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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Gollancz, July 1931, 1147pp, hc, an)     Derivative anthologies The Second Omnibus of Crime (Coward-McCann 1932) and The World’s Great Crime Stories (Blue Ribbon 1939). 9 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in 35 · Diamond Cut Diamond [Quentin Quayne] · F. Britten Austin · nv The Red Book Magazine February 1925 59 · The Little House [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly October 9 1926 80 · Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 29 1905 102 · The Inoffensive Captain [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine March 1914 118 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 135 · Who Killed Charlie Winpole? [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923, as “The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms” 164 · The Queer Feet [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 1 1910, as “Why the True Fishermen Always Wear Green Evening Coats” 181 · The Adventure of the Clapham Cook [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch November 14 1923 193 · In a Telephone Cabinet [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · nv Superintendent Wilson’s Holiday by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1928 216 · The Biter Bit · Wilkie Collins · nv The Atlantic Monthly April 1858, as “Who Is the Thief?”, uncredited. 242 · The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv The Premier Magazine #106, January 28 1921 264 · Blind Gap Moor · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine August 1918 276 · Mr. Truefitt Detects · Milward Kennedy · ss The Manchester Guardian 1930 281 · Death in the Kitchen · Milward Kennedy · ss The Manchester Guardian 1930 285 · Solved by Inspection [Miles Bredon] · Ronald A. Knox · ss 1925 295 · An Unrecorded Instance · Marie Belloc Lowndes · nv Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine August 1925 316 · The Regent’s Park Murder [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1901 329 · The Elusive Bullet [Dr. Lancelot Priestley] · John Rhode · ss 344 · The Cave of Ali Baba [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba” 372 · The Race of Orven [Prince Zaleski] · M. P. Shiel · nv Prince Zaleski by M. P. Shiel, John Lane, 1895 398 · The Alibi · J. C. Squire · nv The Windsor Magazine 1930 415 · The Vanishing of Mrs. Fraser [Mr. Pepper] · Sir Basil Thomson · ss Mr. Pepper, Investigator by Sir Basil Thomson, John Castle, 1925 429 · Duello [Insp. (Chief Insp.) Poole] · Henry Wade · ss The London Magazine April 1930 444 · How the Captain Tracked a German Spy [Ivan Koravitch] · Victor L. Whitechurch · ss The Adventures of Captain Ivan Koravitch by Victor L. Whitechurch, Blackwood, 1925 455 · The Pillar of Fire [Bill Parmelee] · Percival Wilde · nv The Popular Magazine July 7 1924 479 · My Adventure in Norfolk · A. J. Alan · ss The London Magazine October 1927 broadcast by the BBC Dec 24, 1926. 485 · Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine September 1922 500 · The Leech of Folkestone · Richard Harris Barham · nv Bentley’s Miscellany July 1837 525 · A.V. Laider · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine June 1916 543 · The Room in the Tower · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine January 1912 555 · Cut-Throat Farm · John D. Beresford · ss The Westminster Gazette August 14 1909 559 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 567 · Secret Worship [John Silence] · Algernon Blackwood · nv John Silence by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1908 598 · No. 17 · Mrs. Edith Bland · ss The Strand Magazine June 1910 606 · The Queer Door · Douglas G. Browne · ss The Cornhill Magazine December 1930 621 · The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 633 · Mad Monkton · Wilkie Collins · na Fraser’s Magazine November 1855 (+1), as “The Monktons of Wincot Abbey” 691 · The Haunted Ships · Allan Cunningham · ss The London Magazine November 1821 705 · The King Waits · Clemence Dane · ss The Sphere November 1918 713 · The Tree · Walter de la Mare · ss The Century Magazine August 1922 730 · The Second Awakening of a Magician · S. L. Dennis · ss The London Mercury November 1930 739 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 752 · Riesenberg · Ford Madox Ford · nv The English Review April 1911 777 · The Beast with Five Fingers · William F. Harvey · nv The Beast with Five Fingers by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928 revised from The New Decameron, Volume the First, B.H. Blackwell, 1919. 