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The Best of Adam (Holloway House, 1964, HH-106, 60¢, 222pp, pb, an)     Third printing. 5 · Introduction · Lothar Ashley · in 8 · The Double-Hippled Hipster · Ted Keller · ss Adam Bedside Reader #2, 1959 20 · The Net and the Trident · E. J. Jerome · ss (r) 35 · Wastrel’s Guide · William R. Morey · ar Adam Bedside Reader #4, 1960, as “The Wastrel’s Guide to Aphrodisia” 42 · Murderess · Jay Edmond · ss Adam June 1959 55 · A Game of Stud · James Bellaugh · ss Adam August 1959 65 · A Very Expensive Kiss · Daniel Coe · ss Adam June 1959 72 · The Signet of Mr. Scratch · Lee Jacquin · ss Adam Bedside Reader #5, 1960 80 · The Fight Game · Richard Geis · ss Adam Bedside Reader #1, 1959 95 · The Executioner · Connie Sellers · nv Adam Bedside Reader #4, 1960 116 · The First Man · E. Jerome Poinc · ss Adam Bedside Reader #3, 1960 127 · Green Goods and Gold · Paul Michael Fitzsimmons · ss Adam Bedside Reader #1, 1959 155 · Striptease at Noon · William Pearman · ar Adam October 1959 163 · Indian Wrestling at Navojoa · Minor Avon Neal · ss Adam March 1959 176 · Elinda · George H. Smith · ss Adam Bedside Reader #1, 1959 190 · Try a Twisted Road · Connie Sellers · ss Adam February 1960 198 · The Last Notch · James Bellaugh · ss Adam Bedside Reader #5, 1960 206 · Number Please · Lee Miller · ss (r) 214 · Cannibals for Commoners · Myron Brenton · hu Adam October 1960 219 · The Kiss · Richard Armour · hu Adam Bedside Reader #5, 1960

The Best of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Fantasy (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, 2007, ebook, an)

The Best of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Horror (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, 2007, ebook, an)     Partially indexed. · Body and Soul Art · Eugie Foster · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #14, August/September 2004 · The Elves Hate You · Matthew Bey · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #12, April/May 2004

The Best of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine SciFi (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, 2007, $10.00, ebook, an) · Mug · Edwina Harvey · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #2, August 2002 · Trouble Leaves a Scent Trail · Constance Cooper · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17, February/March 2005 · Evensong · T. Rex · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #3, October 2002 · The Brass Man · John Borneman · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #2, August 2002 · Acquired Tastes · Stephen Dedman · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #9, October/November 2003 · The Day After the Census · Lawrence M. Schoen · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #8, August 2003 · Absolution · Barbara Robson · nv Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #15, October/November 2004 · Murderworld · Lee Battersby · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #18, April/May 2005 · Parity Check · Dirk Flinthart · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #9, October/November 2003 · A Small Blue Planet for the Pleasantly Insane · Douglas A. Van Belle · nv Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #16, December 2004/January 2005 · The Beating of Butterfly Wings · Brandon Alspaugh · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #15, October/November 2004 · Loss Leader · Simon Haynes · nv Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #3, October 2002 · Trade Barrier · Dave Luckett · nv Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #1, June 2002 · The Jerk Who Fell to Earth · Tom Holt · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #3, October 2002 · CDX · Tracina Jackson-Adams · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #16, December 2004/January 2005 · Are You Ready for the End of the World? · Danny Adams · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #15, October/November 2004

