Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes ed. Paula L. Woods (Doubleday, November 1995, 0-385-47827-5, $23.95, 350pp, hc, an)
Black mystery, crime, and suspense fiction of the 20th century.
- xiii · Introduction · Paula L. Woods · in
- 3 · Talma Gordon · Pauline E. Hopkins · ss Colored American Magazine 1900
- 19 · The Conjure-Man Dies · Rudolph Fisher · ex Covici-Friede, 1932
- 33 · The Shoemaker Murder · George S. Schuyler · ss Pittsburgh Courier 1933, as by William Stockton
- 42 · Summer Session · Alice Dunbar-Nelson · ss (r)
- 48 · His Last Day · Chester Himes · ss Abbott’s Monthly November 1932
- 64 · On Saturday the Siren Sounds at Noon · Ann Petry · ss The Crisis December 1943
- 70 · Corollary [Joe Hill] · Hughes Allison · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #56, July 1948
- 89 · The Man Who Killed a Shadow · Richard Wright · ss Zero Spring 1949
translated from the French (“L’Homme qui tua une ombre”, Les Lettres Française October 4, 1946).
- 105 · from The Man Who Cried I Am · John A. Williams · ex 1967
- 122 · From The Spook Who Sat by the Door · Sam Greenlee · ex Baron, 1969
- 135 · Fearless · Walter Mosley · nv
- 158 · And Pray Nobody Sees You [Aaron Gunner] · Gar Anthony Haywood · ss
- 172 · Personal Woman · Mike Phillips · nv
- 207 · The Thirtieth Amendment · Hugh Holton · ss
- 217 · Dead Man’s Shadow [Ivan Monk] · Gary Phillips · ss
- 238 · Death and the Point Spread [Big Bull Benson] · Percy Spurlark Parker · ss
- 253 · From Coffin & Co. · Njami Simon · ex Black Lizard, 1987
translated from the French (Cerueil & Cie, France, 1985).
- 277 · The Man Who Said I’m Not · Eleanor Taylor Bland · ss
- 288 · Spilled Salt · BarbaraNeely · ss Breaking In: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction ed. Terry McMillan, Viking Penguin, 1990
- 298 · Killing Color · Charlotte Watson Sherman · ss Obsidian II Spring 1989
- 312 · Tell Me Moore · Aya de León · ss
- 328 · From Night Songs · Penny Mickelbury · ex Naiad Press, 1995
- 343 · Appendix: Mystery Chronology · [uncredited] · ms (r)
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