Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007
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Senior Sleuths ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough (Berkley 0-425-15258-8, Apr ’96, $5.99, 274pp, pb)
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Win, Lose or Die ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0317-2, Jun ’96, $23.00, 256pp, hc)
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Death in Dixie ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Barnes & Noble 0-7607-0229-2, 1996, $4.98, 224pp, hc) Reprint (Rutledge Hill Press 1987 as Sunshine Crime) anthology of 13 southern mysteries.
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Homicide Hosts Presents ed. Helen Esper Olmsted (Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing 1-885173-14-8, Sep ’96, $25.00, 273pp, hc)
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Women on the Case ed. Sara Paretsky (Delacorte 0-385-31401-9, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $21.95, 367pp, hc) Original anthology of 26 crime stories by women writers.
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Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler (Delacorte 0-385-31466-3, Jan ’96, $19.95, 323pp, hc) Original anthology of 16 stories of romantic love gone wrong.
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Line of Fire: Detective Stories from the Mexican Border ed. Leobardo Saravia Quiroz (San Diego State University Press 1879691361, Aug ’96, $12.50, 97pp, tp) Revised from En la línea de fuego: Relatos policiacos de frontera, originally published in Spanish by Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, México, D.F., 1990.
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The Eyes Still Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi (Signet 0-451-18481-5, Oct ’96, $5.99, 244pp, pb) The Shamus Award-Winning Stories.
- ix · Introduction · Robert J. Randisi · in
- 1 · What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You [Al Nudger] · John Lutz · ss AHMM Nov ’82
- 21 · Cat’s-Paw [Nameless private eye] · Bill Pronzini · nv Waves Press, 1983
- 45 · By the Dawn’s Early Light [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv Playboy Aug ’84
- 66 · Eight Mile and Dequindre [Amos Walker] · Loren D. Estleman · ss AHMM May ’85
- 90 · Fly Away Home [Ben Perkins] · Rob Kantner · ss Mean Streets, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1986
- 106 · Turn Away · Ed Gorman · ss The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction, ed. Ed Gorman, Black Lizard, 1987
- 118 · The Crooked Way · Loren D. Estleman · nv A Matter of Crime v3, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1988
- 139 · The Killing Man [Mike Hammer] · Mickey Spillane · nv Playboy Dec ’89
- 165 · Final Resting Place [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss Justice for Hire, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1990
- 185 · Dust Devil · Nancy Pickard · ss The Armchair Detective Win ’91
- 203 · Mary, Mary, Shut the Door · Benjamin M. Schutz · nv Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992
- 229 · The Merciful Angel of Death [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · ss New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton, 1993
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First Cases: First Appearances of Classic Private Eyes ed. Robert J. Randisi (Dutton 0-525-94104-5, Feb ’96, $22.95, 292pp, hc)
- vii · Introduction · Robert J. Randisi · in
- 3 · No One Likes to Be Played for a Sucker [Dan Fortune] · Michael Collins · ss EQMM Jul ’69
- 21 · It’s a Lousy World [“Sometimes There Is Justice”; Nameless private eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss AHMM Aug ’68
- 43 · File # 1: The Mayfield Case [Daniel Kearny Associates] · Joe Gores · ss EQMM Dec ’67
- 61 · Out the Window [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv AHMM Sep ’77
- 99 · Where Is Harry Beal? [Al Nudger] · John Lutz · ss AHMM Aug ’79
- 117 · Merrill-Go-Round [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House, 1981
- 129 · The Steinway Collection · Robert J. Randisi · ss Mystery Monthly Jan ’77
- 145 · Robber’s Roost [Amos Walker] · Loren D. Estleman · ss Mystery Apr ’82
- 159 · The Takamoku Joseki [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · ss AHMM Jan ’84
- 171 · Long Gone [“She Didn’t Come Home”; Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · ss Redbook Apr ’86
- 191 · C Is for Cookie [Ben Perkins] · Rob Kantner · ss AHMM Sep ’82
- 209 · The Strawberry Teardrop [Nate Heller] · Max Allan Collins · ss The Eyes Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984
- 229 · Till Tuesday [John Francis Cuddy] · Jeremiah Healy · ss AHMM Apr ’88
- 245 · Lucky Penny · Linda Barnes · ss The New Black Mask No.3, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1985
- 267 · Mary, Mary, Shut the Door · Benjamin M. Schutz · nv Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992
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For Crime Out Loud, Vol. 2 ed. Robert J. Randisi (Niagara Falls, NY: Durkin Hayes Publishing Ltd., 1996, audio cassette) Second audio anthology of eight original mystery stories, again read by Andrea Martin and Michael Tylo.
