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Second Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Coward-McCann, 1932, hc, an)     Revised from Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2. Also Blue Ribbon Books 1939 as The World’s Great Crime Stories. 1 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 25 · The Fourth Degree [Quentin Quayne] · F. Britten Austin · nv The Strand Magazine October 1924 48 · Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 29 1905 69 · The Ordinary Hair-Pins [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine October 1916 85 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 101 · Who Killed Charlie Winpole? [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923, as “The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms” 130 · The Adventure of the Clapham Cook [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch November 14 1923 142 · The Biter Bit · Wilkie Collins · nv The Atlantic Monthly April 1858, as “Who Is the Thief?”, uncredited. 168 · The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv The Premier Magazine #106, January 28 1921 189 · Blind Gap Moor · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine August 1918 202 · Death in the Kitchen · Milward Kennedy · ss The Manchester Guardian 1930 205 · An Unrecorded Instance · Marie Belloc Lowndes · nv Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine August 1925 225 · The Regent’s Park Murder [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1901 238 · The Elusive Bullet [Dr. Lancelot Priestley] · John Rhode · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 253 · The Cave of Ali Baba [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba” 280 · The Alibi · J. C. Squire · nv The Windsor Magazine 1930 297 · The Vanishing of Mrs. Fraser [Mr. Pepper] · Sir Basil Thomson · ss Mr. Pepper, Investigator by Sir Basil Thomson, John Castle, 1925 310 · Duello [Insp. (Chief Insp.) Poole] · Henry Wade · ss The London Magazine April 1930 325 · How the Captain Tracked a German Spy [Ivan Koravitch] · Victor L. Whitechurch · ss The Adventures of Captain Ivan Koravitch by Victor L. Whitechurch, Blackwood, 1925 336 · The Pillar of Fire [Bill Parmelee] · Percival Wilde · nv The Popular Magazine July 7 1924 359 · Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine September 1922 373 · The Leech of Folkestone · Richard Harris Barham · nv Bentley’s Miscellany July 1837 397 · A.V. Laider · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine June 1916 415 · Cut-Throat Farm · John D. Beresford · ss The Westminster Gazette August 14 1909 419 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 427 · Secret Worship [John Silence] · Algernon Blackwood · nv John Silence by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1908 458 · No. 17 · Mrs. Edith Bland · ss The Strand Magazine June 1910 465 · The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 477 · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897 500 · The King Waits · Clemence Dane · ss The Sphere November 1918 507 · The Tree · Walter de la Mare · ss The Century Magazine August 1922 524 · Riesenberg · Ford Madox Ford · nv The English Review April 1911 549 · The Old Man · Holloway Horn · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 555 · The Prayer · Violet Hunt · nv Chapman’s Magazine December 1895, as “The Story of a Ghost” 579 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Queen June 23 1900 591 · Ants · Manuel Komroff · ss (r) 598 · Mr. Justice Harbottle [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Belgravia January 1872, as “The Haunted House in Westminster” 629 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited. 663 · The Great Return · Arthur Machen · nv Faith Press, 1915 695 · The Story of the Greek Slave · Captain Frederick Marryat · ss The Metropolitan Magazine July 1831 708 · Anty Bligh · John Masefield · ss The Manchester Guardian March 15 1905 712 · The Bell-Tower · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly August 1855, uncredited. 725 · The Double Admiral · John Metcalfe · ss The Smoking Leg and Other Stories by John Metcalfe, Jarrolds, 1925 736 · The Library Window · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1896 774 · Rose Rose · Barry Pain · ss The London Magazine May 1910 780 · The Iron Pineapple · Eden Phillpotts · ss The Red Magazine March 15 1910 795 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835 803 · The Roll-Call of the Reef · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q 817 · Mangaroo · Naomi Royde-Smith · ss The Story-teller July/August 1926 825 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 830 · Called to the Rescue · Henry Spicer · ss Strange Things Among Us by Henry Spicer, Chapman & Hall, 1863 833 · The Enemy · Hugh Walpole · ss The Strand Magazine February 1923 843 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost”

Stories of the Supernatural from The Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (McFadden, 1963, 50-170, 50¢, 144pp, pb, an)     Reprint of eleven stories from The Omnibus of Crime (Parson & Clarks, 1929). 5 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited.; given as by Charles Allston Collins & Charles Dickens. 16 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 20 · The Novel of the Black Seal · Arthur Machen · na The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895 56 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 67 · Mrs. Amworth · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine June 1922 80 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 85 · The Anticipator · Morley Roberts · ss The Sketch May 13 1896 91 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review October 1922 110 · The Seventh Man · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by A. T. Quiller-Couch, Cassell & Company, 1900 122 · Proof · Naomi Royde-Smith · ss Land & Water 1919 132 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925

