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Gotrek & Felix: The Second Omnibus (Black Library US, March 2013, 978-1-84970-369-7, $17.50, 894pp, tp, an, cover by Winona Nelson)     Reprint (Black Library 2013) gaming tie-in omnibus/anthology, an expansion of the Black Library UK 2004 (as by William King) omnibus of three novelizations based on the fantasy roleplaying game: Dragonslayer (2000), Beastslayer (2001), and Vampireslayer (2001); this adds five stories by various authors. Copyrighted by Games Workshop. First US edition.

Gotrek & Felix: The Third Omnibus--- see under Gotrek & Felix: The Third Omnibus by William King & Nathan Long, Black Library, 2009.

Gotrek & Felix: The Third Omnibus (var. 1) (Black Library US, March 2013, 978-1-84970-378-9, $17.50, 893pp, tp, an, cover by Winona Nelson)     Omnibus/anthology, an expansion of the Black Library 2009 edition, which had three tie-in novels based on the fantasy roleplaying game: Giantslayer by William King (2003), Orcslayer (2006) by Nathan Long, and Manslayer (2007) Nathan Long, plus story “Redhand’s Daughter” by William King; this adds another three stories by various authors, and a “Gazetteer”/glossary. Copyrighted by Games Workshop. First US edition (Black Library UK 2/13). · Giantslayer [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] · William King · n. Black Library, 2003 · Manslayer [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] · Nathan Long · n. Black Library, 2007 · Orcslayer [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] · Nathan Long · n. Black Library, 2006 · Redhand’s Daughter [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] · William King · na Inferno! #36, May/June 2003 · The Oberwald Ripper [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] · L. J. Goulding · nv Hammer and Bolter #18, March 2012 · Red Snow [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] · Nathan Long · nv Death and Dishonour ed. Alex Davis, Nick Kyme & Lindsey Priestley, Black Library, 2010 · Last Orders [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] · Andy Smillie · nv Gotrek and Felix: The Anthology ed. Christian Dunn, Black Library, 2012 · A Gotrek & Felix Gazetteer · [uncredited] · ms (r)

Grand Designs (Pocket, July 2007, 978-1-4165-4489-0, $16.00, 634pp, tp, an) [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers]     Anthology of six Star Trek stories, all originally published online. Copyrighted by CBS Studios. 1 · Ring Around the Sky [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers] · Allyn Gibson · na 2004 109 · Orphans [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers] · Kevin Killiany · na 2004 245 · Grand Designs [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers] · Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore · na 2004 337 · Failsafe [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers] · David Mack · na 2004 473 · Bitter Medicine [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers] · Dave Galanter · na 2004 537 · Sargasso Sector [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers] · Paul Kupperberg · na 2004 629 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg

Great American Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century (The Franklin Library, 1989, no ISBN, 409pp, hc, an)     Available by subscription only. 3 · Laugh It Off · Charlotte Armstrong · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #119, October 1953 17 · Ransom · Pearl S. Buck · nv Cosmopolitan October 1938 41 · Traveling Light · W. R. Burnett · ss Collier’s December 7 1935 56 · The Gentleman from Paris · John Dickson Carr · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #77, April 1950 82 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949 105 · The Purple Is Everything · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1964 117 · Beyond the Sea of Death · Miriam Allen deFord · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #66, May 1949 139 · Postiche [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator August 1935 158 · Broker’s Special · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1956 169 · An Error in Chemistry [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #31, June 1946 187 · The Wager [Kek Huuygens] · Robert L. Fish · ss Playboy July 1973 197 · A Municipal Report · O. Henry · ss Hampton’s Magazine November 1909 212 · Cottage for August · Thomas Kyd · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1957 223 · Hangover · John D. MacDonald · ss Cosmopolitan July 1956 234 · Midnight Blue [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1, 1960 262 · First Offense · Ed McBain · nv Manhunt December 1955, as by Evan Hunter 280 · The Couple Next Door [Inspector Sands] · Margaret Millar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1954 296 · Love Comes to Miss Lucy · Q. Patrick · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947 310 · The Doomdorf Mystery [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 18 1914 322 · Blue Murder · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine October 1925 342 · A Passage to Benares [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · nv Adventure February 20 1926 371 · A Tomb with a View · Paul Theroux · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1982 384 · The Human Element [Ephraim Tutt] · Arthur C. Train · nv Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Train, Charles Scribner, 1920 409 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

The Great American Stories (Gulliver Books, April 1943, 1/-, 48pp, pb, an)     No. 15 in Gulliver Pocket Library’s Famous Stories of All Times. 3 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 13 · Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Knickerbocker January 1837, as “The Fountain of Youth”, uncredited. 28 · The Stout Gentleman [Bracebridge] · Washington Irving · ss Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving, John Murray, 1822 42 · The Hollow of the Three Hills · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Salem Gazette November 12 1830, uncredited.

