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Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher by Anthony Boucher (Southern Illinois University Press, September 1983, 0-8093-1099-6, xvi+307pp, hc, co, cover by Ed Lindlof) [edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. & Martin H. Greenberg] vii · The World of Anthony Boucher · Francis M. Nevins, Jr. · in 3 · Screwball Division [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1942 20 · QL 696.C9 [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1943 35 · Black Murder [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #12, September 1943 50 · Death of a Patriarch [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss 65 · Rumor, Inc. [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #20, January 1945 80 · The Punt and the Pass [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss Short Stories November 25 1945 98 · Like Count Palmieri [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #27, February 1946 114 · Crime Must Have a Stop [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #87, February 1951 135 · The Girl Who Married a Monster [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #123, February 1954 157 · Coffin Corner · Anthony Boucher · ss The Female of the Species ed. Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, 1943, as by H. H. Holmes 172 · The Stripper [Sister Mary Ursula, OMB] · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #22, May 1945, as by H. H. Holmes 187 · Threnody · Anthony Boucher · ss Maiden Murders, Harper Brothers, 1952 193 · Design for Dying · Anthony Boucher · ss Detective Short Stories September 1941 200 · Mystery for Christmas · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1943 218 · Code Zed · Anthony Boucher · ss World’s Great Spy Stories ed. Vincent Starrett, World, 1944 223 · The Ghost with the Gun · Anthony Boucher · ts Master Detective June 1945 238 · The Catalyst · Anthony Boucher · ss Black Mask July 1945 253 · The Retired Hangman · Anthony Boucher · ss Shadow Mystery February/March 1947 269 · The Smoke-Filled Locked Room · Anthony Boucher · ss The Locked Room Reader ed. Hans Stefan Santesson, Random House, 1968 288 · The Statement of Jerry Malloy · Anthony Boucher · ss Dangerous Dames ed. Mike Shayne, Dell, 1955 293 · A Matter of Scholarship · Anthony Boucher · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1955 295 · The Ultimate Clue · Anthony Boucher · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1960 299 · A Checklist of the Fiction of Anthony Boucher · Francis M. Nevins, Jr. · bi

Far and Away by Anthony Boucher (Ballantine, 1955, 109, 35¢, 168pp, pb, co, cover by Richard Powers) 3 · The Anomaly of the Empty Man · Anthony Boucher · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1952 22 · The First · Anthony Boucher · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1952 25 · Balaam · Anthony Boucher · ss 9 Tales of Space and Time ed. Raymond J. Healy, Henry Holt, 1954 40 · They Bite · Anthony Boucher · ss Unknown Worlds August 1943 52 · Snulbug · Anthony Boucher · ss Unknown Worlds December 1941 68 · Elsewhen [Fergus O’Breen] · Anthony Boucher · nv Astounding Science-Fiction January 1943 97 · Secret of the House · Anthony Boucher · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1953, as by H. H. Holmes 105 · Sriberdegibit · Anthony Boucher · nv Unknown Worlds June 1943 139 · Star Bride · Anthony Boucher · vi Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1951 142 · Review Copy · Anthony Boucher · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Fall 1949, as by H. H. Holmes 153 · The Other Inauguration · Anthony Boucher · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1953

Best American Detective Stories of the Year: 15th Annual Collection ed. Anthony Boucher (Boardman, 1966, 18/-, 232pp, hc, an)     Reprint (Dutton 1966 as Best Detective Stories of the Year: 20th Annual Collection) mystery anthology.