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The Reason Why ed. Ruth Rendell (Crown 0-517-70347-5, 1996, $24.00, 244pp, hc) Anthology of writings about murder.
- vii · Introduction · Ruth Rendell · in
- 1 · 1. ‘O, Hideous Sequel’ In the Family
- 3 · from Oedipus the King · Sophocles; trans. by Paul Roche · pm
- 4 · from Genesis IV · Anon. · ex
- 5 · from Cain · Lord Byron · ex, 1821
- 6 · from The Cenci · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm, 1819
- 8 · from Adam Bede · George Eliot · ex, 1859
- 10 · from The Medea of Euripides · Euripides; trans. by Rex Warner · pm
- 11 · from The Dain Curse · Dashiell Hammett · ex New York: Knopf, 1929
- 13 · from A Shropshire Lad · A. E. Housman · pm, 1896
- 14 · from An American Dream · Norman Mailer · ex New York: The Dial Press, 1965
- 16 · from Malice Aforethought · Francis Iles · ex London: Gollancz, 1931
- 17 · from Fragments from My Diary · Maxim Gorky · ex
- 17 · from The Trial of Madeleine Smith · F. Tennyson Jesse · ex, 1927
- 18 · from Arden of Feversham · Anon. · ex, 1592
- 20 · from The Trial of Dr. Hawley Garvey Crippen · Filson Young · ex, 1920
- 21 · from Othello, the Moor of Venice · William Shakespeare · ex, 1604
- 22 · from “Her Second Husband Hears Her Story” · Thomas Hardy · pm
- 23 · from The Innocent · Ian McEwan · ex, 1990
- 25 · from “George Smith, The Murder of Bessie Mundy, 1912” · Gordon Honeycombe · ex The Murders of the Black Museum 1870-1970, Gordon Honeycombe, 1982
- 27 · from Double Indemnity · James M. Cain · ex New York: Knopf, 1943
- 29 · from We, the Accused · Ernest Raymond · ex Cassell’s, 1935
- 31 · 2. ‘The Way of His Wickedness’ Murder for Revenge
- 33 · from Doctor Thorne · Anthony Trollope · ex, 1858
- 34 · from Chronicles of a Death Fortold · Gabriel García Márquez; trans. by Gregory Rabassa · ex, 1986
- 37 · from “The Foundling” · Heinrich von Kleist; trans. by David Luke & Nigel Reeves · ex The Marquise of O & Other Stories, Penguin, 1978
- 38 · from The Secret Agent · Joseph Conrad · ex, 1907
- 40 · from “A Jury of Her Peers” · Susan Glaspell · ex Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- 44 · from Lolita · Vladimir Nabokov · ex, 1955
- 46 · from No Name · Wilkie Collins · ex, 1862
- 47 · “All the Better to See You With” · Ciaran Carson · pm, 1989
- 49 · from ’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore · John Ford · ex, 1633
- 51 · The Sacrilege · Thomas Hardy · pm
- 57 · from The Letter · W. Somerset Maugham · ex, 1952
- 58 · from Mary Barton · Elizabeth Gaskell · ex, 1848
- 59 · An Uncle’s Advice [from Metamorphoses] · Ovid; trans. by Horace Gregory · pm, 1958
- 61 · from Salome · Oscar Wilde · ex, 1894
- 63 · from Hassan · James Elroy Flecker · ex, 1922
- 66 · from “A Vendetta” · Guy de Maupassant; trans. by H. N. P. Sloman · ex
- 67 · The Vengeance of a Skull [from The Revenger’s Tragedy] · Cyril Tourneur · ex, 1607
- 69 · from The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ex, 1925
- 71 · from Billy Bathgate · E. L. Doctorow · ex, 1989
- 72 · from “Metonymy, or The Husband’s Revenge” · Rachel de Queíroz; trans. by William L. Grossman · ex, 1967
- 75 · 3. ‘To Bask in the Sun’ Killers for Gain
