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The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories ed. Patricia Craig (Oxford University Press US, October 1990, 0-19-214187-2, $19.95, 554pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 33 classic British detective stories.

ix · Introduction · Patricia Craig · in

1 · The Stir Outside the Café Royal · Clarence Rook · ss The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine September 1898

6 · Silver Blaze [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1892, as “The Adventure of Silver Blaze”

29 · The Mysterious Visitor [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · ss Flynn’s October 25 1924

47 · The Case of Laker, Absconded [Martin Hewitt] · Arthur Morrison · nv The Windsor Magazine May 1895

68 · The Oracle of the Dog [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine December 1923

87 · The Genuine Tabard [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine January 1938, as “Trent and the Genuine Tabard”

101 · The Dead Leaves [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv The Windsor Magazine July 1936

138 · The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv The Premier Magazine #106, January 28 1921

159 · The Purple Line · John Rhode · ss The Evening Standard January 20 1950

167 · Solved by Inspection [Miles Bredon] · Ronald A. Knox · ss 1925

177 · The Henpecked Murderer [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #38, January 1947, as “The Eight Pieces of Tortoiseshell”

199 · Superintendent Wilson’s Holiday [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · nv Superintendent Wilson’s Holiday by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1928, as “Wilson’s Holiday”

225 · The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s January 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands”

243 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929

259 · Murder at Pentecost [Montague Egg] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Passing Show March 25 1933

269 · Death on the Air [Roderick Alleyn] · Ngaio Marsh & A. Drummond Sharpe · nv The Grand Magazine February 1937; given as by Ngaio Marsh alone.

294 · Miss Burnside’s Dilemma · Cyril Hare · ss (r)

305 · Daisy Bell · Gladys Mitchell · nv Detective Stories of To-Day ed. Raymond Postgate, Faber and Faber, 1940

318 · Three Is a Lucky Number · Margery Allingham · ss Argosy (UK) July 1956

327 · The Assassins’ Club [Nigel Strangeways] · Nicholas Blake · ss Detection Medley ed. John Rhode, Hutchinson, 1939, as “A Slice of Bad Luck”

335 · The House in Goblin Wood [Sir Henry Merrivale] · Carter Dickson · nv The Strand Magazine November 1947, as by John Dickson Carr

354 · The Furies [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss The Evening Standard

361 · The Hornet’s Nest [Insp. Cockrill] · Christianna Brand · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1967, as “Twist for Twist”

384 · The Murderer · Julian Symons · ss The Tigers of Subtopia and Other Stories by Julian Symons, Macmillan, 1982

394 · The Killing of Michael Finnegan [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 12 1981, as “Dangerous Game”

410 · Murder at St. Oswald’s · Michael Underwood · ss Verdict of 13 ed. Julian Symons, Faber and Faber, 1978

424 · Great-Aunt Allie’s Flypapers [Adam Dalgliesh] · P. D. James · nv Verdict of 13 ed. Julian Symons, Faber and Faber, 1978

443 · Baker Dies [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin & Geoffrey Bush · ss The Evening Standard October 30 1950, as “Who Killed Baker?”

449 · A Dangerous Thing [Mrs. Craggs] · H. R. F. Keating · ss The Mystery Guild Anthology ed. John Waite, Constable, 1980

464 · Thornapple · Ruth Rendell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 25 1981, as “The Boy Who Collected Poisons”

493 · The Oxford Way of Death · Robert Barnard · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1987

506 · Bring Back the Cat! [Joe Sixsmith] · Reginald Hill · nv There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union, and Other Stories by Reginald Hill, Collins, 1987

533 · How’s Your Mother? · Simon Brett · ss The Mystery Guild Anthology ed. John Waite, Constable, 1980

550 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

The Oxford Book of Modern Women’s Stories ed. Patricia Craig (Oxford University Press US, November 1994, 0-192-14232-1, $30.00, 522pp, hc, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905

· Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910

· Hear the Nightingale Sing · Caroline Gordon · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1945

· Je Ne Parle Pas Francias · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r)

· Miss de Mannering of Asham · F. M. Mayor · nv The Room Opposite by F. M. Mayor, Longmans, Green, 1935