The Best of Ellery Queen (Robert Hale, 1983, 0-7090-0778-7, £7.95, 384pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 30 stories published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. 8 · Introduction · [uncredited] · in 9 · The Blood Bargain · Eric Ambler · ss Winter’s Crimes 2 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1970 23 · What Happened to Annie Barnes? · Ed McBain · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1976, as by Evan Hunter 45 · Reasons Unknown · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1978 57 · The Coulman Handicap [Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · nv Argosy (UK) April 1958 74 · Miss Phipps in the Hospital [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1964 90 · When in Rome · Patricia Highsmith · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1978 111 · The Patsy · Robert L. Fish · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1976 117 · You Can’t Be Too Careful · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1976 130 · The Three Students [The Puzzle Club] · Ellery Queen · ss Playboy March 1971 135 · The Sacrificial Goat · Thomas Walsh · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1978 147 · Dover Goes to School [Insp. Wilfred Dover] · Joyce Porter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1978 167 · Charlie’s Shell Game [Charlie Dark] · Brian Garfield · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1978 183 · The Forgotten Murder · E. X. Ferrars · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1978 194 · The Tale of Djemal · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1975 207 · This Is Death · Donald E. Westlake · ss The Thirteenth Ghost Book ed. James Hale, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977, as “In at the Death” 220 · You Understand? · Borden Deal · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1979 231 · Miss Phipps Discovers America [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1963 249 · The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths · Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Donald A. Yates · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1962 translated from the Spanish (“Una Leyenda Arabiga (Historia de los dos Reyes y los dos Laberintos, como Nota de Burton)”, El Aleph, Editorial Losada, 1949). 251 · Behind the Locked Door · Peter Lovesey · ss Winter’s Crimes 10 ed. Hilary Watson, Macmillan UK, 1978, as “The Locked Room” 265 · A Lovely Morning to Die · Celia Fremlin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1979 275 · The Boiler · Julian Symons · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1979 286 · The Adventure of the Honest Swindler [The Puzzle Club] · Ellery Queen · ss The Saturday Evening Post Summer 1971, as “The Honest Swindler” 290 · The Deadly Egg [Adjutent Grijpstra; Sgt. de Gier] · Janwillem van de Wetering · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1979 307 · The Man from Out There · Georges Simenon; translated by Suzie deSurvilliers & Bolton Melliss · ss 1944 318 · Wisp of Wool and Disk of Silver [Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte] · Arthur W. Upfield · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1979 332 · The Door in the Wall · H. G. Wells · ss The Daily Chronicle July 14 1906 347 · Baskets of Apples and Roses [Department of Patterns] · Victor Canning · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1965 355 · Born Victim · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1978 367 · Treasure Trove · Berkely Mather · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1971 375 · The Girl of My Dreams · Donald E. Westlake · ss The Midnight Ghost Book ed. James Hale, Barrie & Jenkins, 1978

The Best of Ellery Queen #2 (Robert Hale, 1984, 0-7090-1793-6, hc, an) 8 · Introduction · Ellery Queen · in 9 · The Sweet Corn Murder [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na Trio for Blunt Instruments by Rex Stout, Viking, 1964, as “Murder Is Corny” 62 · Gone Girl [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Manhunt February 1953, as “The Imaginary Blonde” by John Ross Macdonald 92 · The Glory Hunter · Brian Garfield · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1977 101 · Death at the Excelsior · P. G. Wodehouse · ss Pearson’s Magazine December 1914, as “The Education of Detective Oakes” 119 · Mrs. Craggs’ Sixth Sense [Mrs. Craggs] · H. R. F. Keating · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1978 125 · Death Between Dances · Cornell Woolrich · ss Shadow Mystery December 1947/January 1948 140 · Chain of Terror · Patricia McGerr · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1979 161 · The Sark Lane Mission [Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · nv Argosy (UK) July 1958 183 · The Strong and the Weak · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1977 192 · The Dead Past · Thomas Walsh · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1977 206 · A More-or-Less Crime [Supt. Minter] · Edgar Wallace · ss 1975 214 · The Rose Murders · E. X. Ferrars · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1977 220 · Gentlemen’s Agreement [Bernie Rhodenbarr] · Lawrence Block · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1977 227 · The Nine Mile Walk [Nicky Welt] · Harry Kemelman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947 235 · The Specialty of the House · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #54, May 1948 253 · The Purple Shroud · Joyce Harrington · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1972 264 · The Widow’s Walk · Jack Finney · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #44, July 1947 272 · The Gracious, Pleasant Life of Mrs. Afton · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1963 283 · Credit to Shakespeare [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss The Evening Standard December 12 1950, as “Credit to William Shakespeare” 289 · Blood Brothers [Insp. Cockrill] · Christianna Brand · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1965 301 · The Man Who Never Told a Lie [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1972 310 · Dover Does Some Spadework [Insp. Wilfred Dover] · Joyce Porter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1976 324 · The Adventure of the Three R’s [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #34, September 1946 342 · The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World September 7 1913 (+1) 361 · Blind Man’s Bluff [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #49, December 1947

