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100 Crooked Little Crime Stories ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, December 1994, 1-56619-556-X, $7.98, 589pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 100 crime stories, 12 new. xvii · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · All Sewed Up! · Curt Hamlin · ss Detective Tales April 1947 6 · Always Together · Allen Beck · ss Death ed. Stuart David Schiff, Playboy, 1982, as by Hugh B. Cave 13 · Appointment with Yesterday · Geoffrey Vace · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 24 1941, as by Hugh B. Cave 21 · At the Pistol’s Point · E. W. Hornung · ss The Strand Magazine June 1897 29 · The Best Policy · Ferenc Molnár · vi Lilliput May 1941 32 · Beyond Reasonable Doubt · Robert C. Dennis · ss Detective Tales April 1947 39 · Blind Date · J. Lane Linklater · ss Dime Mystery Magazine March 1945 43 · Brand of Cain · Dan Gordon · ss Detective Tales December 1947 50 · The Burglar’s Story · W. S. Gilbert · ss Holly Leaves December 8 1883 56 · A Burning Clue · E. Hoffmann Price · ss Ten Detective Aces May/June 1933 60 · The Compliments of the Chief · Lincoln Steffens · ss Ainslee’s Magazine July 1900 68 · The Confession · Maurice Level · ss The Black Mask June 1920 72 · The Crimson Complex · G. Fleming-Roberts · ss Ten Detective Aces September 1933 77 · The Cunning of the Serpent · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Adventure May 20 1925 86 · A Dead Clue · David Nowinson · ss Ten Detective Aces September 1933 90 · Dead Man’s Drop · R. Van Taylor · ss Detective Tales November 1949 96 · Dead Men Talk · Ernest C. Amaral · ss New Detective Magazine November 1949 101 · Death’s Old Sweet Song · George William Rae · vi Dime Mystery Magazine September 1946 106 · The Debt Collector · Maurice Level · ss Hearst’s Magazine November 1919 111 · A Devil’s Highball [Garvin Clark] · G. Fleming-Roberts · ss Ten Detective Aces July 1933 115 · Double Demon · William Fryer Harvey · ss The Beast with Five Fingers by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928 122 · Each Night She Dies… · William Brandon · vi Dime Mystery Magazine December 1949 125 · Easy Kill · William Hellman · ss Dime Mystery Magazine September 1946 132 · Eight Dollar Murder · Robert Sidney Bowen · ss Detective Tales February 1939 138 · Ferry Slip · Don James · vi Dime Detective Magazine January 1942 141 · Final Game · Hugh B. Cave · ss Whispers October 1983 148 · First Kill · Chet Williamson · ss Cold Shocks ed. Tim Sullivan, Avon, 1991 156 · Flophouse Court · Hapsburg Liebe · ss Ten Detective Aces September 1933 161 · Flowers for Mr. Vecchi · Larry Allan · vi Ten Detective Aces July 1933 164 · Footsteps · Justin Case · ss This Week September 26 1965, as by Hugh B. Cave 169 · Footsteps in the Night · Hugh B. Cave · vi 1962 172 · Good Night, Sweet Alibi · Rufus Bakalor · ss Detective Fiction January 1951 178 · The Grave Joker · Morris Cooper · vi Dime Detective Magazine December 1950 181 · Graveyard Race · Andrew Fell · ss Detective Tales December 1947 190 · The Guy Who Heard Murder · Francis K. Allan · ss Detective Tales April 1947 199 · The Hard-Luck Kid · Geoffrey Vace · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1992, as by Hugh B. Cave 207 · A Helping Hand · Rufus Bakalor · ss Detective Fiction July 1951 212 · How to Show a Corpse · Johanas L. Bouma · ss Detective Tales October 1947 221 · I Hope They’re Worried · Don James · ss Dime Mystery Magazine November 1946 229 · If the Shoe Fits · Ken Lewis · ss Dime Detective Magazine June 1945 238 · Imperfect Alibi · D. L. Champion · ss Dime Detective Magazine December 1943 not the same as the story of the same name in the February 1946 issue. 242 · In the Bag · Carey Barnett · vi Argosy May 22 1937, as by Hugh B. Cave 245 · Incense Sticks · Ernest Leong · ss 254 · An Ingenious Defense · [uncredited] · ss The Leisure Hour April 28 1877 257 · Into the Lion’s Den · William F. Nolan · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1956, as “The Strange Case of Mr. Pruyn” 264 · It’s Your Neck · George William Rae · ss Dime Mystery Magazine May 1946 270 · Jackie Won’t Be Home · Dane Gregory · ss Detective Tales June 1941 277 · Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet [Jeff Peters] · O. Henry · ss The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry, McClure, 1908 283 · The Job · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Razored Saddles ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Patrick LoBrutto, Dark Harvest, 1989 287 · Kerrigan · Edwin Baird · vi Detective Fiction Weekly May 24 1941 290 · Last Laugh · Lix Agrabee · ss Dime Mystery Magazine January 1948 294 · Let Nature Take Its Corpse · C. William Harrison · ss Detective Tales December 1946 301 · The Letters of Halpin Chalmers · Peter Cannon · ss 306 · The Man of the Knife · Alexandre Dumas · ss (r) translated from the French. 