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Best Detective Stories of the Year—1948 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1948, LC:46-5872, $2.50, 251pp, hc, an) 7 · The Inspector Is Discreet [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s June 21 1947 25 · Love Comes to Miss Lucy · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947 42 · Motive for Murder · John & Ward Hawkins · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 1 1947 71 · The Retired Hangman · Anthony Boucher · ss Shadow Mystery February/March 1947 89 · But the Patient Died [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · nv Collier’s October 18 1947 111 · The House Where Death Dwelt · Margaret Manners · nv Argosy May 1947 146 · The Adventure of the President’s Half Disme [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #39, February 1947 171 · The Key in the Lock · Harold Goldman · ss This Week 1847 187 · Revenge · Samuel Blas · ss Collier’s January 11 1947 196 · The Little French Lady’s Scalp · Alan Ritner Anderson · nv The Saturday Evening Post March 29 1947 220 · Challenge to the Reader · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #42, May 1947 237 · The Stranger on Horseback · James A. Kirch · ss Collier’s May 24 1947

Best Detective Stories of the Year—1949 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1949, LC:46-5872, $2.50, 252pp, hc, an) 9 · The Green-and-Gold String [Dr. Alcazar] · Philip MacDonald · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #59, October 1948 47 · Murder in One Scene [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss This Week May 2 1948 61 · Sentence of Death · Thomas Walsh · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 23 1948 83 · Calling All Cars! · Karl W. Detzer · ss The Blue Book Magazine February 1948 99 · The Black Door · Henry Norton · ss Argosy November 1948 117 · The Death Position Enigma [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #60, November 1948 141 · Silent Witness · Harold Goldman · ss Collier’s September 25 1948 153 · The Defense Rests · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss This Week 1948 169 · Neighborhood Killer · William Holder · ss Argosy August 1948 189 · The Laughing Butcher · Fredric Brown · ss Mystery Book Magazine Fall 1948 211 · Being a Murderer Myself · Arthur Williams · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #57, August 1948 229 · Crime in Plastics · Harry Klingsberg · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 22 1948

Best Detective Stories of the Year—1950 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1950, LC:46-5872, $2.50, 253pp, hc, an) 9 · Double Exposure · Ben Hecht · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #69, August 1949 23 · Blackmail · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss The American Magazine December 1949 43 · Murder for Two · James A. Kirch · ss Argosy June 1949 61 · A Nice, Clean Job · William Fay · ss The Elks Magazine 1949 81 · The Cat’s-Paw · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #67, June 1949 102 · The Inspector Had a Habit [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s March 26 1949 118 · The Stalking Shadow · Sidney Herschel Small · nv The Saturday Evening Post August 13 1949 139 · The Dog Died First · Bruno Fischer · nv Mystery Book Magazine Fall 1949 167 · Crisis, 1999 [Bela Joad] · Fredric Brown · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #69, August 1949 189 · Remember the Night · Day Keene · ss Argosy December 1949 209 · Brood of Evil [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Collier’s April 2 1949 229 · The Million-to-One Chance [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #72, November 1949

Best Detective Stories of the Year—1951 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1951, LC:46-5872, $2.75, 250pp, hc, an) 7 · The Gentleman from Paris · John Dickson Carr · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #77, April 1950 39 · Nearly Perfect · A. A. Milne · ss Cosmopolitan August 1950 48 · Florian Slappey—Private Eye [Florian Slappey] · Octavus Roy Cohen · nv The Elks Magazine 1950 72 · Burden of Guilt [Daniel “Pop” Egan] · John & Ward Hawkins · nv Collier’s March 4 1950 95 · A Boy’s Will · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #79, June 1950 113 · The Chinese Dagger · Sidney Herschel Small · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 9 1950 132 · McGarry and the Television Frame-Up [Dan McGarry] · Matt Taylor · ss This Week 1950 145 · Trouble on 98th Street · Frank Taubes · ss Argosy October 1950 161 · The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #78, May 1950 183 · The Foolproof Frame-Up · Harry Klingsberg · nv The Saturday Evening Post August 26 1950 205 · Into the Web · David M. Newell · ss The Elks Magazine 1950 219 · The Walking Corpse · Clayre & Michel Lipman · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #82, September 1950 245 · Murder Without Clues [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week January 29 1950

Best Detective Stories of the Year—1952 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1952, LC:46-5872, $2.75, 252pp, hc, an) 5 · Introduction · David C. Cooke · in 13 · Where Angels Fear to Tread [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #87, February 1951 43 · Total Recall · James Helvick · ss Lilliput July 1950 61 · Night in the Warehouse · Wilbur S. Peacock · ss Argosy November 1951 81 · The Man with the Sneer [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #88, March 1951 105 · Once Upon a Crime · Octavus Roy Cohen · nv The Elks Magazine 1951 129 · The Smuggler · Victor Canning · ss Lilliput June/July 1951, as “Dialogue Behind a Curtain” 137 · The Kiss-Off · John P. Foran · ss Male 1951 151 · Goodbye Forever [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #97, December 1951 177 · Kiss of Kandahar [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · nv Collier’s February 17 1951 199 · The Last Day of My Life · Allan Vaughan Elston · nv The Blue Book Magazine March 1951 227 · Murderer’s Luck · Cyril Hare · ss The Evening Standard July 17 1951 235 · The Emperor’s Dice [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #89, April 1951

