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War of the Fang by Chris Wraight (Black Library, May 16, 2015, 978-1-84970-915-6, £20.00, 527pp, hc, om, cover by Leonid Kozienko) [Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines]     Details taken from online listing. 9 · The Hunt for Magnus [Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines] · Chris Wraight · na 121 · Battle of the Fang [Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines] · Chris Wraight · n. Black Library, June 9 2011

Wolf King by Chris Wraight (Black Library, October 2015, 978-1-78496-048-3, £30.00, 123pp, hc, na, cover by Neil Roberts) [Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy]     Limited edition of 3000 signed numbered copies. Details taken from online listing.

Wolves of Fenris by Chris Wraight (Black Library, April 2014, 978-1-84970-734-3, £12.00, 125pp, hc, co, cover by Cheol Joo Lee) [Warhammer 40,000]     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Bjorn: Lone Wolf [Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy] · Chris Wraight · ss Black Library, December 1 2013 13 · Kraken [Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolves] · Chris Wraight · nv Sons of Russ, Black Library, 2012 79 · Iron Priest [Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines] · Chris Wraight · ss Space Marines: Angels of Death ed. Graeme Lyon, Black Library, 2013 85 · Wolf’s Claw [Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy] · Chris Wraight · ss first released as an audio drama (Black Library, 2014). 91 · Wulfen [Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolves] · Chris Wraight · nv Black Library, March 10 2013 113 · Failure’s Reward [Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolves] · Chris Wraight · ss Black Library, December 4 2012 119 · Bjorn: The Fell-Handed [Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines] · Chris Wraight · ss Black Library, December 22 2013

Wrath of Iron by Chris Wraight (Black Library, July 5, 2012, 978-1-84970-181-5, £8.99, 408pp, tp, no, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines]     SF novelization.

The Castle of Otranto, The Mysteries of Udolpho ed. Andrew Wright (Rinehart Press, 1963, 0-03-011950-2, 543pp, tp, an) vii · Introduction · Andrew Wright · in (r) xxii · A Note on the Texts · [uncredited] · ms (r) xxiii · Select Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r) 1 · The Castle of Otranto · Horace Walpole · n. Tho. Lownds, 1764 117 · The Mysteries of Udolpho · Ann Radcliffe · n. G. G. and J. Robinson, May 8 1794; abridged. 295 · Northanger Abbey · Jane Austen · n. (r)

The Moon Terror ed. Farnsworth Wright--- see under Anon..

Winter’s Tales 22 ed. James Wright (St. Martin’s, 1976, LC:55-13894, hc, oa)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 7 · Editor’s Note · James Wright · pr (r) 9 · At the King Edward Hotel · Joanna M. Glass · ss 22 · A Murderer in the Cowshead · Margaret Bhatty · ss 35 · Town and Country Lovers · Nadine Gordimer · nv 60 · A Natural Death · Celia Dale · ss 73 · The Rise and Fall of Bulky Baby, Guerrilla · Elizabeth Troop · ss 89 · Via Dolorosa · Honor Tracy · ss 105 · The Philosopher’s Stone · William Bloom · na

The Pocket Book of Great Detectives ed. Lee Wright (Pocket, May 1941, 103, 25¢, 426pp, pb, an) v · Introduction · Alfred Hitchcock · in vii · Editor’s Note · Lee Wright · pr 1 · The Man in the Passage [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv McClure’s Magazine April 1913 22 · The Disappearance of Marie Severe [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 59 · The History of Bel · [uncredited] · vi from The Apocrypha (r) 61 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 84 · The Little House [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly October 9 1926 113 · East Wind [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1934 133 · The Cyprian Bees [Dr. Eustace Hailey] · Anthony Wynne · ss Flynn’s February 6 1926 155 · The Lenton Croft Robberies [Martin Hewitt] · Arthur Morrison · nv The Strand Magazine March 1894, uncredited. 185 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 215 · The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch March 28 1923 233 · Man Bites Dog [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv The Blue Book Magazine June 1939 260 · The Treasure Hunt [J. G. Reeder] · Edgar Wallace · ss Flynn’s November 22 1924 281 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 304 · The Aluminium Dagger [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine March 1909 337 · The Unknown Peer [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine February 1938, as “Trent and the Unknown Peer” 355 · The Problem of Cell 13 [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American October 30 1905 - November 5 1905, as “The Mystery of Cell 13” 401 · The Haunted Policeman [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Harper’s Bazaar February 1938

