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The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years, 1997-2006 ed. Otto Penzler (Mariner, 2014, ebook, an) · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in · Hot Springs · James Crumley · nv Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1996 · The Weekender · Jeffery Deaver · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1996 · The Dark Snow · Brendan DuBois · ss Playboy November 1996 · Karen Makes Out [Karen Sisco] · Elmore Leonard · nv Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1996 · Red Clay · Michael Malone · nv Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1996 · Faithless · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Kenyon Review Winter 1997 · Poachers · Tom Franklin · na The Texas Review Spring 1998 · Running Out of Dog · Dennis Lehane · nv Murder and Obsession ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1999 · Lobster Night · Russell Banks · ss Esquire March 2000 · The Paperhanger · William Gay · ss Harper’s Magazine February 2000 · It Is Raining in Bejucal · John Biguenet · nv Zoetrope: All-Story Summer 2001 · Midnight Emissions · F. X. Toole · nv Murder on the Ropes ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press, 2001 · Home Sweet Home · Hannah Tinti · ss Epoch 2002 · All Through the House · Christopher Coake · nv The Gettysburg Review Summer 2003 · Disaster Stamps of Pluto · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker December 13 2004 · When All This Was Bay Ridge · Tim McLoughlin · ss Brooklyn Noir ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books, 2004 · Case Closed · Lou Manfredo · nv Brooklyn Noir ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books, 2004 · Loyalty · Scott Turow · nv Playboy January 2004 · Her Lord and Master · Andrew Klavan · ss Dangerous Women ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, 2005 · Improvisation · Ed McBain · nv Dangerous Women ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, 2005 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

The Big Book of Adventure Stories ed. Otto Penzler (Vintage, 2011, 978-0-307-47450-6, $25.00, 874pp, tp, an)     Reprints forty-seven classic adventure stories. xi · Foreword · Douglas Preston · fw xiii · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in · Sword and Sorcery 3 · The Golden Snare [Lady Fulvia of Rocca Forte] · Farnham Bishop & Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur · ss Adventure mid April 1918 15 · The Devil in Iron [Conan] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales August 1934 34 · The Mighty Manslayer [Khlit the Cossack] · Harold Lamb · nv Adventure mid October 1918 73 · The Seven Black Priests [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · nv Other Worlds May 1953 · Megalomania Rules 91 · The Master Magician [Peter the Brazen] · Loring Brent · nv Argosy February 25 1933 126 · The Most Dangerous Game · Richard Connell · nv Collier’s January 19 1924 136 · The Man Who Would Be King · Rudyard Kipling · nv The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales by Rudyard Kipling, Wheeler, 1888 158 · The Wings of Kali [Richard Wentworth (The Spider)] · Grant Stockbridge (by Norvell W. Page) · ss The Spider May 1942 · Man vs. Nature 167 · The White Silence [The Malemute Kid] · Jack London · ss Overland Monthly February 1899 174 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 178 · The Seed from the Sepulcher · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales October 1933 186 · Leiningen Versus the Ants · Carl Stephenson · nv Esquire December 1938 translated from the German (“Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen”, 1937). 200 · The Sea Raiders · H. G. Wells · ss The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement December 6 1896 · Island Paradise 209 · Hell Cay · Lester Dent · ss (r) 228 · Off the Mangrove Coast · Louis L’Amour · ss Off the Mangrove Coast by Louis L'Amour, Bantam, 2000 238 · The Golden Anaconda [Wandering Smith] · Elmer Brown Mason · nv The Popular Magazine February 20 1916 256 · Shanghai Jim · Frank L. Packard · na MacLean’s September 15 1926 279 · The Python Pit [Singapore Sammy] · George F. Worts · na Argosy May 6 1933 (+2) · Sand and Sun 327 · The Soul of a Turk · Achmed Abdullah · ss (r) 335 · Peace Waits at Marokee · H. Bedford-Jones · ss Adventure November 1940 348 · Nor Idolatry Blind the Eye · Gabriel Hunt · nv (r) 371 · The Soul of a Regiment · Talbot Mundy · ss Adventure February 1912 380 · Snake-Head [Thibaut Corday] · Theodore Roscoe · nv Argosy January 7 1939 399 · Suicide Patrol · Georges Surdez · na Adventure August 1934 431 · A Gentleman of Color [Foreign Legion: The Geste Brothers] · P. C. Wren · ss Cosmopolitan February 1929, as “Geisha Girl” · Something Feels Funny 445 · After King Kong Fell [Wold Newton] · Philip José Farmer · nv Omega ed. Roger Elwood, Walker US, 1973 455 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931 · Go West, Young Man 461 · The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907 469 · Zorro Deals with Treason [Zorro] · Johnston McCulley · nv Argosy August 18 1934 487 · Hopalong’s Hop [Hopalong Cassidy] · Clarence E. Mulford · ss Pearson’s Magazine (US) November 1912 · Future Shock 497 · The Girl in the Golden Atom [The Scientific Club] · Ray Cummings · na All-Story Weekly March 15 1919 528 · To Serve Man · Damon Knight · ss Galaxy Science Fiction November 1950 534 · Armageddon—2419 A.D. [Anthony “Buck” Rogers] · Philip Francis Nowlan · na Amazing Stories August 1928 · I Spy 581 · Woman in Love · Geoffrey Household · ss This Week 1952 588 · MacHinery and the Cauliflowers · Alistair MacLean · ss The Lonely Sea by Alistair MacLean, Collins, 1985 595 · Wheels Within Wheels [Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond] · H. C. McNeile · ss The Strand Magazine November 1937, as by Sapper 606 · A Question of Passports [Sir Percy Blakeney (Scarlet Pimpernel)] · Baroness Orczy · ss The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, Cassell, 1919 613 · Intelligence · Rafael Sabatini · ss The Grand Magazine January 1918 · Yellow Peril 625 · The Copper Bowl · George Fielding Eliot · ss Weird Tales December 1928 633 · The Hand of the Mandarin Quong · Sax Rohmer · ss Munsey’s Magazine February 1922, as “The Mystery of the Shriveled Hand” revised from “Hand of the White Sheikh”, Cassell’s Magazine December, 1920. · In Darkest Africa 647 · The Green Wildebeest [Richard Hannay; The Runagates Club] · John Buchan · nv Pall Mall Magazine September 1927 659 · The Slave Brand of Sleman Bin Ali [Sheena] · James Anson Buck · nv Stories of Sheena—Queen of the Jungle Spring 1951 685 · Fire [Aubrey St. John Major] · L. Patrick Greene · nv Short Stories June 10 1930 704 · Hunter Quatermain’s Story [Allan Quatermain] · H. Rider Haggard · ss In a Good Cause, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1885 715 · Bosambo of Monrovia [Sanders of the River] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #46, March 19 1910 723 · Black Cargo · Cornell Woolrich · nv Argosy July 31 1937 741 · Tarzan the Terrible [Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. A.C. McClurg, 1921

