Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007
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Crime Movies: Classic Murder & Detective Films ed. Peter Haining (Severn House 0-7278-4914-X, Aug ’96 [Mar ’97], £15.99, 249pp, hc, cover by Derek Colligan) Anthology of 12 stories which have impelled crime films, or are by the authors of such stories.
- 1 · ‘The Eye on Crime’ · Peter Haining · pr
- 4 · Rambo: First Blood [“The Dripping”; John Rambo] · David Morrell · ss EQMM Aug ’72
- 17 · Mystery Liner [“The Ghost of John Holling”; Felix Jenks] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 8 ’24
- 34 · Little Caesar [“Nobody’s All Bad”] · W. R. Burnett · ss Colliers Jun 7 ’30
- 49 · Epitaph for a Spy [“The Unknown Traitor”] · Eric Ambler · vi The Strand Dec ’48
- 54 · The Killers · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Mar ’27
- 68 · Rear Window [“It Had to Be Murder”, as by William Irish] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine Feb ’42
- 114 · The Blackboard Jungle [“To Break the Wall”] · Evan Hunter · ss Discovery #2, ed. Vance Bourjaily, Pocket, 1953
- 131 · The Girl Hunters [“Kick It or Kill”] · Mickey Spillane · na Cavalier Jul ’61
- 191 · Sleuth [“Larger Than Life”] · Anthony Shaffer · ss London Mystery Magazine #18 ’53
- 200 · The Day of the Jackal [“There Are Some Days...”] · Frederick Forsyth · nv
- 224 · Death Wish [“The Glory Hunter”] · Brian Garfield · ss EQMM Sep ’77
- 238 · Manhattan Murder Mystery [“Mr. Big”] · Woody Allen · ss
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London After Midnight ed. Peter Haining (Little Brown UK 0-316-87573-2, Jan ’96 [Mar ’96], £16.99, viii+342pp, hc) Anthology of 22 stories, each with an introduction by Haining.
- 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- 3 · Section One: Black Spots
- 5 · The Knife · Robert Arthur · ss The Mysterious Traveler Magazine Nov ’51
- 14 · Fu Manchu and the Frightened Redhead [Fu Manchu; Nayland Smith] · Sax Rohmer · ss This Week Feb 1 ’59
- 25 · The Funspot-Street Affair · Thomas Burke · ss Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers, 1935
- 31 · The Girl Who Loved Graveyards · P. D. James · ss Winter’s Crimes 15, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan, 1983
- 49 · The Most Hated Man in London · Patricia Moyes · ss, 1961
- 54 · Flight from Fleet Street · Carter Dickson · pl The London Magazine Feb/Mar ’52
- 69 · Dangerous Game [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · nv EQMM Aug 12 ’81
- 90 · Karmesin the Murderer [“Inscrutable Providence”; Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss The People Dec 24 ’44
- 99 · The Day Lucky’s Luck Ran Out · Allan Prior · ss Daily Mail Nov ’81
- 105 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories, Heinemann, 1947
- 113 · People Don’t Do Such Things · Ruth Rendell · ss The Fallen Curtain, London: Hutchinson, 1976
- 127 · Section Two: City Sleuths
- 129 · The Elusive Bullet · John Rhode · ss
- 148 · The Adventure of The Worst Man in London [“The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”; Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Apr ’04; this is the manuscript title.
- 169 · The Bottle Party [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv The Strand Oct ’39
- 193 · Aces High · Peter Cheyney · ss
- 204 · Yellow Iris [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Strand Jul ’37
- 222 · Trent and the Fool-Proof Lift [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss
- 240 · The Cave of Ali Baba [“The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba”; Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body, London: Gollancz, 1928
- 274 · Border-Line Case [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss, 1928
- 285 · The Santa Claus Club [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss Suspense (UK) Dec ’60
- 298 · The Incautious Burglar [“Guest in the House”; Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Oct ’40
- 317 · The Bones of the Case · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine
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Murder At the Races ed. Peter Haining (Chartwell Books 0-7858-0527-3, 1996, $10.98, 487pp, hc) Anthology of 30 racing stories, each introduced by the editor. First American edition (Orion 1995).