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 18th Annual Collection ed. Anthony Boucher (Dutton, 1963, $3.95, 271pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · Anthony Boucher · in 13 · The Last Link · Andrew Garve · ss Cosmopolitan July 1962 27 · His Brother’s Keeper · James McKimmey, Jr. · ss Cosmopolitan September 1962 39 · My Sister Annabelle · De Forbes · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1962 52 · Theme of the Traitor and the Hero · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r) translated from the Spanish (“Tema del traidor y del héroe”, Sur, February 1944). 57 · The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths · Jorge Luís 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). 59 · The Red Herring · Richard Deming · nv Manhunt December 1962 99 · The Adventure of the Double-Bogey Man [Schlock Homes] · Robert L. Fish · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1962 114 · First Come, First Served · Rog Phillips · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1962 128 · Express Delivery [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard December 19 1950 140 · The Sin of Madame Phloi · Lilian Jackson Braun · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1962 153 · Party Line · Murray Leinster · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1962 169 · The Liberty of the Subject · Avram Davidson · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) September 1961 181 · The Return of Edgar Allan Poe · Robert Lowry · ss Party of Dreamers by Robert Lowry, Fleet, 1962 186 · The Death of Don Juan [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Argosy May 1962 252 · The Right Man for the Right Job · J. C. Thompson · ss Playboy July 1962 265 · The Last Answer · Hal Ellson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1962 273 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 276 · Awards · [uncredited] · bi 276 · Necrology · [uncredited] · bg 278 · Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 19th Annual Collection ed. Anthony Boucher (Dutton, 1964, LC:46-5872, $3.95, 269pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · Anthony Boucher · in 13 · The Cattywampus · Borden Deal · ss Argosy January 1963 28 · Last Man to Die [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week November 3 1963 36 · A Taste for Murder · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1963 41 · The Long Golfers [Prosper Fair, the Duke of Devizes] · Barry Perowne · nv The Saint Mystery Magazine July 1963 70 · The New Deal · Charles Einstein · ss Playboy February 1963 77 · Phut Phat Concentrates · Lilian Jackson Braun · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1963 89 · Justice, Inc. · Rog Phillips · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1963 108 · The Golden Frog · Ken W. Purdy · nv Playboy January 1963 129 · I Will Please Come to Order · William North Jayme · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1963 140 · Wanted—Dead and Alive [Chester Drum] · Stephen Marlowe · ss Manhunt October 1963 155 · The Gracious, Pleasant Life of Mrs. Afton · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1963 170 · Plumrose [Plumrose] · Ron Goulart · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination June 1963 190 · The Catalytic Agent [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy (UK) May 1962, as “The Cat Cracker” 208 · A Humanist · Romain Gary · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 26 1963 215 · The Boy Wonder of Real Estate [Michael Dane James; Ted Bennett] · James Michael Ullman · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1963 236 · The Operator · Jack Ritchie · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1963 271 · Mistake · Fredric Brown · vi Rogue May 1963, as “untitled (“Standish gave himself up…”)” 272 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 275 · Awards · [uncredited] · bi 276 · Necrology · [uncredited] · bg 280 · Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 20th Annual Collection ed. Anthony Boucher (Dutton, 1965, LC:46-5872, $3.95, 257pp, hc, an)     Also available in the U.K. (Boardman 1966 as Best American Detective Stories of the Year: 15th Annual Collection. 9 · Introduction · Anthony Boucher · in 13 · H as in Homicide [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1964 31 · Routine Investigation · Robert Twohy · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1964 39 · No Way Out [“Slot Machine” Kelly] · Dennis Lynds · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine February 1964 55 · Payoff [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Cavalier #134, August 1964, as “Crime Syndicate Payoff” 61 · The Temple by the River [Magistrate Pao] · Leon Comber · ss The Strange Cases of Magistrate Pao by Leon Comber, Charles E. Tuttle, 1964 75 · The Return of Schlock Homes [Schlock Homes] · Robert L. Fish · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1964 89 · The Short and Simple Annals · Dan J. Marlowe · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1964 103 · The Ingenious Mind of Mr. Rigby Lacksome [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv Max Carrados Mysteries by Ernest Bramah, Hodder & Stoughton, 1927 135 · Credit to Shakespeare [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss The Evening Standard December 12 1950, as “Credit to William Shakespeare” 143 · A Soliloquy in Tongues · William Wiser · ss Cosmopolitan May 1964 159 · Papa Tral’s Harvest · Barry Perowne · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1964 183 · Blurred View · John D. MacDonald · vi This Week February 23 1964 189 · Reunion [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · nv The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) February 1964, as by Stephen Dentinger 219 · Violet · Hal Ellson · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1964 233 · A Case for the UN · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1964 245 · Legacy of Office · Rog Phillips · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1964 259 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 262 · Awards · [uncredited] · bi 264 · Necrology · [uncredited] · bg 267 · Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 21st Annual Collection ed. Anthony Boucher (Dutton, 1966, LC:46-5872, $4.50, 288pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · Anthony Boucher · in 15 · The Hypothetical Arsonist · Rog Phillips · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1965 33 · The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss MD June 1965, as “Abraham Lincoln’s Clue” 55 · The Poison Necklace · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1965 67 · Package Deal · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1965 74 · Queasy Does It Not · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1965 79 · Foxer · Brian Cleeve · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 18 1965 97 · The Locked House [Dr. Sylvan Moore] · Stephen Barr · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1965, as “The Locked Room to End Locked Rooms” 109 · The Big Job [Mac] · Thomas B. Dewey · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine December 1965 129 · A as in Accident [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1965 149 · The Dr. Sherrock Commission [Augustus Mandrell] · Frank McAuliffe · ss Of All the Bloody Cheek by Frank McAuliffe, Ballantine, 1965 165 · Blood Brothers [Insp. Cockrill] · Christianna Brand · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1965 181 · The Lesson · Henry Cecil · ss 1958 189 · Grandfather and the Pair of Knaves [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1965, as “Grandfather and the Labor Day Mystery” 211 · The Long Way Down · Edward D. Hoch · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1965 235 · The Sleeping Dog [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Argosy April 1965 257 · The Peppermint-Striped Goodbye · Ron Goulart · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1965 265 · The Possibility of Evil · Shirley Jackson · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 18 1965 279 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 283 · Awards · [uncredited] · bi 284 · Necrology · [uncredited] · bg 285 · Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 22nd Annual Collection ed. Anthony Boucher (Dutton, 1967, LC:46-5872, 284pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · Anthony Boucher · in 15 · The Yellow Brick Road · Gene Williams · ss The New Yorker June 4 1966 23 · The Theft of the Clouded Tiger [Nick Velvet] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1966 39 · The Adventure of the Red Leech [Solar Pons] · August Derleth · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1966 60 · Miss Phipps and the Invisible Murderer [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1966 81 · Speaking of Murder · Jack Ritchie · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1966 98 · The Opposite Number · Jacob Hay · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1966 114 · The Delinquent Account · Al Wright · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1966 130 · Murder Is a Gas · Allen Kim Lang · nv The Saint Magazine September 1966 173 · They Do Not Always Remember · William S. Burroughs · vi Esquire May 1966 177 · K as in Knife [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1966 195 · The Tin Ear [John Easy] · Ron Goulart · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1966 207 · The Stollmeyer Sonnets [Acting Sergeant Maynard Bullock] · James Powell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1966 233 · The Chosen One · Rhys Davies · nv The New Yorker June 4 1966 273 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 277 · Awards · [uncredited] · bi 278 · Necrology · [uncredited] · bg 281 · Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

