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This page lists a selection of crime fiction anthologies.

A Century Of Detective Stories

1935

An anthology of detective stories with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. The contents are:

• Introduction (G.K. Chesterton)
• The Jigsaw (L.R. Gribble)
• The Purloined Letter. The Gold-Bug (E.A. Poe)
• The Great West Raid (E.P. Oppenheim)
• The Aztec Skull (G. Holt)
• The Iron Pineapple (E. Phillpotts)
• The Rope Of Pearls (H.D.V. Stacpoole)
• The Mind Readers (E. Wallace)
• Death On The 8-45 (F. King)
• The Persistent House Hunters (C.E.B. Roberts)
• The Waste Paper-Basket (A. Melville)
• Death In The Dance (G. Goodchild)
• A Lesson In Crime (G.D.H. & M. Cole)
• The Biter Bit (W.W. Collins)
• The Avenging Chance (A. Berkeley)
• The Inoffensive Captain (E.C. Bentley)
• The Secret Garden (G.K. Chesterton)
• By The Sword (S. Jepson)
• Superfluous Murder (M. Kennedy)
• The Hampstead Murder (C. Bush)
• A Labour Of Hercules (Mrs. Belloc Lowndes)
• The Lake (W.F. Harvey)
• In Confidence (G.R. Malloch)
• A Thread Of Scarlet (J.J. Bell)
• The Yellow Imps (T. Burke)
• The Three Keys (H. Wade)
• The Image In The Mirror (D.L. Sayers)
• Heredity (A. Marsden)
• The Young Doctor (H.C. Bailey)
• Sing A Song Of Sixpence (A. Christie)
• Pigs' Feet (F.A. Kummer)
• The Stolen White Elephant (M. Twain)
• The Dollar Chasers (E.D. Biggers)
• Miss Hinch (H.S. Harrison)
• The Sealed House (H. Footner)
• Strong Brother John (H. Shaw)
• From Behind The Barrier (J.S. Fletcher)
• Who Killed Castelvetri? (G. Frankau)
• The Case Of The White Footprints (R.A. Freeman)
• The Secret Of Headlam Height (E. Bramah)
• The Artificial Mole (J.D. Beresford)
• The Middle Dozen (N. Tom-Gallon And C. Wilson)
• The Other Hangman (J.D. Carr)
• Abel Crew (Mrs. H. Wood)
• The Greuze (F.W. Crofts)

Tales Of Detection

Editor: Dorothy L. Sayers

J.M. Dent

1936

An anthology of detective stories with an introduction by Dorothy L. Sayers. The contents are:

• Introduction (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Biter Bit (Wilkie Collins)
• Was It Murder? (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• The Man In The Passage (G.K. Chesterton)
• The Clever Cockatoo (Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
• The Ghost At Massingham Mansions (Ernest Bramah)
• The Tea-Leaf / Edgar Jepson And (Robert Eustance)
• The Contents Of A Mare's Nest / Richard Austin Freeman)
• The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole (Thomas Burke)
• Solved By Inspection (Father Ronald Knox)
• Philomel Cottage (Agatha Christie)
• The Avenging Chance (Anthony Berkeley)
• The Mystery Of The Sleeping-Car Express (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• The Elusive Bullet (John Rhode)
• The Image In The Mirror (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• A Matter Of Luck (Henry Wade)
• Superfluous Murder (Milward Kennedy)
• The Yellow Slugs (Henry Christopher Bailey)
• The Episode Of The Nail And The Requiem (C. Daly King)

Six Against The Yard

Members Of The Detection Club

1936

A collection of six stories - one each by Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike.

"Is the ‘perfect murder’ possible? Can that crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting skill, that it is unsolvable – even to the most astute investigator? In this unique collection, legendary crime writers Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike each attempt to create the unsolvable murder, which Superintendent Cornish of the CID then attempts to unravel."

Rue Morgue No. 1

Editor: Rex Stout and Louis Greenfield

1946

An anthology of 19 mystery stories. The contents are:

• The Listening House (Paul Hoffman)
• What More Can Fortune Do? (H. Bedford-Jones)
• It Had to Be (Dorothy Dunn)
• Slay-Mates (Charles Larson)
• The Green God's Ring (Seabury Quinn)
• Gun from Gotham (Sleep for a Dreamer) (Robert Leslie Bellam)
• Second Childhood (Jack Snow)
• Cold Figures! (William Hellman)
• The Watchers (Ray Bradbury)
• Manhattan Manhunt (Matt Taylor)
• Dead As in Blonde (D. L. Champion)
• Death in the Tank (Hugh Speer)
• Death Lies Waiting (Roland Phillips)
• Need a Body Cry (H. Wolf Salz)
• Suicide (Frank Kane)
• Midnight Rendezvous (Margaret Manners)
• I'll Slay You in My Dreams (Bruno Fischer)
• Murder Is Stupid (Kerry O'Neil)
• The Cat's Eye (John Van Druten)

The Evening Standard Detective Book

1950

An anthology of 32 detective stories that first appeared in the Evening Standard. The contents are:

• Conversation on the Cliff (Adrian Alington)
• Face Value (Margery Alllingham)
• Gale Warning (Josephine Bell)
• Death in Ambrose Ward (Josephine Bell)
• The Case of the Faulty Drier (Josephine Bell)
• The Thimble Murder Cae (Josephine Bell)
• Death in a Cage (Josephine Bell)
• The Look-Out Man (Nicolas Bentley)
• Death in the Garden (Leo Bruce)
• Hair of his Head (John Creasey)
• The Quick Brown Fox (Edmund Crispin)
• Beware of the Trains (Edmund Crispin)
• Crime on the Footplate (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• The Two Bottles (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• The 8.12 from Waterloo (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• The Chameleon Cartridge (Peter Fraser)
• Black for Innocence (Anthony Gilbert)
• Sister Bessie (Cyril Hare)
• It Takes Two (Cyril Hare)
• Fool's Mate (T. O. Hare)
• The Key (Michael Innes)
• The Railway Waggon (Charles Irving)
• The Case of the Index Finger (Milward Kennedy)
• The Fool (Milward Kennedy)
• A Savage Game (A. A. Milne)
• Bread Upon Waters (A. A. Milne)
• Strangers' Hall (Gladys Mitchell)
• A Light on Murder (Gladys Mitchell)
• Making Sure (E. R. Punshon)
• The Purple Line (John Rhode)
• The Case of the Frightened Promoter (Julian Symons)
• Brandon (Alan Thomas)

The Evening Standard Detective Book: Second Series

1951

An second anthology of 32 detective stories that first appeared in the Evening Standard. The contents are:

• Sealed Letter (Adrian Alington)
• Not So Deep as a Well (Adrian Alington)
• The Packet-Boat Murder (Josephine Bell)
• Double Exposure (Nicolas Bentley)
• Murder in Miniature (Leo Bruce)
• A Matter of Time (Victor Canning)
• Death Warrant (Michael Carreck)
• Humbleby Agonistes (Edmund Crispin)
• Baker Dies (Edmund Crispin and Geoffrey Bush)
• The Suitcase (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• A Tale of Revenge (Lord Dunsany)
• Sergeant Dobbin Works it Out (J. Jefferson Farjeon)
• An Interesting Development (Peter Fraser)
• What Would You Have Done? (Anthony Gilbert)
• The Indifferent Shot (Michael Gilbert)
• I Never Forget a Face (Cyril Hare)
• As the Inspector Said… (Cyril Hare)
• Mrs Brierley Supplies the Evidence (Richard Hull)
• A Dogs Life (Michael Innes)
• The Furies (Michael Innes)
• Letter of the Law (Selwyn Jepson)
• The Accident (Milward Kennedy)
• A Most Reliable Witness (Tom Lake)
• A Bit of Wire-Pulling (E. C. R. Lorac)
• The Jar of Ginger (Gladys Mitchell)
• Manor Park (Gladys Mitchell)
• Split-second Salvage (Stephen W. Pollack)
• Where Theres a Coffin theres a Way (E. R. Punshon)
• The Nine of Diamonds (Michael Rogers)
• The Desk (Julian Symons)
• The Case of S. W. 2 (Julian Symons)
• Force of Habit (Alan Thomas)

Dolls Are Murder

Editor: Harold Q. Masur

1957

An anthology of 19 mystery stories. The contents are:

• Human Interest Stuff (Brett Halliday)
• The Homesick Buick (John D. MacDonald)
• I'll Be Waiting (Raymond Chandler)
• Mind Over Matter (Ellery Queen)
• The Doctor Makes It Murder (George Harmon Coxe)
• The Dog Died First (Bruno Fischer)
• Affaire Ziliouk (Georges Simenon)
• Cop's Gift (Rex Stout)

Best Detective Stories

Editors: Edmund Crispin

1959

The contents are:

• Introduction (Edmund Crispin)
• Bevat: Dead man's shoes (Michael Innes)
• Burnt tout (H. C. Bailey)
• Gentleman from Paris (John Dickson Carr)
• Rubber trumpet (Roy Vickers)
• Dauphin's doll (Ellery Queen)
• Who killed Baker? (Edmund Crispin / Geoffrey Bush)
• You can't hang twice (Anthony Gilbert)
• Nine-mile walk (Harry Kemelman)
• Dog in the daytime (Rex Stout)
• Enemy (Charlotte Armstrong)

Great Stories Of Detection

Editor: R.C. Bull

1960

The contents are:

• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Biter Bit (William Wilkie Collins)
• Missing! (Emil Gaboriau)
• The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Absent-Minded Coterie (Robert Barr)
• The Lenton Croft Robberies (Arthur Morrison)
• The Mysterious Death in Percy Street (Baroness Orczy)
• The Blue Sequin (R. Austin Freeman)
• The Queer Feet (G.K. Chesterton)
• The Ginger King (A.E.W. Mason)
• If Only It Were Yesterday (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
• The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage (Ernest Bramah)
• The Thief (Anna Katharine Green)
• The Problem of Cell 13 (Jacques Futrelle)
• Naboth's Vineyard (Melville Davisson Post)
• Footprints in the Snow (Maurice Leblanc)
• The Genuine Tabard (E.C. Bentley)
• The Level Crossing (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• The Treasure Hunt (Edgar Wallace)
• Death & Company (Dashiell Hammett)
• The Avenging Chance (Anthony Berkeley)
• The Hands of Mr Ottermole (Thomas Burke)
• The Yellow Slugs (H.C. Bailey)
• The Wood-For-the-Trees (Philip Macdonald)
• The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• The Adventure of the Hollow Dragon (Ellery Queen)
• Accident (Agatha Christie)
• The Appalling Politician (Leslie Charteris)
• The Incautious Burglar (John Dickson Carr)
• The Case of the Irate Witness (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• I Can Find My Way Out (Ngaio Marsh)
• Instead of Evidence (Rex Stout)
• The Man Who Murdered in Public (Roy Vickers)
• The Widow (Margery Allingham)
• Mr Prendergast And the Orange (Nicholas Blake)
• The Cellini Salt-Cellar (Michael Innes)
• Finger Man (Raymond Chandler)
• Puzzle For Poppy (Patrick Quentin)
• The Fingernail (William Irish)
• The Grand National Case (Julian Symons)
• The Little House At Croix-Blousse (Georges Simenon)
• Wild Goose Chase (John Ross Macdonald)
• The Blessington Method (Stanley Ellin)

Murder Murder Murder

Editor: Helen McCloy & Brett Halliday

1961

"10 Great Tales from 20 GREAT TALES OF MURDER".

The contents are:

• The Black Cabinet (John Dickson Carr)
• The Adventures Of A Dead Cat (Ellery Queen)
• The Last Day Of All (Fay Grissom Stanley)
• Good-Bye Miss Lizzie Borden (Lillian De La Torre)
• Uncle Charle (Philip Ketchum)
• The Absent Hat Pin (D.B. Olsen)
• The Riddle Of The Snafu Murder (Stuart Palmer)
• My Last Book (Clayre And Michel Lipman)
• The Man In The Morque (Robert Arthur)
• The Hand Of God (Harry Stephen Keeler)

Best Detective Stories 2

Editor: Edmund Crispin

1964

Once Against The Law

Editor: William Fenn & Donald E. Westlake

1968

"22 master tales of mystery and suspense dedicated to the proposition that "great writers" when they write mystery stories, write great mystery stories."

• How Mr. Hogan Robbed A Bank (John Steinbeck)
• The Garden Of Forking Paths (Jorge Luis Borges)
• The Willow Walk (Sinclair Lewis)
• The Pardoner's Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer)
• The Strange Case Of The Dead Divorce'e (Ogden Nash)
• An Illusion In Red And White (Stephen Crane)
• The Fate Of A Hero (James T. Farrell)
• The Flight Of Sikes (Charles Dickens)
• My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)
• The Burglars And The Boy (Herbert Gold)
• The Succubus (Homore' De Balzac)
• Incident On A Street Corner (Albert Maltz)
• Rendezvous (Robert M. Coates)
• Sergeant's Song (W.S. Gilbert)
• God Sees The Truth, But Waits (Leo N. Tolstoy)
• The Terror Of Rome (Alberto Moravia)
• The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde)
• The Return Of Imray (Rudyard Kipling)
• The Sheep (Joyce Cary)
• There Are 43,200 Seconds In A Day (Peter Ustinov)
• The Captive (Luigi Pirandello)

Best Murder Stories 2

Editor: Edmund Crispin

1973

Dark Sins, Dark Dreams: Crime in Science Fiction

Editor: Barry Malzberg and Bill Pronzini

1978

The contents are:

• Introduction (Dark Sins, Dark Dreams) (Bill Pronzini)
• Bernie the Faust (William Tenn)
• The Several Murders of Roger Ackroyd (Barry N. Malzberg)
• Non Sub Homine (H. W. Whyte)
• Booth 13 (John Lutz)
• The Executioner (Algis Budrys)
• The Biography Project (Dudley Dell)
• A Man to My Wounding (Poul Anderson)
• To See the Invisible Man (Robert Silverberg)
• The Winner (Donald E. Westlake)
• The Generalissimo's Butterfly (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)
• The Wolfram Hunters (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Man Who Collected "The Shadow" (Bill Pronzini)
• View, With a Difference (Charles L. Grant)
• Murder 2090 (C. B. Gilford)
• The Fire Man (Elizabeth A. Lynn)
• Afterword: Of Crime and Science Fiction (Barry N. Malzberg)

The Great American Detective

Editor: William Kittredge and Steven M. Krauzer

1978

The contents are:

• A Clever Little Woman (The Author Of Nick Carter)
• Knights Of The Open Palm (Carroll John Daly)
• Too Many Have Lived (Dashiell Hammett)
• Death Shows The Way (Radio Script By Tom McKnight And Jerry Devine)
• Red Wind (Raymond Chandler)
• The Adventure Of The Mad Tea-Party (Ellery Queen)
• The Lake Of The Left-Hand Moon (Robert Leslie Bellem)
• Introducing Susan Dare (Mignon G. Eberhart)
• Angel Face (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Riddle Of The Twelve Amethysts (Stuart Palmer)
• Bullet For One (Rex Stout)
• The Case Of The Irate Witness (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• The Reluctant Client (Brett Halliday)
• Midnight Blue (Ross MacDonald)
• Willing To Kill (Don Pendleton)

Verdict Of 13

Editor / Introduction: Julian Symons

1979

"For the first time in thirty years, England’s famed Detection Club has invited its most masterful and entertaining authors to create, especially for this collection, thirteen extraordinary stories of deception and detection, each brilliantly tied to the other by the single mysterious clue of trial by jury. But that tantalizing thread has been skillfully twisted to present a dozen plus one tales as individually puzzling as they are collectively spectacular."