The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories ed. Lee Wright (Pocket, August 1941, 117, 25¢, 439pp, pb, an) vii · Introductory Note · William Lyon Phelps · pr 1 · Manner · Thomas Beer · nv The Saturday Evening Post September 26 1931 19 · Back for Christmas · John Collier · ss The New Yorker October 7 1939 26 · The Body of the Crime · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Ladies’ Home Journal March 1931 52 · The Dancing Stones [Sanders of the River] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #66, August 6 1910 67 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury April 1922 105 · A Jungle Graduate · James Francis Dwyer · ss Harper’s Weekly September 10 1910 118 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea · Robert S. Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine October 1897, as “The Man Who Was Beloved” 174 · Casting the Runes · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Arnold, 1911 200 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” 216 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925 233 · The Ghost at Massingham Mansions [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 266 · The Case of Jacob Heylyn [Anthony Slade] · Leonard R. Gribble · nv Many Mysteries ed. E. Phillips Oppenheim, Rich & Cowan, 1933 287 · The Motive · Ronald A. Knox · ss The Illustrated London News November 17 1937 304 · Prince Charlie’s Dirk · Eden Phillpotts · nv The London Magazine August 1926 368 · The Fool’s Heart · Eugene Manlove Rhodes · nv The All-Story Magazine September 1909 393 · A.V. Laider · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine June 1916 418 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 422 · Gemini · G. B. Stern · ss Slower Judas by G. B. Stern, Knopf, 1929

The Pocket Mystery Reader ed. Lee Wright (Pocket, June 1942, 172, 25¢, 363pp, pb, an) ix · Introduction · Lee Wright · in 3 · The Farewell Murder [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · na Black Mask February 1930 47 · The House of Three Candles · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss This Week November 6 1938 56 · The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928 89 · The Man Who Liked Dickens · Evelyn Waugh · ss Cosmopolitan September 1933 106 · The Absent-Minded Coterie [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905 148 · The Hounds of Fate · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 13 1911 156 · The Price of the Head · John Russell · ss Collier’s May 20 1916 170 · Cocaine · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask October 1940, as “C-Jag” 215 · Twenty Cents Worth of Murder · Stephen Leacock · ar The Saturday Review of Literature July 8 1939 220 · Watson Was a Woman · Rex Stout · hu The Saturday Review of Literature March 1 1941 229 · “Whodunit” · Elliot Paul · ar The Atlantic Monthly July 1941 238 · About These Mystery Stories · P. G. Wodehouse · ar The Saturday Evening Post May 25 1929 246 · The Perfect Murder · Edmund Pearson · ar Scribner’s Magazine July 1937 259 · Dictators, Democrats, and Detectives · Howard Haycraft · ar Murder for Pleasure by Howard Haycraft, D. Appleton-Century, 1941 267 · Katharine Nairn · William Roughead · ar Murder and More Murder by William Roughead, Sheridan House, 1939 299 · The Adventure of the Mark of Cain · Ellery Queen · pl 321 · Bramah · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm The Atlantic Monthly November 1857, as “Brahma”, uncredited. 321 · The Jackdaw of Rheims · Thomas Ingoldsby · pm The Ingoldsby Legends, Third Series by Richard Barham, Bentley, 1847, as by Richard Barham 326 · What the Bullet Sang · Bret Harte · pm Harper’s Weekly August 26 1876 327 · Lord Randal · [uncredited] · pm (r) 328 · Ballad of the Gibbet · Francois Villon · pm (r) 329 · My Last Duchess · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Italy” 331 · The City in the Sea · Edgar Allan Poe · pm American Review April 1845 revised from “The Doomed City” (Poems, 1831). 333 · Faustine · Algernon Charles Swinburne · pm (r) 339 · On the Eve of His Execution · Chidiock Tichborne · pm (r) 339 · The Bridge of Sighs · Thomas Hood · pm The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood, Frederick Warne, 1890 343 · La Belle Dame Sans Merci · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats, Edward Moxon, 1848 written in 1819. A somewhat different version was published in The Indicator, May 10, 1820. 347 · The Problem of the Amnesia Case · [uncredited] · pz The Baffle Book by Lassiter Wren & Randle McKay, Doubleday, 1928 349 · The Abandoned Picnic · [uncredited] · pz The Baffle Book by Lassiter Wren & Randle McKay, Doubleday, 1928 352 · The One Armed Soldier · [uncredited] · pz The Second Baffle Book by Lassiter Wren & Randle McKay, Doubleday, 1929 358 · How Well Do You Know Your Famous Detectives? · [uncredited] · pz (r)

