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Second Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Coward-McCann, 1932, hc, an)     Revised from Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2. Also Blue Ribbon Books 1939 as The World’s Great Crime Stories. 1 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 25 · The Fourth Degree [Quentin Quayne] · F. Britten Austin · nv The Strand Magazine October 1924 48 · Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 29 1905 69 · The Ordinary Hair-Pins [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine October 1916 85 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 101 · 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” 130 · The Adventure of the Clapham Cook [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch November 14 1923 142 · The Biter Bit · Wilkie Collins · nv The Atlantic Monthly April 1858, as “Who Is the Thief?”, uncredited. 168 · The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv The Premier Magazine #106, January 28 1921 189 · Blind Gap Moor · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine August 1918 202 · Death in the Kitchen · Milward Kennedy · ss The Manchester Guardian 1930 205 · An Unrecorded Instance · Marie Belloc Lowndes · nv Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine August 1925 225 · The Regent’s Park Murder [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1901 238 · 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 253 · 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” 280 · The Alibi · J. C. Squire · nv The Windsor Magazine 1930 297 · The Vanishing of Mrs. Fraser [Mr. Pepper] · Sir Basil Thomson · ss Mr. Pepper, Investigator by Sir Basil Thomson, John Castle, 1925 310 · Duello [Insp. (Chief Insp.) Poole] · Henry Wade · ss The London Magazine April 1930 325 · 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 336 · The Pillar of Fire [Bill Parmelee] · Percival Wilde · nv The Popular Magazine July 7 1924 359 · Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine September 1922 373 · The Leech of Folkestone · Richard Harris Barham · nv Bentley’s Miscellany July 1837 397 · A.V. Laider · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine June 1916 415 · Cut-Throat Farm · John D. Beresford · ss The Westminster Gazette August 14 1909 419 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 427 · Secret Worship [John Silence] · Algernon Blackwood · nv John Silence by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1908 458 · No. 17 · Mrs. Edith Bland · ss The Strand Magazine June 1910 465 · The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 477 · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897 500 · The King Waits · Clemence Dane · ss The Sphere November 1918 507 · The Tree · Walter de la Mare · ss The Century Magazine August 1922 524 · Riesenberg · Ford Madox Ford · nv The English Review April 1911 549 · The Old Man · Holloway Horn · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 555 · The Prayer · Violet Hunt · nv Chapman’s Magazine December 1895, as “The Story of a Ghost” 579 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Queen June 23 1900 591 · Ants · Manuel Komroff · ss (r) 598 · Mr. Justice Harbottle [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Belgravia January 1872, as “The Haunted House in Westminster” 629 · 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. 663 · The Great Return · Arthur Machen · nv Faith Press, 1915 695 · The Story of the Greek Slave · Captain Frederick Marryat · ss The Metropolitan Magazine July 1831 708 · Anty Bligh · John Masefield · ss The Manchester Guardian March 15 1905 712 · The Bell-Tower · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly August 1855, uncredited. 725 · The Double Admiral · John Metcalfe · ss The Smoking Leg and Other Stories by John Metcalfe, Jarrolds, 1925 736 · The Library Window · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1896 774 · Rose Rose · Barry Pain · ss The London Magazine May 1910 780 · The Iron Pineapple · Eden Phillpotts · ss The Red Magazine March 15 1910 795 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835 803 · The Roll-Call of the Reef · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q 817 · Mangaroo · Naomi Royde-Smith · ss The Story-teller July/August 1926 825 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 830 · Called to the Rescue · Henry Spicer · ss Strange Things Among Us by Henry Spicer, Chapman & Hall, 1863 833 · The Enemy · Hugh Walpole · ss The Strand Magazine February 1923 843 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost”

Stories of the Supernatural from the Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (McFadden, 1963, 50-170, 50¢, 144pp, pb, an)     Reprint of eleven stories from The Omnibus of Crime (Parson & Clarks, 1929). 5 · 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. 16 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 20 · The Novel of the Black Seal [Mr. Dyson] · Arthur Machen · na The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895 56 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 67 · Mrs. Amworth · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine June 1922 80 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, Dent, 1910 85 · The Anticipator · Morley Roberts · ss The Sketch May 13 1896 91 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review October 1922 110 · The Seventh Man · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by A. T. Quiller-Couch, Cassell & Company, 1900 122 · Proof · Naomi Royde-Smith · ss Land & Water 1919 132 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925