• Introduction (Julian Symons)
• Great-Aunt Allie's Flypapers (P. D. James)
• The Rogue's Twist (Gwendoline Butler)
• Twenty-One Good Men And True (Dick Francis)
• Verdict Of Three (Michael Gilbert)
• Cloud Nine (Christianna Brand)
• Pelly And Cullis (Michael Innes)
• Something The Cat Dragged In (Patricia Highsmith)
• The Postgraduate Thesis (Celia Fremlin)
• Gup (H.R.F. Keating)
• Murder At St Oswald's (Michael Underwood)
• Morepork (Ngaio Marsh)
• Who Killed The Cat? (Peter Dickinson)
• Waiting For Mr McGregor (Julian Symons)

A Treasury of Victorian Detective Stories

Editor: Everett F. Bleiler

1980

The contents are:

• Three 'Detective' Anecdotes (Charles Dickens)
• Arrested On Suspicion (Andrew Forrester, Jr.)
• Murder Under The Microscope (Waters)
• Woman With The Yellow Hair (Anonymous)
• Revelations Of A Detective (Tom Fox)
• Hanged By The Neck (Charles Martel)
• Tale Of A Detective (Anonymous)
• Levison's Victim (Mary Braddon)
• Little Old Man Of Batignoles (Emile Gaboriau)
• Going Through The Tunnel (Mrs. Henry Wood)
• Mr. Policeman And The Cook (Wilkie Collins)
• Dr. Varvill's Prescription (Mrs. J.H. Riddel)
• Great Ruby Robbery (Grant Allen)
• Wedding Guest (Guy Boothby)
• Recollections Of Captain Wilkie (A. Conan Doyle)
• Story Of Baelbrow (E. And H. Heron)
• Bank Note Forger (Cutcliffe Hyne)
• Outside Ledge (L.T. Meade And Robert Eastace)
• Case Of The Late Mr. Rewse (Arthur Morrison)
• Black Bag Left On A Door-Step (C.L. Pirkis)
• Sheriff Of Gullmore (Melville Davisson Post)
• Staircase At The Heart's Delight (Anna Katharine Green)
• Stolen Cigar-Case (Bret Harte)

The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense

Editor: Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg & Martin H. Greenberg

1981

The contents are:

• The Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Hunted Down (Charles Dickens)
• The Stolen White Elephant (Mark Twain)
• Ransom (Pearl S. Buck)
• The Adventure Of The Glass-Domed Clock (Ellery Queen)
• The Arrow Of God (Leslie Charteris)
• A Passage To Benares (T.S. Stribling)
• The Case Of The Emerald Sky (Eric Ambler)
• The Other Hangman (John Dickson Carr)
• The Couple Next Door (Margaret Millar)
• Danger Out Of The Past (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• A Matter Of Public Notice (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• The Cat's-Paw (Stanley Ellin)
• The Road To Damascus (Michael Gilbert)
• Midnight Blue (Ross Macdonald)
• I'll Die Tomorrow (Mickey Spillane)
• For All The Rude People (Jack Ritchie)
• Hangover (John D. Macdonald)
• The Santa Claus Club (Julian Symons)
• The Wager (Robert L. Fish)
• A Fool About Money (Ngaio Marsh)
• And Three To Get Ready (H.L. Gold)
• "J" (Ed Mcbain)
• Burial Moments Three (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Murder ; Fatal Woman (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Agony Column (Barry N. Malzberg)
• Last Rendezvous (Jean L. Backus)
• The Real Shape Of The Coast (John Lutz)
• Hercule Poirot In The Year 2010 (Jon L. Breen)
• Merrill-Go-Round (Marcia Muller)
• A Craving For Originality (Bill Pronzini)
• Tranquility Base (Asa Baber)
• The Cabin In The Hollow (Joyce Harrington)
• Peckerman (Robert S. Phillips)
• A Simple, Willing Attempt (Elizabeth Morton)
• Crime Wave In Pinhole (Julie Smith)
• Watching Marcia (Michael D. Resnick)
• Somebody Cares (Talmage Powell)
• Jode's Last Hunt (Brian Garfield)
• Many Mansions (Robert Silverberg)
• My Son The Murderer (Bernard Malamud)

The Dime Novel Detective

Editor: Gary Hoppenstand

1982

An anthology of dime novel detective stories.

"This volume offers a combination of representative dime novel detective fiction, presented in order of the respective series' first publication dates, and bibliographic material, which can assist the future scholar of the dime novels. Stories are reprinted from The New York Detective Library, Old Cap Collier, Old Sleuth Library, Bob Brooks Library, and Secret Service."

• J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Fall River Axe Murders (Angela Carter)
• A Retrieved Information (O. Henry)
• The Gioconda Smile (Aldous Huxley)
• They Bite (Anthony Boucher)
• The Greeting (Osbert Sitwell)
• Milady Bigamy (Lillian de la Torre)
• The Bathroom (Peter Lovesey)
• The Crocodile Dressing Case (Roy Vickers)
• The Wrong Jar (Anthony Berkley)
• Homecoming (Mirian Allen DeFord)
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (Harlan Ellison)
• The Black Cabinet (John Dickson Carr)
• The Trailor Murder Mystery (Abraham Lincoln)

The Web She Weaves: An Anthology Of Mystery And Suspense Stories By Women

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1983

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini)
• The Lodger (Marie Belloc Lowndes)
• The Duchess At Prayer (Edith Wharton)
• The Man In The Inverness Cape (Baroness Orczy)
• The Woman In The Store (Katherine Mansfield)
• Murder In The Fishing Cat (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• The Lipstick (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
• Postiche (Mignon G. Eberhart)
• Suspicion (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• Harlequin's Lane (Agatha Christie)
• His Heart Could Break (Craig Rice)
• Chinoiserie (Helen Mccloy)
• Good-Bye, Miss Lizzie Borden (Lillian De La Torre)
• Mcgowney's Miracle (Margaret Millar)
• St. Patrick's Day In The Morning (Charlotte Armstrong)
• The Possibility Of Evil (Shirley Jackson)
• The Snail-Watcher (Patricia Highsmith)
• The Locked Room (Celia Fremlin)
• The Fall Of A Coin (Ruth Rendell)
• Double Jeopardy (Susan Dunlap)
• My Neighbor, Ay (Joyce Harrington)
• Norman And The Killer (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Cattails (Marcia Muller)
• Great-Aunt Allie's Flypapers (P.D. James)

The Arbor House Treasury of Detective and Mystery Stories from the Great Pulps

Editor: Bill Pronzini

1983

The contents are:

• Introduction (Bill Pronzini)
• Arson Plus (Dashiell Hammett)
• Knights Of The Open Palm (Carroll John Daly)
• The Mopper-Up (Horace Mccoy)
• Red Pavement (Frederick Nebel)
• Parlor Trick (Paul Cain)
• The Living Lie Down With The Dead (Cornell Woolrich)
• Holocaust House (Norbert Davis)
• Blue Murder (Fredric Brown)
• Hear That Mournful Sound (Dane Gregory)
• The Day Nobody Died (D.L. Champion)
• Fatal Accident (John D. Macdonald)
• Diamonds Of Death (Robert Leslie Bellem)
• See No Evil (William Campbell Gault)
• Crime Of Omission (John D. Macdonald)
• The Girl In The Golden Cage (John Jakes)

The Penguin Classic Crime Omnibus

Editor: Julian Symons

1984

"In this anthology, the master of crime fiction, Julian Symons, has selected the less familiar stories of such famous crime writers as Chesterton, Doyle, Bierce, and Poe."

• A Watcher By The Dead (Ambrose Bierce)
• The Coin Of Dionysius (Ernest Bramah)
• The Proverbial Murder (John Dickson Carr)
• The Wrong Shape (G.K. Chesterton)
• The Submarine Plans (Agatha Christie)
• Who Killed Baker? (Edmund Crispin)
• Change Of Climate (Ursula Curtiss)
• The Landlady (Roald Dahl)
• The Copper Beeches (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Question (Stanley Ellin)
• Smoke (William Faulkner)
• The Phantom Motor (Jaques Futrelle)
• Counterplot (Michael Gilbert)
• The Case For The Defence (Graham Greene)
• The Mobile Bed-Object (Patricia Highsmith)
• The Most Dangerous Man (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Victim (P.D. James)
• All The Way To The Moon (Q. Patrick)
• Thou Art The Man (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Adventure Of The Bearded Lady (Ellery Queen)
• The Clinging Woman (Ruth Rendell)
• The Man Who Knew How (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• Inspector Maigret Pursues (Georges Simenon)
• The Man Who Murdered In Public (Roy Wickers)
• Being A Murderer Myself (Arthur Williams)

She Won the West: An Anthology of Western and Frontier Stories by Women

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1984

The contents are:

• The Conquest Of Dona Jacoba (Gertrude Atherton)
• On The Divide (Willa Cather)
• A Yellow Man And A White (Eleanor Gates)
• The Walking Woman (Mary Austin)
• The Lamb Of The Flying U (B.M. Bower)
• The Girl In The Humbert (Mari Sandoz)
• First Notch (Elsa Barker)
• The Brushoff (Peggy Simson Curry)
• The Warhorse Of Spotted Tail (Amelia Bean)
• The Promise Of Fruit (Ann Ahlswede)
• A Season For Heroes (Carla Kelly)
• Sweet Cactus Wine (Marcia Muller)
• The Debt (Jeanne Williams)
• The Hanging Tree (Dorothy M. Johnson)

13 Short Mystery Novels

Editors: Martin H. Greenberg and Bill Pronzini

1984

The contents are:

• The Lawless Lady (Leslie Charteris)
• Introducing Susan Dare (Mignon Eberhart)
• Nightmare (Cornell Woolrich)
• Death's Eye View (John D. Macdonald)
• The Murder Machine (Hugh Pentecost)
• Death Rides a Boxcar (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• The Bearded Lady (Ross Macdonald)
• Murder Set to Music (Fredric Brown)
• The Zero Clue (Rex Stout)
• Storm (Ed McBain)
• Don't Look Now (Daphne du Maurier)
• Booktaker (Bill Pronzini)
• The King in Yellow (Raymond Chandler)

The Deadly Arts: A Collection of Artful Suspense

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1985

The contents are:

• The Stolen Rubens (Jacques Futrelle)
• Specter Of The Rose (Ben Hecht)
• The Spy Who Went To The Opera (Edward D. Hoch)
• Credit To Shakespeare (Julian Symons)
• When A Felon Needs A Friend (Morris Hershman)
• The Melting Man (R.L. Stevens)
• Mr. Steinway (Robert Bloch)
• Who's Got The Lady? (Jack Ritchie)
• As Drink The Dead (John Dickson Carr)
• Good Night, Good Knight (Fredric Brown)
• The Twelfth Statue (Stanley Ellin)
• Horn Man (Clark Howard)
• Out Of The Inkwell (Ron Goulart)
• A Hard Way To Die (R.R. Irvine)
• The Lady And The Dragon (Peter Godfrey)
• You Can't Trust A Man (Helen Nielsen)
• The Man Who Wanted To Be In The Movies (John Jakes)
• The Adventure Of The Hanging Acrobat (Ellery Queen)
• The Leopard Man's Story (Jack London)
• Death At The Burlesque (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Waxwork (A.M. Burrage)
• The Dancing Detective (William Irish)
• Vanishing Act (Bill Pronzini and Michael Kurland)

Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories About the World of Books

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1985

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller And Bill Pronzini)
• The Missing Shakespeare Manuscript (Lillian De La Torre)
• The Man Who Collected Poe (Robert Bloch)
• The Penny-A-Worder (Cornell Woolrich)
• Clerical Error (James Gould Cozzens)
• Murder Walks In Marble Halls (Lawrence G. Blochman)
• Relections On Murder (Nedra Tyre)
• The Adventure Of The Spurious Tamberlane (August Derleth)
• One Thousand Dollars A Word (Lawrence Block)
• QL696.C9 (Anthony Boucher)
• Murder At The Bouchercon (Edward D. Hoch)
• Seven Types Of Ambiguity (Shirley Jackson)
• The Dragon's Head (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• The Great American Novel (R.L. Stevens)
• Mystery At The Library Of Congress (Ellery Queen)
• A Craving For Originality (Bill Pronzini)
• Chapter And Verse (Ngaio Marsh)

Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense

Editor: Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg & Martin H. Greenberg

1985

"A definitive collection of the best stories of the mystery and suspense genre with an introduction by the master storyteller of the field, John D. MacDonald."