Tales of Detection ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Dent, 1936, 382pp, hc, an)     Also Dent 1976 as Great Tales of Detection. vii · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in 1 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 20 · The Biter Bit · William Wilkie Collins · nv The Atlantic Monthly April 1858, as “Who Is the Thief?”, uncredited. 49 · Was It Murder? · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex from The Master of Ballantrae, Cassell, 1889 53 · The Man in the Passage [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss McClure’s Magazine April 1913 70 · The Clever Cockatoo [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine July 1914 88 · The Ghost at Massingham Mansions [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 116 · The Tea-Leaf · Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace · nv The Strand Magazine October 1925 133 · The Contents of a Mare’s Nest [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv The Magic Casket by R. Austin Freeman, Hodder, 1927 152 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 171 · Solved by Inspection [Miles Bredon] · Ronald A. Knox · ss 1925 183 · Philomel Cottage · Agatha Christie · nv The Grand Magazine November 1924 206 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 225 · The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv The Premier Magazine #106, January 28 1921 250 · The Elusive Bullet [Dr. Lancelot Priestley] · John Rhode · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 266 · The Image in the Mirror [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Hangman’s Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1933 291 · A Matter of Luck · Henry Wade · ss Policeman’s Lot by Henry Wade, Constable, 1933 309 · Superfluous Murder · Milward Kennedy · ss A Century of Detective Stories, Hutchinson, 1935 324 · The Yellow Slugs [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv The Windsor Magazine March 1935 362 · The Episode of the Nail and the Requiem [Trevis Tarrant] · C. Daly King · nv Mystery March 1935, as “The Affair on the Roof”

Tales of Detection and Mystery from The Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (McFadden, 1962, 50-143, 50¢, 159pp, pb, an)     Reprint of seven stories from The Omnibus of Crime (Parson & Clarks, 1929). 7 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 1 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928 41 · Her Last Adventure · Marie Belloc Lowndes · nv 1924 63 · The Ace of Trouble · C. Hedley Barker · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1925 67 · The Adventure of the Priory School [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Collier’s Weekly January 30 1904 95 · The Face in the Dark · L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace · ss The London Magazine July 1903 111 · The Ghost at Massingham Mansions [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 135 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 5 1910, as “The Bolt from the Blue” 149 · The Wrong House [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1901

The Third Omnibus of Crime ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Coward-McCann, 1942, 808pp, hc, an)     Revised from Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 3. 1 · Introduction · Dorothy L. Sayers · in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 3 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1934 11 · The Perfect Murder · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine October 1926 29 · The Bullet · J. J. Bell · ss The Strand Magazine November 1926 43 · The Mystery of the Child’s Toy · Leslie Charteris · ss The American Magazine September 1933, as “The Man Who Liked Toys” 61 · Poker-Face · Carl Clausen · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 27 1926 85 · The Level Crossing · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The Cornhill Magazine November 1933 99 · The Brown Sandwich · St. John Ervine · ss The Story-teller February 1933 113 · The Judge Corroborates · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine August 22 1919 129 · The Echo of a Mutiny [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine September 1911, as “Death on the Girdler” 163 · The Perfect Crime · Ormond Greville · ss Pearson’s Magazine August 1932 177 · The Grave Grass Quivers · MacKinlay Kantor · ss The Elks Magazine July 1931 195 · No Man’s Hour · Laurence Kirk · ss The Passing Show September 30 1933 209 · Willful Murder · H. A. Manhood · ss Apples by Night by H. A. Manhood, Cape, 1932 217 · The Blue Trout · Basil Mitchell · ss Pearson’s Magazine February 1933 233 · Wet Paint · Robert E. Pinkerton · ss Detective Fiction Weekly March 26 1932 247 · The Wrong Hand [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 15 1911 259 · On the Irish Mail · Garnett Radcliffe · ss The Windsor Magazine 1931 269 · Risk · Margery Sharp · ss The Strand Magazine August 1933 279 · The Missing Undergraduate [Insp. (Chief Insp.) Poole] · Henry Wade · nv The London Magazine May 1930 295 · Buttons · E. M. Winch · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1933 309 · Inquest · Loel Yeo · ss The Strand Magazine April 1932 327 · A Busman’s Holiday · Francis Brett Young · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine March 1930 347 · The 19 Club · A. J. Alan · ss A. J. Alan’s Second Book by A. J. Alan, Hutchinson, 1932 broadcast by the BBC on Sep 3, 1929. 357 · Sombrero · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury February 1929 375 · Lord Mount Prospect · John Betjeman · ss The London Mercury December 1929 387 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 435 · Couching at the Door · Dorothy K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 459 · The Dumb Wife [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · ss Whispering Windows by Thomas Burke, Grant Richards, 1921 469 · The Bargain · A. M. Burrage · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 3 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1934 477 · Arabesque: The Mouse · A. E. Coppard · ss Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by A. E. Coppard, Golden Cockerel Press, 1921 485 · The Mistaken Fury · Oswald Couldrey · ss The Mistaken Fury by Oswald Couldrey, Blackwell, 1914 497 · Sophy Mason Comes Back · E. M. Delafield · ss Time and Tide 1930 511 · Our Distant Cousins [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 23 1929 537 · A Jungle Graduate · James Francis Dwyer · ss Harper’s Weekly September 10 1910 549 · The Scoop · Leonora Gregory · ss The Passing Show June 24 1933 553 · The Island · L. P. Hartley · ss Night Fears by L. P. Hartley, Putnam, 1924 569 · Double Demon · William F. Harvey · ss Moods and Tenses by William Fryer Harvey, Basil Blackwell, 1933 579 · Clay-Shuttered Doors · Helen R. Hull · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1926 599 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · nv The London Mercury September 1930 615 · The Interruption · W. W. Jacobs · ss Liberty July 4 1925 629 · The Diary of Mr. Poynter · M. R. James · nv A Thin Ghost by M. R. James, Longmans, Green, 1919 641 · The Head · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire April 1935, as “So You Won’t Talk?” 649 · The People of the Pit · A. Merritt · ss revised from All-Story Weekly, January 5, 1918. 665 · Time-Fuse · John Metcalfe · ss Judas and Other Stories by John Metcalfe, Constable, 1931 681 · Decay · J. C. Moore · ss King Carnival by John C. Moore, Dent, 1933 691 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q 703 · The Hill · R. Ellis Roberts · ss The Other End by R. Ellis Roberts, Palmer, 1923 717 · The Pattern · Naomi Royde-Smith · nv The New Decameron, Vol. 6 ed. Vivienne Dayrell, Blackwell, 1929 747 · No Ships Pass · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Story-teller May 1932 771 · The Idol with Hands of Clay · Sir Frederick Treves · ss Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction #124, July 1922 779 · The Frontier Guards · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Illustrated London News November 25 1929 785 · The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham · H. G. Wells · ss The Idler May 1896 803 · Anniversary · Clarence Winchester · ss The Story-teller March 1932

