Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007
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Justice in Manhattan Adam’s Round Table (Longmeadow 0-681-45480-6, 1994, $17.95, 217pp, hc) Original anthology of 10 mystery stories.
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Mysteries ed. Anon. (London: Bracken Books 1-85891-154-0, 1994, $12.99, 606pp, hc) Reprint (Odhams 1936 as The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries edited by J.M. Parrish & John R. Crossland) anthology of 44 stories (omitting seven stories from the original) with an Introduction (provenance uncertain) by Giles Gordon.
- · Introduction · Giles Gordon · in
- 1 · The Diver · A. J. Alan · ss The London Magazine May ’27; broadcast by the BBC Dec 25, 1925
- 8 · The Ghoul of Golders Green [Capel (Beau) Maturin] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch Christmas ’23
- 42 · The Murder of the Mandarin · Arnold Bennett · ss Grim Smile of the Five Towns, Chatto, 1907
- 53 · Powers of the Air · John D. Beresford · ss Seven Arts Oct ’17
- 59 · Keeping His Promise · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Empty House, Eveleigh Nash, 1906
- 74 · Dearth’s Farm · Gerald Bullett · ss The Street of the Eye, London: John Lane, 1923
- 86 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Storyteller Dec ’10
- 102 · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Aug-Sep ’10
- 140 · The Tiger · A. E. Coppard · ss Metropolitan Magazine Apr ’21
- 151 · The Hostelry · Guy de Maupassant · ss
- 164 · A Large Diamond [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Britannia and Eve Mar ’31
- 174 · The Cupboard · Jeffery Farnol · ss Wayside Tales Apr ’22
- 190 · The Other Sense · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Sketch Oct 13 ’09
- 201 · Ghost of Honour · Pamela Hansford Johnson · ss Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries, eds. J. M. Parrish & J. R. Crossland, London: Odhams Press, 1936
- 209 · Roads of Destiny · O. Henry · nv Roads of Destiny, Doubleday, 1909
- 231 · The Trapdoor · C. D. Heriot · ss Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries, eds. J. M. Parrish & J. R. Crossland, London: Odhams Press, 1936
- 242 · Ben Blower’s Story · C. F. Hoffman · ss
- 250 · The Shadow of a Shade · Tom Hood · ss Bow Bells Christmas, 1869
- 264 · Guests from Gibbet Island · Washington Irving · ss Chronicles of Wolfert’s Roost and Other Papers, London: Constable, 1855
- 275 · The Mezzotint · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Edward Arnold, 1904
- 287 · The Dancing Partner · Jerome K. Jerome · ss The Idler Mar, 1893
- 294 · The Woman Who Rode Away · D. H. Lawrence · nv The Dial Jul-Aug ’25
- 330 · Rooum · Oliver Onions · ss The Fortnightly Review Dec ’10
- 345 · The Green Light · Barry Pain · ss Phil May’s Annual Win, 1897
- 351 · The Iron Pineapple · Eden Phillpotts · ss Peacock House and Other Mystery Stories, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- 367 · The Queen of Spades · Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin; trans. by Rosemary Edmonds · nv, 1834
- 392 · The Seventh Man · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, Scribner’s, 1900
- 404 · Laura · Saki · ss Beasts and Super-Beasts, John Lane, 1914
- 409 · Goat-Cry, Girl-Cry · William B. Seabrook · ss
- 422 · The Mahatma’s Story · May Sinclair · ss English Life Oct ’24
- 433 · Deep in the Forest · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss Pearson’s Magazine Jan ’27
- 448 · The Isle of Voices · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The National Observer Feb 4, 1893
- 466 · The Man of the Night · Edgar Wallace · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller Oct 15 ’10
- 476 · Major Wilbraham · Hugh Walpole · ss The Chicago Tribune Nov 13 ’21
- 491 · A Tale of a Gas-Light Ghost · Anon. · ss New Christmas Annual, 1867, 1866
- 505 · The Confession of Charles Linkworth · E. F. Benson · ss The Cavalier Jan 13 ’12
- 520 · The Moonlit Road · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Jan ’07
- 529 · A Visitor from Down Under · L. P. Hartley · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- 545 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss Blue Book Nov ’07
- 557 · His Brother’s Keeper · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Dec ’22
- 568 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger Mar, 1835
- 576 · The Coat · A. E. D. Smith · ss Powers of Darkness, ed. Anon., P. Allan, 1934
- 583 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves Dec 2, 1893
- 595 · Presentiments · P. C. Wren · ss Good Gestes, Murray, 1929
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Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition ed. Anon. (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0141-2, Dec ’94, $20.00, 441pp, hc) Anthology of 25 stories, with an introduction by Jon L. Breen. Edited by the staff of Mystery Scene.
