The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers’ Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century ed. Jerome Charyn (Dutton, February 1993, 0-525-93516-9, $24.00, 387pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 42 stories, 16 original, with an introduction by the editor and illustrations by Vidal Centero. Packaged and copyrighted by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.
- vii · Introduction · Jerome Charyn · in
- 1 · The Watts Lions [Easy Rawlins] · Walter Mosley · ss
- 15 · How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again · Joyce Carol Oates · nv TriQuarterly #15, Spring 1969
- 31 · The Snail Watcher · Patricia Highsmith · ss Gamma #3, 1964
- 38 · Just Say No · Roger L. Simon · ss
- 49 · In the Bronx · Don DeLillo · ex from Libra, Penguin USA, 1988
- 59 · Goldfish · Didier Daeninckx; translated by Cécile Bloc-Rodot · ss
- 65 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981
- 80 · Dealer’s Choice [Philip Marlowe] · Sara Paretsky · ss Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf, 1988
- 96 · The Summer of ’37 · Julian Semionov; translated by Anthony Olcott · ss
- 103 · No Radio · Mickey Friedman · ss
- 110 · Mafia Western · Leonardo Sciascia; translated by Avril Bardoni · ss The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia, Carcanet, 1985; dated 1973.
- 115 · Manufacture of a Legend · Paco Ignacio Taibo, II; translated by William I. Neuman · ss
- 121 · The King · Isaac Babel; translated by Walter Morison · ss The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel, S.G. Phillips, 1955
- 128 · The Law of the Eye · Pieke Biermann; translated by Ursule Molinaro · ss Violetta by Pieke Biermann, 1990
- 136 · The Merciful Angel of Death [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · ss
- 150 · Ishmael · Joe Gores · ss
- 157 · The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss The Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, Cape, 1972
translated from the Spanish.
- 162 · Cain · Andrew Vachss · vi
- 166 · The Ultimate Caper · Donald E. Westlake · ss The New York Times May 11 1975
- 170 · Chee’s Witch [Jim Chee] · Tony Hillerman · ss The New Black Mask No.7 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986
- 180 · Little Leo · Jerome Charyn · ss
- 189 · Cities & the Dead · Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver · vi Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974; dated 1972.
- 191 · Gravy Train · James Ellroy · ss The Armchair Detective Winter 1990
- 206 · Death and the Compass · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Donald A. Yates · ss Tales for a Rainy Night ed. David Alexander, HRW, 1961
translated from the Spanish (“La Muerte y la Brújula”, Sur, May 1942).
- 217 · Nicholas in Exile · Herbert Gold · ss
- 226 · Captain Blood · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker January 1 1979
- 231 · Mirror Girl · William Bayer · ss
- 243 · The Man Who Hated Books · Stuart M. Kaminsky · ss
- 256 · Pig Latin · Clarice Lispector; translated by Alexis Levitin · vi Soulstorm by Clarice Lispector, tr. Alexis Levitin, New Directions, 1989
translated from the Portuguese.
- 260 · Devices and Desires · P. D. James · ex Knopf, 1990
- 265 · Martyrdom · Yukio Mishima; translated by John Bester · ss Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima, tr. John Bester, Kodansha International, 1989
translated from the Japanese (1965).
- 278 · Fathers and Daughters · Laura Grimaldi · ss
- 283 · The Werewolf · Angela Carter · vi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Gollancz, 1979
revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77.
- 286 · Missionary Stew · Ross Thomas · ss Missionary Stew by Ross Thomas, Simon & Schuster, 1983
- 296 · The Moment Before the Gun Went Off · Nadine Gordimer · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1988
- 301 · Soft Monkey · Harlan Ellison · ss Mystery Scene Reader ed. Edward Gorman, Fedora, 1987
- 315 · The Casebook of Dr. Billingsgate · Eric Wright · ss
- 324 · Imagine This · George C. Chesbro · ss
- 334 · A Boy and His Dog · Manuel Vásquez Montalbán; translated by Carol Christensen & Thomas Christensen · ss 1988
- 339 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- 355 · The Parker Shotgun [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · nv Mean Streets ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1986
- 372 · I Spy · Graham Greene · ss The Basement Room and Other Stories by Graham Greene, Cresset Press, 1935
- 375 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg
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