The World’s Great Crime Stories ed. Dorothy L. Sayers (Blue Ribbon, June 1939, 855pp, hc, an)     Reprint (Coward-McCann 1932 as The Second Omnibus of Crime) crime/horror/legends anthology.

Pig Iron: Science Fiction ed. Rose Sayre & Jim Villani--- see under Pig Iron #10, 1982.

Human Monsters ed. Ashley Saywers & Sadie Hartmann--- see under Sadie Hartmann.

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, July 2005, 1-59606-020-4, $30.00, 286pp, hc, n., cover by Mike Krahulik)     Humorous SF novel, previously available online. Ugly, smelly aliens making first contact with Earth get a Hollywood agent to help. This signed, limited edition is sold out; a lettered edition ($150.00), with a bonus chapbook (“Sketches of Daily Life”), is also available.

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, May 31, 2017, 978-1-59606-786-8, $28.00, 136pp, hc, na, cover by Vincent Chong) [The Dispatcher]     Also available in a leatherbound edition, limited to 400 numbered copies, signed by the author ($45). Details taken from publisher website.

The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, April 2021, 978-1-64524-017-4, $40.00, 192pp, hc, na, cover by Michael Koelsch) [The Dispatcher]     Limited to 2000 signed, numbered, copies. Details taken from publisher website.

Don’t Live For Your Obituary by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, December 2017, 978-1-59606-858-2, $40.00, 472pp, hc, co, cover by Nate Taylor)     A curated selection of a decade of advice, commentary and observations on the writing life from John Scalzi. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, signed by John Scalzi. Details taken from publisher’s website.

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, November 2007, 978-1-59606-131-6, $60.00, 240pp, hc, n., cover by Vincent Chong) [Old Man’s War]     Reprint (Tor 2006) SF novel, with new color illustrations by Vincent Chong. This is a signed, limited edition of 400 copies; a deluxe lettered edition of 15 signed, traycased, copies ($250.00) is also available.

The God Engines by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, December 2009, 978-1-59606-299-3, $45.00, 136pp, hc, na, cover by Vincent Chong)     Fantasy novella. This is a signed, limited edition of 400.

How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press, 2007, 36pp, ph, nv, cover by Bob Eggleton)     Provided free to those who bought the hardcover limited edition of Subterranean Magazine #4, 2006. Originally announced as How I Met Your Mother: An Alien Sex Story. Details taken from online listing.