Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007
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Great Detective Stories ed. Rosamund Morris (Hart, 1965, 191pp, hc)
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Crime-Craft Mystery Writers of America (London: Corgi, 1957, pb) Abridged from Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds (Simon & Schuster 1950).
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The Second Book of Crime-Craft Mystery Writers of America (London: Corgi, 1958, pb) Abridged from 20 Great Tales of Murder (Random 1951).
- · The Black Cabinet · John Dickson Carr · ss Twenty Great Tales of Murder, ed. Helen McCloy & Brett Halliday, Random, 1951; MacKill’s Mystery Magazine Dec ’52; The Saint Detective Magazine Feb ’56; The Saint Detective Magazine (UK) Apr ’57; John Creasey Mystery Magazine May ’57
- · The Adventure of the Dead Cat [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss EQMM Oct ’46
- · Nine-Finger Jack · Anthony Boucher · ss Esquire May ’51; The Saint Detective Magazine Jan ’58; EQMM Sep ’64
- · Love Comes to Miss Lucy · Q. Patrick · ss EQMM Apr ’47; Mystery Digest Jan ’58
- · The Last Day of All · Fay Grissom Stanley · ss Twenty Great Tales of Murder, ed. Helen McCloy & Brett Halliday, Random, 1951
- · You Killed Elizabeth · Brett Halliday · nv London Mystery Magazine #8 ’51
- · Good-Bye, Miss Lizzie Borden · Lillian de la Torre · pl, 1947
- · The Riddle of the Snafu Murder [“Snafu Murder”; Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss EQMM Nov ’45
- · My Last Book · Clayre & Michel Lipman · ss Twenty Great Tales of Murder, ed. Helen McCloy & Brett Halliday, Random, 1951
- · The Doctor Takes a Case [“Post Mortem”; Dr. Paul Standish] · George Harmon Coxe · nv Liberty Nov 16 ’46
- · Live Bait · Morris Hershman · ss Popular Detective Mar ’50
- · The Man in the Morgue · Robert Arthur · ss
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The Third Book of Crime-Craft Mystery Writers of America (London: Corgi, 1959, pb) Abridged from Murder Cavalcade (Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1946).
- 7 · Preface · Richard Lockridge · pr
- 11 · The Doctor Makes It Murder · George Harmon Coxe · ss Cosmopolitan Sep ’42
- 32 · Eye Witness · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 28 ’39
- 50 · Change for Twenty · Kurt Steel · ss Colliers Mar 25 ’44
- 54 · Twenty-Dollar Debt · Lawrence Treat · ss Adventure Feb ’40
- 70 · The Corpse in Grampa’s Bed · Richard Burke · ss
- 86 · The Homecoming · Dorothy B. Hughes · ss, 1946; Rex Stout Mystery Magazine #9 ’47
- 98 · The Nameless Clue · Helen McCloy · na Five-Novels Monthly Nov ’41; ; as “The Black Disk”, EQMM Apr ’61
- 146 · Trick-or-Treat [“The Ghost with the Gun”] · Anthony Boucher · ss The Master Detective Jun ’45
- 162 · Case of the Blind Witness · William Lindsay Gresham · nv The Master Detective
- 187 · The Million-Dollar Motive · Brett Halliday · nv The Master Detective
- 207 · The Last of Mrs. Maybrick · Q. Patrick · ar The Pocket Book of True Crime Stories, ed. Anthony Boucher, New York: Pocket, 1943
- 220 · The Cafe Society Murder · Edward D. Radin · ar True Detective
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The Fourth Book of Crime-Craft Mystery Writers of America (London: Corgi, 1959, pb) Abridged from Maiden Murders (Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1946).
