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100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, 1993, 1-56619-107-6, $7.98, 561pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 100 detective stories, six new. xiii · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · According to Plan · Ray Darby · ss Dime Detective Magazine February 1952 5 · Adventure of the Baritone Singer [Bromley Barnes] · George Barton · ss The Strange Adventures of Bromley Barnes by George Barton, Page, 1918 13 · The Adventure of the Table Foot · Zero · ss The Bohemian January 1894 16 · The Adventure of the Two Collaborators [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir James M. Barrie · ss Collier’s December 29 1923; in Chapter XI. 19 · The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes [Shamrock Jolnes] · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World February 7 1904 24 · Affirmative Action · Jon L. Breen · vi Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine January 1980 27 · Anchor the Stiff! [Lew Guyon] · Dan Gordon · ss Detective Tales August 1949 35 · The Artful Touch · Charles Dickens · vi Household Words #25, September 14 1850, uncredited. 37 · An Axe to Grind · Curt Hamlin · ss Detective Tales November 1947 41 · Behind Murder’s Eight-Ball · Don James · ss Detective Tales March 1950 47 · Better Hands · Dale Clark · ss Detective Fiction Weekly February 15 1941 51 · The Bloodless Corpse · O. R. Dale · ss Vice Squad Detective v1 #1, 1935 60 · Bread Ahead [Jack Hagee] · C. J. Henderson · ss Mean Streets #3, May 1991 revised from chapter one of No Free Lunch, Diamond Books, 1990. 65 · Cache and Carry [Sharon McCone; Nameless Private Eye] · Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini · ss Small Felonies by Bill Pronzini, St. Martin's, 1988 70 · Calling Dr. Death · C. William Harrison · ss Detective Tales January 1949 76 · The Cap’n Sleeps · John Earl Davis · ss Detective Fiction Weekly November 2 1940 81 · The Carnival Caper · R. L. Stevens · ss Woman’s World 1981 85 · The Case of the Barking Beagle · R. L. Stevens · ss Hers 1979 89 · Checkmated! · Coretta Slavska · ss Dime Detective Magazine December 1950 93 · The Clarion Call · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World October 29 1905 99 · The Clincher · Jack Foxx · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1969 104 · The Cop and the Lady [O’Toole] · Booton Herndon · vi Detective Tales January 1949 106 · Cop Maker · Ronald Henderson · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 5 1941 110 · The Course of Justice · Hugh B. Cave · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1965 118 · Curtains for Kelly · John Randolph Phillips · ss Detective Fiction Weekly June 25 1938 128 · Cut Glass · Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 17 1937 137 · Damsel with a Derringer · Stephen Dentinger · ss Black Cat Mystery Magazine #3, 1981, as by Edward D. Hoch 143 · The Dead Go Overboard · Fenton W. Earnshaw · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 19 1941 147 · Death Racket · Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. · ss Dime Detective Magazine March 1939 151 · The Deer That Ate a Diamond · Edward D. Hoch · ss Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica, 1992 160 · Detective for a Day · Walt Sheldon · ss Detective Fiction Weekly June 22 1940 168 · Die Before Bedtime · Walt Sheldon · ss Detective Fiction Weekly July 6 1940 175 · Dogs Know [Vic Powers] · Gary Lovisi · ss 185 · Duck Behind That Eight-Ball! · Nick Spain (by Dan Gordon) · ss Detective Tales October 1948 193 · Dust · James W. Holden · ss Detective Fiction Weekly June 14 1941 197 · Escape · Jack Foxx · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1969 201 · Exhibit D · John Maclay · ss Haunts #18, Spring 1990 205 · Extra Service · John Mallory · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 12 1941 208 · Eye-Witness · Donald S. Aitken · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 30 1936 213 · Eye Witness · David X. Manners · ss Ten Detective Aces January 1935 218 · A Friend of Davy Jones’ [Lew Guyon] · Dan Gordon · ss Detective Tales October 1948 227 · Granny Gumption Solves a Murder [Granny Gumption] · C. J. Henderson & Charles Hoffman · vi Hardboiled Detective #11, April 1991 229 · A Hand of Pinochle · Theodore Tinsley · ss Detective Fiction Weekly October 10 1936 233 · Harsh Light of Day [Joe Hannibal] · Wayne D. Dundee · ss Hardboiled #7, Spring 1987 239 · Heir-in-a-Hurry · Morris Cooper · ss Detective Tales July 1948 245 · Higher Education · Sidney Waldo · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 16 1936 248 · Hip and Thigh · H. H. Matteson · ss Detective Fiction Weekly September 7 1935 255 · If the Body Fits— · Larry Holden · ss Dime Mystery Magazine December 1947 259 · Ignorance of Art · Vincent Hall · ss Detective Fiction Weekly October 16 1937 264 · Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss An Eye for Justice ed. Robert J. Randisi, The Mysterious Press, 1988 269 · In the Library · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine June 1901 278 · Ink’s Jinx · Anthony Clemens · ss Secret Agent X September 1934 282 · An Irreducible Detective Story [The Great Detective] · Stephen Leacock · vi Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock, Lane, 1916 283 · Kansas City Connection · Wayne McMillan · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941 287 · Knit One—Kill Two · Fergus Truslow · ss Dime Detective Magazine December 1944 291 · The Leopard Man’s Story · Jack London · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly August 1903 294 · The Man Who Collected “The Shadow” · J. V. Drexel · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1971, as by Bill Pronzini 299 · The Man Who Died Too Often · David Crewe · ss New Detective Magazine November 1944 305 · The Mann Act · Michael A. Black · ss Hardboiled #13, March 1992 312 · Memento Mori · Alex Saxon · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1974, as by Bill Pronzini 317 · Mrs. Belcourt Draws a Bier · Alan Ritner Anderson · ss Detective Tales October 1948 324 · Murder at Rose Cottage · Edward D. Hoch · ss Bantam, 1986 published as a separate enclosure given away with the first four volumes of the Bantam edition of the Agatha Christie Mystery Collection. 328 · Murderer’s Handicap · Alex Barber · ss The (London) Evening News September 3 1934 337 · Murder Offstage · R. L. Stevens · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1969, as by Edward D. Hoch 342 · Murder on the Limited · Howard Finney · ss Detective-Dragnet Magazine September 1932 350 · The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud · O. Henry · ss Rolling Stones by O. Henry, Doubleday, 1912, as “Tracked to Doom” 356 · Naked in Darkness · Hugh B. Cave · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1965 362 · Night Watch · Scott O’Hara · ss Detective Tales May 1950 369 · Night Work · Gerald Tollesfrud · ss 375 · A Novel Forgery [Robert Leroy Mitchel; John Barnes] · Rodrigues Ottolengui · ss The Final Proof by Rodriguez Ottolengui, Putnam, 1898 384 · Old Calamity’s Stick-up [Old Calamity] · Joseph Fulling Fishman · ss Detective Fiction Weekly June 23 1934 391 · Old Guy · Maitland LeRoy Osborne · ss Detective Fiction Weekly February 24 1940 396 · The Outside Ledge [Florence Cusack] · L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace · ss The Harmsworth Magazine October 1900 404 · Packed House · Robert Zacks · ss Detective Tales October 1948 407 · The Pattern · Alex Saxon · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1971, as by Bill Pronzini 415 · A Point of Honor · Larry Segriff · ss 421 · The Rosary · Michael A. Black · ss 430 · Safety Deposit · B. B. Fowler · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 11 1935 433 · The Seventieth Number · Stephen Dentinger · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1970, as by Edward D. Hoch 443 · A Shroud with a Silver Lining · Marion Lineaweaver · ss New Detective Magazine May 1950 446 · The Sign · Tom Curry · ss Detective Fiction Weekly November 16 1940 450 · The Sign of the “400” · R. K. Munkittrick · vi Puck October 24 1894 452 · Smoke Sign · Dale Clark · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 10 1941 456 · Smothered Mate · Stephen Dentinger · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1985, as by Edward D. Hoch 461 · Snapping Out of It · Bruce Holland Rogers · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1991 465 · Something Green · Edward D. Hoch · ss Special Reports: Fiction, 1988 473 · Something Wrong [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss Small Felonies by Bill Pronzini, St. Martin's, 1988 478 · Souls Burning [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss New Crimes 3 ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson, 1991 484 · The Spell of the Black Siren [Vincent Trill] · Dick Donovan · ss The Records of Vincent Trill of the Detective Service by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899 494 · The Stolen Cigar-Case · Bret Harte · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 24 1900 502 · Summer’s End · William Manners · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 25 1940 509 · The Terrarium Principle · J. V. Drexel · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 22 1981, as by Bill Pronzini 513 · Three Men and a Corpse · Victor K. Ray · ss Dime Detective Magazine November 1948 520 · Today’s Special—Poison! · V. E. Thiessen · ss Detective Tales February 1949 527 · The Trailor Murder Mystery · Abraham Lincoln · ts Quincy, Illinois Whig April 15 1846, as “A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder” 533 · A Tulip in the Snow · John McCurnin · vi Detective Fiction Weekly July 5 1941 537 · The Umbrosa Burglary [Picklock Holes] · R. C. Lehmann · ss Punch November 4 1893, as by Cunnin Toil 540 · Waiting · Jim Knapp · ss 543 · While the Cat’s Away— · Dorothy Dunn · ss Detective Tales December 1946 554 · The Wire-Pullers · Morris Cooper · ss Detective Tales March 1950

100 Fiendish Little Frightmares ed. Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg--- see under Stefan R. Dziemianowicz.