The Best of Ellery Queen #3 (Robert Hale, 1985, 0-7090-2425-8, hc, an) 9 · In the Clear · Patricia McGerr · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1978 25 · The Killer Instinct · Thomas Walsh · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1977 38 · A Victim Must Be Found · Henry Slesar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956 44 · Trust Charlie [Charlie Dark] · Brian Garfield · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1978 53 · Rough Justice [Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1977 62 · A Very Small Clue · E. X. Ferrars · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1977 68 · Pay-Off Girl · James M. Cain · ss Esquire August 1952 76 · Tragedy of a Handkerchief [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #47, October 1947 88 · The Price of Joy · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1977 100 · The Day of the Bullet · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1959 117 · The Perfect Model · Margery Sharp · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957 131 · The Other Shoe · Charlotte Armstrong · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1962 146 · A Hell of a Story · H. R. F. Keating · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1982 150 · Traveling Light · W. R. Burnett · ss Collier’s December 7 1935 164 · The Sisterhood · Gwendoline Butler · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1968 176 · The Marked Man · Ursula Curtiss · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1972 187 · Cold Money [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week March 30 1952 193 · The Wrong Fox [Colonel Cristobal Ocampos] · Michael Gilbert · nv Winter’s Crimes 1 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1969, as “Basilio” 216 · The One Real Horror · John Dickson Carr · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1939, as “New Murders for Old” 232 · The Third Man · Graham Greene · na The American Magazine March 1949 282 · The Cross of Lorraine [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1976 298 · Old Friends · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1975 312 · They Didn’t Deserve Her Death · Holly Roth · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1958 317 · Double Cross · Christianna Brand · ss What Dread Hand? by Christianna Brand, Michael Joseph, 1968 331 · The Black Cliffs · Joan Aiken · ss A Whisper in the Night by Joan Aiken, Gollancz, 1982 347 · Back on My Feet Again · Ron Goulart · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #48, Winter 1983 361 · The Beneficiaries · Hillary Waugh · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #51, Winter 1984 365 · Your Appointment Is Cancelled [Jemima Shore] · Antonia Fraser · ss 1983 374 · The Case of the Frozen Diplomat · Tim Heald · ss Weekend Magazine June 17 1978

The Best of Ellery Queen #4 (Robert Hale, 1989, 0-7090-3547-0, hc, an) 7 · Trumpetbird in the Cop Car · Janwillem van de Wetering · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #55, Fall 1986 16 · Boots · Antonia Fraser · ss The Fiction Magazine 1984 22 · Old P · H. R. F. Keating · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #55, Fall 1986 27 · Eavesdropping · Ron Goulart · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #55, Fall 1986 35 · Happy Christmas · Robert Barnard · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #55, Fall 1986 46 · Drown Her on Saturday · Celia Fremlin · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #55, Fall 1986 51 · Kill Before Publication · Martin Russell · ss The Darker Side of Death by Martin Russell, Collins, 1985 75 · The Film Festival Assignment · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #55, Fall 1986 90 · Have a Nice Death · George Baxt · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #57, Fall 1987 99 · A Little Innocent Matchmaking · Ernest Savage · ss Ellery Queen’s Anthology #57, Fall 1987 119 · The Question · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1962, as “The Question My Son Asked” 128 · The Old Barn on the Pond · Ursula Curtiss · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1965 144 · Her Heart’s Home · Mary McMullen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1977 154 · The Phonograph Murder [Insp. Christopher McKee] · Helen Reilly · ss Collier’s January 25 1947 168 · The Night Calhoun Was Off Duty · Thomas Walsh · ss 1938 179 · The Missing Mortgagee [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · ss Pearson’s Magazine June 1914 197 · The Beauty in That House · Florence V. Mayberry · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1971 209 · The Mysterious Death in Percy Street [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine October 1901 223 · The Shop That Exchanged Evils · Lord Dunsany · ss The Smart Set January 1915, as “The Bureau d’Echange de Maux” 227 · The Neighbors · John Galsworthy · ss The Bellman #183, January 15 1910 232 · Who’s the Blonde? · John D. MacDonald · ss Collier’s August 9 1952 248 · In a Country Churchyard · Robert L. Fish · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1970 258 · Rear Window · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 1942, as “It Had to Be Murder”

