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The Fiend ed. Ray Russell, uncredited (Playboy, 1971, 16122, 75¢, 192pp, pb, an, cover by Roger Hane) 4 · Preface · The Editors of Playboy · pr 6 · The Fiend · Frederik Pohl · ss Playboy April 1964 14 · The Ultimate Brunette · Algis Budrys · ss Playboy September 1965 32 · You Can’t Have Them All · Charles Beaumont · ss Playboy August 1956 55 · Double Standard · Fredric Brown · ss Playboy April 1963 61 · The Crooked Man · Charles Beaumont · ss Playboy August 1955 72 · The Mission · Hugh Nissenson · ss Playboy December 1964 90 · The Master Copy · Frank Dobinson · ss Playboy May 1966 95 · The Better Man · Ray Russell · ss Playboy July 1966 99 · Welcome to the Monkey House · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss Playboy January 1968 121 · Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? · Robert Sheckley · ss Playboy August 1969 133 · Adam Frost · Vance Aandahl · ss Playboy April 1962 149 · I Like Blondes · Robert Bloch · ss Playboy January 1956 162 · I Remember Babylon · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Playboy May 1960 175 · Love, Incorporated · Robert Sheckley · ss Playboy September 1956 189 · Lovemaking · Frederik Pohl · ss Playboy December 1966

15 Short Surprise Stories (Royce, 1945, 124, 127pp, pb, an) 3 · Man to Man · Hugh Pentecost · ss Liberty September 4 1943 13 · The Haunted Wall · Georges Surdez · vi Collier’s November 1 1941 21 · Once Is Too Often · Eddy Orcutt · ss Liberty November 13 1943 28 · Killer · R. H. Newman · ss The American Magazine January 1940 36 · Hooray for the Yanks · Joe Alex Morris · ss Liberty August 21 1943 46 · Proof of Murder · Margaret Mochrie · ss Liberty September 25 1943 55 · Pillars of Gaza · Lyon Mearson · ss Liberty October 9 1943, as “Hate Is Stronger than Love” 65 · Ending, with Honor · Will F. Jenkins · vi Collier’s August 16 1941 74 · A Fellow Could Tell · Alwyn W. Knight · ss The American Magazine September 1942 79 · The Drum of Justice · Walter C. Brown · ss Liberty January 22 1944 89 · Sale to a Friend · Charles Molyneux Brown · ss Collier’s 1941 96 · Messenger from Berlin · Maurice Beam · ss Liberty March 6 1943 103 · And Call It Luck · L. L. Foreman · vi Collier’s March 11 1944 111 · No More Women · Lyon Mearson · ss Liberty December 4 1943 119 · A Matter of Hospitality · Paul Thielen · ss Liberty October 2 1943

Fifteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice (Nodin Press, September 10, 2012, 978-1-935666-43-1, $16.00, 172pp, tp, oa)     Fifteen stories by Minnesota crime writers. Some will scare you. Some will make you cringe. All will put to rest the myth of Minnesota Nice! If you read these before bed, don’t expect sweet dreams. · Introduction · Pete Hautman · in · This Old House · Marilyn Victor · ss · The Dark Under the Bed · Richard A. Thompson · ss · Desperados · Michael Allan Mallory · ss · Death by Potato Salad · Jess Lourey · ss · Murder & Crossing · Mary Logue · ss · An Age-Old Solution · Lori L. Lake · ss · Woman in Ice · William Kent Krueger · ss · A Turn of the Card · David Housewright · ss · Overstuffed · Ellen Hart · ss · The Butler Didn’t · Elizabeth Gunn · ss · Iced · Lois Greiman · ss · Minnesota Iced · Pat Dennis · ss · The Horse He Rode in On · Carl Brookins · ss · Stone Arch Bridge · Judith Yates Borger · ss · Blue-Eyed Mary · Joel Arnold · ss

The Fifth Mystery Book (Farrar & Rinehart, January 1944, $2.50, 304pp, hc, an) 1 · Stab in the Back · Philip Wylie · na The American Magazine October 1943 81 · Tape-Measure Murder [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week November 16 1941 99 · The Dead Man’s Tale · Hugh Pentecost · na The American Magazine September 1943 171 · Murder Buys a Rug · Ethel Gayle · n.

Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (Odhams, 1938, 696pp, hc, an) 17 · The Adventure of the Three Students [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine June 1904 32 · The Necklace of Pearls [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Radio Times December 18 1931 41 · The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv The Sketch March 14 1923, as “The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls” 55 · The Snowball Burglary [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · ss People’s January 15 1923 71 · The Inoffensive Captain [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine March 1914 86 · East Wind [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1934 100 · The Seal of Nebuchadnezzar [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · ss Pearson’s Magazine February 1925 117 · The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The New Magazine (UK) May 1926 139 · 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” 155 · The Three Keys · Henry Wade · ss Policeman’s Lot by Henry Wade, Constable, 1933 169 · Solved by Inspection [Miles Bredon] · Ronald A. Knox · ss 1925 179 · The Adventure of the African Traveler [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv The Adventures of Ellery Queen by Ellery Queen, Stokes, 1934 196 · One Too Many [Montague Egg] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Passing Show March 18 1933 205 · The Coming of Mr. Quin [Harley Quin] · Agatha Christie · ss The Grand Magazine March 1924, as “The Passing of Mr. Quin” 219 · I Meet Mr. Pepper [Mr. Pepper] · Sir Basil Thomson · ss Mr. Pepper, Investigator by Basil Thomson, Castle, 1925 227 · The Poetical Policeman [J. G. Reeder] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Grand Magazine November 1924, as “The Strange Case of the Night Watchman” 240 · The Disappearance of Philip Mansfield [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · nv Superintendent Wilson’s Holiday by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1928 256 · The Siamese Cat · George Goodchild · ss (r) 266 · “Silver-Mask” [Dr. Louis Raphael] · Augustus Muir · ss Raphael, M.D. by Augustus Muir, Methuen, 1935 277 · White Butterfly [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss The Evening Standard August 28 1936 288 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 304 · A Drop Too Much [Ludovic Travers] · Christopher Bush · ss The Evening Standard August 18 1936 315 · Study of the Obvious · E. R. Punshon · ss The Evening Standard August 26 1936 322 · The Policeman’s Cape [Evan Pinkerton] · David Frome · ss The Evening Standard August 20 1936 333 · A Twilight Adventure [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss Metropolitan April 1914 342 · The Idol House of Astarte [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss The Royal Magazine January 1928 354 · The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks [Prince Zaleski] · M. P. Shiel · ss Prince Zaleski by M. P. Shiel, John Lane, 1895 371 · The Elusive Bullet [Dr. Lancelot Priestley] · John Rhode · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 385 · The Mysterious Railway-Passenger [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · nv The Story-teller July 1907, as “The Mysterious Traveller” translated from the French (“Le Mystérieux voyageur”, Je sais tout, February 15, 1906). 397 · The Almost Perfect Crime [(Chief) Insp. Jim Silver] · Henry Holt · ss (r) 408 · The Case of Jacob Heylyn [Anthony Slade] · Leonard R. Gribble · nv Many Mysteries ed. E. Phillips Oppenheim, Rich & Cowan, 1933 422 · The Thirteenth Card [Sir Jasper Slane] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss Collier’s October 5 1929 439 · The Aztec Skull [Professor Luther Bastion] · Gavin Holt · ss A Century of Detective Stories, Hutchinson, 1935 rewritten from “The Aztec Skull” published as by Charles Rodda (Flynn’s, June 13, 1925). 456 · Popeau Intervenes [Hercules Popeau] · Marie Belloc Lowndes · nv 1926 474 · Locked In · E. Charles Vivian · ss The Evening Standard August 31 1936 485 · The Millionth Chance [F.T. Carrington] · J. Storer Clouston · ss The Sphere October 9 1920 492 · Lion Face [Ebbie Entwhistle] · F. A. M. Webster · ss The Blue Magazine #33, March 1922 510 · The Case of Mr. and Mrs. Stetson [John T. Laxworthy] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss The Story-teller February 1913 525 · The Mind Readers [Oliver Rater] · Edgar Wallace · ss Pall Mall Magazine October 1927 535 · The Wrong Problem [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Evening Standard August 13 1936 548 · The Case of the Hundred Cats · Gladys Mitchell · ss The Evening Standard August 17 1936 556 · The Riddle of the Jack of Diamonds [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss 570 · The Border-Line Case [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Evening Standard August 25 1936 578 · Spider [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator May 1934 599 · The Gold of Tso-Fu [Dr. Eustace Hailey] · Anthony Wynne · ss Flynn’s February 13 1926 614 · The Mystery at Merrill’s Mill [Archer Dawe] · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Adventures of Archer Dawe, Sleuth-Hound by J. S. Fletcher, Digby, Long, 1909 622 · The Tragedies in the Greek Room [Moris Klaw] · Sax Rohmer · nv The New Magazine (UK) April 1913, as “Case of the Tragedies in the Greek Room” 639 · The Poker Dog [Bill Parmelee] · Percival Wilde · ss The Popular Magazine February 7 1924 654 · The Fourth Degree [Quentin Quayne] · F. Britten Austin · nv The Strand Magazine October 1924 676 · The Episode of Torment IV [Trevis Tarrant] · C. Daly King · nv 1934

Fifty Masterpieces of Mystery ed. Violet T. Murray, uncredited (Odhams, July 1937, 768pp, hc, an)     A bumper collection divided between “Crime Stories”, “Strange and Horrible Stories” and “Ghost Stories”. 15 · The Learned Adventure of the Dragon’s Head [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Pearson’s Magazine June 1926, as “The Dragon’s Head” 35 · The Magic Casket [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine October 1926 57 · The President of San Jacinto [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · ss People’s February 1 1923, as “The President of San Isidro” 79 · Outside the Law · Anthony Berkeley · ss The Strand Magazine July 1934, as by Francis Iles 90 · The Regent’s Park Murder [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1901 103 · They Never Get Caught · Margery Allingham · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine November 1934 125 · Before Insulin [Clinton Driffield] · J. J. Connington · ss The Evening Standard September 1 1936, as “Beyond Insulin” 134 · The Perfect Murder · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine October 1926 150 · The Shadow of the Shark [Gabriel Gale] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine December 1921 171 · The Marionettes · O. Henry · ss The Black Cat April 1902 183 · Diamond Cut Diamond [Quentin Quayne] · F. Britten Austin · nv The Red Book Magazine February 1925 207 · Murder at the Microphone [Dr. Louis Raphael] · Augustus Muir · ss Raphael, M.D. by Augustus Muir, Methuen, 1935 221 · Death in the Kitchen · Milward Kennedy · ss The Manchester Guardian 1930 225 · The Vertical Line · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The Illustrated London News November 20 1935 239 · The Clue of Monday’s Settling · Edgar Wallace · ss Forty-Eight Short Stories by Edgar Wallace, Newnes, 1929 252 · The Ghost of a Smile · Gerard Fairlie · ss That Man Returns by Gerard Fairlie, Hodder, 1934 269 · Sons of the Chief Warder · Bertram Atkey · nv The Story-teller July 1931 291 · Query · Seamark · ss Out of the Dark by Seamark, Hodder, 1931 302 · The Room on the Fourth Floor · Ralph Straus · ss The American Magazine December 1912 312 · The Wounded God · A. E. W. Mason · ss Cosmopolitan July 1927, as “Little Sweetheart” 333 · The Electric King [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1930 352 · Charles · A. J. Alan · ss The London Magazine February 1928 broadcast by the BBC Aug 27, 1927. 360 · The Funeral March of a Marionette · John Metcalfe · ss The Independent January 1 1927 370 · The Interruption · W. W. Jacobs · ss Liberty July 4 1925 382 · Nobody at Home · C. D. Heriot · ss 386 · The Blood-Stained Pavement [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss The Royal Magazine March 1928 396 · St. Catherine’s Eve · Marie Belloc Lowndes · nv The English Review April 1910 423 · The Screaming Skull · F. Marion Crawford · nv Collier’s July 11 1908 (+1) 451 · The Idiots · Joseph Conrad · ss The Savoy #6, October 1896 474 · The Vampire · Sydney Horler · ss The Screaming Skull and Other Stories by Sydney Horler, Hodder, 1930 480 · The Interlopers · Saki · ss The Bystander January 17 1912 486 · The Travelling Grave · L. P. Hartley · nv Shudders ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1929 508 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 513 · The Bird Woman · Henry Spicer · ss Strange Things Among Us by Henry Spicer, Chapman & Hall, 1863 516 · The Dabblers · William F. Harvey · ss The Beast with Five Fingers by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928 526 · Marsyas in Flanders · Vernon Lee · ss For Maurice by Vernon Lee, John Lane, 1927; written 1900. 