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories ed. Otto Penzler (Black Lizard, 2010, 978-0-307-45543-7, $25.00, 1116pp, tp, an)     Hardboiled detective fiction reprinted from the legendary pulp magazine. · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage, 2010 · Introduction · Keith Alan Deutsch · in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage, 2010 · Come and Get It [Ed Jenkins; Helen Chadwick] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv The Black Mask April 1927 · Cry Silence · Fredric Brown · ss Black Mask November 1948 · Arson Plus [The Continental Op] · Peter Collinson · ss The Black Mask October 1 1923 · Fall Guy [Jack “Flashgun” Casey] · George Harmon Coxe · nv Black Mask June 1936 · Doors in the Dark [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick Nebel · ss Black Mask February 1933 · Luck [Oscar Sail] · Lester Dent · nv The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage, 2010 an early draft of “Sail” (Black Mask October 1936). · The Maltese Falcon [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · n. Black Mask September 1929 (+4) · Ten Carats of Lead [Special Squad] · Stewart Sterling · nv Black Mask August 1940 · Murder Is Bad Luck · Wyatt Blassingame · nv Black Mask March 1940 · Her Dagger Before Me [Ed Rivers (aka Lloyd Carter)] · Talmage Powell · nv Black Mask July 1949 · One-Shot · Charles G. Booth · ss The Black Mask June 1925 · The Dancing Rats · Richard Sale · nv Black Mask June 1942 not the same as the story of the same name in the February 27, 1937 issue of Detective Fiction Weekly. · Bracelets [Tex of the Border Service] · Katherine Brocklebank · ss Black Mask December 1928 · Diamonds Mean Death · Thomas Walsh · ss Black Mask March 1936 · Murder in the Ring · Raoul Whitfield · nv Black Mask December 1930 · The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk [“Sah-jin” O’Hara] · Walter C. Brown · ss Black Mask January 1942 · Let the Dead Alone [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv Black Mask July 1942 · Knights of the Open Palm [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · ss The Black Mask June 1 1923 · Waiting for Rusty · William Cole · ss Black Mask October 1939 · Rainbow Diamonds · Ramon Decolta · gp (r) _ · Diamonds of Dread [Jo Gar] · Ramon Decolta · ss Black Mask February 1931 _ · The Man in White [Jo Gar] · Ramon Decolta · ss Black Mask March 1931 _ · The Blind Chinese [Jo Gar] · Ramon Decolta · ss Black Mask April 1931 _ · Red Dawn [Jo Gar] · Ramon Decolta · ss Black Mask May 1931 _ · Blue Glass [Jo Gar] · Ramon Decolta · ss Black Mask July 1931 _ · Diamonds of Death [Jo Gar] · Ramon Decolta · ss Black Mask August 1931 · The Ring on the Hand of Death · William Rollins, Jr. · nv The Black Mask April 1 1924 · Body Snatcher [Jerry Tracy] · Theodore A. Tinsley · nv Black Mask February 1936 · Murder on the Gayway [Beeker] · Dwight V. Babcock · nv Black Mask October 1939 · The Key [Lieutenant Canavan; Lieutenant Kleinschmidt] · Cleve F. Adams · nv Black Mask July 1940 · The Bloody Bokhara · William Campbell Gault · nv Black Mask November 1948 · A Taste for Cognac [Mike Shayne] · Brett Halliday · nv Black Mask November 1944 · Sauce for the Gander · Day Keene · ss Black Mask May 1943 · A Little Different [Bill Lennox] · W. T. Ballard · nv Black Mask September 1933 · The Shrieking Skeleton · Charles M. Green · nv The Black Mask December 15 1923 · Drop Dead Twice · Hank Searls · ss Black Mask March 1950 · The Sound of the Shot [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv Black Mask September 1946 · Flaming Angel · Frederick C. Davis · nv Black Mask March 1949 · Odds on Death · Don M. Mankiewicz · ss Black Mask November 1948 · Those Catrini [Jules Tremaine] · Norvell Page · ss Black Mask February 1933 · Smoke in Your Eyes · Hugh B. Cave · nv Black Mask December 1938 · Blood, Sweat and Biers [Cellini Smith] · Robert Reeves · ss Black Mask January 1945 · The Black Bottle · Whitman Chambers · nv Black Mask April 1936 · The Corpse Didn’t Kick · Milton K. Ozaki · ss Black Mask November 1949 · Try the Girl [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask January 1937 · Don’t You Cry for Me [John Collins] · Norbert Davis · ss Black Mask May 1942 · T. McGuirk Steals a Diamond [T. McGuirk] · Ray Cummings · ss The Black Mask December 1922 · Wait for Me · Steve Fisher · ss Black Mask May 1938 · Ask Me Another [Oliver Quade] · Frank Gruber · ss Black Mask June 1937 · Dirty Work [Jerry Frost] · Horace McCoy · ss Black Mask September 1929 · Merely Murder [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv Black Mask July 1944 · Murder in One Syllable · John D. MacDonald · nv Black Mask May 1949 · Three Apes from the East · H. H. Stinson · nv Black Mask March 1938 · Death Stops Payment [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · ss Black Mask July 1940 · The Color of Honor · Richard Connell · ss The Black Mask June 1 1923 · Middleman for Murder · Bruno Fischer · ss Black Mask November 1947 · The Man Who Chose the Devil [Manville Moon] · Richard Deming · nv Black Mask May 1948 · Beer-Bottle Polka [Tim Skeat] · C. M. Kornbluth · ss Black Mask September 1946 · Borrowed Crime · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask July 1939