313 · Many Happy Returns · Justin Case · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1966, as by Hugh B. Cave 319 · Marked in Red · Ralph Powers · ss Ten Detective Aces May/June 1933 327 · A Matter of Proof · Grover Brinkman · ss Dime Mystery Magazine June 1948 330 · Mind Over Mayhem · Mack Reynolds · ss New Detective Magazine November 1950 334 · Mine Host—The Ghost · Costa Carousso · ss Dime Mystery Magazine July 1941 342 · Motive · August Derleth · ss Top-Notch Detective March 1939 346 · Murder in Bronze · Herbert L. McNary · ss Ten Detective Aces July 1933 351 · Mushrooms · Chet Williamson · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 361 · New Blood · Gary Lovisi · vi 364 · Nimble Fingers · W. Ryerson Johnson · ss Detective Tales February 1923 368 · No Flowers for Henry · Carl Hughes · ss Whispers October 1987, as by Hugh B. Cave 376 · Nobody, That’s Who · William F. Nolan · ss Impact-20 by William F. Nolan, Paperback Library, 1963 380 · Numb · Wayne A. Harold · ss 384 · On a Dark October · Joe R. Lansdale · vi The Horror Show Spring 1984 388 · One Man’s Poison · Curt Hamlin · ss Dime Mystery Magazine August 1949 393 · The Pigeon Drop · Michael A. Black · ss 399 · A Quarter for Crazy Eddie · Will Murray · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 6 1980 405 · The Raffle · Wayne D. Dundee · ss 416 · A Real Nice Guy · William F. Nolan · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine April 1980 426 · Red Runs the Tide · John P. Foran · ss Fifteen Detective Stories August 1953 431 · The Red Sail · Lester Dent · ss 435 · A Retrieved Reformation · O. Henry · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903, as “A Retrieved Reform” 442 · Sacrifice · C. J. Henderson · vi 445 · The Sapient Monkey [Sebastian Zambra] · Headon Hill · ss The Million October 22 1892 453 · Side Door to Hell · Cyril Plunkett · ss Dime Mystery Magazine September 1943 460 · The Silver Protector · Ellis Parker Butler · ss Everybody’s Magazine February 1909, as “Our First Burglar” 466 · The Slave-Maker [Henry Arthur Milton (The Ringer)] · Edgar Wallace · ss Dime Mystery Magazine December 1933 476 · Some Jobs Are Simple · Chet Williamson · ss The New Black Mask No.5 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1986 480 · Strictly Accidental · Morgan Talbot · ss Detective Tales June 1941 488 · Sudden Violence · Robert Petyo · ss 494 · Switch · Gerald Tollesfrud · ss 499 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 504 · Terror’s Night · I. R. Austin · ss New Detective Magazine November 1950 510 · Thaxton’s Call · Jack Dolphin · ss 515 · They Tell No Tales · Francis Chase, Jr. · vi Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941 518 · Till Death Do Us Part · Dana McGuire · ss Dime Mystery Magazine May 1946 527 · The Time Is Now! · Dorothy Dunn · ss Dime Mystery Magazine October 1948 532 · To the Point · Hugh B. Cave · vi Tall Tales & Short Stories August 1993 535 · Turnabout · Colby Quinn · ss Spicy Detective Stories December 1938 540 · Two Must Die! · Ric Hasse · ss New Detective Magazine March 1950 547 · Untimely Visitor · John Bender · ss Detective Fiction March 1951 552 · A Valentine from Teacher · Jim Knapp · ss 562 · The White Square · Everett M. Webber · ss Dime Mystery Magazine September 1946 569 · Whitemail · Joyce Kilmer · ss The Smart Set March 1914 576 · Whose Turn Is It? · C. J. Henderson · ss Obsessions ed. Gary Raisor, Dark Harvest, 1991 582 · The Witch’s Way · Joseph Shallit · ss Dime Mystery Magazine November 1947

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, 1993, 1-56619-107-6, $7.98, 561pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 100 detective stories, six new. xiii · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · According to Plan · Ray Darby · ss Dime Detective Magazine February 1952 5 · Adventure of the Baritone Singer [Bromley Barnes] · George Barton · ss The Strange Adventures of Bromley Barnes by George Barton, Page, 1918 13 · The Adventure of the Table Foot · Zero · ss The Bohemian January 1894 16 · The Adventure of the Two Collaborators [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir James M. Barrie · ss Collier’s December 29 1923; in Chapter XI. 19 · The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes [Shamrock Jolnes] · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World February 7 1904 24 · Affirmative Action · Jon L. Breen · vi Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine January 1980 27 · Anchor the Stiff! [Lew Guyon] · Dan Gordon · ss Detective Tales August 1949 35 · The Artful Touch · Charles Dickens · vi Household Words September 14 1850, uncredited. 