- 9 · The Mystery in 1993 · Jon L. Breen · in
- 23 · Slasher · F. Paul Wilson · ss Predators, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1993
- 37 · Keller’s Therapy [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · nv Playboy May ’93
- 59 · The Mouse in the Corner · Ruth Rendell · nv Esquire
- 80 · That Bells May Ring and Whistles Safely Blow · Margaret Maron · ss Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet, 1993
- 89 · That Damn Cat · Barbara Collins · ss Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine, 1993
- 103 · Parris Green [Irene Alder] · Carole Nelson Douglas · nv Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket, 1993
- 127 · The Man in the Red-Flannel Suit [Zoe Barrow] · Jan Grape · ss Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet, 1993
- 141 · Checkout · Susan Dunlap · ss Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket, 1993
- 149 · Goodbye, Sue Ellen · Gillian Roberts · ss Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket, 1993
- 162 · The Ghost Show · Doug Allyn · nv EQMM Dec ’93
- 183 · McIntyre’s Donald · Joseph Hansen · ss Bohannon’s Country, New York: Viking, 1993
- 203 · Some Sunny Day · Julian Rathbone · nv Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable, 1993
- 221 · The Wall [Sharon McCone; Rae Kelleher] · Marcia Muller · na Criminal Intent 1, ed. Anon., Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1993
- 276 · History Repeats Itself, and It Doesn’t Even Say Pardon · Mat Coward · ss Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable, 1993
- 283 · Strays · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine, 1993
- 301 · The Lesson · Billie Sue Mosiman · ss Monsters in Our Midst, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor, 1993
- 308 · Spin-a-Rama [John Francis Cuddy] · Jeremiah Healy · ss AHMM Nov ’93
- 322 · The Mood Cuckoo · Jonathan Gash · ss 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus, 1993
- 336 · The Ugly Earthling Murder Case · George Alec Effinger · nv More Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1993
- 352 · Sweetheart of the Rodeo [Nick Sharman] · Mark Timlin · nv Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable, 1993
- 376 · A Vacance en Campagne · Tim Heald · ss 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus, 1993
- 391 · It Takes One to Know One · Robert Bloch · nv Monsters in Our Midst, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor, 1993
- 412 · Shade Work · Bill Pronzini · ss EQMM Nov ’93
- 418 · First Lead Gasser · Tony Hillerman · ss EQMM Apr ’93
- 427 · Enduring as Dust · Bruce Holland Rogers · ss Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine, 1993
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Murder Most Merry [by John Scognamiglio] ed. Anon. (Zebra 0-8217-4763-0, Nov ’94, $4.99, 349pp, pb) Original anthology of six Christmas mysteries.
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Partners in Crime ed. Elaine Raco Chase (Signet 0-451-40504-8, Oct ’94 [Sep ’94], $4.99, 269pp, pb) Anthology of 11 original stories featuring pairs of detectives.
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2nd Culprit ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin (St. Martin’s 0-312-10925-3, Jun ’94, $$21.95, 310pp, hc) Crime Writers’ Association Annual. First American edition (Chatto & Windus 1993).
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3rd Culprit: An Annual of Crime Stories ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-6237-6, 1994 [Mar ’98], £12.99, 263pp, tp) Original crime anthology.