Great American Writers: The Wild West (Gallery, 1989, 0-8317-9422-4, 302pp, hc, an) 7 · Riders of the Purple Sage [Judkins] · Zane Grey · n. Harper & Brothers, 1912 179 · Tennessee’s Partner · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly October 1869 185 · The Luck of Roaring Camp · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly August 1868 196 · The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907 203 · The Pimienta Pancakes · O. Henry · ss McClure’s Magazine December 1903 209 · A Call Loan · O. Henry · vi Everybody’s Magazine July 1903, as by Sydney Porter 214 · The Last of the Mohicans · James Fenimore Cooper · ex 1826

Great British Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century (The Franklin Library, 1990, hc, an) 1 · The Little House [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly October 9 1926 24 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 41 · The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World September 7 1913 (+1) 62 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 80 · Sleeping Beauty · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar (UK) May 1938 96 · The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv The Premier Magazine #106, January 28 1921 119 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953 129 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 142 · From a View to a Kill [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv The Daily Mail September 21 1959 (+4), as “James Bond and the Murder Before Breakfast” 167 · The Murder in the Mayor’s Parlor · J. S. Fletcher · ss The Secret of the Barbican by J. S. Fletcher, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924 189 · The Aluminium Dagger [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine March 1909 214 · Earth to Earth · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955 219 · Weight and See [Insp. John Mallett] · Cyril Hare · ss Death Among Friends by Cyril Hare, Watt, 1959 232 · Great-Aunt Allie’s Flypapers [Adam Dalgliesh] · P. D. James · nv Verdict of 13 ed. Julian Symons, Faber and Faber, 1978 253 · Solved by Inspection [Miles Bredon] · Ronald Knox · ss 1925 265 · The Duchess and Lady Torrent · A. E. W. Mason · nv Harper’s Bazar September 1926 285 · The Bamboozling of Mr. Gascoigne [Samuel T. Billingham] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · nv The Strand Magazine April 1925 307 · Grey Lady Drive · Eden Phillpotts · ss Wayside Tales May 1922 323 · Means of Evil [Chief Insp. Wexford] · Ruth Rendell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1977, as “The Case of the Shaggy Caps” 350 · A Theme for Hyacinth · Julian Symons · ss Argosy (UK) August 1967 371 · The Rubber Trumpet [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1934 389 · The Silver Mask · Hugh Walpole · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1932 403 · Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine October 1898 421 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Great Comedies Made Into Movies (Royce, 1945, #143, pb, an)     Details supplied by Richard Bleiler. 3 · Bringing Up Baby · Hagar Wilde · ss Collier’s April 10 1937 33 · Little Miss Marker · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s March 26 1932 63 · Brother Orchid · Richard Connell · nv Collier’s May 21 1938 94 · Alibi Ike · Ring W. Lardner · nv The Saturday Evening Post July 31 1915

