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The Arbor House Treasury of Detective and Mystery Stories from the Great Pulps ed. Bill Pronzini (Arbor House, 1983, 0-87795-451-8, $16.95, 342pp, hc, an)     Also available in tp (-452-6, $7.95). 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in 6 · Arson Plus [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask October 1 1923, as by Peter Collinson 26 · Knights of the Open Palm [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · ss The Black Mask June 1 1923 51 · The Mopper-Up · Horace McCoy · nv Black Mask November 1931 82 · Red Pavement [“Tough Dick” Donahue] · Frederick Nebel · ss Black Mask December 1932 113 · Parlor Trick · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask July 1932 121 · The Living Lie Down with the Dead · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine April 1936 148 · Holocaust House [Doan & Carstairs] · Norbert Davis · na Argosy November 16 1940 (+1) 201 · Blue Murder · Fredric Brown · ss The Shadow September 1943 218 · Hear That Mournful Sound · Dane Gregory · nv Detective Tales November 1942, as “Lynchville Had a Barber” 242 · The Day Nobody Died [Inspector Allhoff] · D. L. Champion · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 1944 278 · Fatal Accident · John D. MacDonald · ss The Shadow Fall 1948 289 · Diamonds of Death [Dan Turner] · Robert Leslie Bellem · nv Spicy Detective Stories July 1934 311 · See No Evil · William Campbell Gault · ss New Detective Magazine September 1950, as “See No Murder” 321 · Crime of Omission · John D. MacDonald · ss Detective Tales August 1951 328 · The Girl in the Golden Cage · John W. Jakes · ss Thrilling Detective Summer 1953, as by Alan Payne

Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Arbor House, 1982, 0-87795-410-0, $17.95, 455pp, hc, an)     Revised from Great Tales of the West (Galahad 1982). 11 · Introduction · John Jakes · in Great Tales of the West ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Galahad Books, 1982 · Part One: The First Fifty Years 25 · Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral · Mark Twain · ss from Roughing It, American Publishing Company, 1872 33 · How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar · Bret Harte · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1872 46 · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898 72 · The Vengeance of Padre Arroyo · Gertrude Atherton · ss Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine July 1891 78 · The Reformation of Calliope · O. Henry · ss Associated Sunday Magazine February 28 1904, as by Sydney Porter 86 · Timberline · Owen Wister · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 7 1908 97 · All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Magazine November 1905 115 · The Honk-Honk Breed · Stewart Edward White · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907 124 · The Trouble Man · Eugene Manlove Rhodes · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 20 1909 141 · From Missouri · Zane Grey · nv McCall’s Magazine August 1926 164 · Ananias Green [Andy Green; Flying U Ranch] · B. M. Bower · ss The Popular Magazine February 1909 175 · The Hold-Up [Hopalong Cassidy] · Clarence E. Mulford · ss The Coming of Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford, A.L. Burt, 1913 188 · Science at Heart’s Desire [Dan Anderson] · Emerson Hough · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 1 1904 199 · Last Warning · William MacLeod Raine · ss Short Stories January 10 1943 210 · The Weight of Obligation · Rex Beach · ss Crimson Gardenia, and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Beach, Harper & Brothers, 1916 229 · Dust Storm · Max Brand · ss Collier’s April 3 1937 · Part Two: The Second Fifty Years 245 · Top Hand · Luke Short · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 30 1943 257 · High Wind · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s January 5 1935 271 · The Gift of Cochise · Louis L’Amour · ss Collier’s July 5 1952 285 · First Principal · A. B. Guthrie, Jr. · ss Gunsmoke 1953 294 · I Woke Up Wicked · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Collier’s February 18 1955 308 · Sergeant Houck · Jack Schaefer · nv Collier’s July 14 1951 327 · The Woman at Apache Wells · John Jakes · ss Max Brand’s Western Magazine September 1952, as “Lobo Loot” 335 · The Boy Who Smiled · Elmore Leonard · ss Gunsmoke June 1953 347 · Hired Gun · William R. Cox · ss Argosy January 1951 357 · Due Process · Steve Frazee · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1960, as “All Legal and Proper” 374 · Riverboat Fighter · Brian Garfield · ss They Opened the West ed. Tom Blackburn, Doubleday, 1967 386 · Snowblind · Evan Hunter · ss Gunsmoke August 1953 395 · Sweet Cactus Wine · Marcia Muller · ss 405 · The Hanging Man · Bill Pronzini · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 12 1981 418 · The Patriarch of Gunsight Flat · Wayne D. Overholser · ss The Blue Book Magazine June 1950 429 · Rainbow Captive · Stephen Overholser · ss Antæus #25/26, Spring/Summer 1977 440 · The Trap · Clay Fisher · nv The Oldest Maiden Lady in New Mexico, and Other Stories by Clay Fisher, Macmillan, 1962

