Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007
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- 1 · Introduction · Ellery Queen · in
- 3 · File #10: The Maimed and the Halt [Daniel Kearny Associates] · Joseph N. Gores · ss EQMM Jan ’76
- 30 · One for Virgil Tibbs [Virgil Tibbs] · John Ball · ss EQMM Feb ’76
- 61 · A Most Unusual Murder · Robert Bloch · ss EQMM Mar ’76
- 85 · Lavender Lady · Barbara Callahan · ss EQMM Apr ’76
- 99 · Blue Monday · Joyce Harrington · ss EQMM May ’76
- 122 · Five Rings in Reno · R. L. Stevens · ss EQMM Jul ’76
- 153 · Like a Terrible Scream · Etta Revesz · ss EQMM May ’76
- 171 · The Pennsylvania Thimblerig [Captain Jeremy Cork] · S. S. Rafferty · ss EQMM Aug ’76
- 208 · Murder Never Solves Anything [Scott Jordan] · Harold Q. Masur · ss EQMM Aug ’76
- 231 · Generation Gap · Stanley Ellin · ss EQMM Sep ’76
- 257 · Alone with the Witches · Florence V. Mayberry · ss EQMM Oct ’76
- 281 · Nobody Tells Me Anything [Henry Turnbuckle] · Jack Ritchie · ss EQMM Oct ’76
- 318 · A Case of Income-Tax Fraud [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss EQMM Nov ’76
- 348 · Captain Leopold and the Impossible Murder [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · ss EQMM Dec ’76
- 7 · The Case Against Carroll [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · na Argosy Aug ’58; EQMM Sep ’60
- 56 · C12: Department of Bank Robberies [“The Man Who Hated Banks”; Insp. Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · na Argosy (UK) Sep ’64 (+1); EQMM Jan ’66; AHMM Jun ’90
- 111 · The Empty Hours [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · na Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1 ’60; EQMM May ’67
- 173 · Mme. Maigret’s Admirer [“The Stronger Vessel”; Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon · nv, 1944; EQMM Jan ’51
- 205 · The Clue of the Hungry Horse [Sheriff Bill Eldon] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na The Country Gentleman Feb ’47 (+ ); EQMM Mar ’66
- 275 · Nero Wolfe Devises a Stratagem [“Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer”; Nero Wolfe; Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine Jan ’52; EQMM Jan ’70
- 5 · Victoria’s House · Fred Carmichael · pl, 1969
- 37 · The Case of the Beryl Coronet [The Strand, May 1892] · Arthur Conan Doyle · pl
- 61 · Dark Possession · Gore Vidal · pl Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays, Little, Brown, 1956
- 83 · The Dead Sleep Lightly · John Dickson Carr · pl The Dead Sleep Lightly, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983; first broadcast by the BBC on August 23, 1943. A shorter version without Dr. Fell was broadcast on the CBS Suspense program.