Great Detective Stories: One Volume Edition (Walter J. Black, 1928, hc, an)     Also as World’s Great Detective Stories and abridged as Baffling Detective Stories by Masters of Mystery. In 101 World’s Great Mystery Stories (Blue Ribbon 1928). 1 · Mr. Vincent Cawdor, Commission Agent [Peter Ruff] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss Pearson’s Magazine November 1909, as “An Episode in the Career of Mr. Vincent Cawdor, Commission Agent” 12 · Missing: Page Thirteen [Violet Strange] · Anna Katharine Green · nv The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green, Putnam's, 1915 37 · Madame Noel · François Eugène Vidocq · ar 1828 45 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 58 · In Various Roles · Guy de Maupassant (error, actually by Léopold von Sacher-Masoch) · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the German (“Ein exotischer Prinz”, Soziale Schattenbilder, Gesenius, 1873). 62 · The Four Just Men [The Just Men] · Edgar Wallace · ex Tallis, 1905 67 · The Three Rings · Giovanni Boccaccio · ss from The Decameron (r) translated from the Italian (Decamerone, 1353). 69 · The Silent Bullet [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine January 1911 81 · Tracks in the Snow · Alfred Henry Lewis · ss (r) 98 · The Stolen White Elephant · Mark Twain · nv The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain, Webster, 1882 113 · The Law Beaters · Richard Edward Connell · ss Collier’s June 23 1928 121 · Love and Police · Emile Gaboriau · ss (r) 131 · A Case of Identity [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine September 1891 144 · The Murder in the Mayor’s Parlor · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Secret of the Barbican by J. S. Fletcher, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924 160 · Extradition [John Dockbridge] · Arthur C. Train · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1905 172 · Zadig · Voltaire · ex Romances, Tales and Smaller Pieces of M. De Voltaire by Voltaire, Dodsley, 1794 translated from the French (“Zadig ou la Destinée”, 1747). 178 · D’Artagnan, Detective · Alexandre Dumas · ex from The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (r) translated from the French (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard). 183 · The Tragedies in the Greek Room [Moris Klaw] · Sax Rohmer · nv The New Magazine (UK) April 1913, as “Case of the Tragedies in the Greek Room” 197 · The Majesty of Justice · Anatole France · ss (r) 213 · A Woman of the Streets · Victor Hugo · ss (r) 217 · Tough · Walter Davenport · ss Liberty March 21 1925 225 · The Lady with the Hatchet [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · ss Metropolitan Magazine May 1922 239 · Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine December 1834, uncredited. 247 · Miss Youghal’s Sais [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Civil and Military Gazette April 25 1887 251 · The Gray Seal [Jimmie Dale (The Gray Seal)] · Frank L. Packard · ss People’s Ideal Fiction Magazine May 1914 266 · The Mystery of a Studio [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American December 4 1905 284 · A Lodging for the Night · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv Temple Bar October 1877 298 · Rinconete and Cortadillo · Miguel de Cervantes · ss (r) 313 · The Twelve Green Russian Garnets · Arthur Sherburne Hardy · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 324 · The Night of Gems · Rafael Sabatini · ts The Premier Magazine #28, August 1916 339 · The Talking Bird · Harris Dickson · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 19 1925 351 · Angelo · John A. Moroso · ss (r) 360 · Well-Woven Evidence · Dietrich Theden · ss (r) translated from the German (“Fein gesponnene Faden”). 369 · The Bet · Anton Chekhov · ss Best Russian Short Stories ed. Thomas Seltzer, Boni & Liveright, 1917 374 · Too Dear · Leo N. Tolstoy · ss (r) 378 · The Hunch-Back Woman · Honoré de Balzac · ss (r) 382 · Cartouche · [uncredited] · ar (r); from Parisian Criminal Records. 401 · The Beaucaire Diligence · Alphonse Daudet · ss (r) from Letters from My Mill (1866). translated from the French (“Diligence de Beaucaire”, Lettres de mon moulin, 1869). 404 · The Three Strangers · Thomas Hardy · nv Longman’s Magazine March 1883 419 · Ghosts in Court · [uncredited] · ar (r) from French Trials. 427 · The Nail · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · nv (r) 438 · The Detective · Eugène Sue · ss (r) 451 · El Conde Lucanor · Don Juan Manuel · ss (r) 454 · A Capillary Crime · F. D. Millet · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1884 469 · Claude Du Vall · [uncredited] · ar (r) from Robber Tales. 473 · Sawney Beane · [uncredited] · ar Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland, John Nicholson, 1843, as “Sawney Bean and His Family” 476 · Tracked by Trappers · Ouida · ss (r) 492 · Am I Myself? · [uncredited] · ar (r); from French Court Records. 500 · Dorido and Clorinia · Mateo Aleman · ss (r), uncredited. 509 · Pen, Pencil and Poison · Oscar Wilde · ar The Fortnightly Review January 1889

The Great Detectives (Hennel Locke Ltd., 1947, 165pp, hc, an) 9 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 31 · The Crooked Man [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1893, as “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” 52 · The Sweet Shot [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine March 1937 68 · A Chess Problem [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch February 13 1924 83 · The Long Dinner [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv The Windsor Magazine January 1935 123 · The Owl at the Window [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · nv Superintendent Wilson’s Holiday by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1928, as “In a Telephone Cabinet” 150 · A Matter of Taste [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste”

Great Ghost Stories (New Era Library, 1933, 22, 25¢, 48pp, pb, an) · Ghost Story · [uncredited] · in · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 · The Mummy’s Foot · Théophile Gautier; translated by Lafcadio Hearn · ss New Orleans Item June 16 1878 (+1) translated from the French (“Le Pied de Momie”, Musée de Familles, September 1840). · An Ancient Haunted House · Pliny the Younger · ss Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories: French: Italian: Spanish: Latin ed. Julian Hawthorne, The Review of Reviews, 1907, as “Letter to Sura” translated from the Latin (as a letter to Sura, 2nd century AD). · The Spectre Bridegroom · Washington Irving · ss The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #4, November 10 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon · The Moon-Slave · Barry Pain · ss Stories in the Dark by Barry Pain, Grant Richards, 1901 · The Ghost · Guy de Maupassant · ss Allouma and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant, Holland Pub. Co., 1895, as “The Spectre” translated from the French (“Apparition”, Le Gaulois, April 4, 1883).