• The Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Hunted Down (Charles Dickens)
• The Stolen White Elephant (Mark Twain)
• Ransom (Pearl S. Buck)
• The Adventure Of The Glass-Domed Clock (Ellery Queen)
• The Arrow Of God (Leslie Charteris)
• A Passage To Benares (T.S. Stribling)
• The Case Of The Emerald Sky (Eric Ambler)
• The Other Hangman (John Dickson Carr)
• The Couple Next Door (Margaret Millar)
• Danger Out Of The Past (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• A Matter Of Public Notice (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• The Cat's-Paw (Stanley Ellin)
• The Road To Damascus (Michael Gilbert)
• Midnight Blue (Ross Macdonald)
• I'll Die Tomorrow (Mickey Spillane)
• For All The Rude People (Jack Ritchie)
• Hangover (John D. Macdonald)
• The Santa Claus Club (Julian Symons)
• The Wager (Robert L. Fish)
• A Fool About Money (Ngaio Marsh)
• And Three To Get Ready ... (H.L. Gold)
• "J" (Ed Mcbain)
• Burial Monuments Three (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Murder (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Fatal Woman (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Agony Column (Barry N. Malzberg)
• Last Rendezvous (Jean L. Backus)
• The Real Shape Of The Coast (John Lutz)
• Hercule Poirot In The Year 2010 (Jon L. Breen)
• Merrill-Go-Round (Marcia Muller)
• A Craving For Originality (Bill Pronzini)
• Tranquility Base (Asa Baber)
• The Cabin In The Hollow (Joyce Harrington)
• Peckerman (Robert S. Phillips)
• A Simple, Willing Attempt (Elizabeth Morton)
• Watching Marcia (Michael D. Resnick)
• Somebody Cares (Talmage Powell)
• Jode's Last Hunt (Brian Garfield)
• Many Mansions (Robert Silverberg)
• My Son The Murderer (Bernard Malamud)

The Ethnic Detectives: Masterpieces of Mystery Fiction

Editors: Martin H. Greenberg and Bill Pronzini

1985

The contents are:

• The Coffins Of The Emperor (Robert Van Gulik)
• A Star For A Warrior (Manly Wade Wellman)
• The Case Of The Emerald Sky (Eric Ambler)
• The Black Sampan (Raoul Whitfield)
• Mom Makes A Wish (James Yaffe)
• Inspector Ghte And The Test Match (H.R.F. Keating)
• The Most Obstinate Man In Paris (Georges Simenon)
• The Hair Of The Widow (Robert Somerlott)
• White Water (W. Ryerson Johnson)
• Inspector Saito's Small Satori (Janwillem Van De Wetering)
• One For Virgil Tibbs (John Ball)
• The Luck Of A Gypsy (Edward D. Hoch)
• Godlfish (Hayford Peirce)
• The Witch, Yazzie, And The Nine Of Clubs (Tony Hillerman)
• The Beer Drinkers (Josh Pachter)
• The Sanchez Sacraments (Marcia Muller)
• "J" (Ed McBain)

Murder In The First Reel

Editors: Bill Pronzini, Martin H Greenberg & Charles G Waugh

1985

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Compiler, introduction: Richard Lancelyn Green

1985

A collection of 11 stories. The contents are:

• Introduction (Richard Lancelyn Green)
• The Adventure of the First-Class Carriage (Ronald A. Knox)
• The Adventure of the Sheffield Banker (Arthur Whitaker)
• The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet (Vincent Starrett)
• The Adventure of the Marked Man (Stuart Palmer)
• The Adventure of the Megatherium Thefts (S.C. Roberts)
• The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant (W.R. Duncan Macmillan)
• The Adventure of Arnsworth Castle (Adrian Conan Doyle)
• The Adventure of the Tired Captain (Alan Wilson)
• The Adventure of the Green Empress (F.P. Cillié)
• The Adventure of the Purple Hand (D.O. Smith)
• The Adventure of Hillerman Hall (Julian Symons)

The Wickedest Show on Earth: A Carnival of Circus Suspense

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1985

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller And Bill Pronzini)
• Hop-Frog (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! (Paul Gallico)
• If The Dead Could Talk (Cornell Woolrich)
• Motive For Murder (Talmage Powell)
• The House Of Darkness (Ellery Queen)
• Beidenbauer's Flea (Stanley Ellin)
• Carnival Day (Nedra Tyre)
• The Four Blind Men (Fredric Brown)
• The Double Whammy (Robert Bloch)
• Another Burnt-Out Case (Bill Pronzini And Barry N. Malzberg)
• The Theft Of The Circus Poster (Edward D. Hoch)
• Carousel (August Derleth)
• Too Long At The Fair (R.L. Stevens)
• The Fallen Angel (Evan Hunter)
• The Shill (Stephen Marlowe)
• Spook House (Clark Howard)
• I, Said The Fly (Robert Edmond Alter)

Mystery in the Mainstream: an Anthology of Literary Crimes

Editors: Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg, Barry Malzberg

1986

The contents are:

• The Birthmark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• A Pair Of Gloves (Charles Dickens)
• The Biter Bit (Wilkie Collins)
• God Sees The Truth But Waits (Leo Tolstoy)
• A Watcher By The Dead (Ambrose Bierce)
• Mr. Brisher's Treasure (H.G. Wells)
• The Return Of Imray (Rudyard Kipling)
• The Bet (Anton Chekhov)
• Bewitched (Edith Wharton)
• Before The Party (W. Somerset Maugham)
• The Neighbors (John Galsworthy)
• Without The Option (P.G. Wodehouse)
• The Gioconda Smile (Aldous Huxley)
• Cigarette Girl (James M. Cain)
• It Takes A Thief (Arthur Miller)
• Murder On The Waterfront (Budd Schulberg)
• How Mr. Hogan Robbed A Bank (John Steinbeck)
• My Son The Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
• Sentimental Journey (Joyce Carol Oates)
• The Interview (Evan Hunter)
• The Killer (Norman Mailer)

Great Modern Police Stories: Tales Of Mystery And Suspense From The Fictional Files Of The Law

Editors: Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg

1986

The contents are:

• The Detective's Dilemma (Cornell Woolrich)
• I Always Get The Cuties (John D. MacDonald)
• H As In Homicide (Lawrence Treat)
• Night Work (William Campbell Gault)
• The Drowned Men's Inn (Georges Simenon)
• Captain Heimrich Stumbles (Frances And Richard Lockridge)
• By Child Undone (Jack Ritchie)
• The King In Pawn (Michael Gilbert)
• Captain Leopold Goes To The Dogs (Edward D. Hoch)
• Hit-And-Run (Susan Dunlap)
• The Half-Invisible Man (Bill Pronzini And Jeffrey Wallmann)
• Nightshade (Ed Mcbain)

101 Mystery Stories

Editors: Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg

1986

The contents are:

• The Oval Portrait (Edgar Allan Poe)
• There Hangs Death! (John D. Macdonald)
• Town Wanted (Fredric Brown)
• The Sweetest Man In The World (Donald E. Westlake)
• Every Fifth Man (Edward D. Hoch)
• Vendetta (Guy De Maupassant)
• The Leakage (Frank Sisk)
• The Gesture (Gil Brewer)
• The Little House At Croix-Rousse (Georges Simenon)
• Punishment To Fit The Crime (Robert L. Fish)
• The Plan Of The Snake (Edward Wellen)
• Two-Way Street (Brian Garfield)
• The Pair Of Gloves (Charles Dickens)
• After Twenty Years (O. Henry)
• The Export Trade (Leslie Charteris)
• Problems Solved (Bill Pronzini And Barry N. Malzberg)
• The Release (Cornell Woolrich)
• We Spy (Clark Howard)
• The Leopard Man's Story (Jack London)
• The Little Things (Isaac Asimov)
• The Reindeer Clue (Ellery Queen)
• Top Man (Jonathan Craig)
• Creature Of Habit (William Campbell Gault)
• Weeds (Charlene Weir)
• Something Very Special (Fletcher Flora)
• Shatterproof (Jack Ritchie)
• Project Mushroom (Julie Smith)
• Terror In The Night (Robert Bloch)
• Drum Beat (Stephen Marlowe)
• Invited Witness (George Harmon Coxe)
• Poison (Katherine Mansfield)
• The Scientist And The Vanished Weapon (Arthur Porges)
• Night Walker (Robert J. Randisi)
• The Innocent One (Evan Hunter)
• Funny You Should Ask (Lawrence Block)
• Castle In Spain (Julian Symons)
• Proposal Perilous (Morris Hershman)
• The Crooked Picture (John Lutz)
• The Lady, Or The Tiger (Frank R. Stockton)
• This One's On Me (Edward Hunsburger)
• To Strike A Match (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• Hush-A-Bye, My Baby (Anton Chekhov)
• Because The Constable Blundered (Francis M. Nevins, Jr.)
• Cloak And Digger (John Jakes)
• To Avoid A Scandal (Talmage Powell)
• The Prevalence Of Monsters (Thomas B. Dewey)
• The Nine Mile Walk (Harry Kemelman)
• The Pulque Vendor (Hal Ellson)
• Death Threat (Susan Dunlap)
• By The Sea, By The Sea (Hal Dresner)
• The Night Runner (Nedra Tyre)
• The Little Old Lady From Cricket Creek (Len Gray)
• Happy Birthday, Darling (Joyce Harrington)
• One Will To Many (Joe L. Hensley)
• The Dispatching Of George Ferris (Jack Foxx)
• The Joker (Betty Ren Wright)
• Schedule For An Assassination (Robert Edmond Alter)
• A Taste For Murder (Jack Ritchie)
• The Girl Who Jumped In The River (Arthur Moore)
• The Diamond Of Kali (O. Henry)
• The Perfect Time For The Perfect Crime (R.L. Stevens)
• "You Listen!" (Norbert Davis And Dwight V. Babcock)
• The Mystery Of Chance (Melville Davisson Post)
• The Man Who Swallowed A Horse (Craig Rice)
• The Promise (Marilyn Granbeck)
• Diamonds In Paradise (Ellery Queen)
• The Art Of Deduction (Robert L. Fish)
• Cattails (Marcia Muller)
• An Exercise In Insurance (James Holding)
• The Secret Of Fort Bayard (Georges Simenon)
• Sweet, Sweet Murder (H.A. Derosso)
• One Down (Ed Mcbain)
• A Home Away From Home (Robert Bloch)
• The Blue Wash Mystery (Anna Katharine Green)
• The Candidate (Henry Slesar)
• The Booster (Percy Spurlark Parker)
• Who Has Seen The Wind? (Michael Gilbert)
• Deathbed (Frank Sisk)
• The Devil Behind You (Richard A. Moore)
• Counterplot (Francis M. Nevins, Jr.)
• Ransom Demand (Jeffry M. Wallmann)
• Letter To The Editor (Morris Hershman)
• First Man At The Funeral (Dion Henderson)
• An Illusion In Red And White (Stephen Crane)
• Gentlemen's Agreement (Lawrence Block)
• The Terrarium Principle (Bill Pronzini)
• Doctor's Orders (John F. Suter)
• Never Trust A Woman (Helen Nielsen)
• Somebody On The Phone (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Peppermint-Striped Goodby (Ron Goulart)
• The Man Of The Knife (Alexandre Dumas)
• A Cool Swim On A Hot Day (Fletcher Flora)
• Inside Out (Barry N. Malzberg)
• Who? (Michael Collins)
• The Odor Of Melting (Edward D. Hoch)
• Shell Game (William Jeffrey)
• Queasy Does It Not (Jack Ritchie)
• The Explosives Expert (John Lutz)
• Not The Running Type (Henry Slesar)
• E=Murder (Ellery Queen)
• Homicidal Hiccup (John D. MacDonald)

Tales Of Mystery

Editors: Bill Pronzini

1986 (1983?)

"A collection of detective fiction from the pulp magazines of the 1940s and 1950s, with contributions from writers such as Dashiell Hammett, John D. MacDonald, John Jakes, Cornell Woolrich, and Paul Cain."

The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction

Editors: Ed Gorman

1987

The contents are:

• Introduction (Edward Gorman)
• The Used (Loren D. Estleman)
• A Cold Foggy Day (Bill Pronzini)
• Swamp Search (Harry Whittington)
• Take Care Of Yourself (William Campbell Gault)
• A Matter Of Ethics (Robert J. Randisi)
• Tough (John Lutz)
• This World, Then The Fireworks (Jim Thompson)
• Soft Monkey (Harlan Ellison)
• Yellow Gal (Dennis Lynds)
• Scrap (Max Allan Collins)
• Set 'Em Up, Joe (Barbara Beman)
• Shut The Final Door (Joe L. Hensley)
• Death And The Dancing Shadows (James Reasoner)
• A Killer In The Dark (Robert Edmond Alter)
• Perchance To Dream (Michael Seidman)
• Horn Man (Clark Howard)
• Shooting Match (Wayne Dundee)
• The Pit (Joe R. Lansdale)
• Turn Away (Edward Gorman)
• The Second Coming (Joe Gores)

Manhattan Mysteries

Editors: Bill Pronzini, Carol-Lynn Rossell Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg

1987

The contents are:

• Introduction: Mysterious Island (Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh)
• The Good Samaritan (Isaac Asimov)
• Mom Sings An Aria (James Yaffe)
• The Woman I Envied (George Baxt)
• New York Blues (Cornell Woolrich)
• Small Homicide (Ed Mcbain)
• The Gentleman From Paris (John Dickson Carr)
• The Lord Of Central Park (Avram Davidson)
• A Craving For Originality (Bill Pronzini)
• The Day Of The Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
• The Crime Of The Century (R.L. Stevens)
• The Back Stairway (Hal Ellson)
• The Hawk And The Dome Of Hell (S.S. Rafferty)
• The Beatings (Evan Hunter)
• A Place Of Her Own (Joyce Harrington)
• The Medical Finger (Ellery Queen)
• The Corpse In The Statue Of Liberty (William Irish)
• The Cop And The Anthem (O. Henry)
• Jericho And The Cardboard Box (Hugh Pentecost)
• The Man Who Came Back (Edward D. Hoch)
• Hildegarde Withers Is Back (Stuart Palmer)
• The Quality Of Mercy (Eleazar Lipsky)
• Murder In One Scene (Q. Patrick)
• The Missing Man (Katherine Maclean)
• The Garrulous Garrity Grand Scam (Francis M. Nevins, Jr.)
• God Save The Mark: A Novel (Donald E. Westlake)

Uncollected Crimes: Never Before Anthologized Stories

Editors: Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg

1987

The contents are:

• Two O'clock Blonde (James M. Cain)
• Riddle Of The Marble Blade (Stuart Palmer)
• The $5,000 Getaway (Jack Ritchie)
• Squealer (John D. Macdonald)
• The Cackle Bladder (William Campbell Gault)
• Everybody Needs A Mink (Dorothy B. Hughes)
• I Still See Sally (John Jakes)
• Homecoming (Michael Collins)
• The Deadly Mrs. Haversham (Helen Nielsen)
• The Problem Of The County Fair (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Tree On Execution Hill (Loren D. Estleman)
• Bank Job (Bill Pronzini)
• Discount Fare (John Lutz)
• Consolation (Ed McBain)

The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction

Editors: Ed Gorman

1988

The contents are:

• Who Lives By The Sword (Robert Edmond Alter)
• The Gun Next Door (Michael Avallone)
• The Dreadful Lemon Pie (Timothy Banse)
• Water's Edge (Robert Bloch)
• Good For The Soul (Lawrence Block)
• The Candy Skull (Ray Bradbury)
• Streak To Death (Jon Breen)
• The Little Woman (Max Allan Collins)
• Blood And Moonlight (William R. Cox)
• A Cabin In The Woods (John Coyne)
• Death Of An Iron Maiden (Wayne D. Dundee)
• Free With This Box! (Harlan Ellison)
• Bad Blood (Loren D. Estleman)
• The Collector Comes After Payday (Fletcher Flora)
• Jode's Last Hunt (Brian Garfield)
• Blood Of The Innocent (William G. Gault)
• A Long Day's Night In The Naked City (Barry Gifford)
• Goodbye, Pops (Joe Gores)
• False Idols (Ed Gorman)
• The Home (Joe L. Hensley)
• The God Of The Razor (Joe R. Lansdale)
• Eats (Richard Laymon)
• High Stakes (John Lutz)
• Still Life (Ed Mcbain)
• Death Blues (Steve Mertz)
• The Girl Who Jumped The River (Arthur Moore)
• Merrill-Go-Round (Marcia Muller)
• The Pattern (Bill Pronzini)
• Down The Long Night (William F. Nolan)
• Fall Guy (Ray Puechner)
• Murder Me For Nickels (Peter Rabe)
• The Equine Theft (Robert Randisi)
• Rendezvous (Daniel Ransom)
• The Affair With The Dragon Lady (Mickey Spillane)
• Horse Laugh (Donald Westlake)
• The Glass Alibi (Harry Whittington)
• Give The Man A Cigar (Charles Willeford)
• A Christmas Story (Will Wyckoff)
• Lapses (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)

13 Short Detective Novels

Editors: Martin H. Greenberg and Bill Pronzini

1988

The contents are:

• Finger Man (Raymond Chandler)
• Death Stops At A Tourist Camp (Leslie Ford)
• The Saint In Palm Springs (Leslie Charteris)
• Puzzle In Snow (Philip Wylie)
• The Case Of The Crimson Kiss (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• The Room With Something Wrong (Cornell Woolrich)
• Murder For Money (John D. Macdonald)
• The Morning Of The Monkey (Robert Van Gulik)
• Maigret's Christmas (Georges Simenon)
• Withers And Malone, Brain-Stormers (Stuart Palmer And Craig Rice)
• Death Flight (Ed Mcbain)
• Who's Calling? (Bill Pronzini)
• City Of Brass (Edward D. Hoch)

Lady on the Case: 21 Stories and 1 Complete Novel Starring the World's Great Female Sleuths

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1988

The contents are:

• Introduction (Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini)
• The Murder At Troyte's Hill (C.L. Pirkis)
• The Man In The Inverness Cape (Baroness Orczy)
• Death In The Sun (G.D.H. And Margaret Cole)
• The Second Bullet (Anna Katharine Green)
• The Stripper (Anthony Boucher)
• The Claret Stick (Mignon Eberhart)
• The Four Suspects (Agatha Christie)
• The Broken Men (Marcia Muller)
• The Invisible Intruder (Edward D. Hoch)
• A Date In Helsinki (Patricia Mcgerr)
• The Dancing Detective (Cornell Woolrich)
• Lucky Penny (Linda Barnes)
• The Fuzzy Things (D.B. Olsen)
• Coyote And Quarter-Moon (Bill Pronzini And Jeffrey Wallmann)
• At The Old Swimming Hole (Sara Paretsky)
• Mom Sheds A Tear (James Yaffe)
• Daisy Bell (Gladys Mitchell)
• Solo Job (Paul Gallico)
• Not Before My Morning Coffee (Susan Dunlap)
• Mrs. Norris Observes (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• The Parker Shotgun (Sue Grafton)
• Murder On Wheels (Stuart Palmer)

The Black Cabinet

Editor: Peter Lovesey

1989

An anthology of stories based on real crimes.

"Beginning with the bizarre case reported by the young Abraham Lincoln himself, this work discusses actual unsolved crimes: Lizzie Bordon's bloody spree, the Kitty Genovese murder, the assassination of President Lincoln."

• J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Fall River Axe Murders (Angela Carter)
• A Retrieved Information (O. Henry)
• The Gioconda Smile (Aldous Huxley)
• They Bite (Anthony Boucher)
• The Greeting (Osbert Sitwell)
• Milady Bigamy (Lillian de la Torre)
• The Bathroom (Peter Lovesey)
• The Crocodile Dressing Case (Roy Vickers)
• The Wrong Jar (Anthony Berkley)
• Homecoming (Mirian Allen DeFord)
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (Harlan Ellison)
• The Black Cabinet (John Dickson Carr)
• The Trailor Murder Mystery (Abraham Lincoln)

Red Handed: From The Anarchists To The Hard Boiled

Editors: Jon E. Lewis

1989

The contents are:

• Tang (Chester Himes)
• Hot As A Pistol (Karen Wilson)
• The Barber Has Killed His Wife (Albert Cossery)
• The Best Chess Player In The World (Julian Symons)
• I Spy (Joan Smith)
• The Collector (Rubem Fonseca)
• To Kill A Man (Jack London)
• If I Quench Thee ... (William E. Chambers)
• The Flaw In The System (Jim Thompson)
• The Five Pin Stands Alone (Gordon DeMarco)

A Classic English Crime

Editor: Tim Heald

1990

"To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Agatha Christie, a team of her most distinguished descendents in the field of English detective fiction have combined in a tribute volume. They have produced original stories set between the two World Wars containing features of classic English crime."

• Means to Murder (Margaret Yorke)
• Smoke Gets In... (David Williams)
• Holocaust in Mayhem Parva (Julian Symons)
• All's Fair in Love (Susan Moody)
• The Lady in the Trunk (Peter Lovesey)
• Jack Fell Down (HRF Keating)
• Experts for the Prosecution (Tim Heald)
• A Fete Worse Than Death (Paula Gosling)
• Wednesday Matinee (Celia Dale)
• Spasmo (Liza Cody)
• A Little Learning (Simon Brett)
• Good Time Had By All (Robert Barnard)
• Cause and Effect (Catherine Aird))

Crime and Crime Again: Mystery Short Stories by the World's Great Writers

Editor: Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, Martin H. Greenberg

1990

• The Birthmark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• A Pair Of Gloves (Charles Dickens)
• The Biter Bit (Wilkie Collins)
• God Sees The Truth But Waits (Leo N. Tolstoy)
• A Watcher By The Dead (Ambrose Bierce)
• Mr. Brisher's Treasure (H.G. Wells)
• The Return Of Imray (Rudyard Kipling)
• The Bet (Anton Chekhov)
• Bewitched (Edith Wharton)
• Before The Party (W. Somerset Maugham)
• The Neighbors (John Galsworthy)
• Without The Option (P.G. Wodehouse)
• The Gioconda Smile (Aldous Huxley)
• Cigarette Girl (James M. Cain)
• It Takes A Thief (Arthur Miller)
• Murder On The Waterfront (Budd Schulberg)
• How Mr. Hogan Robbed A Bank (John Steinbeck)
• My Son The Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
• Sentimental Journey (Joyce Carol Oates)
• The Interview (Evan Hunter)
• The Killer (Norman Mailer)

A Woman's Eye

Editor: Sara Paretsky

1991

"Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts."

• Lucky Dip (Liza Cody)
• Full Circle (Sue Grafton)
• Benny's Space (Marcia Muller)
• The Puppet (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• The Scar (Nancy Pickard)
• Murder Without a Text (Amanda Cross)
• Discards (Faye Kellerman)
• Getting to Know You (Antonio Fraser)
• A Match Made in Hell (Julie Smith)
• Theft of the Poet (Barbara Wilson)
• Death and Diamonds (Susan Dunlap)
• Kill the Man for Me (Mary Wings)
• The Cutting Edge (Marilyn Wallace)
• Looking for Thelma (Gillian Slowo)
• Deborah's Judgment (Margaret Maron)
• A Man's Home (Shelley Singer)
• Her Good Name (Carolyn G. Hart)
• Ghost Station (Carolyn Wheat)
• Where Are You, Monica? (Maria Antonia Oliver)
• Settled Score (Sara Paretsky)
• That Summer at Quichiquois (Dorothy B. Hughes)

Detective Stories from The Strand Magazine

Editor: Jack Adrian

Oxford University Press

1991

"Containing 25 classic stories of mystery and detection, this selection includes many rare stories that have never previously been published in book form or included in the author's collected works. In addition to stories by Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, G.K.Chesterton, and Edgar Wallace, there are contributions from more surprising names, including Aldous Huxley and Somerset Maugham."

• The Vampire Of The Village (G.K. Chesterton)
• The Dream (Agatha Christie)
• The Ginger King (A.E.W. Mason)
• The Ministering Angel (E.C. Bently)
• Tokay Of The Comet Year (H. Warner Allen)
• A Point Of Law (Somerset Maugham)
• Not Guilty (Will Scott)
• The Idol's Eye (Sapper)
• The Perfect Crime (Seamark)
• The Intruder (Augustus Muir)
• Cast-Iron Alibi (Richard Keverne)
• A Deal In Old Masters (Aldous Huxley)
• Private Water (A.J. Alan)
• A Gift From The Nabob (D.L. Murray)
• The Episcopal Seal (J. MacLaren-Ross)
• The Interruption (W.W. Jacobs)
• The Chobham Affair (Edgar Wallace)
• By Kind Permission Of The Murdered Man (Hylton Cleaver)
• In View Of The Audience (Marguerite Steen)
• The Man Who Dreamed Too Much (Quentin Reynolds)
• Inquest (Loel Yeo)
• The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Adventure Of The Creeping Man (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Adventure Of The Lion's Mane (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Adventure Of The First Class Carriage (Ronald Knox)

The Man Who …

Editor: H.R.F. Keating for the Detection Club

1992

Published in honour of Julian Symonds' Eightieth Birthday.

• The Man Who Rowed for the Shore (Catherine Aird)
• The One Who Did for Blagden Cole (Eric Ambler)
• The Man Who Got the Dirt (Simon Brett)
• The Man Who Was a Coyote (Len Deighton)
• The Man Who Wiped The Smile Off His Face (Antonia Fraser)
• The Man Who Was Reconstituted (Michael Gilbert)
• The Man Who Defenestrated His Sister (Reginald Hill)
• The Man Who Was Eighty (P.D. James)
• The Man Who Killed For Pleasure (H.R.F. Keating)
• The Man Who Ate People (Peter Lovesey)
• The Man Who Was the God of Love (Ruth Rendell)
• The Man Whose Holiday was a Fiasco (George Sims)
• The Man Who Scattered Crumbs (Michael Underwood)

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The Picador Book Of Crime Writing

Editor: Michael Dibdin

1993

Paperback edition published in 1994.

"This anthology demonstrates just how diverse and exploratory the genre known as 'crime' is. Contributors include Julian Symons, Anton Chekhov, James M. Cain, Emile Zola, Ira Levin, P.D. James, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, C.P. Snow and Edgar Allan Poe."

The Vintage Book Of Classic Crime

Editor: Michael Dibdin

1993

Paperback edition published in 1997.

"Michael Dibdin has assembled fifty-four of the most stylish, original and subversive examples of the literature of murder. Whether written by eminent practitioners such as James M. Cain or Dashiell Hammett, or distinguished "amateurs" like Ernest Hemingway or Franz Kafka, the stories, essays, and novel excerpts in this volume push past their genre's familiar conventions to explore what makes crime CRIME. Suspenseful and exhilarating, hard-boiled and high art, the result is a dazzling gallery of murder that reveals how daring and controversial crime writing can be."

The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century

Editor: Jerome Charyn

1993

Paperback edition published by Signet in 1996 as The Crime Lover's Casebook.

"An unparalleled treasury of international talent, this milestone collection of more than 40 stories by the most prestigious names in modern mystery features works by Tony Hillerman, Sara Paretsky, P.D. James, Raymond Carver, Graham Greene, Italo Calvino, and many others."

• The Watts Lions (Walter Mosley)
• How I Contemplated The World From The Detroit House Of Correction And Began My Life Over Again (Joyce Carol Oates)
• The Snail Watcher (Patricia Highsmith)
• Just Say No (Roger L. Simon)
• In The Bronx (Don Delillo)
• Goldfish (Didier Daeninckx)
• Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
• Dealer's Choice (Sara Paretsky)
• The Summer Of '37 (Julian Semionov)
• No Radio (Mickey Friedman)
• Mafia Western (Leonardo Sciascia)
• Manufacture Of A Legend (Paco Ignacio Tabio Ii)
• The King (Isaac Babel)
• The Law Of The Eye (Pieke Biermann)
• The Merciful Angel Of Death (Lawrence Block)
• Ishmael (Joe Gores)
• The Last Voyage Of The Ghost Ship (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Cain (Andrew Vachss)
• The Ultimate Caper (Donald E. Westlake)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• Little Leo (Jerome Charyn)
• Cities & The Dead (Italo Calvino)
• Gravy Train (James Ellroy)
• Death And The Compass (Jorge Luis Borges)
• Nicholas In Exile (Herbert Gold)
• Captain Blood (Donald Barthelme)
• Mirror Girl (William Bayer)
• The Man Who Hated Books (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• Pig Latin (Clarice Lispector)
• Devices And Desires (P.D. James)
• Martyrdom (Yukio Mishima)
• Fathers And Daughters (Laura Grimaldi)
• The Werewolf (Angela Carter)
• Missionary Stew (Ross Thomas)
• The Moment Before The Gun Went Off (Nadine Gordimer)
• Soft Monkey (Harlan Ellison)
• The Casebook Of Dr. Billingsgate (Eric Wright)
• Imagine This (George C. Chesbro)
• A Boy And His Dog (Manuel Vasquez Montalban)
• A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Flannery O'connor)
• The Parker Shotgun (Sue Grafton)
• I Spy (Graham Greene)

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Murder Is My Business

Editor: Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

1994

"A collection of seventeen all-new hard-boiled murder stories, by such authors as Andrew Greeley, Laurence Block, and Mickey Spillane, offers chilling tales of death delivered for cash."

