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The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories by Susan Hill (Profile Books, September 29, 2016, 978-1-7812-5619-0, £6.99, 183pp, hc, oc)     Collection of 4 original stories. A mini-hardcover edition issued without a dustjacket in illustrated boards. · The Travelling Bag · Susan Hill · nv · Boy Twenty-One · Susan Hill · nv · Alice Baker · Susan Hill · nv · The Front Room · Susan Hill · nv

The Woman in Black and Other Stories by Susan Hill (Profile Books, 2015, 978-1-7812-5552-0, £12.99, 410pp, tp, co, cover by Peter Myers)     Omnibus of the title novel (Hamish Hamilton, 1983) and four novellas originally published as singleton hardcover originals by Profile Books (2007-2014). The cover title is The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories. 1 · The Woman in Black · Susan Hill · n. Hamish Hamilton, 1983 111 · Dolly · Susan Hill · n. Profile Books, 2012 203 · The Man in the Picture · Susan Hill · n. Profile Books, 2007 271 · Printer’s Devil Court · Susan Hill · na Profile Books, 2014 323 · The Small Hand · Susan Hill · n. Profile Books, 2010

Ghost Stories ed. Susan Hill (Hamish Hamilton, 1983, 254pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · Susan Hill · in 17 · Keeping His Promise · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1906 31 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941 39 · The Man with the Nose · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar October 1872 55 · The Dream Woman · W. Wilkie Collins · nv Temple Bar November 1874 (+1) revised from “Brother Morgan’s Story of the Dream-Woman” (The Queen of Hearts, Hurst and Blackett, 1859), itself revised from “The Ostler” (Household Words, Christmas 1855). 79 · The Signal-Man · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 91 · The Old Nurse’s Story · Mrs. Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited. 112 · Sir Edmund Orme · Henry James · nv Black & White November 25 1891 139 · “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” · M. R. James · nv Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904 159 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 179 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited. 209 · The White Cat of Drumgunniol · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss All the Year Round April 2 1870, uncredited. 220 · The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902 233 · All Souls’ · Edith Wharton · nv Ghosts by Edith Wharton, Appleton-Century, 1937

The Walker Book of Ghost Stories ed. Susan Hill (Walker, November 29, 1990, 0-7445-0766-9, £12.99, 223pp, hc, an, cover by Angela Barrett)     Anthology of 17 young adult ghost stories, some of which are original, illustrated throughout by Angela Barrett. 9 · Nule · Jan Mark · ss Nothing to Be Afraid of by Jan Mark, Kestrel, 1977 21 · Young Kate · Eleanor Farjeon · ss The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon, Oxford University Press, 1955 26 · Joanna’s Secret · Pauline Hill · ss Ghosts and Shadows ed. Dorothy Edwards, Lutterworth, 1980 33 · Sam and the Sea · George Mackay Brown · ss Ghost After Ghost ed. Aidan Chambers, Kestrel, 1982 52 · The Kindly Ghost · Ruth Manning-Sanders · ss A Book of Ghosts and Goblins by Ruth Manning-Sanders, Methuen, 1969 62 · The Yellow Ball · Philippa Pearce · ss Who’s Afraid? and Other Strange Stories by Philippa Pearce, Kestrel/Penguin, 1986 77 · The Damp Spectre · Dorothy Edwards · ss Ghosts and Shadows ed. Dorothy Edwards, Lutterworth, 1980 81 · Little Nym · Joan Aiken · ss 100 · Beware of the Ghost! · Catherine Sefton · ss The Ghost and Bertie Boggin by Catherine Sefton, Faber and Faber, 1980 110 · Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons · Walter R. Brooks · ss Story Parade 1950 122 · Uninvited Ghosts · Penelope Lively · ss Frank and Polly Muir’s Big Dipper, Heinemann, 1981 130 · Laughter in the Dark · Leon Garfield · ss 145 · Through the Door · Ruth Ainsworth · ss The Phantom Roundabout by Ruth Ainsworth, Andre Deutsch, 1977 163 · The Battle with the Bogles · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss Heather and Broom by Sorche Nic Leodhas, McIntosh & Otis, 1960 179 · Grandmother’s Footsteps · John Gordon · ss 198 · Bring Me a Light · Ruth Manning-Sanders · ss A Book of Ghosts and Goblins by Ruth Manning-Sanders, Methuen, 1969 203 · A Friend Forever · Susan Hill · ss

