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The Blonde in Lower Six by Erle Stanley Gardner (Carroll & Graf, November 1990, 0-88184-633-3, $18.95, 270pp, hc, co) [Ed Jenkins]     Collection of four short novels from the pulps, though the title story was an archival discovery first published in Argosy in 1961. 9 · The Blonde in Lower Six [Ed Jenkins] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy September 1961 147 · The Wax Dragon [Ed Jenkins; Helen Chadwick; Soo Hoo Duck] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Black Mask November 1927 191 · Grinning Gods [Ed Jenkins; Ngat T’oy; Helen Chadwick] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Black Mask December 1927 231 · Yellow Shadows [Ed Jenkins; Helen Chadwick; Ngat T’oy] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Black Mask February 1928

The Casebook of Sidney Zoom by Erle Stanley Gardner (Crippen & Landru, June 2006, 1-932009-47-7, $19.00, 247pp, tp, co, cover by Juha Lindroos) [Sidney Zoom] [edited by Bill Pronzini]     Collection of 10 stories, edited with an introduction by Bill Pronzini. A hardcover edition (-46-9) was announced but not seen. In the “Lost Classics” series. 7 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in 9 · Willie the Weeper [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly March 29 1930 27 · “My Name Is Zoom!” [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 12 1930 46 · Borrowed Bullets [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly March 21 1931 70 · Higher Up [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly September 19 1931 96 · The First Stone [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly October 24 1931 123 · The Green Door [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly August 20 1932 154 · Cheating the Chair [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly September 17 1932 182 · Inside Job [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 7 1933 198 · Lifted Bait [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly October 21 1933 224 · Stolen Thunder [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly May 19 1934 247 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi

The Case of the Murderer’s Bride and Other Stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (Davis, October 1969, LC:72-99895, $1.00, 192pp, digest, co) [edited by Ellery Queen]     First in the “Ellery Queen Presents” series. 4 · Erle Stanley Gardner: An Unorthodox Introduction · Ellery Queen · in 8 · The Case of the Murderer’s Bride · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Look October 15 1957 28 · Only by Running · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss This Week May 11 1952 (+1), as “Flight Into Disaster” 43 · The Candy Kid [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly March 14 1931 72 · To Strike a Match · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss This Week November 6 1938, as “The House of Three Candles” 79 · Death Rides a Boxcar · Erle Stanley Gardner · na The American Magazine January 1945 122 · Danger Out of the Past · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Manhunt May 1955, as “Protection” 134 · The Jeweled Butterfly · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Cosmopolitan October 1952

The Danger Zone and Other Stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (Crippen & Landru, July 2004, 1-932009-23-X, $19.00, 248pp, tp, co, cover by Juha Lindroos) [edited by Bill Pronzini]     Collection of 11 stories. A hardcover edition (-22-1) was announced but not seen. In the “Lost Classics” series. 7 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in 11 · Snowy Ducks for Cover · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Dime Detective Magazine November 1931 27 · The Corkscrew Kid · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Black Aces January 1932 37 · The Danger Zone [Major Brane] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy October 15 1932 66 · A Logical Ending [Key-Clew Clark] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 29 1933 82 · Restless Pearls [Bob Crowder] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv All Detective Magazine November 1933 100 · Time for Murder · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 15 1934 137 · Hard as Nails [Ed Jenkins] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv The Black Mask March 1925 not the same as the story of the same name in the January 15, 1935 issue of Dime Detective. 161 · Complete Designs · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Short Stories July 25 1936 172 · Barney Killigen [Barney Killigen] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Clues Detective Stories December 1938 201 · Take It or Leave It [Pete Wennick] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Black Mask March 1939 235 · Flight Into Disaster · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss This Week May 11 1952 (+1) 248 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

Dead Men’s Letters and Other Short Novels by Erle Stanley Gardner (Carroll & Graf, April 1990, 0-88184-579-5, $18.95, 203pp, hc, co) [Ed Jenkins]     Collection of six pulp thriller novellas featuring Ed Jenkins. · Dead Men’s Letters [Ed Jenkins] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv The Black Mask December 1926 · Laugh That Off [Ed Jenkins; Helen Chadwick] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na The Black Mask September 1926 · The Cat-Woman [Ed Jenkins] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv The Black Mask February 1927 · This Way Out [Ed Jenkins; Ngat T’oy] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Black Mask March 1937 not the same as the story of the same name in the March 1927 issue. · Come and Get It [Ed Jenkins; Helen Chadwick] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv The Black Mask April 1927 · In Full of Account [Ed Jenkins] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Black Mask May 1927

Early Birds by Erle Stanley Gardner (Crippen & Landru, April 2004, free, 14pp, ph, ss)     Short story pamphlet commemorating Gardner as Ghost of Honor at Malice Domestic XVI, May 2004.