• The Bishop And The Hit Man (Andrew Greeley)
• The Man Who Shot Trinity Valance (Paul Bishop)
• With Anchovies (John Lutz)
• Guest Services (Max Allan Collins)
• The Matchstick And The Rubber Band (Lynn F. Myers Jr.)
• Hitback (Wayne D. Dundee)
• Undercover (Carolyn Wheat)
• Angel Face (Daniel Helpingstine)
• Improvident Excess (Barry N. Malzberg)
• The King Of Horror (Stephen Mertz)
• A Nice Save (Edward Wellen)
• Without A Trace (Warren Murphy)
• Runner And The Deathbringer (Teri White)
• The Operation (Henry Slesar)
• Surrogate (Ed Gorman)
• Keller On Horseback (Lawrence Block)
• Everybody's Watching Me (Mickey Spillane)

Partners In Crime

Editor: Elaine Raco Chase

1994

"Mismatched cops, teams of attorneys, profesional PIs and amateur snoopers join forces in pursuit of justice when today's top-ranked mystery authors dream up two sleuths for each tale in this intriguing collection."

• Death Sentence (Jay Brandon)
• Soon To Be A Minor Motion Picture (Barbara D'Amato)
• Old Rattler (Sharyn Mccrumb)
• A Matter Of Character (Michael Collins)
• An Almost Perfect Heist (Carolyn G. Hart)
• Seasons Of The Heart (Ed Gorman)
• What's A Friend For? (Margaret Maron And Susan Dunlap)
• The Partner Track (William Bernhardt)
• Oil And Water (J.A. Jance)
• See What The Boys In The Locked Room Will Have (Bill Crider)
• No Simple Solution (Jan Grape)

Tales of Obsession: Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires

Editor: Cynthia Manson

1994

The contents are:

• A Man Around the House (Nancy Pickard)
• A Glowing Future (Ruth Rendell)
• Catalyst (Evan Hunter)
• Death of a Romance Writer (Joan Hess)
• (the Time You Read This (Larry S. Hoke)
• All At Once, No Alice (Cornell Woolrich)
• I Don’t Do Divorce Cases (David Justice)
• Killing Howard (Ralph McInerny)
• The Victim (P.D. James)
• The Brothers (Lawrence Treat)
• Breakfast Television (Robert Barnard)
• A Letter Too Late (Henry Slesar)
• The Betrayers (Stanley Ellin)
• The Perfect Alibi (Patricia Highsmith)

The Mysterious West

Editor: Tony Hillerman

1994

"Personally chosen by acclaimed writer Tony Hillerman, the foremost chronicler of the modern west, here is a dazzling collection of extraordinary mystery tales. Included in this chilling anthology are twenty stories of suspense and deceit, all written especially for this collection. Explore the haunted and dark side of the land with some of the brightest stars in contemporary suspense."

• Forbidden Things (Marcia Muller)
• New Moon And Rattlesnakes (Wendy Hornsby)
• Coyote Peyote (Carole Nelson Douglas)
• Nooses Give (Dana Stabenow)
• Who Killed Cock Rogers? (Bill Crider)
• Caring For Uncle Henry (Robert Campbell)
• Death Of A Snowbird (J.A. Jance)
• With Flowers In Her Hair (M.D. Lake)
• The Lost Boys (William J. Reynolds)
• Tule Fog (Karen Kijewski)
• The River Mouth (Lia Matera)
• No Better Than Her Father (Linda Grant)
• Dust Devil (Rex Burns)
• A Woman's Place (D.R. Meredith)
• Postage Due (Susan Dunlap)
• The Beast In The Woods (Ed Gorman)
• Blowout In Little Man Flats (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• Small Town Murder (Harold Adams)
• Bingo (John Lutz)
• Engines (Bill Pronzini)

Crime Yellow

Editor: Maxim Jakubowski

1994

The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories

Editor: Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert

1996

"In 34 stories, this anthology explores the historical development of American detective fiction over a span of 150 years - from Edgar Allan Poe in the 1840s to Marcia Muller in the 1990s. The selections represent variety in chronological period, narrative voice, geography, and milieu; and are chosen for their sheer entertainment value."

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Stolen Cigar Case (Bret Harte)
• The Problem of Cell 13 (Jacques Futrelle)
• The Doomdorf Mystery (Melville Davisson Post)
• Missing: Page Thirteen (Anna Katharine Green)
• The Beauty Mask (Arthur B. Reeve)
• A Jury of Her Peers (Susan Glaspell)
• The False Burton Combs (Carroll John Daly)
• The Keyboard of Silence (Clinton H. Stagg)
• A Nose for News (Richard Sale)
• Spider (Mignon G. Eberhart)
• Leg Man (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• I'll Be Waiting (Raymond Chandler)
• The Footprint in the Sky (John Dickson Carr)
• Rear Window (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Lipstick (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
• Homicide Highball (Robert Leslie Bellem)
• An Error in Chemistry (William Faulkner)
• From Another World (Clayton Rawson)
• A Daylight Adventure (T. S. Stribling)
• See No Evil (William Campbell Gault)
• Crime Must Have a Stop (Anthony Boucher)
• Small Homicide (Ed McBain)
• Guilt-Edged Blonde (Ross Macdonald)
• Christmas Party (Rex Stout)
• A Matter of Public Notice (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's Clue (Ellery Queen)
• Words Do Not a Book Make (Bill Pronzini)
• Christmas Is for Cops (Edward D. Hoch)
• Lucky Penny (Linda Barnes)
• The Parker Shotgun (Sue Grafton)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• Benny's Space (Marcia Muller))

Women on the Case

Editor: Sara Paretsky

1996

"Sara Paretsky, creator of V.I. Warshawski, has brought together a brilliant and diverse collection of short stories which proves the old adage that a woman's work is never done. From private eye purgatory to tourist's paradise, from the mean streets of despair to gilded hell in consumer heaven, the cream of contemporary women crime writers presents stories of crime and punishment on a global scale. The writers are: Helga Anderle; Linda Barnes; Nevada Barr; Amel Benaboura; Pieke Biermann; Eleanor Taylor Bland; P.M. Carlson; Liza Cody; Amanda Cross; Doroty Salisbury Davis; Susan Dunlop; Antonia Fraser; Frances Fyfield; Susan Geason; Elizabeth George; Linda Grant; Dicey Scroggins Jackson; Myriam Laurini; Lia Matera; Marcia Muller; Irina Muravyova; Sara Paretsky; Nancy Pickard; Ruth Rendell; Andrea Smith; and Barbara Wilson."

Murder Intercontinental

Editor: Cynthia Manson and Kathleen Halligan

1996

"Set against the backdrop of some of the world's most exotic locales, an international anthology of outstanding short crime fiction features the work of Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Georges Simenon, Shizuko Natsuki, Walter Satterthwait, Agatha Christie, and others."

• The Missing House (Hayford Peirce)
• A Knife Between Brothers (Manly Wade Wellman)
• There Are No Snakes In Hawaii (Juanita Sheridan)
• The Word For Breaking August Sky (James Sarafin)
• Corollary (Hughes Allison)
• Kaddish (Batya Swift Yasgur)
• All Indians Are Warriors (William T. Lowe)
• There Are No Stars Over San Juan (Kenneth Gavrell)
• The Hair Of The Widow (Robert Somerlott)
• The Sole Of The Foot (Shizuko Natsuki)
• The Courage Of Akira-Kun (Ron Butler)
• To Catch A Wizard (Walter Satterthwait)
• Hide-And-Seek--Russian Style (Patricia Mcgerr)
• Journey Into Time (Georges Simenon)
• Who Killed That Son Of A Doge? (David Braly)
• Suspect (Patricia Highsmith)
• The Mists Of Ballyclough (Barbara Callahan)
• Inspector Wexford And The Winchurch Affair (Ruth Rendell)
• The Adventure Of The Egyptian Tomb (Agatha Christie)
• The Night Of Power (Josh Pachter)

A Century Of Mystery 1980-1989: The Greatest Stories Of The Decade

Editor: Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini

1996

The contents are:

• Introduction (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Good Samaritan (Isaac Asimov)
• A Man With A Fortune (Peter Lovesey)
• There Are No Snakes In Ireland (Frederick Forsyth)
• A Great Sight (Janwillem Van De Wetering)
• Greektown (Loren D. Estleman)
• Father's Day (Ruth Rendell)
• The Worst Crime Known To Man (Reginald Hill)
• A Case Of Chivas Regal (George V. Higgins)
• Lucky Penny (Linda Barnes)
• As Good As A Rest (Lawrence Block)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• Hit-And-Run (Susan Dunlap)
• King's X (Brian Garfield)
• Skin Deep (Sara Paretsky)
• Stacked Deck (Bill Pronzini)
• More Final Than Divorce (Robert Barnard)
• The Dakar Run (Clark Howard)
• The Reason Why (Edward Gorman)
• Blood Types (Julie Smith)
• Deadly Fantasies (Marcia Muller)

Murder For Love

Editor: Otto Penzler

1996

"Eight men and eight women - the best writers in and out of the mystery field - render their very own, original take on love gone wrong in this fresh collection of stories."

• Dying Time (William J. Caunitz)
• For Whom The Beep Tolls (Carol Higgins Clark)
• Definitely, A Crime Of Passion (Mary Higgins Clark)
• Hot Springs (James Crumley)
• The Loving You Get (John Gardner)
• The Stalker (Faye Kellerman)
• The Things We Do For Love (Jonathan Kellerman)
• Karen Makes Out (Elmore Leonard)
• Red Clay (Michael Malone)
• Nancy Drew Remembers (A Parody) (Bobbie Ann Mason)
• Running From Legs (Ed Mcbain)
• At The Paradise Motel, Sparks, Nevada (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Heartbreak House (Sara Paretsky)
• The Blackmailer (Anne Perry)
• For What She Had Done (Shel Silverstein)
• True Crime (Donna Tartt)

Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories

Editor: Donald E. Westlake

1996

In association with the International Association Of Crime Writers.

"When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.s, including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, and the mistaken identity. Murderous Schemes offers an illuminating look at eight such mystery conventions, illustrating each with four short stories written by some of the masters of the form. The resulting collection of thirty-two tales spans a hundred and fifty years of crime fiction and includes virtually every style imaginable, from the hard-boiled detective story to the cozy armchair mystery. the differences between American and British detective fiction, and they illuminate the evolution of crime writing over time."

• Introduction (Donald E. Westlake)
• The Shadow Of The Goat (John Dickson Carr)
• What, No Butler? (Damon Runyon)
• The Leopold Locked Room (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr (William Brittain)
• The Secret Garden (G. K. Chesterton)
• The Necklace Of Pearls (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• They Can Only Hang You Once (Dashiell Hammett)
• Busted Blossoms (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• A Costume Piece (E. W. Hornung)
• The Impossible Theft (John F. Suter)
• Don’t Know Much About Art (Simon Brett)
• The Ultimate Caper (Donald E. Westlake)
• The Mysterious Death On The Underground Railway (Baroness Orczy)
• The Blue Geranium (Agatha Christie)
• The Adventure Of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue (Ellery Queen)
• The Affair Of The Twisted Scarf (Rex Stout)
• The Landlady (Roald Dahl)
• The Orderly World Of Mr. Appleby (Stanley Ellin)
• Bless This House (Christianna Brand)
• Someday I’ll Plant More Walnut Trees (Lawrence Block)
• “Thou Art The Man” (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Adventure Of The Dying Detective (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Master Of Mystery (Jack London)
• The Fat Man (Isak Dinesen)
• Midnight In Beauchamp Row (Anna Katharine Green)
• I’ll Be Waiting (Raymond Chandler)
• The Possibility Of Evil (Shirley Jackson)
• The Secret Lover (Peter Lovesey)
• A Jury Of Her Peers (Susan Glaspell)
• The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole (Thomas Burke)
• Tang (Chester Himes)
• Little Apple Hard To Peel (Fredric Brown)

Sins of the Fathers: An Anthology of Clerical Crime

Editor: Mark Bryant

1996

"This collection of tales of crime, mystery and detection, involve every one of the seven deadly sins, committed by or against the clergy. Murder, suicide, exorcism, lust, hidden treasure, ghosts - all are portrayed by writers as diverse as Le Fanu, Chesterton, Chekhov, E.F. Benson, and Saki."

• The Hammer Of God (G.K. Chesterton)
• Sanctuary (Agatha Christie)
• The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas (M.R. James)
• The Convict And The Clerics (J.S. Fletcher)
• The Hanging Of Alfred Wadham (E.F. Benson)
• The Secret Sin Of Septimus Brope (Saki)
• The Devil's Foot (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Strength Of God (Sherwood Anderson)
• Green Tea (Sheridan Le Fanu)
• Grey Dolphin (Reverent R.H. Barham)
• The Olive Grove (Guy De Maupassant)
• The Black Monk (Anton Chekhov)
• A Fisher Of Men (John Galsworthy)
• Brother John's Bequest (Arthur Gray)

Unusual Suspects: A New Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard

Editor: James Grady

1996

"Some of the finest crime writers in America contribute their most riveting tales to this collection. James Lee Burke, author of the bestselling Dave Robicheaux novels, offers a tale of racism and moral courage on the Louisiana bayou, and Joyce Carol Oates explores the circumstances that can turn a public servant into a public enemy. Other contributors include Jan Adkins, Jeremiah Healy, Julie Smith and Andrew Vachss."