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century ed. Tony Hillerman (Houghton Mifflin Company, April 20, 2000, 978-0-618-01267-1, xviii+813pp, tp, an) ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xiv · Introduction · C. J. Box · in 1 · A Retrieved Reformation · O. Henry · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903, as “A Retrieved Reform” 8 · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905 26 · The Problem of Cell 13 [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American October 30 1905 - November 5 1905, as “The Mystery of Cell 13” 58 · Blind Man’s Buff [The Infallible Godahl] · Frederick Irving Anderson · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 24 1913 73 · Naboth’s Vineyard [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss Metropolitan Magazine December 1912 85 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Keating Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917 based on material from the play “Trifles”. 105 · The Gutting of Couffignal [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The Black Mask December 1925 133 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 144 · Blue Murder · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine October 1925 162 · The Perfect Crime · Ben Ray Redman · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1928 178 · The Baby in the Icebox · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury January 1933 193 · The Murder · John Steinbeck · ss North American Review April 1934 204 · Sense of Humor · Damon Runyon · ss Cosmopolitan September 1934 212 · Ransom · Pearl S. Buck · nv Cosmopolitan October 1938 235 · Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 1938 279 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942 288 · Rear Window · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 1942, as “It Had to Be Murder” 318 · An Error in Chemistry [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #31, June 1946 335 · The Nine Mile Walk [Nicky Welt] · Harry Kemelman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947 344 · The Adventure of the President’s Half Disme [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #39, February 1947 363 · The Homesick Buick · John D. MacDonald · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #82, September 1950 375 · Gone Girl [Lew Archer] · John Ross Macdonald · nv Manhunt February 1953, as “The Imaginary Blonde” 405 · The Moment of Decision · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1955 426 · First Offense · Evan Hunter · nv Manhunt December 1955 443 · The Couple Next Door [Inspector Sands] · Margaret Millar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1954 458 · The Day of the Execution · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1957 466 · The Terrapin · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1962 479 · The Possibility of Evil · Shirley Jackson · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 18 1965 489 · The Comforts of Home · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Kenyon Review Fall 1960 508 · Good Man, Bad Man · Jerome Weidman · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 1 1967 523 · Goodbye, Pops · Joe Gores · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1969 530 · The Whimper of Whipped Dogs · Harlan Ellison · ss Bad Moon Rising ed. Thomas M. Disch, Harper & Row, 1973 547 · The Wager [Kek Huuygens] · Robert L. Fish · ss Playboy July 1973 556 · Do with Me What You Will · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Playboy June 1973 568 · Quitters, Inc. · Stephen King · ss Night Shift by Stephen King, Doubleday, 1978 587 · The Absence of Emily · Jack Ritchie · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 28 1981 597 · By the Dawn’s Early Light [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv Playboy August 1984 615 · Iris · Stephen Greenleaf · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984 635 · Three-Dot Po [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984 649 · The Parker Shotgun [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · nv Mean Streets ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1986 665 · Too Many Crooks [John Dortmunder] · Donald E. Westlake · ss Playboy August 1989 678 · Hot Springs · James Crumley · nv Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1996 694 · The Dark Snow · Brendan DuBois · ss Playboy November 1996 713 · Red Clay · Michael Malone · nv Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1996 729 · Poachers · Tom Franklin · na The Texas Review Spring 1998 770 · Running Out of Dog · Dennis Lehane · nv Murder and Obsession ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1999 801 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West ed. Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins, 1991, hc, an)     Primarily non-fiction excerpts, but the final section contains seven stories and excerpts. · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898 · Honey in the Horn · H. L. Davis · ex 1935 · The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869 · The Rules of the Game · Charles Lummis · ar 1904 advice on writing about the West. · McTeague · Frank Norris · ex Doubleday & McClure, 1899 · Cabin Fever · Dorothy Scarborough · ss (r) · It Must Be Something Exciting · Wallace Stegner · ss (r) from Angle of Repose, 1972.

The Mysterious West ed. Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins, December 1994, 0-06-017785-3, $23.00, 392pp, hc, oa)     A Collection of Suspenseful Stories (subtitle on dust jacket only). 1 · Forbidden Things · Marcia Muller · nv 25 · New Moon and Rattlesnakes · Wendy Hornsby · ss 41 · Coyote Peyote · Carole Nelson Douglas · nv 71 · Nooses Give [Kate Shugak] · Dana Stabenow · ss 91 · Who Killed Cock Rogers? · Bill Crider · ss 111 · Caring for Uncle Henry · Robert Campbell · ss 127 · Death of a Snowbird · J. A. Jance · ss 147 · With Flowers in Her Hair · M. D. Lake · nv 177 · The Lost Boys [Nebraska] · William J. Reynolds · ss 197 · Tule Fog · Karen Kijewski · ss 217 · The River Mouth · Lia Matera · ss 229 · No Better Than Her Father · Linda Grant · nv 253 · Dust Devil · Rex Burns · ss 269 · A Woman’s Place · D. R. Meredith · nv 299 · Postage Due [Jill Smith] · Susan Dunlap · nv 321 · The Beast in the Woods · Ed Gorman · ss 331 · Blowout in Little Man Flats · Stuart M. Kaminsky · ss 345 · Small Town Murder · Harold Adams · ss 363 · Bingo · John Lutz · ss 375 · Engines · Bill Pronzini · ss