· That Tree · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter, Harcourt Brace, 1930

· Look at All Those Roses · Elizabeth Bowen · ss Look at All Those Roses by Elizabeth Bowen, Gollancz, 1941

· In a Winter Landscape · Olivia Manning · ss (r)

· A Legacy · Virginia Woolf · ss The Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf, Harcourt, 1944

· First Love · Eudora Welty · ss (r)

· Is There Life Beyond the Gravy? · Stevie Smith · ss At Close of Eve ed. Jeremy Scott, Jarrolds, 1947

· Yonder Peasant, Who Is He? · Mary McCarthy · ss (r)

· Which New Era Would That Be? · Nadine Gordimer · ss The New Yorker July 9 1955

· The Day Mr. Prescott Died · Sylvia Plath · ss (r)

· The Day Stalin Died · Doris Lessing · ss (r)

· The Blush · Elizabeth Taylor · ss The New Yorker August 17 1957

· An Interest in Life · Grace Paley · ss The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley, Doubleday, 1959

· UNO 1945 · Christina Stead · ss (r)

· The Rehabilitation of Gineva Leake · Hortense Calisher · ss (r)

· The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies · Jean Stafford · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1964

· The House of the Famous Poet · Muriel Spark · ss The New Yorker April 2 1966

· Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1955

· Healthy Landscape with Dormouse · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss (r)

· Irish Rebel · Edna O’Brien · nv The New Yorker October 6 1962, as “Come Into the Drawing Room, Doris”

· The Butterfly and the Traffic Light · Cynthia Ozick · ss (r)

· Scenes of Passion and Despair · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

· Something to Tell the Girls · Jane Gardam · ss (r)

· A Star and Two Girls · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · nv The Cornhill Magazine Summer 1971

· Overture and Beginners Please · Jean Rhys · ss (r)

· Hair Jewellery · Margaret Atwood · ss Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood, McClelland and Stewart, 1977

· Puss-in-Boots · Angela Carter · ss The Straw and the Gold ed. Emma Tennant, Pierrot Books, 1979

· The Terrors of Basket Weaving · Patricia Highsmith · ss The Black House by Patricia Highsmith, Heinemann, 1981

· The Play Reading · Elizabeth Jolley · ss (r)

· In the Great War · Fay Weldon · ss (r)

· Victory Over Japan · Ellen Gilchrist · ss (r)

· On the Day That E.M. Forster Died · A. S. Byatt · ss Sugar and Other Stories by Antonia Byatt, Scribner's, 1987

· A Wife’s Story · Bharati Mukherjee · ss (r)

· A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss (r)

· Meneseteung · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker January 11 1988

· The Prophecy · Anjana Appachana · ss (r)

The Penguin Book of British Comic Writing ed. Patricia Craig (BCA, 1992, 0-670-83658-3, 460pp, tp, an)
Reprint (Penguin 1992) anthology of humorous writing.

ix · Introduction · Patricia Craig · in 1992

1 · Then and Now · Max Beerbohm · hu (r)

6 · “Noblesse Oblige” · Robert Lynd · hu (r)

11 · Mrs Grundy at the Parkers’ · E. M. Forster · hu (r)

16 · Thrillers · P. G. Wodehouse · ar Louder and Funnier by P. G. Wodehouse, Faber and Faber, 1932
revised from “A School for Movie Villains” (Vanity Fair, October 2, 1915, as by Pelham Grenville) and “About These Mystery Stories” (Saturday Evening Post, May 26, 1929).