Best Detective Stories of the Year—1953 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1953, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 256pp, hc, an) 9 · Mom Makes a Bet [Mom] · James Yaffe · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #110, January 1953 25 · The Dusty Drawer · Harry Muheim · ss Collier’s May 3 1952 44 · Till Death Do Us Part · James A. Kirch · nv Argosy March 1952 74 · One-Way Street [Detective Inspector Painton] · Anthony Armstrong · ss 1946 85 · Mystery of Kela Ouai · Victor Canning · ss The Evening Standard November 29 1951, as “Death of a Brother” 93 · Public Eye · Anthony Boucher · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1952 111 · Calendar Girl [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · nv Collier’s September 20 1952 132 · The Jinx Man [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #109, December 1952 162 · The Wagstaff Pearls [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week September 21 1952 174 · Stabbing in the Streets [David Wiley] · Eleazar Lipsky · nv Manhunt February 1953 195 · Death’s Eye View · John D. MacDonald · nv New Detective Magazine February 1953 243 · For Value Received [Lloyd Chalmers] · Richard Deming · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #105, August 1952

Best Detective Stories of the Year—1954 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1954, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 258pp, hc, an)     In England (Boardman 1955) as Best American Detective Stories of the Year—1954. 7 · The Case of the Irate Witness [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Collier’s January 17 1953 25 · Graveyard Shift · Steve Frazee · ss Manhunt May 1953 40 · Little Things Like That [Insp. Peter Curwen] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #118, September 1953 61 · “My Queer Dean!” [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week March 8 1953 67 · The Bystander · Oliver La Farge · ss Cosmopolitan April 1953 83 · The Revolution Racket [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv The Saint Detective Magazine January 1954 117 · Mugger Murder · Richard Deming · ss Manhunt April 1953 127 · The Killer Is Loose · John & Ward Hawkins · nv The Saturday Evening Post June 13 1953 157 · The Dead Run · W. J. Wallace · ss Collier’s January 8 1954 172 · The Attacker [Anthony J. Quinn] · Morton Wolson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #122, January 1954 193 · Small Homicide · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt June 1953 207 · Kill and Run · Frank Ward · na Cosmopolitan February 1953

Best Detective Stories of the Year—1955 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1955, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 249pp, hc, an)     10th Anniversary Edition. 9 · The Choice · Richard Deming · nv Manhunt June 1954 31 · Ticket to Death · Evan Hunter · na Argosy September 1954 91 · Perfect Alibi · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss The American Legion Magazine 1954 99 · GI Story [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1954 111 · Shopping for Death · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s June 1 1954 127 · You Can’t Trust a Man · Helen Nielsen · ss Manhunt January 1955 145 · I Always Get the Cuties · John D. MacDonald · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1954 157 · The Trapping of Tio · Burnham Carter · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 27 1954 177 · Chinese Puzzle · Richard Marsten · nv Manhunt July 1954 199 · Killer in the Club Car · David Savage · ss This Week November 14 1954 213 · Mom Sheds a Tear [Mom] · James Yaffe · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1954 237 · Confession · John M. Sitan · ss Manhunt July 1954

Best Detective Stories of the Year—1956 ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1956, LC:56-5872, $2.95, 252pp, hc, an) 9 · The Conscience of the Cop · William Fay · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 27 1955 27 · Beyond the Shadow of a Dream [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1955 48 · First Offense · Evan Hunter · nv Manhunt December 1955 73 · Safety for the Witness · John De Meyer · ss The Saint Detective Magazine March 1955 90 · A Gun at His Back · John & Ward Hawkins · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 26 1955 109 · A Face Next Door · William Holder · ss The Elks Magazine 1955 119 · Custody · Richard Deming · ss Manhunt December 1955 133 · Broker’s Special · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1956 148 · The Redhead from New Orleans · Robert J. Levin · na Male 1955 201 · The Thief of Diamonds [Tio Martinez] · Burnham Carter · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 16 1955 220 · (Untitled) · Fred Levon · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1955 233 · The Body in the Rockpit · Rufus King · ss The Saint Detective Magazine October 1955

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 12th Annual Collection ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1957, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 254pp, hc, an) 9 · Three Wives Too Many · Kenneth Fearing · nv Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1956 31 · A Criminal Mind · John D. MacDonald · ss Cosmopolitan November 1956 46 · Midnight Kill · William Fay · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 9 1956 63 · The Trouble with Ruth · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1957 76 · Terror Town · Ellery Queen · nv Argosy August 1956 106 · This Was Willi’s Day · Aaron Marc Stein · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956 133 · The Last Spin · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt September 1956 143 · No, Not Like Yesterday [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv The Saint Detective Magazine November 1956 176 · Intrigue in Diamonds · Oscar Schisgall · ss This Week August 12 1956 184 · Within the Law · John Cunningham · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 19 1956 206 · One More Mile to Go · F. J. Smith · ss Manhunt June 1956 215 · The Bizarre Affair of the Seven Nudes · Robert J. Levin · nv Male 1956