- ii · Clewsey’s Cliché’s Frontispiece: ‘Have a care, Constable, it may be a clue’ · Clewsey · ct Red Herrings
- 1 · A Needle for the Devil · Ruth Rendell · ss EQMM Nov 3 ’80
- 19 · The Hampstead Vegetable Heist · Mat Coward · ss *
- 27 · Mr Idd · H. R. F. Keating · ss *
- 37 · The Birdman of Bow Street · Joan Lock · ar Police Review, 1984
- 42 · Someone Got to Eddie · Ian Rankin · ss *
- 48 · Too Many Crooks [John Dortmunder] · Donald E. Westlake · ss Playboy Aug ’89
- 63 · The Writing on the Wall · Val McDermid · ss *
- 69 · Social Work · William G. Tapply · ss *
- 84 · Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important’ · Clewsey · ct Red Herrings
- 85 · Six in the Morning · Maxim Jakubowski · ss *
- 99 · The Hand That Feeds Me [Rover (a dog)] · Michael Z. Lewin · ss *
- 103 · The Butcher of St Pierre · Susan Kelly · ss *
- 109 · The Great Tetsuji · Sara Paretsky · ss *
- 116 · Cryptic Crime Acrostic · Sarah Caudwell & Michael Z. Lewin · pz *
- 120 · The Train · Stephen Murray · nv *
- 143 · Fancy · Bill James · ss *
- 148 · The Crumple Zone · John Malcolm · ss *
- 160 · Good Investments · Celia Dale · ss The Mystery Guild Anthology, ed. John Waite, Constable, 1980
- 167 · Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Come, come, Major—did nothing peculiar strike you about the time?’ · Clewsey · ct Red Herrings
- 168 · Chased Delights; Or, The Missing Minutes [Catherine & William Blake] · Keith Heller · nv *
- 188 · The Christmas Present · Bob Lock · vi Red Herrings
- 189 · Something Happened at the Time · Madelaine Duke · ss *
- 204 · Night Flight · James Melville · ss *
- 213 · Give Us a Clue · Joan Lock · ar New Law Journal, 1993
- 216 · Second Best Man · David Williams · ss EQMM May ’94
- 233 · Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘How did you know the victim was a pawnbroker?’ · Clewsey · ct Red Herrings
- 234 · Trumpets for Max Jericho · Robert Brack; trans. by William Adamson · ss *; from Nautilus Literarischer Taschenkalender 1991, Hamburg: Edition Nautilus 1990.
- 243 · Cold and Deep · Frances Fyfield · ss The Guardian, 1992
- 258 · Solution to the Cryptic Crime Acrostic · Misc. · ms *
- 259 · The Crime Writers’ Association · John Malcolm · aw *
- 260 · Biographical Notes · Misc. · bg
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The Faber Book of Murder ed. Simon Rae (Faber & Faber 0-571-17494-9, 1995, £9.99/15.95, 575pp, tp) Reprint (Faber 1994) anthology of over 200 stories, novel excerpts, poems, and articles.
- xxi · Introduction · Simon Rae · in
- · ABORIGINAL
- 1 · from Totem and Taboo · Sigmund Freud · ar
- · AMBUSH
- 2 · The Haystack in the Floods · William Morris · pm
- 6 · A Suit of Armour · Fergus Allen · pm
- · AMONTILLADO
- 7 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunado] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov, 1846
- · ANGER
- 13 · from The Fairie Queen · Edmund Spenser · pm
- 13 · from The Anatomy of Melancholy · Robert Burton · ar
- 15 · A Poison Tree · William Blake · pm
- · ANTICIPATION
- 16 · from Titus Groan · Mervyn Peake · ex
- · APACHE
- 18 · from W. G. Grace’s Last Case · William Rushton · ex
- · APPRENTICE
- 20 · from Billy Bathgate · E. L. Doctorow · ex, 1989
- · ASSASSINATION
- 22 · from Judges 3: 12-30 · Anon. · ex
- 23 · from The French Revolution: a History · Thomas Carlyle · ar
- 26 · from Crossfire · Jim Marrs · ar
- · ASSASSINS
- 37 · from The Travels of Marco Polo · Marco Polo · ar
- · AXE
- 39 · “Lizzie Borden took an ax” · Anon. · pm
- 39 · from Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoyevsky · ex, 1866
- · BALLISTICS