- xi · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- xvii · Under Starter’s Orders · John Masefield · pm Right Royal, 1920
- · 1 SPORT OF KILLERS: Mystery on the Course
- 3 · The Protection Racket · Dick Francis · ss
- 21 · Nobbling the Favourite [Barry Bromley] · Nat Gould · ss
- 39 · A Racing Swindle · Thomas Gaspey · ss
- 52 · Silver Blaze [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Dec, 1892
- 80 · Won by a Neck [Simon Templar] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News Sep 11 ’32
- 94 · The American Invasion · Frank Johnson · ss, 1937
- 105 · A Derby Horse [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss
- 111 · The Horse That Died for Shame [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv *
- 144 · Murder on the Race Course [“The Grand National Case”; Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · nv, 1956
- 167 · The Body in the Horsebox [from Eavesdropper] · John Francome · ex, 1986
- · 2 DEAD WEIGHTS: Mayhem in the Saddle
- 181 · Calling the Tune · Steve Donoghue · ss The Passing Show, 1932
- 198 · To Win a Race · Alfred Watson · ss Longman’s May, 1897
- 215 · Dead Cert · Leon Breaker · nv
- 241 · Nat Wedgewood Trapped · Jack Fairfax-Blakeborough · ss, 1933
- 258 · The Phantom Jockey · Bat Masters · ss
- 269 · Thoroughbred · Max Brand · ss Colliers Nov 30 ’35
- 283 · My Old Man · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems, McAlman’s Contract Publishing Co., 1923
- 298 · Saratoga in August · Hugh Pentecost · ss
- 313 · The Photographer and the Jockey [Photographer] · James Holding · ss EQMM Aug ’74
- 326 · Ellen Keegan’s Revenge · Mary Ryan · nv *
- · 3 FIXED ODDS: Crime and the Gamblers
- 249 · Straight from the Horse’s Mouth [Educated Evans] · Edgar Wallace · ss
- 361 · A Story Goes with It · Damon Runyon · ss Cosmopolitan Nov ’31
- 375 · Had a Horse · John Galsworthy · nv The Saturday Evening Post Aug 11 ’23
- 399 · Morning in the High Street · Barré Lyndon · ss London Evening News Oct 14 ’35
- 406 · The Crackler [“The Affair of the Forged Notes”; Tuppence Beresford; Tommy Beresford] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Nov 19 ’24
- 420 · Something Short of Murder [as by O. H. Leslie] · Henry Slesar · ss AHMM Nov ’57
- 435 · Born Gambler · Thomas Walsh · ss EQMM Sep 10 ’80
- 452 · The Later Edition · Victor Bridges · ss The Strand, 1936
- 464 · Two and a Half Per Cent · Mark Daniel · ss
- 477 · En Famille · Ed Gorman · ss Moonchasers and Other Stories, Forge, 1996
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Murder on the Railways ed. Peter Haining (Orion 0-75280-454-5, 1996 [Mar ’98], £16.99, 484pp, hc) Crime/mystery anthology.
- 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- 5 · Murder in the Railway Train: A Broadsheet Ballad · Anon. · pm, 1870
- 7 · 1. Murder Express: Classic Journeys into Fear
- 9 · Express to Stamboul [“Have You Got Everything You Want?”; Parker Pyne] · Agatha Christie · ss Cosmopolitan Apr ’33; EQMM Jun ’65
- 22 · Crime on the Footplate [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The (London) Evening Standard, 1950; The Saint Detective Magazine Aug ’56
- 31 · The Man with No Face [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv, 1928
- 57 · Dead Man · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury Mar ’36
- 69 · Cheese · Ethel Lina White · nv, 1941
- 86 · A Curious Suicide · Patricia Highsmith · ss
- 97 · Jeumont: 51 Minutes’ Wait [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon · ss, 1944
- 109 · Three-Ten to Yuma · Elmore Leonard · ss Dime Western Magazine Mar ’53
- 125 · 2. Tracked Down: The Railway Detectives
- 127 · The Adventure of the First Class Carriage [Sherlock Holmes] · Ronald A. Knox · ss The Strand Feb ’47
- 139 · The Murder on the Okehampton Line [Godfrey Page] · Victor L. Whitechurch · ss Pearson’s Magazine Dec ’03
- 150 · The Mystery of the Black Blight [Calvin Sprague] · Francis Lynde · nv
- 181 · The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem [“The Mystery of the Signals”; Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World Aug 24-31 ’13
- 206 · Once Upon a Train [Hildegarde Withers; John J. Malone] · Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer · nv EQMM Oct ’50
- 228 · The Rhine Maiden [“All Aboard for Shanghai!”; Simon Templar] · Leslie Charteris · ss The American Magazine Feb ’36
- 245 · Murder on the 7.16 [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss
- 250 · Murder in the Tunnel · Brian Hunt · ss The Daily Telegraph Dec 17 ’94
- 261 · 3. Tunnel Visions: Death on the Subway
- 263 · Mystery of the Underground · John Oxenham · nv To-Day Feb 27-Apr 10, 1897
- 286 · Death in the Air · Cornell Woolrich · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 10 ’36
- 306 · The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · nv The Royal Magazine Jul ’01
- 323 · Thubway Tham’s Bomb Scare [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss The Saint Detective Magazine Jan ’60
- 334 · The Coulman Handicap [Insp. Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · nv Argosy (UK) Apr ’58
- 352 · A Midnight Train to Nowhere · Ken Follett · ss London Evening News Aug 19 ’75
- 356 · Oxford Circus · Maeve Binchy · ss
- 365 · Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds · Ray Bradbury · ss Gallery Apr ’76
- 377 · 4. End of the Line: Commuter Crimes
- 379 · The Riddle of the 5.28 [Hamilton Cleek] · Thomas W. Hanshew · nv The Man of the Forty Faces, Cassell, 1910
- 398 · Headhunter · Jan Carol Sabin · ss EQMM Feb ’94
- 405 · Escape to Danger · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss, 1960
- 420 · Death Decision · William F. Nolan · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul ’81
- 432 · Broker’s Special · Stanley Ellin · ss EQMM Jan ’56
- 443 · Galloping Foxley · Roald Dahl · ss Town & Country Nov ’53
- 457 · The Second Passenger · Basil Copper · ss The Dark Brotherhood Journal, 1973
- 467 · The Green Road to Quephanda [“The Green Road”] · Ruth Rendell · ss EQMM Jan 1 ’81
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The Orion Book of Murder ed. Peter Haining (Orion 0-75280-442-1, Oct ’96 [Mar ’98], £9.99, 556pp, tp) Crime/mystery anthology. A hardcover edition (-464-2, £15.99) was announced but not seen.