These Will Chill You ed. Lee Wright & Richard G. Sheehan (Bantam, February 1967, H3206, 60¢, 169pp, pb, an) 1 · Somebody on the Phone · Cornell Woolrich · ss Detective Fiction Weekly July 31 1937 6 · The Yellow Wall Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 22 · The Copper Bowl · George Fielding Eliot · ss Weird Tales December 1928 34 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review December 1845 44 · The Calamander Chest · Joseph Payne Brennan · ss Weird Tales January 1954 52 · The Question · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1962, as “The Question My Son Asked” 61 · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 84 · The Idol of the Flies · Jane Rice · nv Unknown Worlds June 1942 106 · The Small World of Lewis Stillman · William F. Nolan · ss Fantastic Universe August 1957, as “Small World” 119 · The Haunted Woodshed · Harold R. Daniels · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1961 130 · The Other Celia · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1957 148 · Philco Baby · Irvin Faust · ss Roar, Lion, Roar & Other Stories by Irvin Faust, Random House, 1964

Wake Up Screaming ed. Lee Wright & Richard G. Sheehan (Bantam, February 1967, H2950, 60¢, 213pp, pb, an) 1 · It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 19 · Water’s Edge · Robert Bloch · ss Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1956 36 · The Man Who Liked Ants [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss Double Detective December 1937 54 · Thus I Refute Beelzy · John Collier · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1940 60 · Arabesque: The Mouse · A. E. Coppard · ss Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by A. E. Coppard, Golden Cockerell Press, 1921 67 · Royal Jelly · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960 93 · The Physiology of Fear · C. S. Forester · ss The Nightmare by C. S. Forester, Michael Joseph, 1954 109 · The Summer People · Shirley Jackson · ss Charm September 1950 123 · The Pond · Nigel Kneale · ss Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, Collins, 1949 130 · The Fly · George Langelaan · nv Playboy June 1957 translated from the French (“La mouche”, Nouvelles de l’anti-monde, Robert Laffont, 1962). 162 · Our Feathered Friends · Philip MacDonald · ss When Churchyards Yawn ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1931 172 · Decay · John C. Moore · ss King Carnival by John C. Moore, Dent, 1933 181 · Midnight Express · Alfred Noyes · ss This Week November 3 1935 186 · The Dear Departed · Alice-Mary Schnirring · ss Weird Tales May 1944 192 · The Idol with Hands of Clay · Sir Frederick Treves · ss Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction #124, July 1922 200 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925