The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural ed. Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg & Barry N. Malzberg (Arbor House, 1981, 0-87795-309-0, $19.95, hc, an)     41 horror stories divided between the Grand Masters and the Modern Masters. Later abridged as Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (Galahad 1985). 11 · Introduction · Stephen King · in 25 · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849 32 · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine” 62 · Squire Toby’s Will · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Temple Bar January 1868 91 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893 103 · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908 135 · “Man Overboard!” · Winston Churchill · ss The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine January 1899 139 · The Hand · Theodore Dreiser · nv Munsey’s Magazine May 1919 157 · The Valley of the Spiders · H. G. Wells · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1903 168 · The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890 177 · Pickman’s Model · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales October 1927 190 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales July 1943 207 · The Screaming Laugh · Cornell Woolrich · ss Clues Detective Stories November 1938 228 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 238 · Bianca’s Hands · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Argosy (UK) May 1947 247 · The Girl with the Hungry Eyes · Fritz Leiber · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949 262 · Shut a Final Door · Truman Capote · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1947 276 · Come and Go Mad · Fredric Brown · nv Weird Tales July 1949 317 · The Scarlet King · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt December 25 1954 328 · Sticks [Cthulhu] · Karl Edward Wagner · nv Whispers March 1974 347 · Sardonicus · Ray Russell · nv Playboy January 1961 380 · A Teacher’s Rewards · Robert S. Phillips · ss The Land of Lost Content by Robert Phillips, Vanguard, 1970 388 · The Roaches · Thomas M. Disch · ss Escapade October 1965 397 · The Jam · Henry Slesar · ss Playboy November 1958 403 · Black Wind · Bill Pronzini · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1979 408 · The Road to Mictlantecutli · Adobe James · ss Adam Bedside Reader #20, 1965 422 · Passengers · Robert Silverberg · ss Orbit 4 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1968 435 · The Explosives Expert · John Lutz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1967 442 · Call First · Ramsey Campbell · ss Night Chills ed. Kirby McCauley, Avon, 1975 447 · The Fly · Arthur Porges · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1952 452 · Namesake · Elizabeth Morton · vi Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic July 1981 454 · Camps · Jack M. Dann · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1979 480 · You Know Willie · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1957 485 · The Mindworm · C. M. Kornbluth · ss Worlds Beyond December 1950 498 · Warm · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Science Fiction June 1953 507 · Transfer · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Fantastic Stories August 1975 514 · The Doll · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch 1980 536 · If Damon Comes [Oxrun Station] · Charles L. Grant · ss The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VI ed. Gerald W. Page, DAW, 1978 548 · Mass Without Voices · Arthur L. Samuels · vi Nightmares ed. Charles L. Grant, Playboy, 1979 550 · The Oblong Room [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Saint Magazine July 1967 560 · The Party · William F. Nolan · ss Playboy April 1967 570 · The Crate · Stephen King · nv Gallery July 1979