- 77 · from II Samuel XI · Anon. · ex
- 79 · from Thérèse Raquin [1867] · Émile Zola; trans. by L. W. Tancock · ex
- 80 · from “The Queen of Spades” · Alexander Pushkin; trans. by Paul Debreczeny · ex, 1834
- 83 · from “The Murder of the Mandarin” · Arnold Bennett · ex Grim Smile of the Five Towns, Chatto, 1907
- 83 · To Gain a Throne [from The Princes in the Tower] · Alison Weir · ex, 1992
- 85 · from “Mademoiselle de Scudéry” · E. T. A. Hoffmann; trans. by R. J. Hollingdale · ex, 1982
- 87 · from Murder Revisited · John Rowland · ex, 1961
- 89 · from Macbeth · William Shakespeare · ex, 1606
- 90 · from “The Payoff” · Stanley Ellin · ex EQMM Nov ’71
- 92 · from Great Shipwrecks and Castaways · Charles Neider · ex, 1952
- 93 · from “The Garden of Smoke” · G. K. Chesterton · ex The Storyteller Oct ’19
- 95 · from Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoevsky · ex, 1866
- 97 · 4. ‘Forbidden Actions’ Guilt and Remorse
- 99 · from “Some Character-Types Met with in Psychoanalytic Work” · Sigmund Freud · ex, 1915
- 101 · from “His Brother’s Keeper” · W. W. Jacobs · ex The Strand Dec ’22
- 102 · from “The Tell-Tale Heart” · Edgar Allan Poe · ex The Pioneer Jan, 1843
- 104 · from Mary Queen of Scots · Antonia Fraser · ex, 1969
- 106 · from “The Dream of Eugene Aram” · Thomas Hood · ex
- 108 · from The Book of Evidence · John Banville · ex, 1989
- 109 · from Oliver Twist · Charles Dickens · ex, 1837
- 110 · from “Sohrab and Rustum” · Matthew Arnold · pm
- 111 · from Payment Deferred · C. S. Forester · ex, 1926
- 112 · from “Peter Grimes” · George Crabbe · pm, 1810
- 113 · from “The Man of God” · Leo Tolstoy · ex
- 115 · from Caleb Williams · William Godwin · ex Things As They Are, William Godwin, B. Crosby, 1794
- 119 · 5. ‘To Stop Her Crying’ Escaping the Consequences
- 121 · from Innocent Blood · P. D. James · ex, 1980
- 123 · from Dead Certainties · Simon Schama · ex, 1992
- 124 · from “Telling” · Elizabeth Bowen · ex The Black Cap, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1927
- 126 · from Judges IV · Anon. · ex
- 126 · from The Secret History · Donna Tartt · ex, 1992
- 129 · from A Demon in My View · Ruth Rendell · ex, 1976
- 130 · from Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoevsky · ex, 1866
- 130 · from “My Last Duchess” · Robert Browning · pm, 1842
- 132 · from The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · ex Lippincott’s Jul, 1890
- 133 · from “Honolulu” · W. Somerset Maugham · ex Everybody’s Magazine Oct ’21
- 134 · from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Edward Gibbon · ex, 1776-88
- 135 · from Dr. Glas · Hjalmar Söderberg; trans. by Paul Britten Austin · ex, 1905
- 138 · from Daniel Deronda · George Eliot · ex, 1876
- 140 · from Sara Thornton, The Story of a Woman Who Killed · Jennifer Nadel · ex, 1993
- 141 · from The Changeling · Thomas Middleton & William Rowley · ex, 1622
- 145 · 6. ‘For Love and Not for Hate’ Killing from Altruism or Duty
- 147 · from The Physician’s Tale · Geoffrey Chaucer · ex
- 148 · from “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · ex, 1850
- 150 · from Beloved · Toni Morrison · ex, 1987