- 1 · Book One: Crime: Criminals and Killers
- 3 · Introduction · Peter Haining · si *; this is credited to Nicholas Rhea in the paperback reprint, which seems unlikely.
- 5 · Man with a Hobby · Robert Bloch · ss AHMM Mar ’57
- 14 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Daily Express, 1929; The Listerdale Mystery, Collins, 1934
- 23 · Evidence in Camera · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Jan ’49
- 36 · Round Trip · W. R. Burnett · ss Harper’s Aug ’29
- 46 · Morning Visit · James Hadley Chase · ss
- 53 · Murder Comes Easy · Evan Hunter · ss Real Mar ’53
- 66 · The Flaw in the System · Jim Thompson · ss EQMM Jul ’56
- 75 · Blurred View · John D. MacDonald · ss This Week Feb 23 ’64
- 80 · The Sweetest Man in the World · Donald E. Westlake · ss EQMM Mar ’67
- 89 · Prediction · Chester Himes · ss
- 97 · Going Through the Motions · Lawrence Block · ss EQMM Aug 12 ’81
- 110 · The Corder Figure · Peter Lovesey · nv Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan, 1985
- 128 · Gravy Train · James Ellroy · ss The Armchair Detective Win ’90
- 143 · A Flash of White · Andrew Vachss · ss Crossroads Press: Holyoke, MA, 1993
- 149 · Remain Nameless · Lynda La Plante · vi
- 153 · Book Two: Detection: Police and Detectives
- 155 · Introduction · Peter Haining · si *
- 157 · A Case of Christmas Spirit [Aidensfeld] · Nicholas Rhea · ss *
- 166 · The Second Skin [“The Oyster Catcher”; Insp. Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy (UK) Aug ’57; EQMM Sep ’58
- 180 · Blood Brothers [Insp. Cockrill] · Christianna Brand · ss EQMM Sep ’65
- 192 · Duello [Insp. (Chief Insp.) Poole] · Henry Wade · ss The London Magazine Apr ’30
- 207 · The Suitcase [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The (London) Evening Standard
- 217 · Confirmation [Charlie Resnick] · John Harvey · nv *
- 236 · Auld Lang Syne [Insp. John Rebus] · Ian Rankin · ss A Good Hanging and Other Stories, Century, 1992
- 248 · Sweating It Out with Dover [Insp. Wilfred Dover] · Joyce Porter · ss EQMM Aug 18 ’80
- 263 · Clutching at Straws [Chief Insp. Wexford] · Ruth Rendell · nv EQMM Oct ’79
- 287 · The Burglar [Insp. Morse] · Colin Dexter · ss You: The Mail on Sunday, 1994
- 294 · Where the Snow Lay Dinted [Supt. Andrew Dalziel] · Reginald Hill · ss Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press, 1995
- 308 · The Little Copplestone Mystery [Insp. (Supt.) Roderick Alleyn] · Ngaio Marsh · nv, 1973
- 327 · Gideon and the Young Toughs [Commander George Gideon] · John Creasey · ss, 1970
- 334 · Before Insulin [“Beyond Insulin”; Clinton Driffield] · J. J. Connington · ss The (London) Evening Standard Sep 1 ’36
- 344 · The Memorial Service [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · nv EQMM Feb ’73
- 361 · Book Three: Punishment: Private Eyes and Investigators
- 363 · Introduction · Peter Haining · si *
- 365 · Somewhere in the City [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss The Armchair Detective Spr ’90
- 382 · A Classic Forgery [as by David Durham; Fidelity Dove] · Roy Vickers · ss The Exploits of Fidelity Dove, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924; The Armchair Detective Oct ’78
- 396 · The Adventure of the Abergavenny Murder [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · vi
- 400 · Raffles and the Dangerous Game [A. J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss EQMM Jun ’76
- 415 · The Smashing of Another Racket [Simon Templar] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News Nov 12 ’33
- 426 · They Can Only Hang You Once [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · ss Colliers Nov 19 ’32
- 439 · Black Out [Slim Callaghan] · Peter Cheyney · ss
- 448 · The Sleeping Dog [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Argosy Apr ’65
- 464 · Caribbean Clues [Selena Mead] · Patricia McGerr · ss EQMM Jan ’84
- 474 · Virgil Tibbs and the Fallen Body [Virgil Tibbs] · John Ball · ss EQMM Sep ’78
- 484 · Full Moon [Pharoah Love] · George Baxt · ss The Armchair Detective Win ’94
- 494 · Willing to Kill [Mack Bolan] · Don Pendleton · ss The Great American Detective, ed. William Kittredge & Steven M. Krauzer, Mentor, 1978