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 13th Annual Collection ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1958, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 249pp, hc, an) 5 · Introduction · David C. Cooke · in 13 · The Day of the Execution · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1957 24 · Kitchen Kill [Police File] · Jonathan Craig · nv Manhunt September 1957 47 · You Bet Your Life [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1957 69 · The Last Dark Step · Margaret Manners · ss Argosy October 1957, as by Martin Manners 85 · The Bullets Lied · John D. MacDonald · ss This Week January 6 1957 92 · Million Dollar Gesture · William Campbell Gault · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1958 128 · The Geniuses · Max Franklin · nv Manhunt June 1957 151 · Bull in a China Shop · C. B. Gilford · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1957 165 · So Pale, So Cold, So Fair · Leigh Brackett · nv Argosy July 1957 202 · Silhouette of a Killer · T. E. Brooks · ss This Week September 22 1957 212 · Say It with Flowers [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv Manhunt September 1957 239 · Secret Recipe · Charles Mergendahl · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1958

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 14th Annual Collection ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1959, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 255pp, hc, an)     Also available in the U.K. (Boardman 1960 as Best American Detective Stories of the Year: 10th Annual Collection. 9 · Suppose You Were on the Jury · Thomas Flanagan · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1958 25 · Over There—Darkness · William O’Farrell · ss Sleuth Mystery Magazine October 1958 41 · Sinner or Saint · Donald E. Westlake · nv Mystery Digest December 1958 64 · The Dark Corner · Frank Ward · na Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine January 1959 116 · Ambitious Cop · Jack Dillon · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 13 1958 134 · Wife Missing [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1958 163 · To Crack a Safe · J. W. Aaron · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1958 183 · One More Clue [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv Manhunt April 1958 205 · The Day the Children Vanished · Hugh Pentecost · nv This Week April 20 1958 (+2), as “The Children Vanished” 239 · Your Witness · Helen Nielsen · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1958

Best of the Best Detective Stories ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1960, LC:60-11550, $3.95, 279pp, hc, an)     15th volume in the Best Detective Stories of the Year series. ix · Introduction · David C. Cooke · in 15 · Body in the Barn · Margaret Manners · ss Argosy February 1945 33 · The Perfectionist · Margaret St. Clair · ss Mystery Book Magazine May 1946 49 · Revenge · Samuel Blas · ss Collier’s January 11 1947 58 · Being a Murderer Myself · Arthur Williams · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #57, August 1948 75 · Blackmail · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss The American Magazine December 1949 94 · A Boy’s Will · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #79, June 1950 112 · The Kiss-Off · John P. Foran · ss Male 1951 125 · For Value Received [Lloyd Chalmers] · Richard Deming · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #105, August 1952 139 · The Killer Is Loose · John & Ward Hawkins · nv The Saturday Evening Post June 13 1953 174 · Chinese Puzzle · Richard Marsten · nv Manhunt July 1954 193 · First Offense · Evan Hunter · nv Manhunt December 1955 215 · Three Wives Too Many · Kenneth Fearing · nv Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1956 239 · The Day of the Execution · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1957 250 · Over There—Darkness · William O’Farrell · ss Sleuth Mystery Magazine October 1958 267 · Bottle of Death · Gilbert Ralston · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 21 1959

Murder by 14 ed. David C. Cooke (Grove Press, 195?, $1.45, 384pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Merlin 1955 as My Best Murder Story) anthology.

My Best Murder Story ed. David C. Cooke (Merlin Press, 1955, LC:55-11544, $3.50, 384pp, hc, an)     Includes authors’ reasons for selecting each story. Also available in the U.K. (Boardman 1957) and as Murder by 14 (Grove). 7 · Foreword · David C. Cooke · fw 9 · The Aldine Folio Murders · Lawrence G. Blochman · nv The Dolphin 1940 38 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949 69 · Always Trust a Cop · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #105, August 1952 92 · Spider [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator May 1934 122 · Ask Me Another [Oliver Quade] · Frank Gruber · ss Black Mask June 1937 146 · A Matter of Life and Death · John & Ward Hawkins · na Cosmopolitan June 1947 199 · Snafu Murder [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #25, November 1945 223 · Portrait of a Murderer · Q. Patrick (by Richard Wilson Webb & Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1942 247 · Challenge to the Reader · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #42, May 1947 265 · The Mad Tea-Party [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Redbook Magazine October 1934 306 · The Last Man Alive · Craig Rice · na The Pursuit Detective Story Magazine #1, September 1953 328 · The Owl Hoots Twice · Sax Rohmer · ss Collier’s February 14 1948 345 · The Eleventh Juror · Vincent Starrett · nv Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories August 1927 369 · The Nightmare · David C. Cooke · ss 15 Story Detective February 1951