28 · Trying to Find the Strand · James Stephens · hu (r)

31 · Men’s Clothes · Harold Nicolson · ar Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine November 1929

38 · High Life in Victorian Fiction · Hugh Kingsmill · hu (r)

43 · Topsy and the Fresh Mind · A. P. Herbert · hu (r)

47 · Femina’s Supplement · E. M. Delafield · hu (r)

56 · Meet Irene · D. B. Wyndham Lewis · hu (r)

60 · The Young Rebecca · Rebecca West · ex (r)

66 · Trousers Over Africa · “Beachcomber” · hu (r)

75 · Through Darkest Pondelayo · Serena Livingstone-Stanley · ex (r)

85 · Toujours Lamour · C. A. Lejeune · hu (r)

89 · On Not Rising to the Occasion · Elizabeth Bowen · hu (r)

94 · Faits Divers · V. S. Pritchett · hu (r)

101 · The Memoirs of Mipsie · Mary Dunn · ex (r)

113 · Boys’ Weeklies · George Orwell · hu (r)

140 · Where Engels Fears to Tread · Cyril Connolly · hu (r)

157 · The Thirties · Malcolm Muggeridge · ex (r)

174 · Awake My Soul! It Is a Lord · Evelyn Waugh · hu (r)

178 · The Gentle Art of Being Interviewed · Evelyn Waugh · ar Nash’s Annual Winter 1948/1949

184 · Laughter in the Kitchen · Lord Kinross · hu (r)

188 · A Hoax on Mr. Hulton · Graham Greene · ar The Spectator August 25 1939

192 · Bestseller · Claud Cockburn · ex (r)

206 · Diary · A. J. P. Taylor · hu (r)

221 · Under the Sugar Loaf · Louis MacNeice · hu (r)

227 · Death and Mrs Dale · Peter Fleming · hu (r)

231 · People Who Say Goodbye · P. Y. Betts · ex (r)

235 · Christmas Reviews of Books for Girls · Arthur Marshall · hu (r)

251 · Bertie’s Booster · James Cameron · hu (r)

254 · The Trade in Dublin · Flann O’Brien · hu (r)

263 · Case History · Lawrence Durrell · hu (r)

268 · Good Lord, Jeeves · Julian MacLaren-Ross · hu (r)

272 · A Boy’s Best Bodyguard · Patrick Campbell · hu (r)

280 · Doing the Cobblers’ Trot · Patrick Campbell · hu (r)

283 · How to Begin a Story · Dylan Thomas · hu (r)

287 · A Rose by Any Other Name · Anthony Carson · ex (r)

297 · Sickert at St. Peter’s · Denton Welch · hu (r)

304 · Cheap Clothes for Fat Old Women · Marghanita Laski · hu (r)

307 · A Fresh Eye · Honor Tracy · hu (r)

320 · Age-old Ceremony at Mumbles · Kingsley Amis · hu (r)

325 · Coastal Lights · Alan Ross · ex (r)

331 · Clinging to the Wreckage · John Mortimer · ex (r)

339 · My Family and Other Animals · Gerald Durrell · ex (r)

346 · Prescriptions of a Pox Doctor’s Clerk · Robert Robinson · ex (r)

355 · Wrong Notes · Bernard Levin · hu (r)

359 · Henry Miller · Brigid Brophy · hu (r)

367 · Miz Peggy · Penelope Gilliatt · hu (r)

372 · Lost Cause · Alice Thomas Ellis · hu (r)

374 · At Bay in Gear Street · Michael Frayn · ex (r)

380 · A Word in Time · Philip Howard · ex (r)

386 · Ten Days That Shook Me · Alan Bennett · hu (r)

396 · Bohemia · Alan Coren · hu (r)

403 · Thanks for the Memory · Alan Coren · hu (r)

409 · Mothers and Daughters · Auberon Waugh · hu (r)

413 · A Blizzard of Tiny Kissess · Clive James · hu (r)

422 · The Female Eunuch · Germaine Greer · ex (r)

433 · A High-class Tipple, Make No Mistake · Miles Kington · hu (r)

436 · The Life and Times of the Famous One · Miles Kington · hu (r)

439 · Journeys to the Underworld · Fiona Pitt-Kethley · ex (r)

12 Irish Ghost Stories ed. Patricia Craig (Oxford University Press, April 23, 1998, 0-19-288070-5, £4.99, x+144pp, tp, an)
Ghost anthology.

vii · Introduction · Patricia Craig · in

1 · The Legend of Stumpie’s Brae · Cecil Frances Alexander · pm (r)

7 · An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine December 1853, uncredited.