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Cloak and Dagger ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Avenel 0-517-65351-6, 1988, 580pp, hc)
- ix · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in
- 1 · A Curious Experience [from The American Claimant] · Mark Twain · ex
- 25 · The Story of a Conscience · Ambrose Bierce · ss
- 31 · Two Fishers · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Strand Apr, 1891
- 37 · The Traitor [Ashenden] · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’27; AHMM Jun ’83
- 67 · The Diamond of Kali · O. Henry · ss, 1896
- 73 · “Somewhere in France” · Richard Harding Davis · nv Metropolitan Magazine Jun ’15
- 91 · The Phantom Fleet [Gen. Besserley] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · nv The Strand Sep ’34
- 109 · The Informer · Joseph Conrad · ss Harper’s Dec ’06
- 129 · The Kingsmouth Spy Case [“The Kingsmouth German Spy Case”; Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World Nov 30-Dec 7 ’13
- 153 · The Pigeon Man · Valentine Williams · ss Blue Book Nov ’27
- 171 · The Hairless Mexican [Ashenden] · W. Somerset Maugham · na Cosmopolitan Dec ’27
- 203 · A Man’s Foes · Pearl S. Buck · nv This Week, 1940; The Saint Detective Magazine Apr ’58
- 227 · The Little Lady from Servia [Peter Ruff (#1)] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss Pearson’s Magazine Feb ’10
- 239 · A Tall Story [Mr. Pond] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Storyteller Feb ’36
- 253 · Strictly Diplomatic · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Dec ’39; EQMM Jan ’46
- 267 · The Army of the Shadows · Eric Ambler · ss The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross, London: Hodder & Stroughton, 1939
- 283 · Flight Into Disaster · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss This Week May 11 ’52 (+1); ; as “Only by Running”, EQMM Mar ’62
- 299 · The Russian Prisoner [Simon Templar] · Leslie Charteris · nv The Saint Detective Magazine Oct ’63
- 319 · The Traitor · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Intrigue Mystery Magazine Oct ’65
- 333 · Cloak and Digger [“Cloak and Dagger”; Roger] · John W. Jakes · ss The Saint Detective Magazine (UK) Oct ’61
- 341 · Cross-over [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · nv Argosy (UK) Oct ’63; ; as “The M Route”, EQMM Apr 7 ’80
- 369 · To Slay an Eagle · Stephen Dentinger · ss The Award Espionage Reader, ed. Hans Stefan Santesson, Award, 1965
- 379 · The Little Green Book · Jack Ritchie · ss Intrigue Mystery Magazine Jan ’66
- 383 · S.P.Y. in the Sky · Bruce Cassiday · nv Intrigue Mystery Magazine Jan ’66
- 409 · The Case of XX2 [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss, 1951; EQMM Aug ’52; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) Jun ’54
- 417 · The Spy and the Bermuda Cypher [Rand] · Edward D. Hoch · ss EQMM Jun ’70
- 431 · The Sports Page [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss EQMM Apr ’77
- 447 · Hide-and-Seek—Russian Style [Selena Mead] · Patricia McGerr · nv EQMM Apr ’76
- 469 · Salamander Four [Modesty Blaise] · Peter O’Donnell · nv
- 495 · Non-Interference [Adjutent Grijpstra; Sgt. de Gier] · Janwillem van de Wetering · nv Espionage Magazine Feb ’86 (+1)
- 525 · The Monster in the Maze [“The Monster of the Maze”] · Ron Goulart · ss Espionage Magazine Feb ’86
- 543 · Best-Sellers Guaranteed · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Espionage Magazine May ’85
- 559 · Winds of Change · John Lutz · ss Espionage Magazine Dec ’84
- 563 · Charlie’s Game [Charlie Dark] · Brian Garfield · nv Checkpoint Charlie, Mysterious Press, 1981; revised from “Joe Cutter’s Game” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1976.
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The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Robinson Publishing 0-948164-20-4, 1986, £4.95, 515pp, tp) Reprint (Bonanza 1985 as Baker’s Dozen—13 Short Espionage Novels) anthology.
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101 Years’ Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941 ed. Ellery Queen (New York: Modern Library, 194?, 995pp, hc) Reprint (Little Brown 1941), replaces Doyle’s “The Science of Deduction” with a Nick Carter story.