The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 1, 2009-2011 (Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, November 22, 2015, 978-1-5191-5037-0, $9.99, 212pp, tp, an, cover by Justin Sweet)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Man of Moldania · Richard Marsden · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #1, 2009 13 · Leo Passimus Remembers His First Voyage · Danny Adams · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #1, 2009 15 · The Black Flowers of Sevan [Tulun of Birjand] · James Lecky · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #1, 2009 34 · Monster in the Mountains · William Gerke · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #2, 2009 51 · The Lay of Cuthred King · Joshua Hampton · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #2, 2009 58 · Shadows from Firelight [Hokagé] · R. Michael Burns · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #3, 2009 84 · The Footman · W. E. Couvillier · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #4, 2010 86 · Hero of Old · John Keller · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #4, 2010 88 · A Bit of Backstory · The Editors · ms 90 · No Two Stones · Christopher Wood · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #5, 2010 114 · What Sieglinde Serpentslayer Said to the King · Megan Arkenberg · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #5, 2010 116 · The Sea Wasp · Robert Rhodes · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #6, 2010 129 · Lord of the Brass Host · Dariel Quiogue · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #7, 2011 152 · The Last Free Bear · J. S. Bangs · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #7, 2011 159 · Lament for the Fathers · Joshua Hampton · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #7, 2011 165 · Shattering the Spear · P. Djèlí Clark · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #7, 2011 187 · The Baroness Drefelin · David Pilling · vi Bards and Sages Quarterly July 2011 191 · Gilgamesh (What the Sumerians Seem to Have Missed) · David Sklar · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #8, 2011

The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 3, 2013-2015 (Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, October 27, 2019, 978-1-70218-214-0, $14.99, 295pp, tp, an, cover by Robert Zoltan)     Twenty-one works of fiction and poetry from Heroic Fantasy Quarterly issues seventeen through twenty-four. Details taken from Table of Contents. 9 · Sword and Sorcery Is What I Mean When I Point My (Insert Cutlery of Choice) at It · Darrell Schweitzer · in 15 · A Whisper in Ashes · Charles Gramlich · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #17, 2013 27 · Don Quixote’s Quandary · Colleen Anderson · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #17, 2013 31 · A Lonely Grave on the Hill · Cesar Alcazar · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #18, 2013 37 · Corinth · Gerald Henson · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #18, 2013 47 · The Region Linuis · Lorna Smithers · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #18, 2013 51 · The Last First Time · Colin Heintze · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #19, 2014 71 · Fortune-Teller · E. L. Schmitt · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #19, 2014 75 · The Sword · Cullen Groves · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #20, 2014 79 · Mouth of the Jaguar [Hummingbird Cycle] · Evan Dicken · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #20, 2014 97 · A Matter of Goats · Ben Fenwick · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #21, 2014 119 · The Tomb Robber’s Tale · Sean P. Robson · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #21, 2014 135 · Lady Cardula and the Gryphon · Shawn Scarber · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #21, 2014 141 · At the Sign of the Midpoint Tavern · The Editors · in 143 · Chiron · Gary Every · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #21, 2014 147 · Shadows and Foxfire [Hokagé] · R. Michael Burns · ss Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #22, 2014 163 · With a Golden Risha · P. Djeli Clark · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #23, 2015 191 · Bronze-Ard, the Ferret Master, and Auspicious Events at Swift Creek Farm · Adrian Simmons · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #23, 2015 215 · Witch and Paladin · Reilly S. Blackwell · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #23, 2015 219 · Crazy Snake and the Ciguanaba [Crazy Snake] · Eric Atkisson · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #23, 2015 243 · The Madness of the Mansa · Cullen Groves · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #24, 2015 269 · The Reeds of Torin’s Field · Andrea G. Stewart · nv Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #24, 2015 287 · Shamans · David Farney · pm Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #24, 2015 291 · About the Artists · [uncredited] · bg 293 · About the Editors · [uncredited] · bg