- 99 · Such Interesting Neighbors [Colliers, Jan 6 ’51] · Jack Finney · pl
- 111 · The Red-Headed League [The Strand, Aug 1891; Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · pl
- 7 · The Spy School in Leningrad · Jan Valtin · ar Out of the Night, 1941
- 22 · Belgrade, 1926 [from A Mask for Dimitrios] · Eric Ambler · ex London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
- 44 · The 7,500 Typewriter I Built for Alger Hiss · Martin Tytell, as told to Harry Kursh · ar True, 1952
- 64 · I Was a Red Spy in Korea · Serge Molonkev · ar Pic Magazine, 1952
- 73 · A Man’s Foes · Pearl S. Buck · nv This Week, 1940
- 102 · The Informer · Joseph Conrad · ss Harper’s Dec ’06
- 127 · Guilty Without Trial · Victoria Wolff · ar World’s Greatest Spy Stories, ed. Kurt Singer, W.H. Allen, 1954
- 150 · Francis G. Powers: Modern Space Spy · Kurt Singer · ar
- 158 · The Secret Agent’s Badge of Courage · Ernest Hemingway · ar
- · The Spy School in Leningrad · Jan Valtin · ar Out of the Night, 1941
- · Belgrade, 1926 [from A Mask for Dimitrios] · Eric Ambler · ex London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
- · The 7,500 Typewriter I Built for Alger Hiss · Martin Tytell, as told to Harry Kursh · ar True, 1952
- · I Was a Red Spy in Korea · Serge Molonkev · ar Pic Magazine, 1952
- · A Man’s Foes · Pearl S. Buck · nv This Week, 1940
- · The Informer · Joseph Conrad · ss Harper’s Dec ’06
- · Guilty Without Trial · Victoria Wolff · ar *
- · The Secret Agent’s Badge of Courage · Ernest Hemingway · ar
- · The Gardener · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine Aug ’22
- · A Spanish Story · Anon. · ss
- · Staley Fleming’s Hallucination · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Mar ’06
- · The Italian’s Story · Catherine Crowe · ss Ghosts and Family Legends, T.C. Newby, 1858
- · The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley · Daniel Defoe · ss Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe, London, 1722
- · To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas, 1865
- · The Phantom Coach · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas, 1864
- · Madam Crowl’s Ghost · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · ss All the Year Round Dec 31, 1870
- · Black Coffee · Jeffery Farnol · ss The Shadow and Other Stories, 1929
- · The Black Ferry · John Galt · ss
- · The Dreamland Bride [“Clarimonde”] · Théophile Gautier · nv Chronique de Paris Jun 23, 1836 (+)
- · The Dilemma of Phadrig · G. Griffin · ss Tales of the Munster Festival, 1827
- · Mary Burnet [“Fairies, Brownies, and Witches”] · James Hogg · nv Blackwood’s Feb, 1828
- · The Three Sisters · W. W. Jacobs · ss Night Watches, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914
- · The Bowmen · Arthur Machen · ss London Evening News Sep 29 ’14
- · The Doctor’s Ghost · N. MacLeod · ss
- · Mr. Kempe · Walter de la Mare · nv Harper’s Nov ’25
- · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake, 1829, 1828
- · The Frontier Guards · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Illustrated London News Nov 25 ’29
- · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · ss The Idler Mar, 1896
- · The Sphinx Without a Secret [“Lady Alroy”] · Oscar Wilde · ss The World May 25, 1887
- 9 · Introduction · John Welcome · in
- 15 · Harry Morgan—Autumn · Ernest Hemingway · ss
- 29 · Tip on a Dead Jockey · Irwin Shaw · nv New Yorker Mar 6 ’54
- 69 · How Berry Ran Contraband Goods · Dornford Yates · nv
- 98 · Moonfleet · J. Meade Falkner · ex
- 126 · Smith Versus Lichtensteiger · Weston Martyr · ss
- 139 · Heroin 1963 [“Source Seven”; Insp. Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull Aug 29 ’53
- 154 · Dialogue Behind a Curtain · Victor Canning · ss Magpie Jan ’53
- 162 · Holy Island · E. OE. Somerville & Martin Ross · ss
- 181 · A Life for a Lamp · Peter Cheyney · ss
- 186 · Brandy for the Parson · Geoffrey Household · nv The Saturday Evening Post Nov 13 ’48
- 208 · The King Diamond · C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne · ss The Strand Oct, 1896
- vii · Introduction · Blanche Colton Williams · in
- 1 · The Thirty-Thousand-Dollar Slap · Richard Washburn Child · ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 3 ’12
- 22 · Once to Every Woman · Carolyn Darling · ss Ladies Home Journal Oct ’37
- 44 · A Considerable Murder · Barry Pain · ss The Black Cap, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1927
- 58 · By Water · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Westminster Gazette Apr 18 ’14
- 69 · Laughter · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harper’s Apr ’17
- 91 · Galway Intrudes · Frederick Stuart Greene · nv The Century Jun ’15
- 120 · Five Thousand Dollars Reward [Sir Henry Marquis] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 15 ’19
- 139 · The Burglar · John Russell · ss, 1913
- 161 · Christian, the Concierge [Samuel T. Billingham] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss Colliers Jun 27 ’25
- 175 · Sixteen Years Without a Birthday · Brander Matthews · ss
- 182 · The Doll’s Ghost · F. Marion Crawford · ss Wandering Ghosts, Macmillan, 1911; F&SF Apr ’52
- 199 · The Discourager of Hesitancy · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Jul, 1885; a continuation of “The Lady, or the Tiger?”.