Tales of Detection ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Dent, 1936, 382pp, hc, an)     Also Dent 1976 as Great Tales of Detection. vii · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · 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 20 · The Biter Bit · William Wilkie Collins · nv The Atlantic Monthly April 1858, as “Who Is the Thief?”, uncredited. 49 · Was It Murder? · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex from The Master of Ballantrae, Cassell, 1889 53 · The Man in the Passage [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss McClure’s Magazine April 1913 70 · The Clever Cockatoo [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine July 1914 88 · The Ghost at Massingham Mansions [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 116 · The Tea-Leaf · Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace · nv The Strand Magazine October 1925 133 · The Contents of a Mare’s Nest [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv The Magic Casket by R. Austin Freeman, Hodder, 1927 152 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 171 · Solved by Inspection [Miles Bredon] · Ronald A. Knox · ss 1925 183 · Philomel Cottage · Agatha Christie · nv The Grand Magazine November 1924 206 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 225 · The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv The Premier Magazine #106, January 28 1921 250 · 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 266 · The Image in the Mirror [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Hangman’s Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1933 291 · A Matter of Luck · Henry Wade · ss Policeman’s Lot by Henry Wade, Constable, 1933 309 · Superfluous Murder · Milward Kennedy · ss The Premier Magazine #44, May 1930 324 · The Yellow Slugs [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv The Windsor Magazine March 1935 362 · The Episode of the Nail and the Requiem [Trevis Tarrant] · C. Daly King · nv Mystery March 1935, as “The Affair on the Roof”

Tales of Detection and Mystery from the Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (McFadden, 1962, 50-143, 50¢, 159pp, pb, an)     Reprint of seven stories from The Omnibus of Crime (Parson & Clarks, 1929). 7 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 1 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928 41 · Her Last Adventure · Marie Belloc Lowndes · nv 1924 63 · The Ace of Trouble · C. Hedley Barker · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1925 67 · The Adventure of the Priory School [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Collier’s Weekly January 30 1904 95 · The Face in the Dark · L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace · ss The London Magazine July 1903 111 · The Ghost at Massingham Mansions [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 135 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 5 1910, as “The Bolt from the Blue” 149 · The Wrong House [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1901

The Third Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Coward-McCann, 1942, 808pp, hc, an)     Revised from Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 3. 1 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 3 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1934 11 · The Perfect Murder · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine October 1926 29 · The Bullet · J. J. Bell · ss The Strand Magazine November 1926 43 · The Mystery of the Child’s Toy · Leslie Charteris · ss The American Magazine September 1933, as “The Man Who Liked Toys” 61 · Poker-Face · Carl Clausen · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 27 1926 85 · The Level Crossing · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The Cornhill Magazine November 1933 99 · The Brown Sandwich · St. John Ervine · ss The Story-teller February 1933 113 · The Judge Corroborates · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine August 22 1919 129 · The Echo of a Mutiny [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine September 1911, as “Death on the Girdler” 163 · The Perfect Crime · Ormond Greville · ss Pearson’s Magazine August 1932 177 · The Grave Grass Quivers · MacKinlay Kantor · ss The Elks Magazine July 1931 195 · No Man’s Hour · Laurence Kirk · ss The Passing Show September 30 1933 209 · Willful Murder · H. A. Manhood · ss Apples by Night by H. A. Manhood, Cape, 1932 217 · The Blue Trout · Basil Mitchell · ss Pearson’s Magazine February 1933 233 · Wet Paint · Robert E. Pinkerton · ss Detective Fiction Weekly March 26 1932 247 · The Wrong Hand [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 15 1911 259 · On the Irish Mail · Garnett Radcliffe · ss The Windsor Magazine 1931 269 · Risk · Margery Sharp · ss The Strand Magazine August 1933 279 · The Missing Undergraduate [Insp. (Chief Insp.) Poole] · Henry Wade · nv The London Magazine May 1930 295 · Buttons · E. M. Winch · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1933 309 · Inquest · Loel Yeo · ss The Strand Magazine April 1932 327 · A Busman’s Holiday · Francis Brett Young · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine March 1930 347 · 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. 357 · Sombrero · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury February 1929 375 · Lord Mount Prospect · John Betjeman · ss The London Mercury December 1929 387 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 435 · Couching at the Door · Dorothy K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 459 · The Dumb Wife [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · ss Whispering Windows by Thomas Burke, Grant Richards, 1921 469 · The Bargain · A. M. Burrage · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 3 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1934 477 · Arabesque: The Mouse · A. E. Coppard · ss Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by A. E. Coppard, Golden Cockerel Press, 1921 485 · The Mistaken Fury · Oswald Couldrey · ss The Mistaken Fury by Oswald Couldrey, Blackwell, 1914 497 · Sophy Mason Comes Back · E. M. Delafield · ss Time and Tide 1930 511 · Our Distant Cousins [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 23 1929 537 · A Jungle Graduate · James Francis Dwyer · ss Harper’s Weekly September 10 1910 549 · The Scoop · Leonora Gregory · ss The Passing Show June 24 1933 553 · The Island · L. P. Hartley · ss Night Fears by L. P. Hartley, Putnam, 1924 569 · Double Demon · William F. Harvey · ss Moods and Tenses by William Fryer Harvey, Basil Blackwell, 1933 579 · Clay-Shuttered Doors · Helen R. Hull · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1926 599 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · ss The London Mercury September 1930 615 · The Interruption · W. W. Jacobs · ss Liberty July 4 1925 629 · The Diary of Mr. Poynter · M. R. James · nv A Thin Ghost by M. R. James, Longmans, Green, 1919 641 · The Head · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire April 1935, as “So You Won’t Talk?” 649 · The People of the Pit · A. Merritt · ss revised from All-Story Weekly, January 5, 1918. 665 · Time-Fuse · John Metcalfe · ss Judas and Other Stories by John Metcalfe, Constable, 1931 681 · Decay · J. C. Moore · ss King Carnival by John C. Moore, Dent, 1933 691 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q 703 · The Hill · R. Ellis Roberts · ss The Other End by R. Ellis Roberts, Cecil Palmer, 1923 717 · The Pattern · Naomi Royde-Smith · nv The New Decameron, Vol. 6 ed. Vivienne Dayrell, Blackwell, 1929 747 · No Ships Pass · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Story-teller May 1932 771 · The Idol with Hands of Clay · Sir Frederick Treves · ss Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction #124, July 1922 779 · The Frontier Guards · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Illustrated London News November 25 1929 785 · The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham · H. G. Wells · ss The Idler May 1896 803 · Anniversary · Clarence Winchester · ss The Story-teller March 1932

