur Conan Doyle (Dover 0-486-27055-6, Feb ’92 [Mar ’92], $1.00, 107pp, tp) [Sherlock Holmes] Collection of six Sherlock Holmes stories. A Dover Thrift edition.

Mostly Murder Joe Gores (Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1-56146-016-8, May ’92 [Jun ’92], $4.95, 96pp, tp) Collection of eight stories with an introduction by the author. Author’s Choice #4. A hardcover edition ($25.00) was announced but not seen. Available from Pulphouse Publishing, PO Box 1227, Eugene OR 97440.

Prisoners and Other Stories Ed Gorman (CD Publications 1-881475-00-X, Sep ’92 [Dec ’92], $20.95, 300pp, hc) Collection of 22 dark suspense, crime, and horror stories, with an introduction by the author and an afterword by Dean Koontz.

Leaphorn & Chee Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins 0-06-016909-5, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $19.00, 536pp, hc) Omnibus of three mystery novels featuring Navajo Tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Skinwalkers (Harper & Row 1986), A Thief of Time (Harper & Row 1988), and Talking God (Harper & Row 1990).

The Night, My Friend Edward D. Hoch (Ohio University Press 0-8214-1011-3, 1992, 275pp, tp) Collection of 22 stories, edited and with an introduction by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.

Be My Guest: Two Novellas Rachel Ingalls (Turtle Bay Books 0-679-41300-6, May ’92 [Aug ’92], $18.00, 176pp, hc) Collection of two Southern Gothic crime novellas, the title piece concerns a woman who decides to marry a man believed to have murdered his first wife; the second piece, “Sis and Bud” recounts two adopted siblings seeking their natural parents for revenge.

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead Randall Kenan (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-149886-5, Apr ’92 [Aug ’92], $19.95, 286pp, hc) [Tims Creek] Collection of 12 stories set in rural Tims Creek, North Carolina. There are both crime stories and horror/dark fantasy tales here.

The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh Ngaio Marsh (Barnes & Noble 0-88029-786-7, 1992, $6.98, 249pp, hc) Reprint (International Polygonics 1989, revised 1991) collection.

Rumpole on Trial John Mortimer (New York: Viking 0-670-84459-4, Dec ’92, $21.00, 243pp, hc) [Horace Rumpole] Original collection of seven Rumpole stories. First American edition.

Afraid All the Time Nancy Pickard (Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1-56146-806-1, May ’92 [Aug ’92], $1.95, 45pp, pb) Collection of two mystery short stories. “Afraid All the Time” originally appeared in Sisters in Crime and “Storm Warnings” in Sisters in Crime 2. Short story paperback #6. A hardcover edition ($20.00) was announced but not seen. Order from Pulphouse Publishing, Box 1227, Eugene OR 97440.

A Good Hanging and other stories Ian Rankin (Century, 1992, hc) [Insp. John Rebus; Edinburgh, Scotland]

Missing in Manhattan Adam’s Round Table (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow 0-681-41576-2, Oct ’92 [Dec ’92], $17.95, 297pp, hc) Original anthology of crime stories about someone or something being lost in New York, by members of an NYC writers’ group. With an introduction by Dorothy Salisbury Davis.

Ellery Queen’s Edgar Award Winners ed. Anon. (Robert Hale 0-7090-4532-8, 1992, 174pp, hc) Anthology of 14 Edgar Award winning stories from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

Sherlock Holmes In: The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson/Sherlock Holmes In: The Grey Nun Legacy ed. Anon. (Gryphon Books 0-93607-23-0, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $6.95, 42/17pp, ph) [Sherlock Holmes] Original anthology of two Sherlock Holmes pastiches, by Gary Lovisi and P. Smith respectively, presented in the style of the old Ace doubles. Gryphon Double #3. Available from Gryphon Publications, PO Box 209, Brooklyn NY 11228.

Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition ed. Anon. (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-903-0, 1992 [Dec ’92], $21.00, 343pp, hc) Anthology of stories from 1989 & 1990, with an introduction by Jon L. Breen. Edited by the staff of Mystery Scene.

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