538 · The Room · Eleanor Scott · ss The Cornhill Magazine October 1923, as by H. M. Leys 555 · Florence Flannery · Marjorie Bowen · ss The Regent Magazine #13, December 1924 574 · The Ghost at Massingham Mansions [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 598 · The House on Big Faraway · Norman Matson · ss The Evening Standard June 12 1934 608 · Madam Julia’s Tale · Naomi Royde-Smith · nv Madam Julia’s Tale and Other Queer Stories by Naomi Royde-Smith, Gollancz, 1932 631 · Sea Air · L. A. G. Strong · ss Good Housekeeping (UK) July 1933 647 · The Buick Saloon · Ann Bridge · ss The Cornhill Magazine June 1930, as by Mary O’Malley 662 · The Token · May Sinclair · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine March 1922 675 · The Cigarette Case · Oliver Onions · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #67, August 13 1910 687 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q 699 · Blind Man’s Buff · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Sketch April 25 1928 706 · The Man Who Was Milligan · Algernon Blackwood · ss Pearson’s Magazine November 1923 715 · The Ghost · Richard Hughes · vi A Moment of Time by Richard Hughes, Chatto & Windus, 1926 720 · The Room Over the Kitchen · A. M. Burrage · ss The Tatler October 17 1923 725 · Mr. Justice Harbottle [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Belgravia January 1872, as “The Haunted House in Westminster” 756 · The Dead Man of Varley Grange · Elizabeth Anna Hart, uncredited · ss 1878

Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told (Odhams, 1937, 704pp, hc, an)     One of Odhams’s bumper volumes. This one contains mostly non-fiction. The only fiction of note is “Moonlight Sonata” Alexander Woollcott, “Si Urag of the Tail” and “When Glister Walked” by Oscar Cook and “The Night of Witchcraft” Rafael Sabatini, plus some interesting non-fiction by Achmed Abdullah, Margery Lawrence, Andrew Lang and S. Baring-Gould. 25 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931 28 · The Terrible Story of the “Mary Russell” · J. G. Lockhart · ar (r) 45 · The Death Trap · Carla Jenssen · nv (r) 73 · The Corpse Conductor · Axel Munthe · ss (r) 85 · The Mountain of God · Roger Courtney · ar (r) 93 · The Story of Kaspar Hauser · Andrew Lang · ar (r) 101 · The Siren and the Sorceress · William Roughead · ar (r) 129 · Consolation · Mabel Smyth · ss (r) 142 · La Salpetriere · Axel Munthe · ss (r) 149 · Eight Days in an English Snowdrift · [uncredited] · ar (r) 156 · Mysteries of the Elephants · Charles Low · ar (r) 165 · The Moving Coffins · Sir Algernon E. Aspinall · ar (r) 171 · The Haunted Submarine · Hector C. Bywater · ar (r) 179 · The Thugs · Herron Lepper · ar (r) 186 · Marooned · J. G. Lockhart · ar (r) 191 · The Disappearance of Bathurst · S. Baring-Gould · ar The Cornhill Magazine March 1887, uncredited. 207 · Smuggling Hashish · Henry de Monfried · ar (r) 219 · The Celestial Fire · John V. Trevor · ss (r) 229 · The Snail-Telegraph · S. Baring-Gould · ar (r) 238 · A Caucasian Riding Lesson · Sergei Kournakoff · ar (r) 257 · Queer Happenings · Margery Lawrence · ar (r) 261 · The Tragedy of the Seven Hunters · J. G. Lockhart · ar (r) 268 · The Murder of the Countess Goerlitz · S. Baring-Gould · ar (r) 290 · Many Waters · Noel Martin · ss (r) 306 · On “Thirsty” Island · Jack McLaren · ar (r) 319 · Three Crusoes in Epping Forest · Daniel Defoe · ar (r) 344 · The Case of the Poisoned Bun · Morris Markey · ss (r) 348 · The Man in White · Andrew Lang · ts The Red True Story Book ed. Andrew Lang, Longmans, Green, and CO., 1895 351 · Gripped by an Iceberg · Francis K. Pease · ar (r) 357 · The Ordeal of Philip Stanfield · William Roughead · ar (r) 374 · Across the Australian Desert · Andrew Lang · ar (r) 392 · In the Shadow of Death · de Valda · ss (r) 399 · Queer Disappearances · Margery Lawrence · ar (r) 405 · The Phantom Schooner · Richard Huson · ss (r) 414 · Some English Eccentrics · John Timbs · ar (r) 456 · The Dark Age Killer · Edwin T. Woodhall · ar (r) 473 · Si Urag of the Tail · Oscar Cook · ss Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine January 1923 488 · The Night of Witchcraft · Rafael Sabatini · ts The Premier Magazine #33, January 1917 505 · The Hell-Fire Monks of Medmenham · Eric Bennett · ar (r) 518 · When Glister Walked · Oscar Cook · ss The Regent Magazine #11, October 1924, as “The Sacred Jars” 533 · Waltz Before Twilight · Nigel Straight · ss (r) 541 · Eastern Sorcery · Achmed Abdullah · ar (r) 563 · Man or Woman · Harold Dearden · ar (r) 574 · The Original Bluebeard · Harold Dearden · ar (r) 583 · A Murderer in the Force · Harold Dearden · ar (r) 592 · The Bogus Princess · [uncredited] · ss (r) 595 · The Musselburgh Miracle · John May · ar (r) 606 · The Mystery of the Floating Bodies · H. Ashton-Wolfe · ss (r) 627 · The Mystery of the Orly Highway · H. Ashton-Wolfe · ss (r) 644 · The Devil’s Hoofmarks · R. T. Gould · ar (r) 656 · Vampires in the Philippines · R. T. Gould · ar (r) 663 · Crime and the Supernatural · Edwin T. Woodhall · ar (r)