Murder & Other Acts of Literature ed. Michele Slung (St. Martin’s, September 1997, 0-312-16937-X, $24.95, 345pp, hc, an)
Reprint (Book-of-the-Month Club 1997) anthology.
- xiii · Editor’s Foreword · Michele Slung · fw 1997
- 1 · Montraldo · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker June 6 1964
- 11 · The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1939
- 29 · Success or Failure · T. H. White · ss 1937
- 37 · By a Person Unknown · Naguib Mahfouz · ss The Time and the Place and Other Stories by Naguib Mahfouz, American University in Cairo Press, 1991
- 53 · How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy. · Alice Walker · ss You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1980
- 59 · The Hotel of the Idle Moon · William Trevor · ss Transatlantic Review #23, Winter 1966/1967
- 77 · Aaron Trow · Anthony Trollope · nv (r)
- 109 · The Fat Man · Isak Dinesen · ss Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales by Isak Dinesen, University of Chicago, 1977
translated from the Danish (1975).
- 121 · Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing · Evelyn Waugh · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine May 1935, as “Mr. Crutwell’s Outing”
- 131 · The Johore Murders · Paul Theroux · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1977
- 141 · A Journey · Edith Wharton · ss Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton, Scribner, 1899
- 155 · Miss Forbes’s Summer of Happiness · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by Edith Grossman · ss Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez, Knopf, 1993
- 169 · The Macbeth Murder Mystery · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker October 2 1937
- 175 · A Double Tragedy · Louisa May Alcott · ss Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner June 1865, uncredited.; subtitled “An Actor’s Story”.
- 199 · Un Crime Maternel · Fay Weldon · ss 1991
- 205 · Mary Postgate · Rudyard Kipling · ss Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine September 1915
- 223 · The Walker · Patrick O’Brian · ss The Rendezvous and Other Stories by Patrick O'Brian, Norton, 1956
- 235 · Country Lovers · Nadine Gordimer · ss A Soldier’s Embrace by Nadine Gordimer, Viking Penguin, 1975, as “Town and Country Lovers, Two”
- 245 · Monk [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1937
- 265 · The Widow and the Parrot · Virginia Woolf · ss The Charleston Bulletin 1923; subtitled “A True Story”.
- 275 · My Maiden Brief · W. S. Gilbert · ss The Cornhill Magazine December 1863, uncredited.
- 287 · An Act of Vengeance · Isabel Allende; translated by E. D. Carter, Jr. · ss Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real ed. Celia Correas de Zapata, Arte Público Press, 1990
translated from the Spanish.
- 297 · In Vino Veritas · A. A. Milne · ss Birthday Party and Other Stories by A. A. Milne, Dutton, 1948
- 315 · The Portobello Road · Muriel Spark · nv Winter’s Tales 2, Macmillan UK, 1956
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