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps ed. Otto Penzler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, November 2007, 978-0-307-28048-0, $25.00, 1150pp, tp, an, cover by Rafael De Soto)     Omnibus edition of Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters (Quercus 2006), Pulp Fiction: The Villains (Quercus 2007), and Pulp Fiction: The Dames, to be published by Quercus in 2008. xi · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw · The Crimefighters 3 · Introduction · Harlan Coben · fw Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters ed. Otto Penzler, Quercus, 2006, as “Foreword” 4 · One, Two, Three · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask May 1933 15 · The Creeping Siamese [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask March 1926 25 · Honest Money [Ken Corning] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Black Mask November 1932 44 · Frost Rides Alone [Jerry Frost] · Horace McCoy · ss Black Mask March 1930 64 · Double Check · Thomas Walsh · ss Black Mask July 1933 78 · Stag Party [McFee] · Charles G. Booth · nv Black Mask November 1933 111 · The City of Hell! · Leslie T. White · nv Black Mask October 1935 133 · Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 1938 161 · Wise Guy [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick Nebel · nv Black Mask April 1930 185 · Murder Picture [Jack “Flashgun” Casey] · George Harmon Coxe · nv Black Mask January 1935 210 · The Price of a Dime [Ben Shaley] · Norbert Davis · ss Black Mask April 1934 220 · Chicago Confetti [Percy Warren] · William Rollins, Jr. · ss Black Mask March 1932 237 · Two Murders, One Crime · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask July 1942, as “Three Kills for One 3 Kills for 1” 259 · The Third Murderer [Race Williams; The Flame] · Carroll John Daly · na Black Mask June 1931 (+2), as ““The Flame” and Race Williams” · The Villains 377 · I, Felon · Harlan Ellison · in Pulp Fiction: The Villains ed. Otto Penzler, Quercus, 2007 380 · The Cat-Woman [Ed Jenkins] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv The Black Mask February 1927 406 · Dilemma of the Dead Lady · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly July 4 1936 426 · The House of Kaa [Dean Bradley (The Cobra)] · Richard B. Sale · ss Ten Detective Aces February 1934 436 · The Invisible Millionaire [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv The Daily Mail May 10 1938 - May 24 1938 471 · You’ll Always Remember Me · Steve Fisher · ss Black Mask March 1938 484 · Faith · Dashiell Hammett · ss Pulp Fiction: The Villains ed. Otto Penzler, Quercus, 2007 491 · Pastorale · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury March 1928 497 · The Sad Serbian [Sam Cragg] · Frank Gruber · nv Black Mask March 1939 512 · Finger Man [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · na Black Mask October 1934 541 · The Monkey Murder [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine January 1939 571 · About Kid Deth · Raoul F. Whitfield · nv Black Mask February 1931 595 · The Sinister Sphere [Steve Thatcher (The Moon Man)] · Frederick C. Davis · nv Ten Detective Aces May/June 1933 615 · Pigeon Blood · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask November 1933 629 · The Perfect Crime · C. S. Montanye · ss The Black Mask July 1920 636 · You’ll Die Laughing · Norbert Davis · nv Black Mask November 1940 656 · The Crimes of Richmond City · gp (r) 657 · i) Raw Law [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick L. Nebel · nv Black Mask September 1928 680 · ii) Dog Eat Dog [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick L. Nebel · nv Black Mask October 1928 702 · iii) The Law Laughs Last [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick L. Nebel · nv Black Mask November 1928 723 · iv) Law Without Law [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick L. Nebel · ss Black Mask April 1929 742 · v) Graft [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick L. Nebel · nv Black Mask May 1929 · The Dames 767 · Introduction · Laura Lippman · in 769 · Angel Face [Nick Burns] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask October 1937, as “Face Work” 785 · Chosen to Die [Duke & Phyllis Martindel] · Leslie T. White · nv Dime Detective Magazine December 1 1934 807 · A Pinch of Snuff · Eric Taylor · ss Black Mask June 1929 819 · Killer in the Rain [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask January 1935 844 · Sally the Sleuth: Matinee Murder [Sally the Sleuth] · Adolphe Barreaux · cs Spicy Detective Stories February 1937 847 · Sally the Sleuth: Hawaiian Spy Hunt [Sally the Sleuth] · Adolphe Barreaux · cs Spicy Detective Stories April 1941 851 · A Shock for the Countess · C. S. Montanye · ss The Black Mask March 15 1923 859 · Snowbound [Queen Sue] · C. B. Yorke · nv Gangster Stories October 1931 881 · The Girl Who Knew Too Much · Randolph Barr · ss Spicy Detective Stories April 1941 889 · The Corpse in the Crystal · D. B. McCandless · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 30 1937 903 · He Got What He Asked For [Sarah Watson] · D. B. McCandless · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 16 1937 917 · Gangster’s Brand · P. T. Luman · nv Gun Molls Magazine August 1931 933 · Dance Macabre · Robert Reeves · nv Black Mask April 1941 953 · The Girl with the Silver Eyes [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The Black Mask June 1924 978 · The Jane from Hell’s Kitchen · Perry Paul · nv Gun Molls Magazine October 1930 998 · The Duchess Pulls a Fast One [Katie Blayne (The Duchess)] · Whitman Chambers · ss Detective Fiction Weekly September 19 1936 1009 · Mansion of Death · Roger Torrey · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 25 1940 1019 · Concealed Weapon [Pat McCarthy] · Roger Torrey · ss Black Mask December 1938 1035 · The Devil’s Bookkeeper · Carlos Martinez · ss Gun Molls Magazine August 1931 1045 · Black Legion [Ellen Patrick (The Domino Lady)] · Lars Anderson · ss Saucy Romantic Adventures October 1936 1058 · Three Wise Men of Babylon [Daffy Dill] · Richard Sale · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 1 1939 1070 · The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon [Vivian Legrand (The Lady from Hell)] · Eugene Thomas · nv Detective Fiction Weekly February 1 1936 1089 · Brother Murder [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · na Detective Fiction Weekly December 2 1939 1119 · Kindly Omit Flowers [Special Squad] · Stewart Sterling · nv Black Mask March 1942 1143 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Stories by African-American Writers ed. Otto Penzler (Pegasus, March 2009, 1605980579, $14.95, 336pp, tp, an) ix · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · Old Boys, Old Girls · Edward P. Jones · nv The New Yorker May 3 2004 33 · I’ll Be Doggone [Charlotte Justice] · Paula L. Woods · ss Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Summer 1998 53 · Corollary [Joe Hill] · Hughes Allison · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #56, July 1948 79 · Oprah’s Song · Robert Greer · nv (r) 113 · On Saturday the Siren Sounds at Noon · Ann Petry · ss The Crisis December 1943 123 · The Sheriff’s Children · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss New York Independent November 7 1889 145 · House of Tears · Gary Phillips · ss Never Safe, Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc., 2006 169 · The Canasta Club · Eleanor Taylor Bland · nv Murder on Route 66 ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley, 1999 195 · Talma Gordon · Pauline E. Hopkins · ss Colored American Magazine 1900 219 · Strictly Business · Chester Himes · ss Esquire February 1942 231 · John Archer’s Nose [Dr. John Archer; Sgt. Perry Dark] · Rudolph Fisher · na The Metropolitan January 1935 287 · The Shoemaker Murder · George S. Schuyler · ss Pittsburgh Courier 1933, as by William Stockton 299 · The First Rule Is · Gar Anthony Haywood · ss Black Noir March 3 2009 321 · Summer Session · Alice Dunbar Nelson · ss (r) 331 · Black Dog [Socrates Fortlow] · Walter Mosley · ss Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley, Norton, 1997

Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives, Volume 1 ed. Otto Penzler (Black Lizard, July 27, 2010, 978-0-307-74184-4, $7.99, xvi+396pp, pb, an, cover by Henry Steadman)     Reprints the first third of The Vampire Archives (Black Lizard, 2009). Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in The Vampire Archives ed. Otto Penzler, Black Lizard, 2009 xiii · Preface · Neil Gaiman · pr The Vampire Archives ed. Otto Penzler, Black Lizard, 2009 3 · Good Lady Ducayne · M. E. Braddon · nv The Strand Magazine February 1896 37 · An Authenticated Vampire Story · Franz Hartmann · ar The Occult Review September 1909 44 · The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be · Gahan Wilson · ss Playboy May 1967 60 · The Man Upstairs · Ray Bradbury · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1947 76 · Chastel [Lee Cobbett; Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] · Manly Wade Wellman · nv The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VII ed. Gerald W. Page, DAW, 1979 107 · La Belle Dame Sans Merci · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats, Edward Moxon, 1848 written in 1819. A somewhat different version was published in The Indicator, May 10, 1820. 109 · An Episode of Cathedral History · M. R. James · ss The Cambridge Review June 10 1914 130 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914 written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length. 146 · The Old Portrait · Hume Nisbet · ss The Penny Illustrated Paper February 22 1896 152 · Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Fur · Tanith Lee · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1984, as “Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Feu” 186 · The Silver Collar · Garry Kilworth · ss Blood Is Not Enough ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1989 203 · The Story of Chūgorō · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Kottō by Lafcadio Hearn, Macmillan, 1902 209 · Stragella · Hugh B. Cave · nv Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror June 1932 242 · Popsy · Stephen King · ss Masques II ed. J. N. Williamson, Maclay, 1987 259 · Blood · Fredric Brown · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1955 261 · Revelations in Black · Carl Jacobi · nv Weird Tales April 1933 290 · The Death of Ilalotha [Zothique] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales September 1937 304 · When Gretchen Was Human · Mary A. Turzillo · ss The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2001 322 · Replacements · Lisa Tuttle · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 342 · Carrion Comfort · Dan Simmons · nv Omni September 1983 (+1)

Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop ed. Otto Penzler (Vanguard Press, 2010, 978-1-59315-617-6, $24.95, 245pp, hc, an)     Seventeen stories with a holiday theme, each previously published only as a limited-edition chapbook. ix · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · Give Till It Hurts [John Dortmunder] · Donald E. Westlake · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 1993 9 · Schemes and Variations [Pharoah Love] · George Baxt · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 1994 25 · The Theft of the Rusty Bookmark [Nick Velvet] · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 1995 37 · Murder for Dummies · Ron Goulart · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 1996 53 · As Dark as Christmas Gets [Chip Harrison; Leo Haig] · Lawrence Block · nv The Mysterious Bookshop, 1997 81 · The Holiday Fairy [John Francis Cuddy] · Jeremiah Healy · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 1998 95 · I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus · Ed McBain · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 1999 111 · The Grift of the Magi · S. J. Rozan · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2000 119 · My Object All Sublime · Anne Perry · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2001 135 · Christmas Spirit [Cuddy Mangum] · Michael Malone · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2002 149 · The Lesson of the Season · Thomas H. Cook · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2003 161 · Yule Be Sorry · Lisa Atkinson · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2004 171 · The Long Winter’s Nap · Rupert Holmes · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2005 189 · Cold Reading · Charles Ardai · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2006 203 · The Killer Christian · Andrew Klavan · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 219 · The 74th Tale · Jonathan Santlofer · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008 231 · What’s in a Name? · Mary Higgins Clark · ss The Mysterious Bookshop, 2009

Coffins: The Vampire Archives, Volume 3 ed. Otto Penzler (Black Lizard, November 23, 2010, 978-0-307-74223-0, $7.99, ix+502pp, pb, an)     Reprints the final third of The Vampire Archives (Black Lizard, 2009). Details taken from online listing. 3 · The Living Dead · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1967 13 · Dracula’s Chair · Peter Tremayne · ss The Count Dracula Fan Club Book of Vampire Stories ed. Jeanne Youngson, Adams Press, 1980 a previously unpublished deletion from Tremayne’s novel The Revenge of Dracula, 1978. 29 · The Last Lords of Gardonal [The Innominato] · William Gilbert · nv The Argosy (UK) July 1867 (+2), as “The Lords of Gardonal” by The Author of “Doctor Austin’s Guests” 85 · The Horla · Guy de Maupassant · nv Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, St. Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Le Horla” (revised and expanded version), Le Horla, Paul Ollendorff, May 1887). 122 · The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine January 1924 147 · The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady · Brian Stableford · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 1988 181 · Wailing Well · M. R. James · ss Mill House Press, 1928 197 · Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time · Harlan Ellison · ss MidAmeriCon Program Book 1976 204 · A Mystery of the Campagna · Anne Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1887, 1886, as by Von Degen 255 · The Vampire · Vasile Alecsandrai; translated by William Beatty-Kingston · pm The English Illustrated Magazine November 1886 translated from the Romanian (“Strigoiul”). 259 · Duty · Ed Gorman · ss Under the Fang ed. Robert R. McCammon, Pocket, 1991 274 · The Men and Women of Rivendale · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Night Visions 1 ed. Alan Ryan, Dark Harvest, 1984 288 · Doctor Porthos · Basil Copper · ss The Midnight People ed. Peter Haining, Leslie Frewin, 1968 298 · The Singular Death of Morton · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Tramp December 1910 313 · Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · nv American Museum September 18 1838 337 · When It Was Moonlight · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Unknown February 1940 359 · Four Wooden Stakes · Victor Roman · ss Weird Tales February 1925 376 · Blood-Lust [Dr. Taverner] · Dion Fortune · ss The Royal Magazine May 1922 401 · A Case of Alleged Vampirism · Luigi Capuana · ts 1907, as “A Vampire” 421 · Midnight Mass · F. Paul Wilson · na Axolotl Press, 1990

Criminal Records ed. Otto Penzler (Orion, April 2000, 0-75282-171-7, £10.99, viii+459pp, tp, oa)     Collection of 15 crime novellas, twelve original, and three reprint (including Peter Straub’s “Pork Pie Hat”, 1994). Includes McBain, Keating, Susan Moody. A hardcover edition (-170-9, £17.99) was announced but not seen. vii · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · The Lost Boy · Robert Barnard · na 27 · Dancing with Billy · K. C. Constantine · nv 55 · Staying Away from Amy · Jane Haddam · nv 83 · The Honeyed Axe [Insp. Ganesh Ghote] · H. R. F. Keating · nv 113 · Cemetery Plot · Mary Anne Kelly · nv 143 · The Sedgemoor Strangler · Peter Lovesey · nv 173 · Love and Other Crimes · Michael Malone · nv 201 · Driving Lessons · Ed McBain · nv Orion, 1999 235 · No Connection · Susan Moody · nv 265 · A Dish Taken Cold · Anne Perry · nv 293 · Death Is Not the End [Insp. John Rebus] · Ian Rankin · na Orion, 1998 325 · A Tale About a Tiger · S. J. Rozan · nv 355 · The Poster Boy · Stephen Solomita · nv 387 · Pork Pie Hat · Peter Straub · na Murder for Halloween ed. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, Mysterious Press, 1994 429 · The Case of the Scottish Tragedy [Sherlock Holmes] · June Thomson · nv