Wicked Women ed. Lee Wright (Pocket, December 1959, 1263, 25¢, 176pp, pb, an) vii · Foreword · Lee Wright · fw 1 · One Morning They’ll Hang Him [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #81, August 1950 18 · Weapon, Motive, Method · Robert Arthur · ss Bluebook June 1953 29 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Sunday Dispatch September 22 1929, as “The Uncrossed Path” 38 · The Ash-Tree · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 51 · Find the Woman [Lew Archer] · Kenneth Millar · nv The Name Is Archer by John Ross Macdonald, Bantam, 1955 73 · Partner in Crime · Emily Neff · ss 86 · Mother, May I Go Out to Swim? · Q. Patrick · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #56, July 1948 101 · No Parking [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week March 18 1956, as “Terror in a Penthouse” 111 · Suspicion · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Mystery League October 1933 127 · The Lady-Killer · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #80, July 1950 142 · The Balcony · Joan Vatsek · nv Story #105, January/February 1944 165 · The Dancing Stones [Sanders of the River] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #66, August 6 1910

The Worlds of Science Fiction ed. Robert G. Wright & Theodore W. Hipple--- see under Theodore W. Hipple.

The Great Detective Stories A Chronological Anthology ed. Willard Huntington Wright (Scribner’s, 1928, LC:27-236041, 483pp, hc, an)     Reprinted (Blue Ribbon Books 1931 as The World’s Great Detective Stories by S.S. Van Dine) with an additional preface. vii · Preface · Willard Huntington Wright · pr 3 · The Detective Story · Willard Huntington Wright · in 41 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1841 75 · The Biter Bit · William Wilkie Collins · nv The Atlantic Monthly April 1858, as “Who Is the Thief?”, uncredited. 105 · The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock [Ebenezer Gryce; Violet Strange] · Anna Katharine Green · na Putnam, 1895 147 · The Boscombe Valley Mystery [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine October 1891 173 · The Lenton Croft Robberies [Martin Hewitt] · Arthur Morrison · nv The Strand Magazine March 1894, uncredited. 197 · The Pathologist to the Rescue [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine January 1927, as “Thorndyke to the Rescue” 219 · The Straw Man [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Red Book Magazine April 1915 235 · The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World August 24 1913 (+1), as “The Mystery of the Signals” 263 · The Oracle of the Dog [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine December 1923 287 · The Murder in the Mayor’s Parlor · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Secret of the Barbican by J. S. Fletcher, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924 311 · The Butler [Chief Insp. William Dawson] · Bennett Copplestone · nv The Diversions of Dawson by Bennet Copplestone, Murray, 1923 353 · Three Dead Men · Eden Phillpotts · nv The Chicago Tribune June 12 1921 389 · The Little House [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly October 9 1926 413 · Footprints in the Snow [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · nv Metropolitan Magazine June 1922 translated from the French (“Des pas sur la neige”). 439 · The Swedish Match · Anton Chekhov · nv (r), as “The Safety Match” translated from the Russian. 461 · Well-Woven Evidence · Dietrich Theden · ss (r) translated from the German (“Fein gesponnene Faden”). 475 · Strange Tracks [Dagobert] · Balduin Groller · ss Detektiv Dagoberts Taten und Abenteuer by Balduin Groller, 1909 translated from the German (“Die Seltsame Fahrte”, Detektiv Dagoberts Taten und Abenteuer, 1909).

The World’s Great Detective Stories ed. Willard Huntington Wright--- see under S. S. Van Dine.

Crime and Detection ed. E. M. Wrong (Oxford University Press, 1926, 394pp, hc, an) v · Preface · The Editor · pr ix · Introduction · E. M. Wrong · in 1 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1841 49 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 75 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 108 · The Stanway Cameo Mystery [Martin Hewitt] · Arthur Morrison · nv The Strand Magazine August 1894 138 · The Case of Oscar Brodski [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine December 1910 200 · The New Jersey Sphinx [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine April 1922 235 · The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World September 7 1913 (+1) 265 · The Invisible Man [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 28 1911 289 · The Business Minister [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · na Call Mr. Fortune by H. C. Bailey, Methuen, 1919 352 · A Costume Piece [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Cassell’s Magazine July 1898 374 · On Green Paper [Horace Fish] · Barry Pain · ss One Kind and Another by Barry Pain, Secker, 1914 381 · The Face of the Corpse [Horace Fish] · Barry Pain · ss One Kind and Another by Barry Pain, Secker, 1914