- v · Introduction · Ellery Queen · in
- 11 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, an, 1844, 1844; EQMM Feb ’50
- 30 · The Mystery of Mrs. Dickinson [Nick Carter] · Nicholas Carter · ss, 1889
- 45 · The Lenton Croft Robberies [Martin Hewitt] · Arthur Morrison · nv The Strand Mar, 1894
- 66 · The S.S. [Prince Zaleski] · M. P. Shiel · nv
- 94 · The Dublin Mystery [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine Sep ’02
- 109 · The Problem of Cell 13 [Prof. Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American Oct 30-Nov 5 ’05; EQMM Jun ’50
- 178 · The Red Silk Scarf [1907; Arsene Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc; trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · nv
- 201 · The Puzzle Lock [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Flynn’s Feb 28 ’25
- 223 · The Secret Garden [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv The Story-Teller Oct ’10
- 243 · The Man Who Spoke Latin [Average Jones] · Samuel Hopkins Adams · nv Success Jan ’11
- 262 · The Doomdorf Mystery [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 18 ’14
- 275 · The Sweet Shot [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Mar ’37; EQMM Jul ’52
- 288 · The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World Sep 7-14 ’13; EQMM Aug ’51
- 310 · The Pink Edge · Frank Froest & George Dilnot · ss, 1915
- 324 · The Long Dinner [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv, 1920; EQMM Apr ’53
- 358 · A Chess Problem [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Feb 13 ’24; EQMM Aug ’72
- 371 · The Owl at the Window [“In a Telephone Cabinet”; Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · nv, 1923; AHMM Mar ’83
- 393 · A Matter of Taste [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss, 1928; EQMM Feb ’68
- 424 · Solved by Inspection · Ronald A. Knox · ss, 1925
- 436 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine Sep ’29; EQMM Apr ’50
- 545 · The Border-Line Case [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss, 1928; Rex Stout Mystery Magazine Aug ’45
- 464 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time & Tide Nov 12 ’32 (+1); EQMM Mar ’51
- 477 · A Man Called Spade [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The American Magazine Jul ’32
- 508 · The Resurrection of Chin Lee [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · nv Adventure Apr 15 ’32
- 528 · The Mad Tea-Party [“The Adventure of the Mad Tea-Party”; Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv The Red Book Magazine Oct ’34
- 560 · The Crime in Nobody’s Room [Colonel March] · Carter Dickson · ss The Strand Jun ’38; The Saint Detective Magazine Jan ’57; Suspense (UK) Oct ’58; The Saint Detective Magazine (UK) Jan ’59; EQMM Sep ’70
- 579 · The Tea-Leaf · Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace · nv The Strand Oct ’25
- 598 · The Mackenzie Case · Viola Brothers Shore · nv Mystery League Jan ’34
- 618 · Introducing Susan Dare [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator Apr ’34
- 647 · The Treasure Hunt [Letitia (Tish) Carberry] · Mary Roberts Rinehart · nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 13 ’26
- 683 · The Disappearance of Mrs. Leigh Gordon [“The Case of the Missing Lady”; Tuppence Beresford; Tommy Beresford] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Oct 15 ’24; EQMM Sep ’73
- 697 · The Mystery of the Missing Wash [Florian Slappey] · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 22 ’38
- 717 · The Criminologists’ Club [A. J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss
- 735 · Arsène Lupin in Prison [Arsene Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · nv The Exploits of Arsène Lupin, New York: Harper, 1907
- 753 · Blind Man’s Buff [Oliver Armiston] · Frederick Irving Anderson · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 24 ’13
- 769 · The Stolen Romney · Edgar Wallace · ss Weekly News Dec 27 ’19; AHMM Nov ’82
- 779 · Paris Adventure [Simon Templar] · Leslie Charteris · ss The American Magazine Jan ’34
- 797 · The Clock · A. E. W. Mason · ss Paget, 1910
- 816 · The Most Dangerous Game · Richard Edward Connell · nv Colliers Jan 19 ’24
- 837 · The Eleventh Juror · Vincent Starrett · nv Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Aug ’27; Rex Stout Mystery Magazine May ’46
- 855 · Philomel Cottage · Agatha Christie · nv The Grand Magazine Nov ’24; EQMM Apr ’51
- 878 · Faith, Hope and Charity [Judge William Pitman Priest “Old Judge Priest"] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv Cosmopolitan Apr ’30; EQMM Apr ’52
- 897 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-Teller Feb ’29; EQMM Jan ’50
- 915 · Treasure Trove · F. Tennyson Jesse · ss McCall’s Apr ’28; AHMM Nov ’83
- 922 · Suspicion · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Mystery League Oct ’33; EQMM Dec ’50
- 938 · The Silver Mask · Hugh Walpole · ss Harper’s Bazaar Mar ’32; EQMM Jul ’61
- 952 · Ransom · Pearl S. Buck · nv Cosmopolitan Oct ’38; EQMM Jun ’55
- 979 · The Perfect Crime · Ben Ray Redman · ss Harper’s Aug ’28; EQMM Jul ’51
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Great Short Masterpieces of Mystery - Always Trust a Cop by Octavus Roy Cohen and 15 and Other Stories ed. Ellery Queen (Black’s Readers Service Co., 195?, 263pp, hc) Reprint (Little Brown 1952, as The Queen’s Awards: 7th Series.
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Ellery Queen’s Anthology Volume 1 ed. Ellery Queen (London: May Fair, 1959, 4/6, digest) Reprint (Davis 1959 as Ellery Queen’s 1960 Anthology), revised.
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