A New Omnibus of Crime ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert (Oxford University Press US, September 2005, 0-19-518214-6, $35.00, 434pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 27 stories, one new. Contributing editors Sue Grafton and Jeffery Deaver. · Preface · Tony Hillerman · pr 1 · Introduction · Rosemary Herbert · in 7 · The Man Who Knew How [Pender] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1932 18 · The Girl with the Silver Eyes [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The Black Mask June 1924; sequel to “The House on Turk Street”. 54 · Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 1938 92 · The Wench Is Dead · Fredric Brown · nv Manhunt July 1953 113 · Gone Girl [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Manhunt February 1953, as “The Imaginary Blonde” by John Ross Macdonald 139 · The Couple Next Door [Inspector Sands] · Margaret Millar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1954 153 · By the Scruff of the Soul · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1963 167 · The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring · Julian Symons · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1979 182 · Woodrow Wilson’s Necktie · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1972 194 · Loopy · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1983 204 · Great-Aunt Allie’s Flypapers [Adam Dalgliesh] · P. D. James · nv Verdict of 13 ed. Julian Symons, Faber and Faber, 1978 221 · First Lead Gasser · Tony Hillerman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1993 231 · Chee’s Witch [Jim Chee] · Tony Hillerman · ss The New Black Mask No.7 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1986 240 · Breathe Deep · Donald E. Westlake · ss Playboy July 1985 245 · Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation [Horace Rumpole] · John Mortimer · nv Rumpole and the Age of Miracles by John Mortimer, Penguin, 1988 270 · A Poison That Leaves No Trace [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · ss Sisters in Crime 2 ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1990 282 · Photo Finish [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · ss Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Summer 2000 300 · The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown · Peter Lovesey · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1991 313 · Red Clay · Michael Malone · nv Murder for Love ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1996 328 · Barking at Butterflies · Ed McBain · ss Murder and Obsession ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1999 334 · Running Out of Dog · Dennis Lehane · nv Murder and Obsession ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1999 360 · Hostages · James Crumley · ss Measures of Poison ed. Dennis McMillan, Dennis McMillan, 2002 366 · When the Women Come Out to Dance · Elmore Leonard · ss When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard, Morrow, 2002 377 · The Hanged Man · Ian Rankin · ss Something Wicked ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon, 1999 385 · The Holly and the Poison Ivy · Catherine Aird · ss The Strand Magazine #7, 2001 395 · Copycat · Jeffery Deaver · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 2003 418 · He Loved to Go for Drives with His Father · Alexander McCall Smith · ss 429 · Credits · [uncredited] · ms 430 · Index · [uncredited] · ix

The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert (Oxford University Press US, 1996, 0-19-508581-7, $25.00, 686pp, hc, an) 3 · Introduction · Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert · in 10 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1841 40 · The Stolen Cigar Case · Bret Harte · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 24 1900 49 · The Problem of Cell 13 [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American October 30 1905 - November 5 1905, as “The Mystery of Cell 13” 81 · The Doomdorf Mystery [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 18 1914 93 · Missing: Page Thirteen [Violet Strange] · Anna Katharine Green · nv The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green, Putnam's, 1915 124 · The Beauty Mask [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · ss Cosmopolitan August 1916 142 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917 based on material from the play “Trifles”. 162 · The False Burton Combs · Carroll John Daly · ss The Black Mask December 1922 184 · The Keyboard of Silence [Thornley Colton] · Clinton H. Stagg · nv People’s Ideal Fiction Magazine February 1913 217 · A Nose for News [Daffy Dill] · Richard Sale · ss Detective Fiction Weekly December 1 1934 239 · Spider [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator May 1934 261 · Leg Man [Pete Wennick] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Black Mask February 1938 295 · I’ll Be Waiting [Tony Reseck] · Raymond Chandler · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 14 1939 310 · The Footprint in the Sky [Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine January 1940, as “Clue in the Snow” by Carter Dickson 326 · Rear Window · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 1942, as “It Had to Be Murder” 356 · The Lipstick · Mary Roberts Rinehart · nv Cosmopolitan July 1942 375 · Homicide Highball [Dan Turner] · Robert Leslie Bellem · nv Hollywood Detective October 1943 414 · An Error in Chemistry [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #31, June 1946 431 · From Another World [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #55, June 1948 456 · A Daylight Adventure [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #76, March 1950 471 · See No Evil · William Campbell Gault · ss New Detective Magazine September 1950, as “See No Murder” 480 · Crime Must Have a Stop [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #87, February 1951 499 · Small Homicide · Ed McBain · ss Manhunt June 1953, as by Evan Hunter 512 · Guilt-Edged Blonde [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Manhunt January 1954, as by John Ross Macdonald 526 · Christmas Party [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na Collier’s January 4 1957, as “The Christmas Party Murder” 570 · A Matter of Public Notice · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1957 587 · The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss MD June 1965, as “Abraham Lincoln’s Clue” 602 · Words Do Not a Book Make · Bill Pronzini · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1968 608 · Christmas Is for Cops [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1970 621 · Lucky Penny [Carlotta Carlyle] · Linda Barnes · nv The New Black Mask No.3 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1985 639 · The Parker Shotgun [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · nv Mean Streets ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1986 655 · Chee’s Witch [Jim Chee] · Tony Hillerman · ss The New Black Mask No.7 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1986 665 · Benny’s Space [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss A Woman’s Eye ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, 1991 683 · Credits · [uncredited] · ms (r) 685 · Index · [uncredited] · ix (r)