- 50 · from White Mischief · James Fox · ex
- · BLOOD
- 54 · from Macbeth · William Shakespeare · ex, 1606
- 55 · from A Taste for Death · P. D. James · ex
- · BLUEBEARD
- 56 · Bluebeard’s Wife · Daryl Hine · pm
- · BODY
- 58 · from Have His Carcase · Dorothy L. Sayers · ex
- · BURKE AND HARE
- 61 · “The Recent Murders” · Anon. · pm
- · CAIN
- 63 · from Genesis 4: 1-16 · Anon. · ex
- 64 · from Paradise Lost · John Milton · ex
- 65 · from “Adam and Eve” · Arthur Hugh Clough · pm
- · CALIGULA
- 66 · from The Twelve Caesars · Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus · ar
- · CANNIBALISM
- 68 · from Don Juan · George Gordon, Lord Byron · ex
- 71 · “The Yarn of the Nancy Bell” · W. S. Gilbert · sg Current Literature Oct ’01
- 74 · from The Silence of the Lambs [Dr. Hannibal Lector] · Thomas Harris · ex New York: St. Martin’s, 1988
- 74 · from “Of Cannibals” · Michel Eyquem de Montaigne; trans. by John Floriot · ar
- · CEMENT
- 75 · from Billy Bathgate · E. L. Doctorow · ex, 1989
- · CHINESE CUTS
- 77 · from Sour Sweet · Timothy Mo · ex
- · COMPLICITY
- 80 · Edward · Anon. · pm
- · CROSS-PURPOSE
- 81 · from A Midsummer Night’s Dream · William Shakespeare · ex
- · DEFINITIONS
- 83 · from Coke’s Institutes · Coke · ms
- 83 · from Kenny’s Outlines of Criminal Law · Kenny · ms
- 83 · from The Virtuoso · Thomas Shadwell · ex
- 83 · from The Mystery of Edwin Drood · Charles Dickens · ex
- · DISAPPOINTMENT
- 85 · from Titus Groan · Mervyn Peake · ex
- · DISMEMBERMENT
- 87 · from The Innocent · Ian McEwan · ex, 1990
- · DISPOSAL
- 92 · from Point Counter Point · Aldous Huxley · ex
- · DOG
- 101 · from The Hound of the Baskervilles [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ex London: Newnes, 1902
- · DOTS
- 103 · from The Third Man · Graham Greene · ex
- · DOUBLE
- 105 · from “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex New York: Scribner’s, 1886
- · DOUBLE BLUFF
- 109 · from The Riverside Villas Murder · Kingsley Amis · ex
- · ER...
- 110 · Fart · Roger McGough · pm
- · ELIZABETHAN
- 111 · from The Unfortunate Traveller · Thomas Nashe · ex
- · EUTHANASIA
- 115 · from Into That Darkness · Gitta Sereny · ar
- 123 · Dog Fox Field · Les Murray · pm
- · FAILURE
- 124 · from Gaudete · Ted Hughes · ex
- · FAMILY
- 128 · Oil of Dog · Ambrose Bierce · ss Oakland Daily Evening Tribune Oct 11, 1890
- 131 · Blood Ties · John Whitworth · pm
- 132 · At the Mill · Thomas Hardy · pm
- 133 · No man takes the farm [from “Lollingdon Downs”] · John Masefield · pm
- · FEUD
- 135 · from “Paid on Both Sides” · W. H. Auden · ex
- · FLIGHT
- 137 · from Oliver Twist · Charles Dickens · ex, 1837
- · FORENSIC
- 145 · from Red Dragon [Dr. Hannibal Lector] · Thomas Harris · ex New York: Putnam, 1981
- · GAMES
- 147 · Games · John Whitworth · pm
- 147 · A Case of Murder · Vernon Scannell · pm
- · GAROTTE
- 149 · from Ripley’s Game · Patricia Highsmith · ex, 1993
- · GENRE
- 154 · from The Hollow Man · John Dickson Carr · ex
- 154 · Don’t Guess, Let Me Tell You · Ogden Nash · pm New Yorker Apr 20 ’40
- 155 · The Owl Writes a Detective Story · Gavin Ewart · pm
- 156 · from “The Simple Art of Murder” · Raymond Chandler · ar Atlantic Monthly Dec ’44
- 158 · from “The Guilty Vicarage” · W. H. Auden · ar Harper’s May ’48
- 161 · from Designs of Darkness: Interviews with Detective Novelists · Diana Cooper-Clarke · ex [P. D. James; Patricia Highsmith]
- · GIBBET
- 164 · from The Prelude · William Wordsworth · ex
- 164 · France · Robert Lowell · pm
- · GIFT
- 165 · Meeting the British · Paul Muldoon · pm
- · GODFATHER
- 165 · Man of Dishonour · Ed Vulliamy · ar The Guardian Nov 20 ’93