- 208 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, an, 1844, 1844; EQMM Feb ’50
- 234 · Miss Hinch · Henry Sydnor Harrison · nv McClure’s Sep ’11; EQMM Oct ’46
- 261 · In the Library · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Jun ’01
- 274 · Calloway’s Code · O. Henry · ss Munsey’s Sep ’06
- 286 · The Type-Machine Case · Theodore White · nv *
- 315 · Buttons · E. M. Winch · ss Pearson’s Magazine, 1933
- 331 · The Mystery of Room 513 · Corinne Harris Markey · ss The American Magazine Dec ’24
- 354 · The Red-Hot Dollar · H. D. Umbstaetter · ss The Black Cat Oct, 1895
- 7 · Introduction · Tony Wilmot · in
- 10 · The Specialty of the House · Stanley Ellin · nv EQMM May ’48
- 29 · After All These Years [“A Long Time Ago”; Henry Montague Bohun] · Michael Gilbert · ss The (London) Evening Standard Jul 10 ’54
- 33 · The Murder of Stanford White · Edgar Lustgarten · ss
- 44 · Death at Three-Thirty · Dennis Wheatley · ss
- 50 · The Case of the Unhappy Piano Tuner [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss
- 57 · A Nice Cup of Tea · Herbert Harris · ss The (London) Evening Standard
- 61 · The Whispering · Christianna Brand · ss The Gourmet Crook Book, ed. Tony Wilmot, London: Everest, 1976
- 79 · The Last of the Midnight Gardeners · Tony Wilmot · ss Weekend Magazine
- 83 · Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss Colliers Nov 9 ’40
- 98 · Nightmare · Dick Francis · ss The Times, 1974
- 107 · The Unblemished Bootlegger [“Shanghaied!”; Simon Templar] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News Sep 4 ’32
- 118 · The Terrapin · Patricia Highsmith · ss EQMM Oct ’62
- 133 · Case of the Gentleman Poet [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch, 1940
- 143 · The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 ’50; given as “The Veld” in toc.
- 158 · Pot Luck · Stephen D. Frances · ss
- 162 · A Curious Story · James Pattinson · ss
- 167 · Crime on Mars · Arthur C. Clarke · ss EQMM Jul ’60
- 173 · A Light on Murder · Gladys Mitchell · ss The (London) Evening Standard Feb 15 ’50
- 182 · The Old Man · Daphne du Maurier · ss The Apple Tree, London: Gollancz, 1952
- 193 · Gale Warning · Josephine Bell · ss The (London) Evening Standard
- 202 · People Keep Dying Round Here · Rhona Petrie · ss EQMM Mar ’69
- 213 · The Baby Spoon · Patricia Highsmith · ss EQMM Mar ’73
- 223 · Old Willie · William McGivern · ss Manhunt May ’53
- 230 · In the Ruins · Roald Dahl · vi World Bookfair Programme Jun ’64
- 231 · The Contributors · Misc. Material · bg
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v24 #13, January 2, 1980] ed. Eleanor Sullivan (Davis Publications, $1.00, 128pp+, digest)
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v25 # 1, January 30, 1980] ed. Eleanor Sullivan (Davis Publications, $1.00, 128pp+, digest)
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v25 # 2, February 27, 1980] ed. Eleanor Sullivan (Davis Publications, $1.00, 128pp+, digest)
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v25 # 3, March 26, 1980] ed. Eleanor Sullivan (Davis Publications, $1.25, 128pp+, digest)
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v25 # 4, April 23, 1980] ed. Eleanor Sullivan (Davis Publications, $1.25, 128pp+, digest)
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v25 # 5, May 21, 1980] ed. Eleanor Sullivan (Davis Publications, $1.25, 128pp+, digest)
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