28 · The Last of Squire Ennismore · Charlotte Riddell · ss The Penny Illustrated Paper Christmas 1886

37 · The Ghost at the Rath · Rosa Mulholland · ss All the Year Round April 14 1866, uncredited.

57 · A Play-House in the Waste · George Moore · ss Untilled Field by George Moore, Lippincott, 1903

68 · Courage · Forrest Reid · ss A Garden by the Sea by Forrest Reid, 1918

76 · The Prisoner · Dorothy Macardle · ss Earth-Bound by Dorothy Macardle, Harrigan, 1924

82 · The Happy Autumn Fields · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Cornhill Magazine November 1944

101 · “Ghosts” in House on Cork Hill · J. F. Byrne · ex from Silent Years, 1953

109 · A Laugh on the Professor · Shane Leslie · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955

115 · Rich and Strange · Peter Somerville-Large · ss Irish Ghost Stories ed. Joseph Hone, Hamish Hamilton, 1977

129 · Green Roads · Maurice Leitch · ss The Hands of Cheryl Boyd and Other Stories by Maurice Leitch, 1987

143 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Domestic Stories by Mrs. Craik--- see under The Author of "John Halifax".

Romantic Tales by Mrs. Craik--- see under The Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".

The Unkind Word and Other Stories Vol. I by Mrs. Craik--- see under The Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".

The Unkind Word and Other Stories Vol. II by Mrs. Craik--- see under The Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".

Winifred’s Wooing and Other Tales by Georgiana M. Craik (Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1881, 288pp, pb, co)
Reissue (Tauchnitz 1868) collection. Vol. 943 in the “Collection of British Authors”.
Details supplied by Endre Zsoldos.

5 · Winifred’s Wooing · Georgiana M. Craik · n. (r)

229 · A Tale of Florence · Georgiana M. Craik · nv (r)

262 · Poor Christine · Georgiana M. Craik · ss Once a Week September 1 1866

The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 ed. Robert Crais (Mariner Books, 2012, 0547553986, $14.95, 396pp, tp, an)

ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw

xii · Introducton · Robert Crais · in

1 · The Hit · Tom Andes · nv Xavier Review v31 #1, 2011

22 · The Bridge Partner · Peter S. Beagle · nv Sleight of Hand by Peter S. Beagle, Tachyon, 2011

44 · Filament · K. L. Cook · ss One Story #147, March 21 2011

58 · The Funeral Bill · Jason DeYoung · ss New Orleans Review v37 #1, 2011

76 · Fifty Minutes · Joe Donnelly & Harry Shannon · ss Slake: Los Angeles 2: Crossing Over ed. Laurie Ochoa & Joseph Donnelly, Slake Media LLC, 2011

90 · Man on the Run · Kathleen Ford · ss New England Review v31 #4, 2010

104 · The Other Place · Mary Gaitskill · ss The New Yorker February 14/February 21 2011

118 · Safety · Jesse Goolsby · ss Greensboro Review December 2011

131 · Trafficking · Katherine L. Hester · ss storySouth Spring 2011

146 · Soul Anatomy · Lou Manfredo · ss New Jersey Noir ed. Joyce Carol Oates, Akashic Books, 2011

165 · The Good Samaritan · Thomas McGuane · ss The New Yorker April 25 2011

182 · Looking for Service · Nathan Oates · ss The Antioch Review Spring 2011

200 · Dog on a Cow · Gina Paoli · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 2011

216 · Vic Primeval [Robbie Brownlaw] · T. Jefferson Parker · ss San Diego Noir ed. Maryelizabeth Hart, Akashic Books, 2011

233 · Hard Truths · Thomas J. Rice · nv The New Orphic Review v14 #1, 2011

270 · Local Knowledge · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 2011

295 · Icarus · Lones Seiber · ss Indiana Review Summer 2011

312 · Trafalgar [Inspector Ian Rutledge] · Charles Todd (ghost written by Caroline Todd) · nv The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson, 2011

348 · Half-Lives [Charlie Raines] · Tim L. Williams · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2011

375 · Returning the River · Daniel Woodrell · ss The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell, Little, Brown, 2011

381 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

395 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2011 · [uncredited] · bi

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