808 · The Old Man · Holloway Horn · ss 833 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Queen June 23 1900 844 · The Resurgent Mysteries · Edgar Jepson · ss The Century Magazine September 1906 861 · Mr. Justice Harbottle [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Belgravia January 1872, as “The Haunted House in Westminster” 892 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited. 927 · The Great Return · Arthur Machen · nv Faith Press, 1915 958 · The Story of the Greek Slave · Captain Frederick Marryat · ss The Metropolitan Magazine July 1831 971 · Anty Bligh · John Masefield · ss The Manchester Guardian March 15 1905 975 · The Double Admiral · John Metcalfe · ss The Smoking Leg and Other Stories by John Metcalfe, Jarrolds, 1925 986 · The Library Window · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1896 1024 · Rose Rose · Barry Pain · ss The London Magazine May 1910 1030 · The Iron Pineapple · Eden Phillpotts · ss The Red Magazine March 15 1910 1046 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835 1053 · The Roll-Call of the Reef · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q 1068 · Mangaroo · Naomi Royde-Smith · ss The Story-teller July/August 1926 1075 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 1080 · The Mortal Immortal · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1834, 1833 1092 · The Primate of the Rose · M. P. Shiel · ss Here Comes the Lady by M. P. Shiel, The Richards Press, 1928 1108 · Called to the Rescue · Henry Spicer · ss Strange Things Among Us by Henry Spicer, Chapman & Hall, 1863 1112 · The Enemy · Hugh Walpole · ss The Strand Magazine February 1923 1122 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” 1134 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925

Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 3 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Gollancz, September 1934, 1069pp, hc, an)     Derivative anthology The Third Omnibus of Crime (Coward-McCann 1942). 11 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in 25 · The Perfect Murder · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine October 1926 44 · Stain! · Alex. Barber · ss The Story-teller February 1931 57 · The Bullet · J. J. Bell · ss The Strand Magazine November 1926 72 · The Mystery of the Child’s Toy · Leslie Charteris · ss The American Magazine September 1933, as “The Man Who Liked Toys” 92 · Poker-Face · Carl Clausen · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 27 1926 118 · The Level Crossing · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The Cornhill Magazine November 1933 134 · The Brown Sandwich · St. John Ervine · ss The Story-teller February 1933 150 · The Judge Corroborates · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine August 22 1919 166 · The Echo of a Mutiny [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine September 1911, as “Death on the Girdler” 204 · The Perfect Crime · Ormond Greville · ss Pearson’s Magazine August 1932 218 · No Man’s Hour · Laurence Kirk · ss The Passing Show September 30 1933 233 · Blind Justice · Ethelreda Lewis · ss The Outspan June 24 1927 247 · Saxophone Solo [Inspector Ego] · G. R. Malloch · nv Cassell’s Magazine May 1931 274 · Willful Murder · H. A. Manhood · ss Apples by Night by H. A. Manhood, Cape, 1932 283 · Member of the Jury · John Millard · nv The Story-teller November 1933 324 · The Blue Trout · Basil Mitchell · ss Pearson’s Magazine February 1933 342 · A Sleeping Draught · Anthony Parsons · ss The Strand Magazine July 1929 360 · Wet Paint · Robert E. Pinkerton · ss Detective Fiction Weekly March 26 1932 375 · The Wrong Hand [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 15 1911 389 · On the Irish Mail · Garnett Radcliffe · ss The Windsor Magazine 1931 400 · Risk · Margery Sharp · ss The Strand Magazine August 1933 411 · Leading Light · Frederick Skerry · vi Collier’s August 30 1930 415 · The Leak · Harold Steevens · nv The Strand Magazine July 1928 435 · The Missing Undergraduate [Insp. (Chief Insp.) Poole] · Henry Wade · nv The London Magazine May 1930 453 · Buttons · E. M. Winch · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1933 467 · Inquest · Loel Yeo · ss The Strand Magazine April 1932 486 · A Busman’s Holiday · Francis Brett Young · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine March 1930 509 · The 19 Club · A. J. Alan · ss A. J. Alan’s Second Book by A. J. Alan, Hutchinson, 1932 broadcast by the BBC on Sep 3, 1929. 