Dangerous Women ed. Otto Penzler (Mysterious Press, January 2005, 0-89296-004-3, $24.95, 384pp, hc, oa)     Original anthology of 17 stories. ix · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · Improvisation · Ed McBain · nv 23 · Cielo Azul · Michael Connelly · ss 45 · Give Me Your Heart · Joyce Carol Oates · ss 61 · Karma [Leonid McGill] · Walter Mosley · na 109 · Dear Penthouse Forum (a First Draft) · Laura Lippman · ss 119 · Rendezvous · Nelson DeMille · nv 153 · What She Offered · Thomas H. Cook · ss 171 · Her Lord and Master · Andrew Klavan · ss 183 · Mr. Gray’s Folly · John Connolly · ss 201 · Thousand Miles from Nowhere · Lorenzo Carcaterra · nv 225 · Witness · J. A. Jance · ss 239 · Soft Spot · Ian Rankin · nv 267 · Third Party · Jay McInerney · ss 281 · The Last Kiss · S. J. Rozan · ss 291 · Sneaker Wave · Anne Perry · nv 321 · Louly and Pretty Boy · Elmore Leonard · ss 341 · Born Bad · Jeffery Deaver · nv

Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table ed. Otto Penzler (Harcourt, November 2007, 0-15-101277-6, $25.00, 400pp, hc, oa) ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xiii · Introduction · Howard Lederer · in 1 · Mister In-Between · Walter Mosley · nv 24 · Bump · Jeffery Deaver · na 68 · In the Eyes of Children · Alexander McCall Smith · ss 77 · One Dollar Jackpot · Michael Connelly · nv 116 · Strip Poker · Joyce Carol Oates · nv 141 · The Stake · Sam Hill · ss 158 · Pitch Black · Christopher Coake · na 201 · Deal Me In · Parnell Hall · nv 230 · Poker and Shooter · Sue DeNymme · nv 251 · The Monks of the Abby Victoria · Rupert Holmes · nv 275 · The Eastvale Ladies’ Poker Circle · Peter Robinson · nv 307 · The Uncertainty Principle · Eric Van Lustbader · ss 327 · Hardly Knew Her · Laura Lippman · ss 343 · A Friendly Little Game · John Lescroart · nv 366 · Missing the Morning Bus · Lorenzo Carcaterra · nv

Fangs: The Vampire Archives, Volume 2 ed. Otto Penzler (Black Lizard, August 2010, 978-0-307-74185-1, $7.99, viii+548pp, pb, an, cover by Sami Sarkis & Henry Steadman)     Reprints the second third of The Vampire Archives (Black Lizard, 2009). Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in The Vampire Archives ed. Otto Penzler, Black Lizard, 2009 3 · Down Among the Dead Men · Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois · nv Oui July 1982 36 · Drink My Red Blood · Richard Matheson · ss Imagination April 1951 46 · The Hound [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales February 1924 56 · The Parasite · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Harper’s Weekly November 10 1884 (+3) 110 · The Giaour · Lord Byron · ex John Murray, 1813 113 · The Master of Rampling Gate · Anne Rice · nv The Ultimate Dracula ed. Byron Preiss, David Keller & Megan Miller, Dell, 1991 expanded from Redbook Feb ’84. 147 · The Vampire Maid · Hume Nisbet · ss Stories Weird and Wonderful by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White, 1900 155 · Special · Richard Laymon · nv Under the Fang ed. Robert R. McCammon, Pocket, 1991 179 · A Week in the Unlife · David J. Schow · ss A Whisper of Blood ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1991 185 · Princess of Darkness · Frederick Cowles · ss Dracula’s Brood ed. Richard Dalby, Crucible, 1987 211 · The Girl with the Hungry Eyes · Fritz Leiber · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949 231 · The Room in the Tower · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine January 1912 247 · Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] · Sheridan Le Fanu · na The Dark Blue December 1871 (+3) 338 · The Sad Story of a Vampire · (Count) Eric Stenbock · ss Studies of Death: Romantic Tales by Stanislaus Eric & Count Stenbock, London, 1894, as “The True Story of a Vampire” 349 · Necros · Brian Lumley · ss The Second Book of After Midnight Stories ed. Amy Myers, Kimber, 1986 371 · Human Remains · Clive Barker · nv Clive Barker’s Books of Blood, Vol. III by Clive Barker, Sphere, 1984 429 · The Stone Chamber · H. B. Marriott Watson · nv The Heart of Miranda by H. B. Marriott Watson, John Lane, 1898 471 · The Werewolf and the Vampire · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv The Monster Club by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, NEL, 1976 506 · Aylmer Vance and the Vampire [Aylmer Vance] · Alice & Claude Askew · nv The Weekly Tale-Teller #274, August 1 1914, as “The Vampire” 532 · The Drifting Snow · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales February 1939

The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time ed. Otto Penzler (Dove Books, May 1998, 0-7871-0963-0, $25.00, 567pp, hc, an) vii · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 13 · A Terribly Strange Bed · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words #109, April 24 1852, uncredited. 23 · The Three Strangers · Thomas Hardy · nv Longman’s Magazine March 1883 37 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 53 · The Corpus Delicti [Randolph Mason] · Melville Davisson Post · nv The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason by Melville Davisson Post, Putnam, 1896 71 · Gentlemen and Players [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Cassell’s Magazine August 1898 83 · A Journey · Edith Wharton · ss Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton, Scribner, 1899 91 · The Leopard Man’s Story · Jack London · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly August 1903 95 · A Retrieved Reformation · O. Henry · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903, as “A Retrieved Reform” 101 · The Problem of Cell 13 [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American October 30 1905 - November 5 1905, as “The Mystery of Cell 13” 123 · The Absent-Minded Coterie [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905 145 · The Invisible Man [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 28 1911 159 · The Infallible Godahl [The Infallible Godahl; Oliver Armiston] · Frederick Irving Anderson · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 15 1913 179 · The Adventure of the Unique “Hamlet” [Sherlock Holmes] · Vincent Starrett · ss self-published, December 1920, as “The Unique Hamlet” 191 · The Gioconda Smile · Aldous Huxley · nv The English Review August 1921 211 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 219 · The Killers [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927 227 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 239 · The Little House at Croix-Rousse [Joseph Leborgne] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #48, November 1947 translated from the French (“Le Pavillon de la Croix-Rousse”, as by Georges Sim, Détective, May 2, 1929 & May 16, 1929). 243 · The Case of the Missing Patriarchs · Logan Clendening, M.D. · vi Edwin B. Hill, August 1934 245 · Clerical Error · James Gould Cozzens · vi Redbook Magazine August 1935, as “Foot in It” 249 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 259 · The Chaser · John Collier · ss The New Yorker December 28 1940 263 · The Perfect Crime · Ben Ray Redman · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1928 275 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales July 1943 289 · The Blind Spot · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #25, November 1945 297 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942 303 · Recipe for Murder · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss The American Legion Magazine January 1947 307 · The Nine Mile Walk [Nicky Welt] · Harry Kemelman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947 313 · Kill or Be Killed · Ogden Nash · ss Collier’s October 25 1947, as “The Other Mind Reader” 315 · The Specialty of the House · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #54, May 1948 327 · Nearly Perfect · A. A. Milne · ss Cosmopolitan August 1950 333 · The Gettysburg Bugle [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #90, May 1951, as “As Simple as ABC” 347 · The Last Spin · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt September 1956 353 · Stand Up and Die! · Mickey Spillane · nv Cavalier #60, June 1958 391 · A New Leaf · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1963, as “The Green Heart” 405 · The Snail-Watcher · Patricia Highsmith · ss Gamma #3, 1964 411 · The Long Way Down · Edward D. Hoch · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1965 425 · The Man Who Never Told a Lie [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1972 433 · I Have · John Gardner · ss Hideaway by John Gardner, Corgi, 1968 439 · Quitters, Inc. · Stephen King · ss Night Shift by Stephen King, Doubleday, 1978 453 · Horn Man · Clark Howard · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 2 1980 463 · The New Girl Friend · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1983 471 · By the Dawn’s Early Light [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv Playboy August 1984 485 · Iris · Stephen Greenleaf · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984 499 · High Darktown [Lee Blanchard] · James Ellroy · nv The New Black Mask No.5 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986 513 · The Case of the Pietro Andromache [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1988 529 · Soft Monkey · Harlan Ellison · ss Mystery Scene Reader ed. Edward Gorman, Fedora, 1987 539 · The Hand of Carlos · Charles McCarry · ss The Armchair Detective Fall 1992 557 · Karen Makes Out [Karen Sisco] · Elmore Leonard · nv Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1996