- 513 · The Bottle Dungeon [Jemima Shore] · Antonia Fraser · nv Midwinter Mysteries 2, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown, 1992
- 528 · The Takamoku Joseki [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · ss AHMM Jan ’84
- 538 · She Didn’t Come Home [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · ss Redbook Apr ’86
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Pulp Friction ed. Peter Haining (London: Souvenir Press, 1996, £16.99, hc) “20 stories of private eyes, law officers and the criminal fraternity from writers old and new.” US edition (Barnes & Noble 1997) as Pulp Fictions.
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Oxford Book of American Detective Stories ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert (Oxford 0-19-508581-7, 1996, $25.00, 686pp, hc)
- 3 · Introduction · Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert · in
- 10 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine Apr, 1841
- 40 · The Stolen Cigar Case · Bret Harte · ss Pearson’s Magazine Dec ’00
- 49 · The Problem of Cell 13 [Prof. Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American Oct 30-Nov 5 ’05
- 81 · The Doomdorf Mystery [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 18 ’14
- 93 · Missing: Page Thirteen [Violet Strange] · Anna Katharine Green · nv, 1915
- 124 · The Beauty Mask [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · ss, 1917
- 142 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- 162 · The False Burton Combs · Carroll John Daly · nv Black Mask Dec ’22
- 184 · The Keyboard of Silence [Thornley Colton] · Clinton H. Stagg · nv, 1923
- 217 · A Nose for News · Richard Sale · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 1 ’34
- 239 · Spider [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator May ’34
- 261 · Leg Man [Pete Wennick] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Black Mask Feb ’38
- 295 · I’ll Be Waiting · Raymond Chandler · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 14 ’39
- 310 · The Footprint in the Sky [“Clue in the Snow”, as by Carter Dickson; Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Jan ’40
- 326 · Rear Window [“It Had to Be Murder”, as by William Irish] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine Feb ’42
- 356 · The Lipstick · Mary Roberts Rinehart · nv Cosmopolitan Jul ’42
- 375 · Homicide Highball [Dan Turner] · Robert Leslie Bellem · na Hollywood Detective Oct ’43
- 414 · An Error in Chemistry [Gavin Stevens] · William Faulkner · ss EQMM Jun ’46
- 431 · From Another World [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · nv EQMM Jun ’48
- 456 · A Daylight Adventure [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss EQMM Mar ’50
- 471 · See No Evil [“See No Murder”] · William Campbell Gault · ss New Detective Magazine Sep ’50
- 480 · Crime Must Have a Stop [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · nv EQMM Feb ’51
- 499 · Small Homicide [as by Evan Hunter] · Ed McBain · ss Manhunt Jun ’53
- 512 · Guilt-Edged Blonde [as by John Ross Macdonald; Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Manhunt Jan ’54
- 526 · Christmas Party [“The Christmas Party Murder”; Nero Wolfe; Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na Colliers Jan 4 ’57
- 570 · A Matter of Public Notice · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · nv EQMM Jul ’57
- 587 · The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue [“Abraham Lincoln’s Clue”; Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss MD Jun ’65
- 602 · Words Do Not a Book Make · Bill Pronzini · ss AHMM May ’68
- 608 · Christmas Is for Cops [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · ss EQMM Dec ’70
- 621 · Lucky Penny · Linda Barnes · ss The New Black Mask No.3, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1985
- 639 · The Parker Shotgun [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · nv Mean Streets, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1986
- 655 · Chee’s Witch [Jim Chee] · Tony Hillerman · ss The New Black Mask No.7, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1986
- 665 · Benny’s Space [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, 1991
- 683 · Credits · Misc. · b1
- 685 · Index · Misc. · ix
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