The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense ed. Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg & Barry N. Malzberg (Arbor House, 1981, 0-87795-349-X, $20.95, 607pp, hc, an)     Also available in tp (-452-6, $7.95). 11 · Introduction · John D. MacDonald · in 17 · The Gold-Bug · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Dollar Newspaper June 21 1843 (+1) 48 · Hunted Down · Charles Dickens · nv The New York Ledger August 20 1859 (+2) 67 · The Stolen White Elephant · Mark Twain · nv The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain, Webster, 1882 85 · Ransom · Pearl S. Buck · nv Cosmopolitan October 1938 108 · The Adventure of the Glass-Domed Clock [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Mystery League October 1933, as “The Glass-Domed Clock” 126 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949 147 · A Passage to Benares [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · nv Adventure February 20 1926 174 · The Case of the Emerald Sky [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch July 10 1940 183 · The Other Hangman · John Dickson Carr · ss A Century of Detective Stories, Hutchinson, 1935 196 · The Couple Next Door [Inspector Sands] · Margaret Millar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1954 211 · Danger Out of the Past · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Manhunt May 1955, as “Protection” 223 · A Matter of Public Notice · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1957 239 · The Cat’s-Paw · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #67, June 1949 254 · The Road to Damascus [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · nv Argosy (UK) June 1966 272 · Midnight Blue [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1, 1960 299 · I’ll Die Tomorrow · Mickey Spillane · ss Cavalier #81, March 1960 310 · For All the Rude People · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1961 323 · Hangover · John D. MacDonald · ss Cosmopolitan July 1956 333 · The Santa Claus Club [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss Suspense (UK) December 1960 344 · The Wager [Kek Huuygens] · Robert L. Fish · ss Playboy July 1973 353 · A Fool About Money · Ngaio Marsh · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1974 358 · And Three to Get Ready… · Horace L. Gold · ss Fantastic Summer 1952 368 · “J” [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · nv Argosy May 1961 414 · Burial Monuments Three · Edward D. Hoch · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1972 425 · The Murder · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Night-Side by Joyce Carol Oates, Vanguard, 1977 434 · Fatal Woman · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Night-Side by Joyce Carol Oates, Vanguard, 1977 439 · Agony Column · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1971 446 · Last Rendezvous · Jean L. Backus · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1977 453 · The Real Shape of the Coast · John Lutz · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1971 464 · Hercule Poirot in the Year 2010 [Hercule Poirot] · Jon L. Breen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1975 472 · Merrill-Go-Round [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss 484 · A Craving for Originality · Bill Pronzini · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 17 1979 491 · Tranquility Base · Asa Baber · ss 1979 506 · The Cabin in the Hollow · Joyce Harrington · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1974 519 · Peckerman · Robert S. Phillips · ss 531 · A Simple, Willing Attempt · Elizabeth Morton · ss 535 · Crime Wave in Pinhole · Julie Smith · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 21 1980 541 · Watching Marcia · Mike Resnick · ss 551 · Somebody Cares · Talmage Powell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1962 561 · Jode’s Last Hunt · Brian Garfield · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1977 578 · Many Mansions · Robert Silverberg · nv Universe 3 ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1973 602 · My Son the Murderer · Bernard Malamud · ss Esquire November 1968

The Arizonans ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Fawcett Gold Medal, September 1989, 0-449-13476-8, $3.50, pb, an) 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) 2 · Buried Treasure · Stewart Edward White · nv McClure’s Magazine June 1906 32 · Specimen Jones · Owen Wister · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1894 52 · The Hunting of Tom Horn · Clay Fisher · ss The Oldest Maiden Lady in New Mexico, and Other Stories by Clay Fisher, Macmillan, 1962 71 · One Night in the Red Dog Saloon · Hal G. Evarts, Jr. · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 3 1953 85 · The Tonto Woman · Elmore Leonard · ss Roundup ed. Stephen Overholser, Doubleday, 1982 97 · Two-Gun Farewell · C. S. Park · ss Western Magazine September 1955 109 · Black Horses · Jay Lucas · ss The Blue Book Magazine September 1937 123 · Way of the Law in Calico · John Prescott · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 5 1956, as “The Landlady’s Daughter” 136 · The Angel of Santa Sofia · Loren D. Estleman · ss The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman by Loren D. Estleman, Swallow Press, 1989 144 · The Tombstone Hearse · Edward D. Hoch · ss (r) 159 · The Toll at Yaeger’s Ferry · Brian Garfield · ss Rivers to Cross ed. William R. Cox, Dodd, Mead, 1966 174 · Decision · Bill Pronzini · ss originally published as “I’ll See to Your Horse” (ZGW); rewritten as opening of The Gallows Land; this is composite of both. 182 · The Code of Arizona · W. C. Tuttle · nv The Blue Book Magazine October 1934