Best Detective Stories of the Year: 23rd Annual Collection ed. Anthony Boucher (Dutton, 1968, 253pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · Anthony Boucher · in 13 · By Child Undone · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1967 27 · Kessler, the Inside Man · George Fox · ss Esquire October 1967 44 · Good Man, Bad Man · Jerome Weidman · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 1 1967 65 · Long Way Up, Short Way Down · Ken W. Purdy · ss Playboy November 1967 80 · The Beddoes Scheme [Acting Sergeant Maynard Bullock] · James Powell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1967 111 · The Dead Man · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Anthony Kerrigan · ss The New Yorker January 7 1967 translated from the Spanish (“El muerto”, Sur, November 1946). 118 · B as in Burglary [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1967 141 · Rink: a 1001st Precinct Mystery · Ron Goulart · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1967 [Ref. Ed McBain] 151 · File #1: The Mayfield Case [Daniel Kearny Associates] · Joseph N. Gores · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1967 173 · Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (“By 2133, ten years after an Order in Council invested them with all rights to the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon”) · Grendel Briarton · vi The Baker Street Journal June 1967 175 · A Delicate Balance · James McKimmey, Jr. · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1967 203 · The Road to Damascus [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · nv Argosy (UK) June 1966 229 · The Best Driver in the County · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1967 241 · The Oblong Room [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Saint Magazine July 1967 255 · Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas (Little Brown, March 1952, $2.75, xiv+214pp, hc, an, cover by Chesley Bonestell from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1950) ix · Introduction · Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas · in 3 · Huge Beast · Cleve Cartmill · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Summer 1950 12 · John the Revelator · Oliver La Farge · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1951 27 · Elephas Frumenti [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Winter/Spring 1950 33 · The Gift of God [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Winter/Spring 1950 40 · The Friendly Demon · Daniel Defoe · ss J. Rogers, 1726 45 · Old Man Henderson · Kris Neville · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1951 58 · The Threepenny-Piece · James Stephens · ss Here Are Ladies by James Stephens, Macmillan, 1913 68 · No-Sided Professor · Martin Gardner · ss Esquire January 1947 82 · The Listening Child · Idris Seabright · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1950 94 · Dress of White Silk · Richard Matheson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1951 100 · The Mathematical Voodoo [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1951 120 · Hub · Philip MacDonald · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1951, as “Solitary Confinement” 126 · Built Up Logically · Howard Schoenfeld · ss Retort Winter 1949, as “The Universal Panacea” 139 · The Rat That Could Speak · Charles Dickens · ss from The Uncommercial Traveller, Chapman & Hall, 1860 145 · Narapoia [Manly J. Departure] · Alan Nelson · ss What’s Doing April 1948, as “The Origin of Narapoia” 153 · Postpaid to Paradise [Murchison Morks] · Robert Arthur · ss Argosy June 15 1940, as “Postmarked for Paradise” 170 · In the Days of Our Fathers · Winona McClintic · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Fall 1949 178 · Barney · Will Stanton · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1951 181 · The Collector · H. F. Heard · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1951 214 · Fearsome Fable · Bruce Elliott · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1951

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Second Series ed. Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas (Little Brown, March 1953, $3.00, x+270pp, hc, an, cover by Chesley Bonestell) vii · Introduction · Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas · in 3 · Budding Explorer · Ralph Robin · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1952 17 · The Shout · Robert Graves · ss The Woburn Books #16, 1929 44 · The Tooth · G. Gordon Dewey · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1952 69 · Ugly Sister · Jan Struther · ss The London Mercury December 1935 80 · The Black Ball [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1952 93 · The Hole in the Moon · Idris Seabright · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1952 101 · The Third Level · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s October 7 1950 108 · The Cheery Soul · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener December 24 1942 123 · Ransom · H. B. Fyfe · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1952 134 · The Earlier Service · Margaret Irwin · ss Madame Fears the Dark by Margaret Irwin, A.D. Peters, 1935 155 · The Hyperspherical Basketball [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1951 179 · The Desrick on Yandro [Silver John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1952 197 · Come On, Wagon! · Zenna Henderson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1951 210 · Jizzle · John Wyndham · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1952 revised from Collier’s Jan 8 ’49, as by John Beynon. 227 · Stair Trick · Mildred Clingerman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1952 235 · The Soothsayer · Kem Bennett · ss Magpie August 1951 246 · Hobson’s Choice · Alfred Bester · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1952 268 · Letters to the Editor · Ron Goulart · ss Pelican October 1950