The World’s Great Crime Stories ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Blue Ribbon, June 1939, 855pp, hc, an)     Reprint (Coward-McCann 1932 as The Second Omnibus of Crime) crime/horror/legends anthology.

The Gladiator Dies Only Once: The Further Investigations of Gordianus the Finder by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s Minotaur, June 2005, 0-312-27120-4, $23.95, 269pp, hc, co) [Gordianus the Finder]     Collection of 9 short stories. ix · Preface · Steven Saylor · pr 1 · The Consul’s Wife [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv Crime Through Time III ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley, 2000 29 · If a Cyclops Could Vanish in the Blink of an Eye [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · ss Candis 2002 39 · The White Fawn [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv Classical Whodunnits ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 71 · Something Fishy in Pompeii [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · ss Candis 2003 81 · Archimedes’ Tomb [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv Crime Through Time ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley, 1997 111 · Death by Eros [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv Past Poisons ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline, 1998 137 · A Gladiator Dies Only Once [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson, 2003 183 · Poppy and the Poisoned Cake [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1998 211 · The Cherries of Lucullus [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 2005 261 · The Life and Times of Gordianus the Finder: A Partial Chronology · Steven Saylor · ms 265 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg

Pig Iron: Science Fiction ed. Rose Sayre & Jim Villani--- see under Pig Iron #10, 1982.

Human Monsters ed. Ashley Saywers & Sadie Hartmann--- see under Sadie Hartmann.

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, July 2005, 1-59606-020-4, $30.00, 286pp, hc, n., cover by Mike Krahulik)     Humorous SF novel, previously available online. Ugly, smelly aliens making first contact with Earth get a Hollywood agent to help. This signed, limited edition is sold out; a lettered edition ($150.00), with a bonus chapbook (“Sketches of Daily Life”), is also available.

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, May 31, 2017, 978-1-59606-786-8, $28.00, 136pp, hc, na, cover by Vincent Chong) [The Dispatcher]     Also available in a leatherbound edition, limited to 400 numbered copies, signed by the author ($45). Details taken from publisher website.

The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, April 2021, 978-1-64524-017-4, $40.00, 192pp, hc, na, cover by Michael Koelsch) [The Dispatcher]     Limited to 2000 signed, numbered, copies. Details taken from publisher website.