• Police Report (Jessica Auerbach)
• The Car In The Mexican Quarter (Jim Thompson)
• My Murder (David Corn)
• Christmas In Dodge City (Benjamin M. Schultz)
• The Stalker (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Kiss The Sky (James Grady)
• The One About The Green Detective (Jonathan Lethem)
• When You're Hungry (George Pelecanos)
• Doorway To The Future (Mark Olshaker)
• There Are Monsterim (John Weisman)
• Barratry (Jan Adkins)
• Shock (John Lutz)
• Straight Shooter (Art Monterastelli)
• The Convict (James Lee Burke)
• Eyes That Never Meet (Jeremiah Healy)
• Homeless (Andrew Vachss)
• Strangers On A Plane (Julie Smith)

The Crime Lover's Casebook: The International Association Of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing Of The Late 20th Century

Editor: Jerome Charyn

1996

Originally published by Dutton in 1993 as The New Mystery: International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century.

"This milestone collection of forty-two stories by the biggest and most prestigious names in the mystery field creates a fictional mirror of our fears, our need for justice - or - revenge - and our violent world. All the stories in this unparalleled treasury represent crime writing that no longer follows the rules of yesterday's cozies and detective fiction. Evil still lurks here, but there are no sanitized off-stage murders solved by aloof paragons of deduction. Instead we have vigorous, ironic, disturbingly realistic and undeniably alive tales that are remarkably diverse and riveting. A mystery lover's dream."

• Introduction (Jerome Charyn)
• Watts Lions (Walter Mosley)
• How I Contemplated The World From The Detroit House Of Correction And Began My Life Over Again (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Snail Watcher (Patricia Highsmith)
• Just Say No (Roger L Simon)
• In The Bronx (Don Delillo)
• Goldfish (Didier Daeninckx)
• Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
• Dealer's Choice (Sara Paretsky)
• Summer Of '37 (Julian Semionov)
• No Radio (Mickey Friedman)
• Mafia Western (Leonardo Sciascia)
• Manufacture Of A Legend (Paco Ignacio Taibo, Ii)
• King (Isaac Babel)
• Law Of The Eye (Pieke Biermann)
• Merciful Angel Of Death (Lawrence Block)
• Ishmael (Joe Gores)
• Last Voyage Of The Ghost Ship (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Cain (Andrew Vachss)
• Ultimate Caper (Donald E Westlake)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• Little Leo (Jerome Charyn)
• Cities & The Dead (Italo Calvino)
• Gravy Train (James Ellroy)
• Death And The Compass (Jorge Luis Borges)
• Nicholas In Exile (Herbert Gold)
• Captain Blood (Donald Barthelme)
• Mirror Girl (William Bayer)
• Man Who Hated Books (Stuart M Kaminsky)
• Pig Latin (Clarice Lispector)
• Devices And Desires (Pd James)
• Martyrdom (Yukio Mishima)
• Fathers And Daughters (Laura Grimaldi)
• Werewolf (Angela Carter)
• Missionary Stew (Ross Thomas)
• Moment Before The Gun Went Off (Nadine Gordimer)
• Soft Monkey (Harlan Ellison)
• Casebook Of Dr Billingsgate (Eric Wright)
• Imagine This (George C Chesbro)
• Boy And His Dog (Manuel Vasquez Montalban)
• Good Man Is Hard To Find (Flannery O'connor)
• Parker Shotgun (Sue Grafton)
• I Spy (Graham Greene)

Detective Duos: The Best Adventures of Twenty-Five Crime-Solving Twosomes

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

1997

The contents are:

• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Adventure Of The Empty House (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Death At The Excelsior (P.G. Wodehouse)
• The Puzzle Lock (R. Austin Freeman)
• The Love Detectives (Agatha Christie)
• The Sealed House (Hulbert Footner)
• The Footsteps That Ran (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• Pattern For Murder (Frances And Richard Lockridge)
• Fourth Of July Picnic (Rex Stout)
• Two Over Par (Kelley Roos)
• One Morning They'll Hang Him (Margert Allingham)
• Puzzle For Poppy (Patrick Quentin)
• Once Upon A Train (Stuart Palmer And Craig Rice)
• The Phantom Cry-Baby (Lawrence G. Blochman)
• Phut Phat Concentrates (Lilian Jackson Braun)
• Before She Kills (Fredric Brown)
• And Start With A Blonde (Jack Webb)
• The Road To Damascus (Michael Gilbert)
• Dalziel's Ghost (Reginald Hill)
• Interpol : The Case Of The Modern Medusa (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Holes In The System (Marcia Muller)
• The Desert Limited (Brill Pronzini)
• Stop, Thief! (Barbara D'Amato)
• The Adventure Of The Perpetual Husbands (Ellen Dearmore)
• The End Of The Earth (Julie Smith)

Giant Book of Short Crime Stories

Editors: Martin H Greenberg and Bill Pronzini

1997

Vengeance Is Hers

Editor: Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

1997

"An anthology of fifteen mystery stories by women, featuring female sleuths and vigilantes who exact murderous retribution against male evil-doers."

• Vengeance Is Hers: An Introduction (Max Allan Collins)
• Sex Is My Vengeance (Mickey Spillane)
• Pounds Of Flesh (Valerie Frankel)
• One Good Turn (J.A. Jance)
• Belated Revenge (Christine Matthews)
• Couldja Die (Annette Meyers)
• Pictures In The Stars (L.J. Washburn)
• No, I'm Not Jane Marple, But Since You Ask (Margaret Maron)
• The Other Woman (Wendi Lee)
• Where Is She? Where Did She Go To? (Dorothy B. Hughes)
• Family Tradition (Susan Rogers Cooper)
• A Front-Row Seat (Jan Grape)
• Reunion Queen (Barbara Collins)
• Subway (S.J. Rozan)
• Hot Prowl (Mary Wings)
• The Maggody Files: Time Will Tell (Joan Hess)
• Dust Devil (Nancy Pickard)
• Among My Souvenirs (Sharyn McCrumb)

Funny Bones: 15 New Tales of Murder And Mayhem

Editor: Joan Hess

1997

"A collection of fifteen original, humorous whodunits."

• Lady Finch-Waller Regrets (Nancy Pickard)
• Heavenly Bodies (Simon Brett)
• The Cremains Of The Day (Joan Hess)
• Accidents Happen (Carolyn Hart)
• An Unsuitable Job For A Mullin (Susan Dunlap)
• They Only Kill Their Asters (Deborah Adams)
• The Man Who Beat The System (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• Poor Lincoln (Dorothy Cannell)
• Plumbing The Depths (Charlotte Macleod)
• Body In The Potty: The Ultimate In Locked-Room Murders (Marlys Millhiser)
• Where's The Harm In That? (Gillian Roberts)
• A Mother Always Knows (Gar Anthony Haywood)
• Tea For Two (M.D. Lake)
• Some Days You Get The Bear (Lawrence Block)
• Shaggy Dog (Margaret Maron)
• Wake Up, Little Suzie (Ed Gorman)

Blue Lightning: Stories with Music

Editor: John Harvey

1998

An anthology of stories about music.

"Acclaimed mystery writer and jazz aficionado John Harvey asked some of his British and American friends in the crime/mystery world if they'd like to contribute to a collection of stories about music. Many did, including some new friends in music, and the result is Blue Lightning. Here are eighteen brand new stories inspired by music, all kinds of music -- from rock-bottom blues through jazz and country to gansta rap and Japanese avant-garde -- written by a stellar cast of characters."

• A Flower is a Lovesome Thing (Charlotte Carter)
• John Lennon in the American South (Rosanne Cash)
• Walking Blues (Liza Cody)
• Nocturne (Jeffery Deaver)
• No (Stella Duffy)
• Aja (Kirsty Gunn)
• Cool Blues (John Harvey)
• Backing (Michael Z. Lewin)
• Grace Notes (Bill Moody)
• Blue Lightning (Walter Mosley)
• Stone Cold Killah (Gary Phillips)
• Glimmer (Ian Rankin)
• Memory Lane (Peter Robinson)
• Vocalities (James Sallis)
• Too Mean to Die (Julie Smith)
• Heartache Tonight (Neville Smith)
• Life's Little Mysteries (Brian Thompson)
• Supposed to Be a Funeral (John L. Williams)

Once Upon A Crime

Editor: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg

1998

"Timeless fairy tales retold by today's top writers of mystery and suspense!."

• After Happily Ever (Gillian Roberts)
• Clever Hans (Jon L. Breen)
• Heptagon (Joan Hess)
• It Happened At Grandmother's House (Bill Crider)
• Now Fetch Me An Axe (Simon Clark)
• Old Sultan (Mat Coward)
• Harvest Home (Elizabeth Engstrom)
• Prince Charming (William L. Deandrea)
• Rapunzel (Jane Haddam)
• Resurrection Joe (Gary A. Braunbeck)
• Rapunzel's Revenge (Brendan Dubois)
• Snow White And The Eleven Dwarfs (Edward D. Hoch)
• Swan Song (John Lutz)
• The Better To Eat You With (John Helfers)
• Of The Fog (Ed Gorman)
• The Brave Little Costume Designer (Les Roberts)
• The Emperor's New Clothes (Simon Brett)
• The Musician Of Bremen, GA (Peter Crowther)
• Anniversary Ball (Audrey Peterson)
• Invisible Time (Janet Dawson)
• Love And Justice (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
• "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" Revisited (Anne Wingate)
• Thousandfurs (Doug Allyn)
• Gerda's Sense Of Snow (Sharyn McCrumb)

Murder For Revenge

Editor: Otto Penzler

1999

"This irresistible collection of original stories was born of a deliciously wicked idea: ask twelve of America's best writers to explore a single subject - people willing, often gleefully so, to kill for revenge."

• Like A Bone In The Throat (Lawrence Block)
• Power Play (Mary Higgins Clark)
• Fatherhood (Thomas H. Cook)
• West End (Vicki Hendricks)
• Caveat Emptor (Joan Hess)
• Eradicum Homo Horribilus (Judith Kelman)
• Dead Cat Bounce (Eric Lustbader)
• Angie's Delight (Phillip Margolin)
• Front Man (David Morrell)
• Murder-Two (Joyce Carol Oates)
• The Enemy (Shel Silverstein)
• Mr. Clubb And Mr. Cuff (Peter Straub)

Murder and Obsession

Editor: Otto Penzler

1999

"From lethal spikes to fatal kisses, from mad dogs to battle-crazed Englishmen, here indeed is Murder and Obsession, in these and 12 other all-new stories from Anne Perry, Dennis Lehane, Eric van Lustbader and others. For these are the best of the best, America's favorite writers exploring a deliciously chilling subject: obsession at its most insidious."

• Burglary In Progress (Kent Anderson)
• The Red Shoes (Edna Buchanan)
• The Double-Barreled Gun (Amanda Cross)
• The Mexican Pig Bandit (James Crumley)
• Dog Days (Philip Friedman)
• I, Richard (Elizabeth George)
• Crack (James W. Hall)
• Running Out Of Dog (Dennis Lehane)
• Sparks (Elmore Leonard)
• Slow Burn (Eric Van Lustbader)
• Invitation To The Ball (Michael Malone)
• Barking At Butterflies (Ed Mcbain)
• The Vampire (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Heroes (Anne Perry)
• The Guilty Party (Shel Silverstein)

Murder on Route 66

Editor: Carolyn Wheat

1999

"Today's best mystery writers take to the Mother Road with a brand-new collection of 16 stories featuring Route 66."

• Canasta Club (Eleanor Taylor Bland)
• Motel 66 (Barbara D’Amato)
• Shades of ’66 (Michael Allen Dimoch)
• Blue Time (Earlene Fowler)
• Dead Man’s Curve (Judith van Gieson)
• Spooked (Carolyn G. Hart)
• A Flash of Chrysanthemums (JA Jance)
• ...Hell (Charles Knief)
• Blind Corner (David Linzee)
• Endless Road (John Lutz)
• Incident on Sixth Street (D.R. Meredith)
• 53 Buick (Gary Philips)
• Rappin Dog (Dick Lochte)
• Willing to Work (Les Roberts)
• Endless Road (John Lutz)
• Too Many Midnights (Carolyn Wheat)

Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas

Editor: Lawrence Block

1999

"A collection of murder mysteries with settings aboard cruise ships."

• Introduction (Lawrence Block)
• Problem At Sea (Agatha Christie)
• Nine Points For Murder (Nancy Pickard)
• Hodegetria (Jeremiah Healy)
• Under My Skin (Chris Rippen)
• S.O.S. (John Lutz)
• Honeymoon Cruise (Richard Deming)
• Rhine Ablaze (Jacques Toes)
• The Merry Ghosts Of The Grampus (Arnaldo Correa)
• Lost And Found (Benjamin M. Schutz)
• The Wind & Mary (Piet Tiegeler)
• The Theft Of The Bingo Card (Edward D. Hoch)
• Mutiny Of The Bounty Hunter (Ralph Mcinerny)
• The Mermaid (Jacob Vis)
• Chess On Board (Erik Amdrup)
• A Cruise To Forget (Barbara Collins & Max Allan Collins)
• Havanightmare (Jose Latour)
• Miscalculation (Jan Burke)
• The Deep Blue Sea (Ina Bouman)
• Rumpole At Sea (John Mortimer)
• The Time Of His Life (Carolyn Wheat)

Crime After Crime

Editor: Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, Joan Hess

1999

"An anthology of psychological thrillers, whodunits, and suspense stories by popular mystery writers."