In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero ed. Otto Penzler (Smart Pop, 2012, 978-1-935618-57-7, $14.95, 252pp, tp, nf) [Ref. Robert B. Parker]     Some of today’s bestselling mystery authors discuss Parker and his impact. Awards: Finalist for the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical. 1 · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 11 · Songs Spenser Taught Me · Ace Atkins · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 27 · Voice of the City · Dennis Lehane · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 43 · They Like the Way It Sounds · Lawrence Block · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 57 · Spenser’s Code of Humor · Parnell Hall · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 75 · Parker and Spenser: A Collaboration · Loren D. Estleman · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 91 · Bob, Boston, and Me: A Remembrance · Jeremiah Healy · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 113 · A Man for All Seasonings · Brendan DuBois · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 131 · Spenser and the Art of the Family Table · Lyndsay Faye · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 147 · Looking for Hawk · Gary Phillips · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 163 · Who Is Silverman, What Is She? · S. J. Rozan · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 173 · A Look at Spenser: For Hire · Max Allan Collins & Matthew Clemens · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 193 · Go East, Young Man: Robert B. Parker, Jesse Stone, and Spenser · Reed Farrel Coleman · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 211 · Parker Saddles Up: The Westerns of Robert B. Parker · Ed Gorman · ar [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 231 · Spenser: A Profile · Robert B. Parker · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2012 [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 249 · A Bibliography of the Works of Robert B. Parker · [uncredited] · bi [Ref. Robert B. Parker] 253 · Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Kwik Krimes ed. Otto Penzler (Thomas & Mercer, August 20, 2013, 978-1-61218-300-8, $14.95, xv+321pp, tp, oa) xiii · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · Lambs of God · Patricia Abbott · vi Spinetingler (online) January 6 2012 5 · The Day After Tomorrow · Richard Aleas · vi 8 · Hansel, Gretel, and the Witch · Gary Alexander · vi 13 · Preparations · Tasha Alexander · vi 17 · Thunder at the Horizon · Charles Ardai · vi 20 · Fortune · Erik Arneson · vi Shotgun Honey July 2012 24 · One Person’s Clutter · Albert Ashforth · vi 28 · Fightin’ Man · N. J. Ayres · vi 32 · Break-In · Eric Beetner · vi A Twist of Noir July 13 2012 36 · Once Upon a Time in the Woods · Raymond Benson · vi 40 · Job Opening · John Billheimer · vi 45 · The Chair · Peter Blauner · vi 49 · Sucker’s Bet · James O. Born · vi 53 · Entitled · Rhys Bowen · vi 58 · Get the Confession · Jay Brandon · vi 62 · Piece of Cake · R. Thomas Brown · vi Shotgun Honey August 2012 66 · Thug City · Ken Bruen · vi 70 · What You Wish For · C. E. Lawrence · vi 75 · Where’s Dad? · Peter Cannon · vi 79 · They’ll Call Me Whistlin’ Pete · Chuck Caruso · vi 83 · The Bunny · William E. Chambers · vi 87 · The Banyan Tree · Joe Clifford · ss Close to the Bone (online) June 18 2012 91 · Acknowledgments · Christopher Coake · vi 93 · The Terminal · Reed Farrel Coleman · vi 97 · The Ant Who Carried Stones · David Corbett · vi 102 · Watch the Skies · Bill Crider · vi 106 · A Foolproof Plan · Bruce DeSilva · vi 111 · A Tree in Texas · Jo Dereske · vi 116 · After · Tyler Dilts · vi 121 · Next Right · Sean Doolittle · vi 125 · The Professional · Brendan Dubois · vi 129 · The Promise · Warren C. Easley · vi Every Day Fiction September 8 2012 133 · A Student of History · Gerald Elias · vi 135 · Wolfe on the Roof [Claudius Lyon & Arnie Woodbine] · Loren D. Estleman · vi 139 · Hit Me · Christa Faust · vi Out of the Gutter #2, 2007 142 · Beneath the Bridge · Lyndsay Faye · vi 147 · The Girl Who Loved French Films · Christopher Fowler · ss 150 · David to Goliath · Matthew C. Funk · vi Shotgun Honey April 2012 154 · The One Who Got Away · Jim Fusilli · vi 158 · Halloween · Carolina Garcia Aguilera · vi 162 · The Old Gal · Gregory Gibson · vi 166 · Necessity · Ed Gorman · vi 169 · Lost Cat · Ron Goulart · vi 173 · Sunday in the Park with Sarge · Chris Grabenstein · vi 178 · Nails · James Grady · vi 182 · Lye · Derek Haas · vi 186 · The Pledge · Parnell Hall · vi 190 · Games People Play · Bruce Harris · vi 194 · Built with Love · Jamie Harrison · vi 198 · The Gun with Two Triggers · Rob W. Hart · vi 202 · Blindfolded · John Harvin · vi 206 · Present Company · Michael Haynes · vi Every Day Fiction July 24 2012 211 · The Einstein Divorce · Gar Anthony Haywood · vi 215 · Fringe Benefit · Jeremiah Healy · vi 219 · Wyolene · Sam Hill · vi 223 · Aka · Steve Hockensmith · vi 228 · Hijackers · Chuck Hogan · vi 233 · Full Bloom · Wendy Hornsby · vi 237 · The Blackmailers Wanted More · David Housewright · vi 241 · Nothing Left to Lose · Dana C. Kabel · vi 245 · In the Hours Before Her Death · Michael Kardos · vi 249 · Arson and Old Luce · Marvin Kaye · vi 253 · Daddy’s Girl · Nicola Kennington · vi 257 · Countdown · John Kenyon · vi ThrillsKillsnChills April 2011 262 · ATM: Get Cash Inside · Jonathon King · vi 266 · Testimony · Andrew Klavan · vi 269 · Losing My Religion · K. A. Laity · vi Spinetingler (online) June 29 2012 274 · The Tenth Notch · Jon Land · vi 278 · The Ear · Joe R. Lansdale · vi 282 · The Imperfect Detective · Janice Law · vi 286 · Michael Coalhouse · Adrian McKinty · vi Adrian McKinty’s Blog January 29 2013 289 · Dog · Charles McLeod · vi Fried Chicken and Coffee April 1 2012 292 · Slow Roasted · M. B. Manteufel · vi Yellow Mama February 2012 295 · Saturday Night Live · Paul Newman · vi Grift Flash April 4 2012 298 · Dealer Sets Price · Tom Pitts · vi Flash Fiction Offensive April 19 2012 301 · Death Buys a Burger · Stephen D. Rogers · vi 305 · Hail, Tiger! · Cindy Rosmus · vi 309 · Fall Guy · Jim Spry · vi Shotgun Honey June 2012 312 · Death by Sobriety · J. M. Vogel · vi Every Day Fiction May 3 2012 315 · A Russian Storm · Andrew Waters · vi 319 · Hell’s Belle · Jim Wilsky · vi Shotgun Honey August 2012