519 · Sombrero · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury February 1929 538 · Lord Mount Prospect · John Betjeman · ss The London Mercury December 1929 551 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 606 · The Song in the House · Ann Bridge · ss The Cornhill Magazine September 1933 625 · Couching at the Door · Dorothy K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 652 · The Dumb Wife [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · ss Whispering Windows by Thomas Burke, Grant Richards, 1921 663 · The Bargain · A. M. Burrage · ss 672 · Arabesque: The Mouse · A. E. Coppard · ss Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by A. E. Coppard, Golden Cockerel Press, 1921 680 · The Mistaken Fury · Oswald Couldrey · ss The Mistaken Fury by Oswald Couldrey, Blackwell, 1914 693 · Sophy Mason Comes Back · E. M. Delafield · ss Time and Tide 1930 708 · Our Distant Cousins [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 23 1929 736 · A Jungle Graduate · James Francis Dwyer · ss Harper’s Weekly September 10 1910 749 · The Scoop · Leonora Gregory · ss The Passing Show June 24 1933 753 · The House of Desolation · Alan Griff · ss The Cornhill Magazine January 1934 768 · The Island · L. P. Hartley · ss Night Fears by L. P. Hartley, Putnam, 1924 786 · Double Demon · William F. Harvey · ss Moods and Tenses by William Fryer Harvey, Basil Blackwell, 1933 795 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · nv The London Mercury September 1930 813 · The Interruption · W. W. Jacobs · ss Liberty July 4 1925 828 · The Diary of Mr. Poynter · M. R. James · nv A Thin Ghost by M. R. James, Longmans, Green, 1919 840 · “You’ll Come to the Tree in the End” · Cyril Landon · ss The Novel Magazine December 1931 854 · Time-Fuse · John Metcalfe · ss Judas and Other Stories by John Metcalfe, Constable, 1931 872 · Decay · J. C. Moore · ss King Carnival by John C. Moore, Dent, 1933 891 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q 905 · The Hill · R. Ellis Roberts · ss The Other End by R. Ellis Roberts, Palmer, 1923 920 · The Pattern · Naomi Royde-Smith · nv The New Decameron, Vol. 6 ed. Vivienne Dayrell, Blackwell, 1929 954 · What Can a Dead Man Do? · Herbert Shaw · ss The Century Magazine March 1928 971 · The Virtuoso · Vincent Sheean · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 18 1933 987 · No Ships Pass · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Story-teller May 1932 1015 · The Idol with Hands of Clay · Sir Frederick Treves · ss Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction #124, July 1922 1024 · The Frontier Guards · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Illustrated London News November 25 1929 1030 · The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham · H. G. Wells · ss The Idler May 1896 1049 · Witch-Trot Pond · Ben Ames Williams · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 6 1931 1063 · Anniversary · Clarence Winchester · ss The Story-teller March 1932

Great Tales of Detection ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Dent, 1976, 0-460-00928-1, £3.95, 382pp, hc, an)     Reprint (Dent 1936 as Tales of Detection) anthology.

Human and Inhuman Stories from The Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (McFadden, February 1963, 50-156, 50¢, 176pp, pb, an)     Reprint of eight stories from The Omnibus of Crime (Parson & Clarks, 1929). 7 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 25 · The Narrow Way · R. Ellis Roberts · ss The Other End by R. Ellis Roberts, Palmer, 1923 39 · Sawney Bean and His Family · [uncredited] · ar Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland, John Nicholson, 1843 45 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893 57 · The Corsican Sisters · Violet Hunt · na More Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt, Heinemann, 1925 133 · The End of a Show · Barry Pain · vi Stories in the Dark by Barry Pain, Grant Richards, 1901 137 · The Cone · H. G. Wells · ss Unicorn September 18 1895 149 · The Separate Room · Ethel Colburn Mayne · nv Come In by Ethel Colburn Mayne, Chapman & Hall, 1917

The Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Payson & Clarke, 1929, LC:29-17283, hc, an)     Revised from Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 1. 9 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 1 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928 41 · The History of Bel · [uncredited] · vi from The Apocrypha (r) 42 · The History of Susanna · [uncredited] · vi from The Apocrypha (r) 45 · The Story of Hercules and Cacus · Publius Vergilius Maro; translated by Robert Bevan · ex from The Aeneid (r) 49 · The Ebony Box [Johnny Ludlow] · Mrs. Henry Wood · na The Argosy (UK) January 1883 (+2), as by Johnny Ludlow 89 · The Ace of Trouble · C. Hedley Barker · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1925 93 · The Mystery of Marie Rogêt [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Snowden’s Lady’s Companion November 1842 (+2) 127 · The Adventure of the Priory School [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Collier’s Weekly January 30 1904 150 · The Ghost at Massingham Mansions [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 169 · The Secret of the Singular Cipher [Ebbie Entwhistle] · F. A. M. Webster · ss The Blue Magazine #63, September 1924 179 · The English Filter · C. E. Bechhofer Roberts · ss The Strand Magazine March 1926 191 · The Clever Cockatoo [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine July 1914 202 · Prince Charlie’s Dirk · Eden Phillpotts · nv The London Magazine August 1926 238 · The Absent-Minded Coterie [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905 266 · The Face in the Dark · L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace · ss The London Magazine July 1903 278 · Mr. Belton’s Immunity · Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace · ss The Strand Magazine October 1926 292 · The Cyprian Bees [Dr. Eustace Hailey] · Anthony Wynne · ss Flynn’s February 6 1926 305 · Diamond Cut Diamond [Quentin Quayne] · F. Britten Austin · nv The Red Book Magazine February 1925 324 · A Happy Solution · Raymund Allen · ss The Strand Magazine December 1916 335 · The Adventure of the Fallen Angels [Bill Parmelee] · Percival Wilde · nv The Popular Magazine October 20 1924 363 · Sir Gilbert Murrell’s Picture [Thorpe Hazell] · Victor L. Whitechurch · ss The Royal Magazine October 1905 372 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 5 1910, as “The Bolt from the Blue” 384 · The Long Barrow [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · ss The London Magazine January 1925 401 · The Hanover Court Murder [Mr. Pepper] · Sir Basil Thomson · ss Mr. Pepper, Investigator by Sir Basil Thomson, John Castle, 1925 413 · The Gioconda Smile · Aldous Huxley · nv The English Review August 1921 434 · Her Last Adventure · Marie Belloc Lowndes · nv 1924 451 · The Wrong House [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1901 463 · The Open Door · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1882 492 · The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837, as “The Ghosts of the Mail” 505 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited.; given as by Charles Allston Collins & Charles Dickens. 513 · Martin’s Close · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Arnold, 1911 527 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea · Robert S. Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine October 1897, as “The Man Who Was Beloved” 560 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 562 · The Novel of the Black Seal · Arthur Machen · na The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895 590 · Tchériapin · Sax Rohmer · ss The Sovereign Magazine April 1920 602 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 610 · The Hair · A. J. Alan · ss 1926 616 · Mrs. Amworth · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine June 1922 627 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s” 634 · The Dancing Partner · Jerome K. Jerome · ex from Novel Notes, Leadenhall Press, 1893 639 · Thrawn Janet · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Cornhill Magazine October 1881, as by R. L. S. 646 · The Avenging of Ann Leete · Marjorie Bowen · ss The New Magazine (UK) December 1923 656 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 660 · The Anticipator · Morley Roberts · ss The Sketch May 13 1896 664 · The Brute · Joseph Conrad · ss The Daily Chronicle December 5 1906 679 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review October 1922 694 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited. 719 · The Misanthrope · John D. Beresford · ss Nineteen Impressions by J. D. Beresford, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918 725 · The Bad Lands · John Metcalfe · ss Land & Water April 15 1920 733 · Nobody’s House · A. M. Burrage · ss Some Ghost Stories by A. M. Burrage, Cecil Palmer, 1927 742 · The Seventh Man · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by A. T. Quiller-Couch, Cassell & Company, 1900 751 · Proof · Naomi Royde-Smith · ss Land & Water 1919 758 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury April 1922 780 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925 793 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 806 · The Narrow Way · R. Ellis Roberts · ss The Other End by R. Ellis Roberts, Palmer, 1923 817 · Sawney Bean and His Family · [uncredited] · ar Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland, John Nicholson, 1843 821 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893 829 · The Corsican Sisters · Violet Hunt · na More Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt, Heinemann, 1925 888 · The End of a Show · Barry Pain · vi Stories in the Dark by Barry Pain, Grant Richards, 1901 891 · The Cone · H. G. Wells · ss Unicorn September 18 1895 899 · The Separate Room · Ethel Colburn Mayne · nv Come In by Ethel Colburn Mayne, Chapman & Hall, 1917