37 · An Axe to Grind · Curt Hamlin · ss Detective Tales November 1947 41 · Behind Murder’s Eight-Ball · Don James · ss Detective Tales March 1950 47 · Better Hands · Dale Clark · ss Detective Fiction Weekly February 15 1941 51 · The Bloodless Corpse · O. R. Dale · ss Vice Squad Detective v1 #1, 1935 60 · Bread Ahead [Jack Hagee] · C. J. Henderson · ss Mean Streets #3, May 1991 revised from chapter one of No Free Lunch, Diamond Books, 1990. 65 · Cache and Carry [Sharon McCone; Nameless Private Eye] · Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini · ss Small Felonies by Bill Pronzini, St. Martin's, 1988 70 · Calling Dr. Death · C. William Harrison · ss Detective Tales January 1949 76 · The Cap’n Sleeps · John Earl Davis · ss Detective Fiction Weekly November 2 1940 81 · The Carnival Caper · R. L. Stevens · ss Woman’s World 1981 85 · The Case of the Barking Beagle · R. L. Stevens · ss Hers 1979 89 · Checkmated! · Coretta Slavska · ss Dime Detective Magazine December 1950 93 · The Clarion Call · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World October 29 1905 99 · The Clincher · Jack Foxx · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1969 104 · The Cop and the Lady [O’Toole] · Booton Herndon · vi Detective Tales January 1949 106 · Cop Maker · Ronald Henderson · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 5 1941 110 · The Course of Justice · Hugh B. Cave · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1965 118 · Curtains for Kelly · John Randolph Phillips · ss Detective Fiction Weekly June 25 1938 128 · Cut Glass · Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 17 1937 137 · Damsel with a Derringer · Stephen Dentinger · ss Black Cat Mystery Magazine #3, 1981, as by Edward D. Hoch 143 · The Dead Go Overboard · Fenton W. Earnshaw · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 19 1941 147 · Death Racket · Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. · ss Dime Detective Magazine March 1939 151 · The Deer That Ate a Diamond · Edward D. Hoch · ss Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica, 1992 160 · Detective for a Day · Walt Sheldon · ss Detective Fiction Weekly June 22 1940 168 · Die Before Bedtime · Walt Sheldon · ss Detective Fiction Weekly July 6 1940 175 · Dogs Know [Vic Powers] · Gary Lovisi · ss 185 · Duck Behind That Eight-Ball! · Nick Spain (by Dan Gordon) · ss Detective Tales October 1948 193 · Dust · James W. Holden · ss Detective Fiction Weekly June 14 1941 197 · Escape · Jack Foxx · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1969 201 · Exhibit D · John Maclay · ss Haunts #18, Spring 1990 205 · Extra Service · John Mallory · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 12 1941 208 · Eye-Witness · Donald S. Aitken · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 30 1936 213 · Eye Witness · David X. Manners · ss Ten Detective Aces January 1935 218 · A Friend of Davy Jones’ [Lew Guyon] · Dan Gordon · ss Detective Tales October 1948 227 · Granny Gumption Solves a Murder [Granny Gumption] · C. J. Henderson & Charles Hoffman · vi Hardboiled Detective #11, April 1991 229 · A Hand of Pinochle · Theodore Tinsley · ss Detective Fiction Weekly October 10 1936 233 · Harsh Light of Day [Joe Hannibal] · Wayne D. Dundee · ss Hardboiled #7, Spring 1987 239 · Heir-in-a-Hurry · Morris Cooper · ss Detective Tales July 1948 245 · Higher Education · Sidney Waldo · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 16 1936 248 · Hip and Thigh · H. H. Matteson · ss Detective Fiction Weekly September 7 1935 255 · If the Body Fits— · Larry Holden · ss Dime Mystery Magazine December 1947 259 · Ignorance of Art · Vincent Hall · ss Detective Fiction Weekly October 16 1937 264 · Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss An Eye for Justice ed. Robert J. Randisi, The Mysterious Press, 1988 269 · In the Library · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine June 1901 278 · Ink’s Jinx · Anthony Clemens · ss Secret Agent X September 1934 282 · An Irreducible Detective Story [The Great Detective] · Stephen Leacock · vi Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock, Lane, 1916 283 · Kansas City Connection · Wayne McMillan · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941 287 · Knit One—Kill Two · Fergus Truslow · ss Dime Detective Magazine December 1944 291 · The Leopard Man’s Story · Jack London · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly August 1903 294 · The Man Who Collected “The Shadow” · J. V. Drexel · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1971, as by Bill Pronzini 299 · The Man Who Died Too Often · David Crewe · ss New Detective Magazine November 1944 305 · The Mann Act · Michael A. Black · ss Hardboiled #13, March 1992 312 · Memento Mori · Alex Saxon · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1974, as by Bill Pronzini 317 · Mrs. Belcourt Draws a Bier · Alan Ritner Anderson · ss Detective Tales October 1948 324 · Murder at Rose Cottage · Edward D. Hoch · ss Bantam, 1986 published as a separate enclosure given away with the first four volumes of the Bantam edition of the Agatha Christie Mystery Collection. 328 · Murderer’s Handicap · Alex Barber · ss The (London) Evening News September 3 1934 337 · Murder Offstage · R. L. Stevens · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1969, as by Edward D. Hoch 342 · Murder on the Limited · Howard Finney · ss Detective-Dragnet Magazine September 1932 350 · The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud · O. Henry · ss Rolling Stones by O. Henry, Doubleday, 1912, as “Tracked to Doom” 356 · Naked in Darkness · Hugh B. Cave · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1965 362 · Night Watch · Scott O’Hara · ss Detective Tales May 1950 369 · Night Work · Gerald Tollesfrud · ss 375 · A Novel Forgery [Robert Leroy Mitchel; John Barnes] · Rodrigues Ottolengui · ss The Final Proof by Rodriguez Ottolengui, Putnam, 1898 384 · Old Calamity’s Stick-up [Old Calamity] · Joseph Fulling Fishman · ss Detective Fiction Weekly June 23 1934 391 · Old Guy · Maitland LeRoy Osborne · ss Detective Fiction Weekly February 24 1940 396 · The Outside Ledge [Florence Cusack] · L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace · ss The Harmsworth Magazine October 1900 404 · Packed House · Robert Zacks · ss Detective Tales October 1948 407 · The Pattern · Alex Saxon · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1971, as by Bill Pronzini 415 · A Point of Honor · Larry Segriff · ss 421 · The Rosary · Michael A. Black · ss 430 · Safety Deposit · B. B. Fowler · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 11 1935 433 · The Seventieth Number · Stephen Dentinger · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1970, as by Edward D. Hoch 443 · A Shroud with a Silver Lining · Marion Lineaweaver · ss New Detective Magazine May 1950 446 · The Sign · Tom Curry · ss Detective Fiction Weekly November 16 1940 450 · The Sign of the “400” · R. K. Munkittrick · vi Puck October 24 1894 452 · Smoke Sign · Dale Clark · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 10 1941 456 · Smothered Mate · Stephen Dentinger · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1985, as by Edward D. Hoch 461 · Snapping Out of It · Bruce Holland Rogers · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1991 465 · Something Green · Edward D. Hoch · ss Special Reports: Fiction, 1988 473 · Something Wrong [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss Small Felonies by Bill Pronzini, St. Martin's, 1988 478 · Souls Burning [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss New Crimes 3 ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson, 1991 484 · The Spell of the Black Siren [Vincent Trill] · Dick Donovan · ss The Records of Vincent Trill of the Detective Service by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899 494 · The Stolen Cigar-Case · Bret Harte · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 24 1900 502 · Summer’s End · William Manners · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 25 1940 509 · The Terrarium Principle · J. V. Drexel · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 22 1981, as by Bill Pronzini 513 · Three Men and a Corpse · Victor K. Ray · ss Dime Detective Magazine November 1948 520 · Today’s Special—Poison! · V. E. Thiessen · ss Detective Tales February 1949 527 · The Trailor Murder Mystery · Abraham Lincoln · ts Quincy, Illinois Whig April 15 1846, as “A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder” 533 · A Tulip in the Snow · John McCurnin · vi Detective Fiction Weekly July 5 1941 537 · The Umbrosa Burglary [Picklock Holes] · R. C. Lehmann · ss Punch November 4 1893, as by Cunnin Toil 540 · Waiting · Jim Knapp · ss 543 · While the Cat’s Away— · Dorothy Dunn · ss Detective Tales December 1946 554 · The Wire-Pullers · Morris Cooper · ss Detective Tales March 1950