- 151 · from “The Salt of the Earth” · Rebecca West · ex, 1935
- 153 · from Tess of the D’Urbervilles · Thomas Hardy · ex, 1891
- 154 · from They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? · Horace McKoy · ex, 1935
- 156 · from Citizens · Simon Schama · ex, 1994
- 157 · from The Judge and His Hangman · Friedrich Dürrenmatt; trans. by Cyrus Brooks · ex, 1952
- 159 · from Murder in the Cathedral · T. S. Eliot · ex, 1935
- 164 · A soldier recalls what killing a man in war meant to him · Denys L. Jones · pm
- 165 · from The Face of the Third Reich · Joachim C. Fest; trans. by Michael Bullock · ex, 1963
- 167 · from Judith XXII · Anon. · ex
- 169 · 7. ‘A Field of Evil Forces’ The Psychopath No One Understands
- 171 · from Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son · Gordon Burn · ex, 1985
- 173 · from The Bad Seed · William March · ex, 1954
- 175 · from The Mainspring of Murder · Philip Lindsay · ex, 1958
- 177 · from A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Maniac-Depressive States · Melanie Klein · ex, 1935
- 178 · Porphyria’s Lover · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics, Edward Moxon, 1842
- 180 · from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner · James Hogg · ex, 1824
- 181 · from The Talented Mr. Ripley · Patricia Highsmith · ex New York: Coward-McCann, 1955
- 183 · from Beyond Belief · Emlyn Williams · ex, 1967
- 185 · from 10 Rillington Place · Ludovic Kennedy · ex, 1971
- 186 · from Killer Department · Robert Cullen · ex, 1993
- 187 · Psychopath · Carol Ann Duffy · pm, 1987
- 190 · from How We Die · Sherwin B. Nuland · ex, 1993
- 191 · from Brighton Rock · Graham Greene · ex, 1938
- 192 · from The Executioner’s Song · Norman Mailer · ex Boston: Little Brown, 1979
- 194 · from Shot in the Heart · Mikal Gilmore · ex, 1994
- 195 · from The Death Shift · Peter Elkind · ex, 1983
- 197 · from Murder on Ward Four · Nick Davies · ex, 1993
- 199 · from “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex New York: Scribner’s, 1886
- 200 · from Killing for Company · Brian Masters · ex, 1985
- 205 · 8. ‘The Ones Who Had to Pay’ Murder for Murder’s Sake
- 207 · from Life After Life · Tony Parker · ex, 1990
- 209 · from In Cold Blood · Truman Capote · ex New York: Random House, 1966
- 210 · from Rope · Patrick Hamilton · ex, 1929
- 212 · from The Vatican Cellars · André Gide; trans. by D. Bussy · ex Cassell’s, 1952; Les caves du Vatican, Gallimard; Paris, 1950.
- 214 · “A Staffordshire Murderer” · James Fenton · pm, 1982
- 218 · from The Outsider · Albert Camus; trans. by Joseph Laredo · ex, 1942
- 221 · Gilles de Rais · Sidney Keyes · pm, 1945
- 223 · from A Philosophical Investigation · Philip Kerr · ex, 1992
- 225 · from The Big Sleep · Raymond Chandler · ex, 1939
- 226 · from The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan · Jorge Luís Borges; trans. by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ex, 1954
- 227 · from “The Lonesome Vigilante” · John Steinbeck · ex, 1940
- 228 · from “A Fratricide” · Franz Kafka; trans. by Willa & Edwin Muir · ex
- 229 · from The Psychograph · Denis Nilsen · ex
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