- · GUILLOTINE
- 168 · from “The Execution of Tropmann” · Ivan Turgenev; trans. by David Magarshack · ex
- · GUILT
- 179 · The Voluntary Insane · George Crabbe · pm
- · GUITAR
- 188 · from A Case of Lone Star · Kinky Friedman · ex
- · GUNMAN
- 189 · The Shootist · William Logan · pm
- · HANDS
- 193 · from Julius Caesar · William Shakespeare · ex
- 193 · from “The Hands of Mr. Ottermole” · Thomas Burke · ex Pleasantries of Old Quong, London: Constable, 1931
- · HANGING
- 198 · Danny Deever · Rudyard Kipling · pm
- 199 · from The Newgate Calendar · Norman Birkett, ed. · ar
- 201 · from A Handbook on Hanging · Charles Duff · ar
- · HEAD
- 202 · from “Isabella, or The Pot of Basil” · John Keats · pm, 1820
- 206 · from “Greenheart” · Alan Jenkins · pm
- · HEART
- 207 · from The Mayor of Casterbridge · Thomas Hardy · ex
- · HEROD
- 208 · Innocents Song · Charles Causley · pm
- · HITLER
- 208 · from Crime: An Encyclopedia · Oliver Cyriax · ar
- · HOLOCAUST
- 211 · The Book of Yolek · Anthony Hecht · pm
- 212 · from Into That Darkness · Gitta Sereny · ar
- 218 · For Adolf Eichmann · Primo Levi; trans. by Ruth Feldman & Brian Swann · pm Jul 20 ’60
- · IDENTITY
- 219 · The Case for the Defence · Graham Greene · ss, 1939
- · IMPULSE
- 222 · from Loving Roger · Tim Parks · ex
- · INCARCERATION
- 224 · from Inferno · Dante Alighieri · ex
- · INFANTICIDE
- 227 · The Cruel Midwife · Anon. · ms
- 228 · The Inquest · W. H. Davies · pm
- · JEALOUSY
- 229 · from Othello · William Shakespeare · ex, 1604
- · JUDITH
- 234 · Judith · Vicki Feaver · pm Independent on Sunday Nov 1 ’92
- · JURIES
- 235 · from Death of an Expert Witness · P. D. James · ex
- · JUSTICE
- 236 · from Death of an Expert Witness · P. D. James · ex
- · JUVENILE
- 237 · These Boys · John Whitworth · pm
- · KALI
- 238 · from The Deceivers · John Masters · ex
- · KNIFE
- 242 · Knife · Ruth Sharman · pm
- 243 · from The Secret Agent · Joseph Conrad · ex, 1907
- · KNIGHT
- 247 · The False Knights Tragedy · Anon. · pm; collected by John Clare.
- · LOCKED ROOM
- 252 · from The Hollow Man · John Dickson Carr · ex
- · LODGER
- 257 · from “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” · Thomas De Quincey · ar Blackwood’s Feb, 1827
- · LOVERS
- 268 · The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond · Charles Causley · pm
- 271 · Porphyria’s Lover · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics, Edward Moxon, 1842
- 273 · Victor · W. H. Auden · pm
- 277 · Pity · Richard Wilbur · pm
- 277 · The Murderer · Stevie Smith · pm
- · MACBETH
- 278 · from Macbeth · William Shakespeare · ex, 1606
- 281 · On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth · Thomas De Quincey · ar
- 285 · The Macbeth Murder Mystery · James Thurber · ss New Yorker Oct 2 ’37
- · MANIAC
- 288 · from Decline and Fall · Evelyn Waugh · ex
- 294 · from “Remarks on the Plea of Insanity” · William Wood · ms
- 296 · The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886 · Michael Hofmann · pm
- · MARLOWE
- 297 · from The Reckoning · Charles Nicholl · ex
- 300 · from The Big Sleep · Raymond Chandler · ex, 1939
- · MASSACRE
- 305 · On the Late Massacre in Piedmont · John Milton · pm
- 305 · from The Jewish War · Josephus · ar
- 311 · Croix-de-Bouquets, Haiti · Ian Duhig · pm
- · MITIGATION
- 311 · Printer’s Error · P. G. Wodehouse · pm
- · MOB
- 314 · from Lord of the Flies · William Golding · ex
- · MOUSETRAP
- 319 · from Hamlet · William Shakespeare · ex
- · NAIL
- 322 · from Judges 4: 13-22 · Anon. · ex
- · NERO
- 323 · from The Twelve Caesars · Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus · ar