The Lineup ed. Otto Penzler (Quercus, 2011, 978-1-84916-522-8, £7.99, 502pp, tp, nf)     Reprint (Little, Brown 2009) nonfiction anthology, “The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives.” Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work. 1 · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 7 · Jack Taylor · Ken Bruen · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 31 · Jack Reacher · Lee Child · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 51 · Hieronymus Bosch · Michael Connelly · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 71 · Charlie Parker · John Connolly · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008 95 · Elvis Cole and Joe Pike · Robert Crais · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 115 · Lincoln Rhyme · Jeffery Deaver · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 139 · Inspector Morse · Colin Dexter · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 167 · Charlie Resnick · John Harvey · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008 191 · Bob Lee Swagger · Stephen Hunter · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 209 · Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus · Faye Kellerman · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008 243 · Alex Delaware · Jonathan Kellerman · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008 269 · Dismas Hardy · John Lescroart · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008 297 · Tess Monaghan · Laura Lippman · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 317 · Rambo · David Morrell · ar 2008 341 · Mallory · Carol O’Connell · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 363 · Spenser · Robert B. Parker · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 385 · Lou Boldt · Ridley Pearson · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008 413 · Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Anne Perry · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2006 433 · Aloysius X.L. Pendergast · Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008 455 · John Rebus [Insp. John Rebus] · Ian Rankin · ar The Mysterious Bookshop, 2007 477 · Precious Ramotswe · Alexander McCall Smith · ar 2008 499 · Copyright Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms

Mark Twain’s “Medieval Romance” and Other Classic Mystery Stories ed. Otto Penzler (Pegasus Books, 2012, 978-1-60598-279-3, $25.95, hc, an)     Eighteen stories that leave it to the reader to speculate how they end. · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in · Unreasonable Doubt · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1958 · A Dilemma · S. Weir Mitchell · ss The Century Magazine July 1902 · Nunc Dimittis · Roald Dahl · nv Collier’s September 4 1953, as “The Devious Bachelor” · The Lady, or the Tiger? · Frank Stockton · ss The Century Magazine November 1882 · The Discourager of Hesitancy · Frank Stockton · ss The Century Magazine July 1885 · The Lady and the Tiger · Jack Moffitt · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #58, September 1948 [Ref. Frank R. Stockton] continuation of Frank R. Stockton’s “The Lady, Or the Tiger?”. · The Blind Spot · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #25, November 1945 · The Mysterious Card [Mysterious Card] · Cleveland Moffett · ss The Black Cat February 1896 · The Mysterious Card Unveiled [Mysterious Card] · Cleveland Moffett · ss The Black Cat August 1896 · Karmesin and the Meter [Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss Courier Winter 1937/1938 · One Hundred in the Dark · Owen Johnson · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 21 1911 · The Whole Town’s Sleeping [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss McCall’s September 1950 · Thimble, Thimble · O. Henry · ss Hampton’s Broadway Magazine December 1908 · The Gioconda Smile · Aldous Huxley · nv The English Review August 1921 · Tea for Two · Laurie York Erskine · ss Collier’s February 15 1936 · The Lady and the Dragon · Peter Godfrey · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #82, September 1950 · A Medieval Romance · Mark Twain · ss Buffalo Express January 1 1870, as “An Awful, Terrible Medieval Romance” · The Moment of Decision · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1955

The Mighty Johns ed. Otto Penzler (New Millennium Press, 2002, 1-893224-56-2, $23.95, 316pp, hc, oa)     Details provided by Terry Zobeck. 1 · The Mighty Johns · David Baldacci · na 93 · The Best of the Rest · Otto Penzler · in 99 · The Ehrengraf Reverse [Martin Ehrengraf] · Lawrence Block · ss 117 · Semi-Pro · James Crumley · ss 127 · A Sunday in January · Brendan DuBois · ss 147 · Whatever It Takes to Win · Tim Green · ss 163 · Good Seats · Colin Harrison · ss 181 · Gone Down to Corpus · Dennis Lehane · ss 195 · No Thing · Mike Lupica · ss 215 · The Empire Strikes Back · Brad Meltzer · ss 233 · The Arcane Receiver · Carol O’Connell · ss 241 · The End of Innocence · Anne Perry · nv 273 · Hollywood Spring and Axle · Gary Phillips · ss 289 · Gone to the Dawgs · Peter Robinson · ss 303 · Rumors of Gravity · John Westerman · ss

Murder and Obsession ed. Otto Penzler (Delacorte, March 9, 1999, 0-385-31800-6, 406pp, hc, oa) 1 · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 5 · Burglary in Progress · Kent Anderson · ss 19 · The Red Shoes · Edna Buchanan · ss 39 · The Double-Barreled Gun · Amanda Cross · ss 63 · The Mexican Pig Bandit · James Crumley · nv 97 · Dog Days · Philip Friedman · nv 127 · I, Richard · Elizabeth George · nv 171 · Crack · James W. Hall · ss 185 · Running Out of Dog · Dennis Lehane · nv 223 · Sparks · Elmore Leonard · ss 239 · Slow Burn · Eric Van Lustbader · nv 287 · Invitation to the Ball · Michael Malone · nv 325 · Barking at Butterflies · Ed McBain · ss 335 · The Vampire · Joyce Carol Oates · nv 377 · Heroes · Anne Perry · nv Past Crimes ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House, 1998 395 · The Guilty Party · Shel Silverstein · ss