100 Hilarious Little Howlers ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg--- see under Stefan Dziemianowicz.

100 Menacing Little Murder Stories ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, 1998, 0-7607-0854-1, x+596pp, hc, an) ix · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · 40 Detectives Later · Henry Slesar · ss Manhunt May 1957 8 · 600 W · Basil Wells · ss Crack Detective Stories January 1945 12 · Action · David J. Schow · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 23 · All the Angles · Basil Wells · ss Smashing Detective Stories September 1954 26 · All-Star Team [Ed Gorgon] · Jon L. Breen · ss Murder California Style ed. Jon L. Breen & John Ball, St. Martin's, 1987 30 · Art Is Anything You Can Get Away With · Stefan Jackson · ss Cemetery Dance #6, Fall 1990 39 · Aunt Dolly · Ardath Mayhar · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 47 · The Backslider · John Metcalfe · ss The Smoking Leg and Other Stories by John Metcalfe, Jarrolds, 1925 55 · Blank… · Harlan Ellison · ss Infinity Science Fiction June 1957 61 · Bless Us O Lord · Ed Gorman · ss Prisoners and Other Stories by Ed Gorman, Cemetery Dance, 1992 65 · The Blind Spot · Saki · ss The Morning Post March 5 1912, as by H. H. Munro 69 · Boomerang [Kemal Sel] · Hugh B. Cave · ss Argosy June 10 1939 73 · Clean Slate · H. Wolff Salz · ss Mammoth Detective November 1944 76 · Close Calls · John Lutz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1978 80 · The Cobblestones of Saratoga Street · Avram Davidson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1964 89 · Come Clean · Donald Wandrei · ss Black Mask December 1938 97 · A Considerable Murder · Barry Pain · ss The Black Cap ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1927 107 · Counterplot · Francis M. Nevins, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1 1981 113 · The Creek, It Done Riz · Ardath Mayhar · ss Cold Blood ed. Richard T. Chizmar, Ziesing, 1991 118 · Crime Wave in Pinhole · Julie Smith · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 21 1980 124 · Crowbait · Everett M. Webber · ss Dime Mystery Magazine January 1947 130 · Damp Sheets · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Sketch October 30 1929 138 · The Dark Hour · Morris Hershman · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine March 1970, as by Evelyn Bond 145 · The Dead Woman · David H. Keller · ss Fantasy Magazine April 1934 152 · Deadhead Coming Down · Margaret Maron · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine April 1978 156 · Death Double · William F. Nolan · ss Impact-20 by William F. Nolan, Paperback Library, 1963 159 · Desert Pickup · Richard Laymon · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1970 165 · Dramatic Touch · Donald Wandrei · ss Clues June 1934 173 · The Encyclopedia Daniel · Fred Chappell · ss 177 · Eye-Witness · Wilbur S. Peacock · ss Dime Mystery Magazine November 1945 182 · Feature Attraction—Murder · Richard W. Bishop · vi Mammoth Detective November 1944 185 · Fin de Siécle · Joyce Carol Oates · ss 189 · Fixing Mr. Foucher’s Fence · Todd Mecklem · ss Young Blood ed. Mike Baker, Zebra, 1994 194 · Footsteps of Fear · Vincent Starrett · ss The Black Mask April 1920 201 · Four-in-Hand · William Relling, Jr. · ss Cemetery Dance #2, June 1989 207 · Fresh Thuringer Today · Leo R. Ellis · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1964 211 · Hi, Mom! · William F. Nolan · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 220 · Hiding Place · Basil Wells · ss Smashing Detective Stories May 1956 228 · High Heels in the Headliner · Wendy Hornsby · ss Malice Domestic 3 ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket, 1994 238 · His Beard Was Long and Very Black · Stewart Toland · ss Dime Mystery Magazine July 1944 246 · Homesick · Richard T. Chizmar · ss Midnight Promises by Richard T. Chizmar, Gauntlet, 1996 250 · Hot Justice · Glenn Low · ss Mammoth Detective November 1946 253 · Hound of Justice · Thomas A. Hoge · ss Detective Tales February 1939 260 · I Could Kill You! · Judith Merril · ss Smashing Detective Stories March 1952 264 · Johnny Halloween · Norman Partridge · ss Cemetery Dance #14, Fall 1992 273 · Killer Cop · Morris Hershman · ss Manhunt June 1958, as by Arnold English 280 · Last Lap · Stan Knowlton · ss Mammoth Mystery August 1946 283 · Last of Kin · Jo Bannister · ss Crime Yellow ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Gollancz, 1994 289 · The Last Pin · Howard Wandrei · ss Black Mask February 1940, as by H. W. Guernsey 295 · Like Father, Like Son · Richard T. Chizmar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1997 301 · Listen · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine