Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007
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The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder for Hire ed. Jay Hopler (The Overlook Press 0-87951-661-5, Nov ’96, $23.95, 310pp, hc) Anthology of 17 stories, poems and a play about hit men.
- xi · Introduction: In Search of the Assassin · Jay Hopler · in; abridged from original appearance in Pequod.
- 1 · from: This Gun for Hire · Graham Greene · ex, 1936
- 25 · The Hit Man · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss, 1980
- 31 · “Gentlemen, the King!” · Damon Runyon · ss Colliers Apr 25 ’31
- 47 · Loose Ends · Bharati Mukherjee · ss The Middleman and Other Stories, 1980
- 59 · from: The Butcher’s Boy [Michael Schaeffer] · Thomas Perry · ex New York: Scribner’s, 1982
- 105 · The Killers · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Mar ’27
- 117 · Screen Image: (Royal Emerald Hotel, Nassau) · Mark Rudman · pm The Millennium Hotel, 1996
- 121 · The Same, Only Different! · Jiri Kajanë; trans. by Kevin Phelan & Bill U’Ren · nv Minnesota Review, 1995; from Wake Up. It’s Time to Go to Sleep, 1993.
- 147 · Hit Man · Charles Bukowski · ss South of No North, Black Sparrow Press, 1973
- 153 · The Death of Mrs. Sheer · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Upon the Sweeping Flood, 1964
- 179 · Memories of West Street and Lepke · Robert Lowell · pm Life Studies, 1956
- 183 · Cain · Andrew Vachss · vi New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton, 1993
- 189 · When This Man Dies · Lawrence Block · ss AHMM Apr ’64
- 201 · from Ripley’s Game · Patricia Highsmith · ex, 1993
- 255 · from: In the Beginning, a novel in progress · Ian McEwan · ex, 1995
- 267 · The Assassin · David Ray · pp Chicago Review, 1996
- 269 · Shelter · David Kost · pl, 1993
- 301 · Appendix: Hit Man Movies · Misc. · bi
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Murder Most British ed. Janet Hutchings (St. Martin’s 0-312-14017-7, Feb ’96, $22.95, 294pp, hc)
- 1 · Introduction · Janet Hutchings · in
- 5 · The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle [Sherlock Holmes] · A. Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Jan, 1892; EQMM Apr ’51
- 25 · The Mysterious Death in Percy Street [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine Oct ’01; EQMM Apr ’49
- 40 · Percival Bland’s Proxy [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv; EQMM Spr ’42
- 60 · The New Hat · Thomas Burke · ss
- 68 · The Man in the Passage [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv McClure’s Apr ’13; EQMM Feb ’59
- 84 · The Rape of the Sherlock · A. A. Milne · vi Vanity Fair Oct 15 ’03; EQMM Feb ’74
- 86 · The Mystery of the Bagdad Chest [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Strand Jan ’32; EQMM Aug ’69
- 100 · Striding Folly [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Strand Jul ’35; EQMM Aug ’53
- 113 · You Can’t Hang Twice [Arthur Crook] · Anthony Gilbert · nv EQMM Nov ’46
- 135 · A Posteriori · Helen Simpson · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Jul ’34; EQMM Sep ’54
- 142 · Fear and Trembling’s [“Trembling’s Tours”; Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy (UK) Jul ’62; EQMM Oct ’63
- 158 · Burning End · Ruth Rendell · ss EQMM Dec ’95
- 168 · My First Murder · H. R. F. Keating · ss EQMM Mar ’95
- 178 · The Passing of Mr. Toad · Jeffry Scott · nv EQMM Oct ’94
- 201 · A Little Dose of Friendship · Margaret Yorke · ss Midwinter Mysteries 4, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown, 1994
- 215 · A Good Thing · Simon Brett · ss EQMM Feb ’96
- 234 · The Pushover · Peter Lovesey · ss EQMM Jun ’95
- 247 · Death of a Dead Man · Gillian Linscott · ss Midwinter Mysteries 3, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown, 1993; EQMM mid-Dec ’94
- 265 · The Gentleman in the Lake · Robert Barnard · nv Midwinter Mysteries 4, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown, 1994
- 281 · The Man Who Hated Television · Julian Symons · ss EQMM Jun ’94
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Once Upon a Crime II ed. Janet Hutchings (St. Martin’s 0-312-14386-9, Jul ’96, $22.95, 262pp, hc) Anthology of 16 historical mysteries from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
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The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction ed. Maxim Jakubowski (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0300-8, Sep ’96, $9.95, 586pp, tp) First American edition (Robinson 1996).