The Exploits of the Patent Leather Kid by Erle Stanley Gardner (Crippen & Landru, 2010, 978-1-932009-88-0, $19.00, 268pp, tp, co, cover by Gail Cross) [edited by Bill Pronzini]     Lost Classics #32. Thirteen stories featuring elegant crook the Patent Leather Kid, who becomes the terror of the Depression-era underworld, and his opponent Inspector Brane. A hardcover edition (-87-3, $29.00) was announced but not seen. In the “Lost Classics” series. 7 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in 9 · The Kid Stacks a Deck [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 28 1932 24 · The Kid Passes the Sugar [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly July 16 1932 36 · The Kid Wins a Wager [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly September 10 1932 49 · The Kid Throws a Stone [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly October 22 1932 65 · The Kid Makes a Bid [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly February 18 1933 87 · The Kid Muscles In [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 15 1933 105 · The Kid Takes a Cut [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 20 1933 124 · The Kid Beats the Gun [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly August 5 1933 148 · The Kid Covers a Kill [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly November 4 1933 170 · The Kid Clears a Crook [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly February 3 1934 197 · The Kid Clips a Coupon [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly April 21 1934 221 · The Kid Cooks a Goose [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly July 14 1934 244 · The Kid Steals a Star [Patent Leather Kid] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly November 17 1934 268 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi

Hot Cash, Cold Clews: The Adventures of Lester Leith by Erle Stanley Gardner (Crippen & Landru, July 2020, 978-1-936363-46-9, 264pp, tp, co) [Lester Leith]     A hardcover edition (-45-2) was announced but not seen. 7 · Introduction · Jeffrey Marks · in 9 · Hot Cash [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly May 23 1931 not the same as the story of the same name in the November 1934 issue of Black Mask. 51 · A Tip from Scuttle [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Detective Fiction Weekly March 2 1929 69 · The Girl with the Diamond Legs [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly July 11 1931 97 · Lester Takes the Cake [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly November 23 1929 125 · Thieves’ Kitchen [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly June 4 1932 173 · Put It in Writing [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly June 7 1930 215 · Cold Clews [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly January 24 1931 259 · Lester Leith Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

The Human Zero: The Science Fiction Stories of Erle Stanley Gardner by Erle Stanley Gardner (William Morrow, 1981, 0-688-00122-X, 444pp, hc, co) [edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh] 7 · Foreword · Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh · fw 17 · The Human Zero · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy December 19 1931 75 · Monkey Eyes · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Argosy Allstory Weekly July 27 1929 (+1) 141 · New Worlds · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy December 17 1932 213 · Rain Magic · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy Allstory Weekly October 20 1928 261 · A Year in a Day · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy July 19 1930 323 · The Man with Pin-Point Eyes · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy January 10 1931 377 · The Sky’s the Limit · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Argosy December 7 1929 (+1)

Pay Dirt: and Other Whispering Sands Stories of Gold Fever and the Western Desert by Erle Stanley Gardner (William Morrow, 1983, 0-688-01981-1, $15.95, 324pp, hc, co) [edited by Charles G. Waugh & Martin Harry Greenberg] 7 · Introduction · Charles G. Waugh & Martin Harry Greenberg · in 19 · Singing Sand [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy November 7 1931 53 · The Land of Painted Rocks [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy January 28 1933 93 · The Big Circle [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy September 2 1933 131 · Pay Dirt [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy April 25 1931 161 · The Land of Poison Springs [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy April 9 1932 203 · Stamp of the Desert [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Argosy October 17 1931 227 · Law of the Ghost Town [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Argosy April 22 1933 249 · The Law of Drifting Sand [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy August 20 1932 287 · The Whip Hand [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy January 23 1932

Whispering Sands: Stories of Gold Fever and the Western Desert by Erle Stanley Gardner (William Morrow, 1981, 0-688-00474-1, 323pp, hc, co) [edited by Charles G. Waugh & Martin Harry Greenberg] 7 · Introduction · Charles G. Waugh & Martin Harry Greenberg · in 17 · Sand Blast [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy July 21 1934 79 · Law of the Rope [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy March 11 1933 113 · Gold Blindness [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy March 8 1930 143 · Written in Sand [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Argosy October 25 1930 169 · Blood-Red Gold [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy September 20 1930 204 · Carved in Sand [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy June 17 1933 239 · Fall Guy [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Argosy March 22 1930 264 · Priestess of the Sun [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Argosy December 6 1930 290 · Golden Bullets [Whispering Story] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Argosy June 7 1930