- 328 · from “The Caesars” · Thomas De Quincey · ar Blackwood’s Oct, 1832
- · NET
- 330 · from The Oresteia · Tony Harrison · ex
- · NOT PROVEN
- 331 · Amanda Baker · Edgar Lee Masters · pm
- · OEDIPUS
- 332 · from Oedipus Rex · Sophocles · ex
- · OFFENCE
- 334 · from Hamlet · William Shakespeare · ex
- · ORACLE
- 336 · from Things Fall Apart · Chinua Achebe · ex
- · ORDERLY
- 339 · from The Prussian Officer · D. H. Lawrence · ex
- · OVERBOARD
- 342 · from Billy Bathgate · E. L. Doctorow · ex, 1989
- · OVERHEARD
- 344 · from Trollope · Victoria Glendinning · ex
- · OVERSTAYED
- 345 · Gooseberry Season · Simon Armitage · pm
- 346 · from “The Blessington Method” · Stanley Ellin · ss EQMM Jun ’56
- 349 · from The Earth · Émile Zola; trans. by Douglas Parmée · ex
- · PARROT
- 355 · from The Case of the Perjured Parrot · Erle Stanley Gardner · ex
- · PIRATE
- 357 · from Lives of the Most Notorious Pirates · Captain Charles Johnson · ar
- · POIROT
- 361 · from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd · Agatha Christie · ex
- · POISON
- 366 · from The Discovery of Witchcraft · Reginald Scot · ar
- 366 · from King John · William Shakespeare · ex
- 368 · Lord Randal · Anon. · pm
- 368 · from The Beast Must Die · Nicholas Blake · ex
- · POWER
- 370 · from The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli; trans. by George Bull · ex
- · PREAMBLE
- 370 · from The Duchess of Malfi · John Webster · ex
- · PREMONITION
- 374 · The Rider at the Gate · John Masefield · pm
- · PRISONER
- 375 · from “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” · Oscar Wilde · pm Smith’s Magazine Feb 13, 1898
- · QUALITY
- 379 · from “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” · Thomas De Quincey · ar Blackwood’s Feb, 1827
- 382 · Decline of the English Murder · George Orwell · ar
- · QUITS
- 386 · from Titus Adronicus · William Shakespeare · ex
- · RACE
- 388 · The Swimmers · Allen Tate · pm
- 390 · On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses · Toi Derricotte · pm
- · REASONS OF STATE
- 392 · from Murder in the Cathedral · T. S. Eliot · ex, 1935
- · RESPONSIBILITIES
- 395 · from The Cantos · Ezra Pound · ex
- · RETRIBUTION
- 396 · Shameful Death · William Morris · pm
- 397 · from “Peter Grimes” · George Crabbe · pm, 1810
- 401 · Jellon Grame · Anon. · pm
- · REVIEW
- 403 · John Keats · George Gordon, Lord Byron · pm
- · REVIEWER
- 403 · from “Professions for Women” · Virginia Woolf · ar
- · SACRIFICE
- 406 · from History of the Conquest of Mexico · W. H. Prescott · ar
- · SCENE OF THE CRIME
- 409 · The Uninvited · Glyn Maxwell · pm
- 410 · Crime Club · Weldon Kees · pm
- 411 · Dangerous Play · Andrew Motion · pm
- · SECOND THOUGHTS
- 413 · from The Wimbledon Poisoner · Nigel Williams · ex
- · SEX
- 419 · Sex-Crime · C. Day Lewis · pm
- 421 · Helen’s Story · Melanie McFadyean · vi Independent on Sunday Sep 13 ’92
- 421 · Fragment of an Agon · T. S. Eliot · pl
- 426 · from Story of the Eye · Georges Bataille · ex
- 428 · The Pure Essence · John Whitworth · pm
- · SHRUBBERY
- 428 · The Murder at the Towers · E. V. Knox · ss
- · SPIT
- 434 · from Edward II] · Christopher Marlowe · ex
- · SPOT
- 438 · from Tess of the D’Urbervilles · Thomas Hardy · ex, 1891
- 441 · from Macbeth · William Shakespeare · ex, 1606
- · STORIES
- 442 · from “St. Martin’s Eve” · John Clare · pm
- 442 · from The Earth · Émile Zola; trans. by Douglas Parmée · ex
- 444 · from The Uncommercial Traveller [“Captain Murderer”] · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Sep 8, 1860
- · STRANGLERS
- 447 · from Ramseeana, or A Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs · W. H. Sleeman · ar
