Skeleton Keys ed. Joan Kahn (Dell, August 1969, 8028, 75¢, 317pp, pb, an)
Tales from The Edge of the Chair.
- 9 · Introduction · Joan Kahn · in The Edge of the Chair ed. Joan Kahn, Harper & Row, 1967
- 11 · The Sixth Capsule; or, Proof by Circumstantial Evidence · Edmund Pearson · ar Vanity Fair (US) 1926
- 23 · Fool’s Mate · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #96, November 1951
- 40 · The Axeman Wore Wings · Robert Tallant · ar Ready to Hang by Robert Tallant, Harper & Brothers, 1952
- 63 · Stone from the Stars · Valentina Zhuravleva; translated by R. Prokofieva · ss The Heart of the Serpent, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961
- 77 · The Queen of Spades · Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin; translated by Rosemary Edmonds · nv The Classics of Mystery Volume IX: An Omnibus of Continental Mysteries, Part II ed. Arno Eckberg, Juniper, 1961
translated from the Russian (“Pouschkine”, Biblioteka dlya chteniya, March 1834).
- 103 · Billy: The Seal Mission · Stewart Alsop & Thomas Braden · ex from Sub Rosa: The OSS and American Espionage, Reynal, 1946
- 126 · A Watcher by the Dead · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 29 1889
- 138 · Tea Party · Harold Pinter · ss Playboy January 1965
- 143 · Death Draws a Triangle · Edward Hale Bierstadt · ar 1934
- 178 · The Net · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker January 27 1940
- 188 · Prisoner of the Sand · Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; translated by Lewis Galantiere · ex from Wind, Sand and Stars, Reynal and Hitchcock, 1939
translated from the French (Terre des hommes, Gallimard, 1939).
- 228 · The End of the Party · Graham Greene · ss The London Mercury January 1932
- 238 · The Last Inhabitant of the Tuileries · André Castelot; translated by Denise Folliot · ex from The Turbulent City: Paris 1783-1871, Harper’s Magazine 1962
- 246 · Jesting Pilot · Lewis Padgett (by Henry Kuttner) · ss Astounding Science Fiction May 1947
- 260 · Shattering the Myth of John Wilkes Booth’s Escape · William G. Shepherd · ar Harper’s Magazine November 1924
- 287 · A Piece of Steak · Jack London · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 20 1909
- 306 · The Game of Murder · Gerd Gaiser; translated by H. M. Waldson · ss Great German Short Stories ed. Stephen Spender, Dell, 1960
translated from the German (“Das Mörderspiel”. Akzente, August 1955).
- 314 · Biographical Notes · Onica Friend · bg The Edge of the Chair ed. Joan Kahn, Harper & Row, 1967
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