• Lady Finch-Waller Regrets (Nancy Pickard)
• Heavenly Bodies (Simon Brett)
• The Cremains Of The Day (Joan Hess)
• Accidents Happen (Carolyn Hart)
• An Unsuitable Job For A Mullin (Susan Dunlap)
• They Only Kill Their Asters (Deborah Adams)
• The Man Who Beat The System (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• Poor Lincoln (Dorothy Cannell)
• Plumbing The Depths (Charlotte Macleod)
• Body In The Potty: The Ultimate In Locked-Room Murders (Marlys Millhiser)
• Where's The Harm In That? (Gillian Roberts)
• A Mother Always Knows (Gar Anthony Haywood)
• Tea For Two (M.D. Lake)
• Some Days You Get The Bear (Lawrence Block)
• Shaggy Dog (Margaret Maron)
• Wake Up, Little Suzie (Ed Gorman)

Irreconcilable Differences

Editor: Lia Matera

1999

The contents are:

• Introduction (Lia Matera)
• Tusk (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Perfect Revenge (Amanda Cross)
• Eye To Eye (Jeffery Deaver)
• Stutter Step (John Lutz)
• Miami Heat (Edna Buchanan)
• Wishful Thinking (Bill Pronzini)
• Up At The Riverside (Marcia Muller)
• Paleta Man (Laurie R. King)
• Buried Treasure (Sarah Lovett)
• Unsuspected Condition Of The Heart (Jan Burke)
• Legacy (Jeremiah Healy)
• Fresh Paint (Julie Smith)
• Just Desserts (Judith Kelman)
• Half Of Something (Margaret Maron)
• Heart Break (Gillian Roberts)
• All's Well That Ends (Joan Hess)
• Love Thy Neighbor (Sarah Shankman)
• Showdown At The Terminal Oasis (Pete Hautman)
• Fun With Forensics (Eileen Dreyer)
• If It Can't Be True (Lia Matera)

A New York State of Crime

Michael Jahn / Dorian Yeager / Barbara Paul

1999

Three tales of mystery, murder, and mayhem set in Manhattan.

The contents are:

• Murder on Fifth Avenue (Michael Jahn)
• Libation by Death (Dorian Yeager)
• Clean Sweep (Barbara Paul)

Mystery in the Sunshine State: Florida Short Stories By Florida's Mystery Writers

Editor: Stuart M. Kaminsky

1999

"Drawing on the talents of many of Florida's notable writers, Stuart Kaminsky offers an enticing selection of Florida mystery fare. Follow professional investigators and amateur sleuths alike as they steadfastly and patiently uncover one clue at a time to finally reveal the identity of a killer or the answer to a riddle."

• The Blue Highway (David Ash)
• The Handyman (E.C. Ayres)
• Good Night, Mrs. Chisholm (Wayne Barcomb)
• Sierra Reveals All (Nancy Bartholomew)
• Ghosts (David Beaty)
• The English Tourist)
• Edna Buchanan)
• The Great Persuader (Stanley Ellin)
• Flora Africana (Deloris Stanton Forbes)
• Death By Pliers (Carolina Garcia-Aguilera)
• The Full Marty: A John Francis Cuddy Story (Jeremiah Healy)
• Reliable Witness (Stuart Kaminsky)
• The Case Of Johnny Walker Black (David A. Kaufelt)
• Docment Of The Keys (Peter King)
• Machete (John Lutz)
• The Works (T.J. Macgregor)
• Framed For Murder (Harold Q. Masur)
• Instant Replay (Stuart McIver)
• Heartbreak Avenue (Billie Sue Mosiman)
• Midnight Pass: A House-Sitting Detective Story (Robert J. Randisi)
• Tahiti Junk Shop (Les Standiford)
• Heart Throb (Robert W. Walker)
• Hole In The Boat (Eric Wiklund)

The First Lady Murders

Editor: Nancy Pickard

1999

"Mystery's best writers deceive, thrill, and entertain in this spellbinding collection of all-new stones centered around America's First Ladies - women who know that life at the White House can be murder."

• Secret President (Barbara Paul)
• Political Decision (John Lutz)
• "A" Is For Adams (Carolyn Wheat)
• You Run (Sarah Shankman)
• Bachelor's Wife (Judith Kelman)
• Lost At Sea (Pamela J. Fesler)
• Madame President (Anne Perry)
• Mother Of Our Country (Linda Grant)
• Dolley Madison And The Staff Of Life (Barbara D'Amato)
• Alice Holds The Cards (Carole Nelson Douglas And Jennifer Waddell)
• Jackie-O (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
• Goodbye, Dolley (Gillian Roberts)
• Portal (T. J. MacGregor)
• Adams And Evil (Sarah Booth Conroy)
• Tale Of Two Sisters (Richard Timothy Conroy)
• Second Lady (Peter Crowther)
• First Ladies' Secret (Nancy Pickard)
• Mrs. Lincoln's Dilemma (Janet Dawson)
• Julia Grant, A.K.A. Private Eye (Jan Grape)
• Blood In Buzzard's Bay; Or, Sweets To The Sweet (P. M. Carlson)

Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder

Nancy Pickard

1999

"Anyone who's ever had a mother will love these delightful, all-new mystery stories with a maternal twist...from such stellar names as Carolyn Wheat, Nancy Pickard, Linda Grant, and plenty of others who finally prove that you can balance motherhood with murder. As a bonus, a sampling of apple recipes are included making this delicious anthology all the sweeter."

• Introduction (Nancy Pickard)
• A worm in the winesap (Susan Dunlap)
• Coin of the realm (Pamela J. Fesler)
• Mom and dad at home (Ed Gorman)
• The second-oldest profession (Linda Grant)
• Rotten to the core (Jeremiah Healy)
• The Maggody files: Death in bloom (Joan Hess)
• The gift (Gregory Janicke)
• Sex, lies, and apple pie (Janet La Pierre)
• Growth marks (Margaret Maron)
• With thanks to Agatha Christie (Sarah J. Mason)
• Out of Africa (Nancy Pickard)
• Clear sailing (Gillian Roberts)
• If you can't take the heat (Sarah Shankman)
• Thinking (Marilyn Wallace)
• A bus called pity (Carolyn Wheat)
• Hello? (Angela Zeman)
• A mysterious collection of apple recipes

Sleuths of the Century

Editor: Jon L. Breen and Ed Gorman

2000

"Presents a collection of mystery and detective stories from such authors as Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Ruth Rendell, and Erle Stanley Gardner."

• Phantom Motor (Jacques Futrelle)
• Secret Garden (G.K. Chesterton)
• Problem At Sea (Agatha Christie)
• Piscatorial Farce Of The Stolen Stomach (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• Adventure Of The Glass-Domed Clock (Ellery Queen)
• Madame Maigret's Admirer (Georges Simenon)
• Wrong Problem (John Dickson Carr)
• Next Witness (Rex Stout)
• Case Of The Irate Witness (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• King In Yellow (Raymond Chandler)
• Pink Caterpillar (Anthony Boucher)
• Suicide (Ross Macdonald)
• Empty Hours (Ed Mcbain)
• Heroine (Patricia Highsmith)
• Death Of A Bum (Donald E. Westlake)
• Breathe No More (John D. Macdonald)
• When The Wedding Was Over (Ruth Rendell)
• Like A Lamb To Slaughter (Lawrence Block)
• Witch, Yazzie, And The Nine Of Clubs (Tony Hillerman)
• Cat's-Paw (Bill Pronzini)
• Somewhere In The City (Marcia Muller)
• Old Rattler (Sharyn Mccrumb)
• Dalziel's Ghost (Reginald Hill)
• Watts Lions (Walter Mosley)
• Grace Notes (Sara Paretsky)

The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years

Editor: William Malloy and Sara Ann Freed

2001

"In honour of its landmark silver anniversary, Mysterious Press serves up an original short story anthology packed with a who's who of the mystery world."

• Come Again? (Donald E. Westlake)
• The Anniversary Waltz (Loren D. Estleman)
• Inscrutable (Joe Gores)
• The Usual Table (Peter Lovesey)
• THEM! (William Marshall)
• The Imposter (Marcia Muller)
• Activity in the Flood Plain (Ed McBain)
• Sometimes Something Goes Wrong (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• Countess Kathleen (Jerome Charyn)
• Instinct (Archer Mayor)
• What's in a Name? (Margaret Maron)
• Coming Around the Mountain (James Crumley)
• Handle With Care (M.C. Beaton)
• The Mule Rustlers (Joe R. Lansdale)
• Body Zone (Lindsey Davis)
• Revision (Robert Greer)
• Birdbath (Charlotte Carter)
• High Maintenance (Beth Saulnier)

And The Dying Is Easy

Editor: Joseph Pittman and Annette Riffle

2001

"Twenty popular mystery writers send their sleuths on summer vacations in which murder and mayhem pay all-too-prominent roles."

• Salt on the Rim (Jeff Abbott)
• A Case of Feline Psychopathology (Lydia Adamson)
• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Ann Campbell)
• The Chocolate Kidnapping Clue (JoAnna Carl)
• Never Neck at Niagara (Edie Claire)
• Unreasonable Doubt (Max Allan Collins)
• Murder Can Hurt Your Ears (Selma Eichler)
• Journey's End (Hazel Holt)
• The Body in the Bay (Peter King)
• The Jungle (John Lantigua)
• The Loch Ness Mystery (Sam McCarver)
• Porridge and Bess (Tamar Myers)
• Missing, Presumed . . . (Dana Stabenow)
• Call it Dead Time (Andy Straka)
• Not a Monster of a Chance (Denise Swanson)
• Corpse on a Holy Day (Peter Tremayne)
• Lightning Strikes Twice (Judith Van Gieson)
• Under the Big Black Sun (k.j.a. Wishnia)
• Serve and Volley (Matt Witten)
• Sweet Rewards (Wayne Worcester)

Mystery: The Best of 2001

Editor: Jon L. Breen

2002

roles." The contents are:

• The San Agustin Miracle (Edward D. Hoch)
• Evil Grows (Loren D. Estleman)
• The Only Good Judge (Carolyn Wheat)
• The Wink (Ruth Rendell)
• Bridal Flowers (Dorothy Cannell)
• The Honored Guest (Marianne Wilski Strong)
• Open And Shut (Benjamin M. Schutz)
• Oh, Mona (Dan A. Sproul)
• Tomorrow's Villain (Mat Coward)
• Honeydew Wine (James Powell)
• The Hollow Woman (Laura Philpot Benedict)
• Missing, Presumed ... (Joan Hess)
• Miss Tidwell Takes No Prisoners (Dana Stabenow)
• Whistle (David Dean)
• Justice Knows No Paws (Jon L. Breen)

Mystery: The Best of 2002

Editor: Jon L. Breen

2003

roles." The contents are:

• Introduction (Jon L. Breen)
• To Live And Die In Midland, Texas (Clark Howard)
• Adventure Of The Agitated Actress (Daniel Stashower)
• Unkindness Of Ravens (Donna Andrews)
• Twilight's Last Gleaming (Michael Collins)
• Girl Named Charlie (Stanley Cohen)
• Bless Me Father For I Have Sinned (Ed Gorman)
• War Can Be Murder (Mike Doogan)
• Painted Lady (Deloris Stanton Forbes)
• Dead Their Eyes Implore Us (George P. Pelecanos)
• Moody's Blues (Hal Charles)
• Mom Lights A Candle (James Yaffe)
• If All Is Dark (Mat Coward)
• Ukulele And The World's Pain (James Sallis)
• Spy And The Minotaur (Edward D. Hoch)

Men From Boys

John Harvey

2003

An anthology of seventeen stories.

"Little is perfect for the men in these seventeen crime stories and nothing is straightforward. The worlds they inhabit are as different as a deprived London housing estate and a rundown jazz joint in Manhattan, but each of them is striving to determine what is right, what will give them dignity, what will earn them self-respect. Some succeed. Others fail."

• Dancing Towards The Blade (Mark Billingham)
• Points (Lawrence Block)
• After Midnight (Michael Connelly)
• The Poker Lesson (Jeffery Deaver)
• Chance (John Harvey)
• The Boy And Man Booker (Reginald Hill)
• Like An Arrangement (Bill James)
• Until Gwen (Dennis Lehane)
• The Resurrection Of Bobo Jones (Bill Moody)
• Plastic Paddy (George P. Pelecanos)
• Shadow on the Water (Peter Robinson)
• Concerto for Violence and Orchestra (James Sallis)
• Life Before the War (John Straley)
• Geezers (Brian Thompson)
• Douggie Doughnuts (Don Winslow)
• Two Things (Daniel Woodrell)
• My Father's Daughter (Andrew Coburn)

The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction

Editor: Deane Mansfield-Kelley / Lois Marchino

2004

"A detective fiction anthology filled with award winning short stories, information on the authors who wrote them, discussion about the history and evolution of the genre, and important literary criticism."

• Critical Essay : Murder At Large (John Ball)
• From "The Puzzle-Game" (Patricia D. Maida And Nicholas B. Spornick)
• The Many Guises Of The Contemporary Amateur Detective (Nancy Ellen Talburt And Juana R. Young)
• The Murders In The Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Silver Blaze (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Witness For The Prosecution (Agatha Christie)
• The Haunted Policeman (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• "My Queer Dean" (Ellery Queen)
• The House In Goblin Wood (John Dickson Carr)
• Deborah's Judgment (Margaret Maron)
• Nine Lives To Live (Sharyn Mccrumb)
• Cold Turkey (Diane Mott Davidson)
• Revised Endings (Jan Burke)
• The Simple Art Of Murder (Raymond Chandler)
• From "Grafton's Place In The Development Of The Detective Novel" (Natalie Hevener Kaufman And Carol Mcginnis Kay)
• The Gutting Of Couffignal (Dashiell Hammett)
• Trouble Is My Business (Raymond Chandler)
• The Parker Shotgun (Sue Grafton)
• Skin Deep (Sara Paretsky)
• And Pray Nobody Sees You (Gar Anthony Haywood)
• Going Home (S.J. Rozan)
• From "The Police Novel" (Leroy Lad Panek)
• The 87th Precinct (Ed Mcbain)
• The Hunt Ball (Freeman Wills Crofts)
• Inspector Maigret Deduces (Georges Simenon)
• Sadie When She Died (Ed Mcbain)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• The Dean's Curse (Ian Rankin)
• Under Suspicion (Clark Howard)
• Missing In Action (Peter Robinson)
• Appendix A: Notable Annual Awards For Mystery And Detective Fiction
• Appendix B: Bibliography Of Critical Essays And Commentaries

Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors

Editor: Eleanor Taylor Bland

2004

"A dazzling collection of crime and mystery stories, Shades of Black is a landmark achievement. Bringing together today's brightest talent from the field."