- · SUICIDE CLUB
- 448 · from The Suicide Club · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex London Jun-Oct, 1878
- · SYMMETRY
- 454 · Symmetry · Matthew Sweeney · pm
- · TABOO
- 455 · from Totem and Taboo · Sigmund Freud · ar
- · TERRORISM
- 456 · from Station Island · Seamus Heaney · ex
- 458 · Narrative in Black and White · Ciaran Carson · pm
- 460 · from Going On · Peter Reading · ex
- · THEATRE
- 462 · from Middlemarch · George Eliot · ex
- 464 · Fleance · Michael Longley · pm
- · TOWEL
- 465 · from “The Criminal World” · Varlem Shalamov; trans. by John Glad · ar
- · TRAGEDY
- 468 · Fragment of a Greek Tragedy · A. E. Housman · pl
- · TROIS
- 470 · Sonnet: At the Villa Madeira · Gavin Ewart · pm
- 471 · Jacobean · John Gohorry · pm
- · TWO
- 471 · Pork Pies · Jackie Kay · pm
- 472 · from Women in Love · D. H. Lawrence · ex
- 473 · “A Staffordshire Murderer” · James Fenton · pm, 1982
- · UNCOMMON
- 477 · The Blind Spot · Saki · ss Beasts and Super-Beasts, John Lane, 1914
- · UNPREMIDITATED
- 481 · from O Pioneers! · Willa Cather · ex
- · UNREPORTED
- 486 · So Much Water So Close to Home · Raymond Carver · ss
- · VALENTINE
- 493 · 15th February · Peter Reading · pm
- · VERITIES
- 494 · from Genesis 9: 6 · Anon. · ex
- 494 · from Numbers 35: 9-19 · Anon. · ex
- 494 · from Jonathan Wild the Great · Henry Fielding · ex
- 496 · from Philisophy in the Bedroom · Marquis de Sade; trans. by Richard Seaver & Austryn Wainhouse · ex
- 499 · from Civilization and its Discontents · Sigmund Freud; trans. by Joan Riviere · ex
- · VICTIM
- 500 · from Death of an Expert Witness · P. D. James · ex
- 500 · Desire · Richard Jones · pm
- 501 · Who Killed Cock Robin? · Anon. · pm
- · VILLAGE
- 503 · from Cider with Rosie · Laurie Lee · ex
- 505 · from Lawrence and the Arabs · Robert Graves · ar
- · WAR
- 507 · from 2 Henry IV · William Shakespeare · ex
- 507 · from Don Juan · George Gordon, Lord Byron · ex
- 508 · The Parable of the Old Man and the Young · Wilfred Owen · pm
- 508 · Claim for Absolute Exemption · Clifford Allen · ms Mar 14 ’16
- · WEDDING NIGHT
- 509 · from Thérèse Raquin [1867] · Émile Zola; trans. by Andrew Rothwell · ex
- · WHITECHAPEL
- 518 · Whitechapel Nights · Susan Kelly · pm
- 519 · from Crime: An Encyclopedia · Oliver Cyriax · ar
- 522 · from The Diary of Jack the Ripper · Shirley Harrison, ed. · ex
- · WHY?
- 523 · from Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoyevsky · ex, 1866
- · WISHFUL THINKING
- 528 · Crime and Punishment · Mick Imlah · pm
- 528 · from Three Men in a Boat · Jerome K. Jerome · ex
- 539 · from King Lear · William Shakespeare · ex
- 539 · from Selected Letters · Philip Larkin · ex
- 539 · Lily Pond · Vicki Feaver · pm Independent on Sunday
- · WITCH
- 530 · from The Discovery of Witchcraft · Reginald Scot · ar
- · WOOD
- 531 · from Martin Chuzzlewit · Charles Dickens · ex
- · WRAGG
- 534 · from “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” · Matthew Arnold · ar
- · X
- 536 · from Autobiography from 1785 to 1803 · Thomas De Quincey · ex
- 540 · from The Autobiography of Malcolm X · Malcolm X & Alex Haley · ex
- · X-RAY
- 547 · from Forty Years of Murder · Professor Keith Simpson · ar
- · YELLOW BOOK
- 552 · from The Ring and the Book · Robert Browning · ex
- · ZARATHUSTRA
- 556 · from Thus Spoke Zarathustra · Friedrich Nietzsche; trans. by R. J. Hollingdale · ex
- · ZEMBLA
- 558 · from Pale Fire · Vladimir Nabokov · ex
- · ZONE
- 561 · from “The American Connection” · Varlem Shalamov; trans. by John Glad · ar
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