May/June 1983 304 · A Little More Research · Joan Hess · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1990 311 · Locking Up · John Maclay · vi Night Cry Fall 1986 314 · The Longest Pleasure · C. J. Henderson · vi 317 · The Man Who Was Everywhere · Edward D. Hoch · ss Manhunt March 1957 320 · The Marrow of Justice [Victor Fiala] · Hal Ellson · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1963 328 · Mercy Killing · Dale Clark · ss Dime Detective Magazine April 1939 331 · Moon-Face · Jack London · ss The Argonaut July 21 1902 336 · The Murder · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Night-Side by Joyce Carol Oates, Vanguard, 1977 342 · Murder Blooms · Charles E. Fritch · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine April 1979 348 · Murder in the Fourth Dimension · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Amazing Detective Tales October 1930 357 · Murder on My Mind · Charles Beckman, Jr. · ss New Detective Magazine November 1949 362 · A Nice Save · Edward Wellen · vi Murder Is My Business ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Dutton, 1994 364 · The Night the Rat Danced · George William Rae · ss Dime Mystery Magazine November 1947 372 · Not Suited for Murder · Stan Knowlton · ss Mammoth Detective November 1944 376 · Old Charlie · Joe R. Lansdale · ss The Saint Magazine August 1984 381 · Oldest Living Serial Killer Tells All · John R. Platt · ss 388 · Omit Flowers · Morris Hershman · ss Manhunt October 1957, as by Arnold English 395 · Ormond Always Pays His Bills · Harlan Ellison · ss Pursued July 1957 400 · The Pattern · Bill Pronzini · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1971 408 · The Phone Call · Roman A. Ranieri · ss Cemetery Dance #23, Spring 1996 411 · Posthumous · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1994 413 · The Price of the Devil [Frank Devlin (The Devil)] · J. L. French · ss Classic Pulp Fiction Stories #20, January 1997 421 · The Queen of Corpses · Costa Carousso · ss Dime Mystery Magazine November 1940 429 · Remains to Be Seen · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1961, as by Steve O’Connell 437 · The Right Kind of a House · Henry Slesar · ss Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine February 1957 444 · The Rod and the Staff · Donald Wandrei · ss Black Mask February 1937 447 · The Scent of Murder · Jack Byrne · vi (r) 450 · The Shill · Stephen Marlowe · ss A Choice of Murders ed. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Scribners, 1958 455 · Something for the Dark · John Lutz · vi Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1977 458 · Something Like Murder · John Lutz · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1978 463 · The Stocking · Ramsey Campbell · ss Tandem Horror 2 ed. Richard Davis, Tandem, 1968 472 · A Story on Page One · Richard L. Hobart · ss Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories February 1931 480 · The Tennis Court · Brenda Melton Burnham · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1994 488 · The Test · Maurice Level; translated by Alys Eyre Macklin · ss Crises by Maurice Level, tr. Alys Eyre Macklin, Erskine Macdonald, 1920 translated from the French (“Confrontation”, Le Journal, 1902). 491 · The Tin Ear [John Easy] · Ron Goulart · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1966 499 · Today’s Special · Dennis Etchison · ss Cavalier 1972 504 · Triple Indemnity · Charles E. Fritch · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1979 511 · Twine · Edward D. Hoch · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine August 1975 519 · Two Inches in Tomorrow’s Column · Harlan Ellison · ss Adam Bedside Reader #21, 1965, as by Ellis Hart 524 · Tyrannosaurus · Norman Partridge · ss Cemetery Dance #21, Summer 1994 528 · Unwinding · William Fryer Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 534 · The Vital Element · Talmage Powell · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1967 541 · Walks · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Cemetery Dance #27, Fall 1997 546 · Why I Didn’t Murder My Wife · Arthur Lawson · ss Double Detective November 1937 553 · Whodunit · Michael A. Black · ss Classic Pulp Fiction Stories #27, August 1997 562 · Will Lunch Be Ready on Time? · Elizabeth Engstrom · ss Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom, Tor, 1992 569 · Win Some, Lose Some [Henry Turnbuckle] · Jack Ritchie · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 25 1981 577 · The Woman at the Pond · Hugh B. Cave · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine January 1965 584 · Woodland Burial · Frank Belknap Long · ss Whispers III ed. Stuart David Schiff, Doubleday, 1981