Baker’s Dozen: 13 Short Detective Novels ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Bonanza, 1987, 0-517-64103-8, $8.98, 664pp, hc, an) vii · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in 1 · Finger Man [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · na Black Mask October 1934 51 · Death Stops at a Tourist Camp · Leslie Ford · na The American Magazine April 1936 117 · The Saint in Palm Springs · Leslie Charteris · na 1943 175 · Puzzle in the Snow · Philip Wylie · na The American Magazine June 1937 223 · The Case of the Crimson Kiss [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na The American Magazine June 1948 267 · The Room with Something Wrong · Cornell Woolrich · na Detective Fiction Weekly June 4 1938, as “Mystery in Room 913” 331 · Murder for Money · John D. MacDonald · nv Detective Tales April 1952, as “All That Blood Money Can Buy!” 369 · The Morning of the Monkey [Judge Dee] · Robert van Gulik · na 1965 419 · Maigret’s Christmas [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Lawrence G. Blochman · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #122, January 1954 translated from the French (“Un Noél de Maigret”, Presses de la Cite, 1951). 473 · Withers and Malone, Brain-Stormers [Hildegarde Withers; John J. Malone] · Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice · na Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1959 513 · Death Flight · Ed McBain · na Argosy September 1954, as “Ticket to Death” by Evan Hunter 557 · Who’s Calling? [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · na Casefile by Bill Pronzini, St. Martin's, 1983 first published in Japanese (Shōsetsu shinchō, 1982). 597 · City of Brass [Simon Ark] · Edward D. Hoch · na The Saint Mystery Library #4, 1959

Baker’s Dozen: 13 Short Espionage Novels ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Bonanza, 1985, 0-517-47647-9, $7.98, 515pp, hc, an) vii · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in 3 · The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1908 31 · The Traitor [Ashenden] · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan September 1927 63 · Tokyo, 1941 · Cornell Woolrich · nv The Doom Stone by Cornell Woolrich, Avon, 1960 99 · Dealers in Doom · William E. Barrett · na Spy Novels Magazine February 1935 147 · The Sizzling Saboteur [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na Flynn’s Detective Fiction November 1943 (+2), as “The Saint in Trouble” 231 · The Danger Zone [Major Brane] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy October 15 1932 267 · Betrayed · John D. MacDonald · nv The American Magazine March 1952 309 · Deep-Sleep · Bruce Cassiday · ss Intrigue October 1965 363 · The People of the Peacock [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · nv The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) March 1965, as by Stephen Dentinger 393 · Dr. Sweetkill · John W. Jakes · nv Intrigue Mystery Magazine January 1966 425 · The Giggle-Wrecker [Modesty Blaise] · Peter O’Donnell · nv 1972 455 · The Spoilers [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens; Patrick Petrella; Commander Elfe] · Michael Gilbert · nv Argosy (UK) October 1965 491 · Octopussy [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv The Daily Express October 4 1965 (+5)

Baker’s Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Greenwich House, 1984, 0-517-44499-2, 595pp, hc, an) vii · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in 1 · The Lawless Lady [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na Enter the Saint by Leslie Charteris, Hodder, 1930 revised from “Crooks’ Cargo” (The Thriller #37, October 19, 1929). 63 · Introducing Susan Dare [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator April 1934 89 · Nightmare · Cornell Woolrich · na Argosy March 1 1941, as “And So to Death” 147 · Death’s Eye View · John D. MacDonald · nv New Detective Magazine February 1953 185 · The Murder Machine [Lt. David Pascal] · Hugh Pentecost · na The American Magazine July 1950 233 · Death Rides a Boxcar · Erle Stanley Gardner · na The American Magazine January 1945 277 · The Bearded Lady [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv The American Magazine October 1948, as by Kenneth Millar 327 · Murder Set to Music · Fredric Brown · na The Saint Detective Magazine January 1957, as “Murder to Music” 367 · The Zero Clue [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine December 1953, as “Scared to Death” 415 · Storm [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · nv Argosy November 1961, as “Murder on Ice” 469 · Don’t Look Now · Daphne du Maurier · na Ladies’ Home Journal December 1970 513 · Booktaker [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · na Casefile by Bill Pronzini, St. Martin's, 1983 first published in Japanese (Shōsetsu shinchō, 1982). 549 · The King in Yellow · Raymond Chandler · na Dime Detective Magazine March 1938