Murder at the Foul Line ed. Otto Penzler (Mysterious Press, January 2006, 0-89296-016-7, $24.95, 348pp, hc, oa)     “Original Tales of Hoop Dreams and Deaths from Today’s Great Writers”. ix · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · Keller’s Double Dribble [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · nv 38 · Nothing but Net · Jeffery Deaver · nv 62 · Bank Shots · Sue DeNymme · ss 79 · The Taste of Silver · Brendan DuBois · ss 98 · Fear of Failure · Parnell Hall · nv 129 · Cat’s Paw · Laurie R. King · nv 152 · Mrs. Cash · Mike Lupica · nv 173 · White Trash Noir · Michael Malone · nv 200 · Galahad, Inc. · Joan H. & Robert B. Parker · ss 216 · String Music · George Pelecanos · nv 241 · Mamzer · R. D. Rosen · nv 264 · Shots · S. J. Rozan · na 307 · In the Zone · Justin Scott · ss 320 · Bubba · Stephen Solomita · nv

Murder at the Racetrack ed. Otto Penzler (Mysterious Press, April 2006, 0-89296-018-3, $24.95, 384pp, hc, oa)     “Original Tales of Mystery and Mayhem Down the Final Stretch from Today’s Great Writers.” 1 · Keller by a Nose [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · nv 25 · The Return of the Thin White Dude— Screaming · Ken Bruen · ss 39 · Zuppe Inglese · Jan Burke · na 111 · Yellow Mama’s Long Weekend · Lorenzo Carcaterra · nv 134 · That Kind of Nag · Max Allan Collins · nv 162 · The Odds · Thomas H. Cook · ss 178 · The Hustle · Pat Jordan · nv 210 · The Great, the Good, and the Not-So-Good · H. R. F. Keating · ss 227 · The Cover Story Is Always a Lie · John Lescroart · nv 257 · Raindancer · Michael Malone · nv 282 · The Long Shot · Michele Martinez · nv 303 · Meadowlands · Joyce Carol Oates · nv 334 · Hotwalking · Julie Smith · ss 352 · Pinwheel · Scott Wolven · nv

Murderers’ Row ed. Otto Penzler (New Millennium Press, 2001, 1-893224-25-2, $24.95, 369pp, hc, oa)     Details provided by Terry Zobeck. ix · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in xv · Foreword · Jim Bouton · fw 1 · Keller’s Designated Hitter [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · nv 33 · Pinch-Hitter [Nate Heller] · Max Allan Collins · nv 71 · Two-Bagger · Michael Connelly · nv 93 · Strike-Zone · K. C. Constantine · ss 111 · A Family Game · Brendan DuBois · nv 143 · Chickasaw Charlie Hoke · Elmore Leonard · ss 161 · Sacrifice Hit · John Lescroart · nv 193 · Ropa Vieja · Laura Lippman · nv 217 · The Shot · Mike Lupica · nv 245 · The Power · Michael Malone · nv 283 · Harlem Nocturne · Robert B. Parker · ss; expanded into the novel Double Play. 293 · The Closer · Thomas Perry · ss 318 · Killing Teddy Ballgame · Henry Slesar · ss 339 · Pick-Off Play · Troy Soos · ss 363 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

Murder for Halloween ed. Otto Penzler & Michele B. Slung--- see under Michele Slung.

Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler (Delacorte, January 1996, 0-385-31466-3, $19.95, 323pp, hc, oa)     Original anthology of 16 stories of romantic love gone wrong. 1 · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 7 · Dying Time · William J. Caunitz · ss 25 · For Whom the Beep Tolls · Carol Higgins Clark · ss 43 · Definitely, a Crime of Passion · Mary Higgins Clark · nv Cosmopolitan February 1996 77 · Hot Springs · James Crumley · nv 101 · The Loving You Get · John Gardner · ss 121 · The Stalker · Faye Kellerman · ss 139 · The Things We Do for Love · Jonathan Kellerman · ss 157 · Karen Makes Out [Karen Sisco] · Elmore Leonard · nv 179 · Red Clay · Michael Malone · nv 203 · Nancy Drew Remembers (A Parody) · Bobbie Ann Mason · nv 229 · Running from Legs · Ed McBain · nv 261 · At the Paradise Motel, Sparks, Nevada · Joyce Carol Oates · ss 279 · Heartbreak House · Sara Paretsky · ss 299 · The Blackmailer · Anne Perry · ss 317 · For What She Had Done · Shel Silverstein · vi 323 · True Crime · Donna Tartt · vi

Murder for Revenge ed. Otto Penzler (Delacorte, April 1998, 0-385-31715-8, $21.95, 360pp, hc, oa)     Original anthology of 12 stories of revenge. 1 · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 5 · Like a Bone in the Throat · Lawrence Block · nv 35 · Power Play · Mary Higgins Clark · nv 71 · Fatherhood · Thomas H. Cook · ss 87 · West End · Vicki Hendricks · ss 101 · Caveat Emptor · Joan Hess · ss 121 · Edadicum Homo Horribilus · Judith Kelman · nv 143 · Dead Cat Bounce · Eric Lustbader · nv 171 · Angie’s Delight · Phillip Margolin · ss 183 · Front Man · David Morrell · nv 225 · Murder-Two · Joyce Carol Oates · nv 253 · The Enemy · Shel Silverstein · pm 261 · Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff · Peter Straub · na

Murder in the Rough ed. Otto Penzler (Mysterious Press, June 2006, 0-89296-017-5, $24.95, 401pp, hc, oa)     “Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Lies, and Other Deadly Handicaps from Today’s Great Writers.” ix · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · Welcome to the Real World · Lawrence Block · ss 21 · The Man Who Didn’t Play Golf · Simon Brett · ss 39 · Spittin Iron · Ken Bruen · ss 47 · His Mission · Christopher Coake · na 120 · Water Hazard · Stephen Collins · nv 160 · Those Good Days · Tom Franklin · nv 182 · Death by Golf · Jonathan Gash · nv 219 · Room for a Fourth · Steve Hamilton · ss 233 · Miss Unwin Plays by the Rules [Harriet Unwin] · H. R. F. Keating · nv 257 · A Good **** Spoiled · Laura Lippman · ss 271 · The Hoarder · Bradford Morrow · nv 298 · Graduation Day · Ian Rankin · nv 322 · Lucy Had a List · John Sandford · nv 352 · Unplayable Lies · William G. Tapply · ss 369 · The Secret · John Westermann · nv 395 · Golf Mysteries · [uncredited] · bi