- xiii · Introduction · Maxim Jakubowski · in
- 1 · Too Many Have Lived [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The American Magazine Oct ’32
- 15 · Flight to Nowhere · Charles Williams · na Manhunt Sep ’55
- 66 · Black · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask May ’32
- 76 · Finders Killers! · John D. MacDonald · nv Detective Story Magazine Jul ’53
- 100 · Murder’s Mandate · W. T. Ballard · nv Thrilling Detective Sep ’45
- 128 · Cigarette Girl · James M. Cain · ss Manhunt May ’53
- 138 · The Getaway · Gil Brewer · ss Mystery Monthly Jun ’76
- 148 · Preview of Murder · Robert Leslie Bellem · nv Thrilling Detective Jun ’49
- 180 · Forever After · Jim Thompson · ss Shock May ’60
- 187 · The Bloody Tide · Day Keene · nv Dime Detective Magazine Jun ’50
- 214 · Death Comes Gift-Wrapped · William P. McGivern · ss Dime Detective Magazine Nov ’48
- 225 · The Girl Behind the Hedge · Mickey Spillane · ss Manhunt Oct ’53
- 234 · Enter Scarface [from Scarface] · Armitage Trail · ex Clode, 1930
- 241 · A Candle for the Bag Lady [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv AHMM Nov ’77
- 265 · Black Pudding · David Goodis · nv Manhunt Dec ’53
- 285 · A Matter of Principal [Quarry] · Max Allan Collins · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
- 295 · Citizen’s Arrest · Charles Willeford · ss AHMM Aug ’66
- 301 · The Sleeping Dog [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Argosy Apr ’65
- 314 · The Wench Is Dead · Fredric Brown · nv Manhunt Jul ’53
- 336 · So Dark for April [as by John Evans; Paul Pine] · Howard Browne · nv Manhunt Feb ’53
- 355 · We Are All Dead · Bruno Fischer · nv Manhunt May ’55
- 385 · Death Is a Vampire · Robert Bloch · ss Thrilling Mystery Fll ’44
- 405 · Divide and Conquer · Jack Ritchie · ss Manhunt Feb ’57
- 413 · A Real Nice Guy · William F. Nolan · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr ’80
- 422 · Stacked Deck · Bill Pronzini · nv The New Black Mask No.8, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1987
- 440 · So Young, So Fair, So Dead · John Lutz · nv Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar ’73
- 456 · Effective Medicine · B. Traven · ss Manhunt Aug ’54
- 467 · Killing Bernstein · Harlan Ellison · ss Mystery Monthly Jun ’76
- 477 · The Second Coming · Joe Gores · ss Adam Aug ’66
- 486 · Hibiscus and Homicide · William Campbell Gault · na Thrilling Detective Oct ’47
- 528 · Hell on Wheels · Thomas S. Roche · ss The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson, 1996
- 538 · Ordo · Donald E. Westlake · na Enough!, Evans, 1977
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Resurrected Holmes ed. Marvin Kaye (St. Martin’s 0-312-14037-1, Mar ’96 [Feb ’96], $24.95, 337pp, hc, cover by Jill Bauman) [Sherlock Holmes] Original anthology of 15 stories about Sherlock Holmes, supposedly taken from Dr. Watson’s long-lost case notes — and ghost-written by such well-known authors as Ernest Hemingway (Morgan Llywelyn), H.P. Lovecraft (Paula Volsky), Edgar Rice Burroughs (Craig Shaw Gardner), and Jack Kerouac (Richard Lupoff).
- ix · Foreword · Marvin Kaye · fw
- xi · The Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes · J. Adrian Fillmore · in *
- · Literary “Ghosts”
- 3 · The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society (ascribed to H.G. Wells) · John Gregory Betancourt · ss *
- 23 · Victor Lynch the Forger (ascribed to Theodore Dreiser) · Terry McGarry · nv *
- 45 · The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer (ascribed to W. Somerset Maugham) · Henry Slesar · ss *
- 59 · The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech (ascribed to Ernest Hemingway) · Morgan Llywelyn · ss *
- 75 · Holmes and the Loss of the British Barque Sophy Anderson (ascribed to C.S. Forester) · Peter Cannon · ss *
- · Long Shots
- 97 · The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant (ascribed to Edgar Rice Burroughs) · Craig Shaw Gardner · nv *
- 119 · Sherlock Holmes, Dragon-Slayer (The Singular Adventures of the Grice Pattersons in the Island of Uffa) (ascribed to Lord Dunsany) · Darrell Schweitzer · ss *
- 137 · The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot (and his abominable wife) (ascribed to P.G. Wodehouse) · Roberta Rogow · nv *
- 169 · The Giant Rat of Sumatra (ascribed to H.P. Lovecraft) · Paula Volsky · nv *
- 197 · Mrs. Vamberry Takes a Trip (Vamberry the Wine Merchant) (ascribed to J. Thorne Smith) · Mike Resnick · ss *
- 211 · Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin (ascribed to Jack Kerouac) · Richard A. Lupoff · ss *
- · “To Catch a Thief...”
- 231 · The Madness of Colonel Warburton (ascribed to Dashiell Hammett) · Carole Buggé · nv *
- 263 · The Manor House Case (ascribed to Ellery Queen) · Edward D. Hoch · ss *
- 279 · The Adventure of the Cripple Parade (The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch) (ascribed to Mickey Spillane) · William L. DeAndrea · ss *
- 295 · Too Many Stains (The Adventure of the Second Stain) (ascribed to Rex Stout) · Marvin Kaye · nv *
- 331 · Contributors Notes · Misc. · bg
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Shades of Noir ed. Lisa Manns (Archon Gaming Inc. 1-889864-01-3, Dec ’96, $12.95, 180pp, tp) Original anthology of 10 stories for Noir, the Film Noir Role-Playing Game.
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Christmas Crimes ed. Cynthia Manson (Signet 0-451-18649-4, Nov ’96, $5.99, 256pp, pb)
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Garden of Deadly Delights ed. Cynthia Manson (Signet 0-451-18772-5, Apr ’96, $5.99, 256pp, pb)
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Murder at Teatime ed. Cynthia Manson (Signet 0-451-18543-9, Jan ’96, $5.50, 269pp, pb)
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Murder Intercontinental ed. Cynthia Manson & Kathleen Halligan (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0355-5, 1996, $24.00, 323pp, hc)
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Mysterious Menagerie ed. Cynthia Manson (Berkley 0-425-15232-4, Mar ’96, $5.99, 260pp, pb)
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