Gravity Wells by James Alan Gardner (HarperCollins/Eos, May 2005, 0-06-008770-6, $15.95, xix+345pp, tp, co, cover by Fred Gambino)     Collection of 14 stories, two original, with notes on the inspirations for each by the author. 7 · Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large · James Alan Gardner · ss On Spec Spring 1990 · The Children of Crèche · James Alan Gardner · nv L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume VI ed. Algis Budrys, Bridge, 1990 · Kent State Descending the Gravity Well: An Analysis of the Observer · James Alan Gardner · ss Amazing Stories October 1992 · Withered Gold, the Night, the Day · James Alan Gardner · ss (r) · The Last Day of the War, with Parrots · James Alan Gardner · nv Amazing Stories Winter 1995 · Changeable Market in Slaves · James Alan Gardner · ss (r) · Reaper · James Alan Gardner · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 1991 · Lesser Figures of the Greater Trumps · James Alan Gardner · ss (r) · Shadow Album · James Alan Gardner · ss Amazing Stories July 1991 · Hardware Scenario G-49 · James Alan Gardner · ss Amazing Stories December 1991 · The Reckoning of Gifts · James Alan Gardner · nv Tesseracts4 ed. Lorna Toolis & Michael Skeet, Porcepic, 1992 · The Young Person’s Guide to the Organism · James Alan Gardner · na Amazing Stories April 1992 · Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream · James Alan Gardner · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction February 1997 · Sense of Wonder · James Alan Gardner · aw

The Best American Short Stories 1982 ed. John Gardner & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1982, 0-395-32207-3, xix+374pp, tp, an) ix · Introduction · John Gardner · in 3 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 18 · Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus · James Ferry · ss The Literary Review Autumn 1981 37 · The Courtship of Widow Sobcek · Joanna Higgins · ss MSS 1981 54 · Good Rockin’ Tonight · William Hauptman · nv Playboy May 1981 75 · Shelter the Pilgrim · Fred Licht · ss The Hudson Review 1981 93 · Coach · Mary Robison · ss The New Yorker September 14 1981 108 · Exchange Value · Charles Johnson · ss Choice 1981 116 · K. 590 · Nicholson Baker · ss The Little Magazine 1982 124 · The Dolphin Story · Joyce Renwick · ss Choice 1980 144 · The Continental Heart · Lissa McLaughlin · ss Massachusetts Review 1981 151 · The Café de Paris · Roberta Gupta · nv MSS 1981 182 · The Power of Language Is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything · Alvin Greenberg · ss Story Quarterly 1981 193 · The Gift Horse’s Mouth · R. E. Smith · ss The Texas Review 1982 210 · Harmony of the World · Charles Baxter · ss Michigan Quarterly Review 1981 233 · Coming Over · Edith Milton · ss The Yale Review 1981 251 · The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls · Anne Hobson Freeman · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review 1981 260 · Prize Tomatoes · Anne F. Rosner · nv TriQuarterly #50, Winter 1981 287 · Proud Monster—Sketches · Ian MacMillan · ss Carolina Quarterly 1981 299 · Lamb Says · Roseanne Coggeshall · ss The South Carolina Review Spring 1981 311 · Theft · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Northwest Review 1982 361 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 365 · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2017 · [uncredited] · bi 369 · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · ms

The Forms of Fiction ed. John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap (Random House, 1962, hc, an) · Forward · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · fw · Introduction: Reading Fiction · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · in · Short Forms · Form in Its Relationship to Meaning · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · ar (r) · The Modern Writer’s Use of the Sketch, Fable, Yarn, and Tale · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · ar (r) · The Witness · Katherine Anne Porter · ss (r) · After the Storm · Ernest Hemingway · ss Cosmopolitan May 1932 · The Unicorn in the Garden · James Thurber · vi The New Yorker October 21 1939 · Wakefield · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine May 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” · A Country Doctor · Franz Kafka · ss (r) translated from the German (“Ein Landarzt”, Ein Landarzt: Kleine Erzählungen, 1919). · Baker’s Bluejay Yarn · Mark Twain · ex from A Tramp Abroad, American Publishing Company, 1880 · Death in the Woods · Sherwood Anderson · ss The American Mercury September 1926 · Spotted Horses · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1931 · Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · nv American Museum September 18 1838 · Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · nv Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam UK, 1942 · The Gentleman from San Francisco · Ivan Bunin · nv The Dial January 1922 · Short Forms · Short Fiction for Study · John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap · ar (r) · The Peasant Marey · Fyodor Dostoevski · ss (r) · Three Deaths · Leo Tolstoy · ss (r) · The Piece of String · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903, as “The String” translated from the French (“La ficelle”, Le Gaulois, November 25, 1883). · A Trifling Occurrence · Anton Chekhov · ss The Famous Story Magazine February 1927 · The Sisters · James Joyce · ss Irish Homestead August 13 1904 · The Fly · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Nation and Athenaeum March 18 1922 · War · Luigi Pirandello · ss (r) · The Story of My Dovecot · Isaac Babel · ss (r) · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 · Two Lovely Beasts · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Story #127, November/December 1947 · The Fancy Woman · Peter Taylor · nv The Southern Review Summer 1941 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 · Longer Forms · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898 · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1) · Of This Time, of That Place · Lionel Trilling · nv Partisan Review January/February 1943 · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908 · The Fox · D. H. Lawrence · ss Hutchinson’s Story Magazine November 1920 · Benito Cereno · Herman Melville · na Putnam’s Monthly October 1855 (+2) · Death in Venice · Thomas Mann · na (r) translated from the German (“Der Tod in Venedig”, S. Fischer Verlag, 1912).