• Introduction: What A Difference A Decade Makes (Eleanor Taylor Bland)
• Since You Went Away (Frankie Y. Bailey)
• Cookout (Jacqueline Turner Banks)
• Double Dealing (Chris Benson)
• Murder On The Southwest Chief (Eleanor Taylor Bland And Anthony Bland)
• Secret Of The 369th Infantry Nurse (Patricia E. Canterbury)
• Doggy Style (Christopher Chambers)
• For Services Rendered (Tracy P. Clark)
• Pride Of A Woman (Evelyn Coleman)
• Blind Alley (Grace F. Edwards)
• Matter Of Policy (Robert Greer)
• Small Colored World (Terris Mcmahan Grimes)
• Better Dead Than Wed (Gar Anthony Haywood)
• Werewolf File (Hugh Holton)
• Deja Vu (Geri Spencer Hunter)
• Survival (Dicey Scroggins Jackson)
• When Blood Runs To Water (Glenville Lovell)
• Small Matter (Lee E. Meadows)
• More Than One Way (Penny Mickelbury)
• Bombardier (Walter Mosley)
• Favorable Murder (Percy Spurlark Parker)
• Beginner's Luck (Gary Phillips)
• God Of The Pond (Charles Shipps)

Murder... and All That Jazz

Editor: Robert J. Randisi

2004

"Centering around the tempermental world of jazz, from New York City to New Orleans, a smooth, finger-snapping collection of mystery stories features contributions by Michael Connelly, Peter Robinson, Ed Gorman, Julie Smith, Robert Ferrigno, Laura Lippman, John Lutz, and Max Allan Collins, among others."

• The P&G Ivory Cut-Whiskey Massacree (Craig Holden)
• Chop Suey (John Lutz)
• Snake Rag (Martin Meyers)
• East Side, West Side (Maz Allan Collins And Matthew V.Clemens)
• Drummer Unknown (John Harvey)
• The Magic Of Your Touch (Peter Robinson)
• Child's Play (Bill Moody)
• Christmas Even (Michael Connelly)
• Jazz Canary (Les Roberts)
• Kid Trombone (Julie Smith)
• Muse (Ed Gorman)
• The Shoeshine Man's Regrets (Laura Lippman)
• The Listening Room (Robert J. Randisi)

The Detection Collection

Editor: Simon Brett

2005

"This volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club. Founded on the cusp of the 1930s, the Club’s first President was G.K. Chesterton, and since then the mantle of Presidency has passed to some of the most significant names in the history of crime fiction, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons. The Club meets three times a year - to dine, to plot, and to exchange ideas. This anthology includes eleven new stories by the Best of British: Robert Barnard, Lyndsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Clare Francis, Robert Goddard, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Michael Ridpath and Margaret Yorke, and has been edited by the Club’s President, Simon Brett."

• The Part-Time Job (P.D. James)
• Partnership Track (Michael Ridpath)
• A Toothbrush (H.R.F. Keating)
• The Sun, The Moon, And The Stars (John Harvey)
• Anywhere Nice? (Lindsey Davis)
• Between The Lines (Colin Dexter)
• The Life-Lie (Robert Barnard)
• The Woman From Marlow (Margaret Yorke)
• Toupee For A Bald Tyre (Robert Goddard)
• The Holiday (Claire Francis)
• Fool Of Myself (Reginald Hill)

A New Omnibus of Crime

Editor: Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert

2005

"This extraordinary collection emphasizes the most exciting styles and voices in each genre, rather than taking a typical decade-by-decade approach. As a result, A New Omnibus of Crime boasts a broad range of engaging."

• The Man Who Knew How (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• The Girl With The Silver Eyes (Dashiell Hammett)
• Red Wind (Raymond Chandler)
• The Wench Is Dead (Frederic Brown)
• Gone Girl (Ross Macdonald)
• The Couple Next Door (Margaret Millar)
• By The Scruff Of The Soul (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• Flowers That Bloom In The Spring (Julian Symons)
• Woodrow Wilson's Necktie (Patricia Highsmith)
• Loopy (Ruth Rendell)
• Great Aunt Allie's Fly Papers (P. D. James)
• First Lead Gasser (Tony Hillerman)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• Breathe Deep (Donald E. Westlake)
• Rumpole And The Bubble Reputation (John Mortimer)
• A Poison That Leaves No Trace (Sue Grafton)
• Photo Finish (Sara Paretsky)
• The Crime Of Miss Oyster Brown (Peter Lovesey)
• Red Clay (Michael Malone)
• Barking At Butterflies (Ed McBain)
• Running Out Of Dog (Dennis Lehane)
• Hostages (James Crumley)
• When The Women Come Out To Dance (Elmore Leonard)
• The Hanged Man (Ian Rankin)
• The Holly And The Poison Ivy (Catherine Aird)
• Copycat (Jeffery Deaver)
• He Loved To Go For Drives With His Father (Alexander McCall Smith)

Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Assasins, Hitmen And Hired Guns

Editor: Robert J. Randisi

2005

The paperback in 2006 had the slightly altered title: Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Hitmen, Hired Guns, and Private Eyes.

"An anthology of short works features tales in which the killers are hired men and women who pit their criminal wits against a range of detectives, private investigators, amateur sleuths, and everyday people."

• Keller's Karma (Lawrence Block)
• The Catch (James W. Hall)
• Quarry's Luck (Max Allan Collins)
• A Trip Home (Ed Gorman)
• Misdirection (Barbara Seranella)
• Snow, Snow, Snow (John Harvey)
• Upon My Soul (Robert J. Randisi)
• Karma Hits Dogma (Jeff Abbott)
• The Greatest Trick Of All (Lee Child)
• Dr. Sullivan's Library (Christine Matthews)
• Retrospective (Kevin Wignall)
• The Right Tool For The Job (Marcus Pelegrimas)
• For Sale By Owner (Jenny Siler)
• The Closers (Paul Guyot)
• Chapter And Verse (Jeffery Deaver)

The Cocaine Chronicles

Editor: Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon

2005

"A collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today’s most thought-provoking writers."

• Ten Keys (Lee Child)
• The Crack Cocaine Diet (Laura Lippman)
• White Irish (Ken Bruen)
• Beneficent Diversions from the Crackdkins Diet (Donnell Alexander)
• Poinciana (Susan Straight)
• The Screenwriter (James Brown)
• Twilight of the Stooges (Jerry Stahl)
• Chemistry (Robert Ward)
• Shame (Kerry E. West)
• Viki, Flash, and the Pied-Piper of Shoebies (Deborah Vankin)
• Golden Pacific (Nina Revoyr)
• Sentimental Value (Manuel Ramos)
• Just Surviving Another Day (Detrice Jones)
• A.K.A. Moises Rockafella (Emory Holmes II)
• Camaro Blue (Bill Moody)
• Serving Monster (Jervey Tervalon)
• Disco Zombies (Gary Phillips)

Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation

Editor: Michael Connelly

2005

"The International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times-bestselling author Michael Connelly have gathered twenty-two crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground, Las Vegas, and what can happen behind the glitz and glamour."

• The Sunshine Tax (James Swain)
• Passline (S.J. Rozan)
• Dust Up (Wendy Hornsby)
• The Kidnapping Of Xiang Fei (Michael Collins)
• Killer Hills Kill Twice As Dead (T.P. Keating)
• Iggy's Stuff (J. Madison Davis)
• A Temporary Crown (Sue Pike)
• The Gambing Master Of Shanghai (Joan Richter)
• House Rules (Libby Fischer Hellman)
• Rolling The Bones (Tom Savage)
• Oddsmaker (Edward Wellen)
• The Dope Show (K.J.A. Wishnia)
• Death Of A Whale In The Church Of Elvis (Linda Kerslake)
• Neighbors (John Wessel)
• The End Of The World (As We Know It) (Lise Mcclendon)
• Nickles And Dimes (Ronnie Klaskin)
• Even Gamblers Have To Eat (Ruth Cavin)
• The Magic Touch (A.B. Robbins)
• Catnapping (Gay Toltl Kinman)
• Miscast (Micki Marz)
• Lightning Rider (Rick Mofina)
• Gieving In Las Vegas (Jeremiah Healey)

These Guns For Hire: 31 Short Stories About Hitmen

Editor: J.A. Konrath

2005

"Thirty original hitman stories by today's modern masters. Noir. Wise guys. Sex. Freelance assassins. Humor. Violence. Femme fatales. Amateurs. Horror. Surprise twists. Hardboiled. Get ready for some wet work."

• They Always Get You (Victor Gischler)
• Another Rock 'N' Roll Hit (Raymond Benson)
• The Confessional (Jeremiah Healy)
• Strictly Business (Julie Hyzy)
• There's Somebody Here Wants To Talk To You (Jay Bonansinga)
• The Professional (Sean Doolittle)
• Guest Service (Max Allan Collins)
• Gutter Snipes (P.J. Parrish)
• Beauty (Ed Gorman)
• The Black Rose (Michael A. Black)
• Detour (Libby Fischer Hellmann)
• The Attitude Adjuster (David Morrell)
• When You're Right, You're Right (Brian Wiprud)
• Dead Last (Rob Kantner)
• Bereaved (J.A. Konrath)
• Not Shy, Not Retiring (M.J. Rose)
• Seize Your Future (Jeff Abbott)
• Bat-Head Speed (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Everybody Wins (Lisa Mannetti)
• Keller's Designated Hitter (Lawrence Block)
• Pet Project (Robert W. Walker)
• Man Hit (John Galligan)
• Absolution (William Kent Krueger)
• Nice Kids Carry Guns (Paul A. Toth)
• Poor Career Choice (Jeff Strand)
• Punk (Ken Bruen)
• Bloodshed Fred (Monica J. O'Rourke)
• The Lourve Cafe (Mitchell Graham)
• Letters From Home (Benjamin M. Leroy)
• As Breathing (Marcus Sakey)
• The Shining Knight (David Ellis)

The Verdict Of Us All: Stories By The Detection Club For H.R.F. Keating

Editor: Peter Lovesey

2006

Includes a story by Colin Dexter.

"Members of London's famed Detection Club have joined together to honor one of their own - H.R.F. Keating, historian of the genre, winner of the Gold Dagger (for best novel) and the Diamond Dagger (for Lifetime Achievement), and creator of one of the greatest fictional sleuths, Inspector Ganesh Ghote."

• Tuesday's Child (Lionel Davidson)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Swindle (Len Deighton)
• Uncle Harry (Reginald Hill)
• The Case of the Curious Quorum (Colin Dexter)
• Hearing Ghote (P.D. James)
• Kali in Kensington Gardens (Liza Cody)
• Perfidious Albion (Catherine Aird)
• Popping Round to the Post (Peter Lovesey)
• Mayhem at Mudchester (James Melville)
• Keeping My Head (Andrew Taylor)
• Bearded Wonders (Tim Heald)
• Sisters Under the Skin (Robert Barnard)
• Initial Impact (Simon Brett)
• A Case for Inspector Ghote (June Thomson)
• Friends of the Garrick (Michael Z. Lewin)
• Bundobast on Voyage (Jonathan Gash)
• Different Time, Different Place (Michael Hartland)
• Arkady Nikolaivich (H.R.F. Keating)

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Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir

Editor: Duane Sweirczynski

2006

"A collection of twenty-seven original 'geezer noir' stories by some of today's top crime writers."

• My Father's Gun (Dave White)
• Twilight On Second Avenue (Saray Weinman)
• The Ballad Of Davey Robson (Ray Banks)
• Say Goodnight To The Bad Guy (Duane Swierczynski)
• Policy (Megan Abbot)
• 3-A (Jenny Siler)
• The Necklace (Sean Doolittle)
• Fathers And Sons (Charles Aradai)
• Duffers Of The Apocalypse (Victor Gischler)
• Daphne Mcandrews And The Smack-Head Junkies (Stuart Macbride)
• The Last Bachelor Of North Miami (Jason Starr)
• Last Right (Zoe Sharp)
• Funeral For A Friend (Simon Kernick)
• The Killer Beside Me (Allan Guthrie)
• Tender Mercies (Jeff Abbott)
• Pros And Cons (Donna Moore)
• Steppin Up (Mark Billingham)
• Femme Fatale (Laura Lippman)
• Payoff (Steve Brewer)
• Geezer Tricks (Charlie Stella)
• Requiem For Moe (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Has Anyone Seen Mrs. Lightswitch? (Colin Cotterill)
• The Old Gun (Ken Bruen)
• Encore (Milton T. Burton)
• Cranked (Bill Crider)
• The Deadsters (Robert Ward)
• Just Friends (John Harvey)

Chicago Blues

Editor: Libby Fischer Hellman

2007

"This collection of dark stories, from today’s best Chicago crime fiction authors, captures the depths to which people sink when they run out of options. The emptiness and pain spawned by greed. The violence—or occasionally, the bittersweet redemption—that springs from a broken heart."

• Blue Note (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• O Death Where Is Thy Sting? (Kevin Guilfoile)
• Your Sweet Man (Libby Fischer Hellman)
• Good Evenin', Blues (Jack Fredrickson)
• Publicity Stunts (Sara Paretsky)
• Guarding Lacey (Kris Nelscott)
• Overproof (JA Konrath)
• The Non Compos Mentis Blues (Sean Chercover)
• Scrap (Max Allan Collins)
• Chasing the Blues (Michael A. Black)
• Blind Man Blues (Steve Mandel)
• A Weekend in the Country (David J. Walker)
• A Shade of Blue (Michael Allen Dynmoch)
• The Test (Sam Reaves)
• My Heroes Have Always Been Shortstops (D.C. Brod)
• Code Blue (Mary V. Welk)
• The Sin Eater (Sam Hill)
• No One (Marcus Sakey)
• The Blue Line Ronald Levitsky)
• Lower Wacker Blues (Brian Pinkerton)
• The Lower Wacker Hilton (Barbara D'Amato)

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Editor: Jen Jordan

2007

"Collection of crime stories featuring the grand daddy swear word."

• Introduction (Mark Billingham)
• A Good **** Spoiled (Laura Lippman)
• Lucky Bastard (Jason Starr)
• Lookout (Sarah Weinman)
• The Preacher (Kevin Wignall)
• Hungarian Lessons (Olen Steinhauer)
• Fluff (Otis Twelve)
• Pedro Paul (Russel D. Mclean)
• St. Gabriel (Scott Wolven)
• Spit (Ken Bruen)
• The Jade Elephant (Libby Fischer Hellmann)
• Johnny Seven (David Bowker)
• Every Ounce Of Soul (Michael O'mahony)
• Money Shot (Ray Banks)
• Little Blue Pill (Ruth Jordan)
• Pearls (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Find Me (Anthony Neil Smith)
• Three Tepid Shots, Two Decapitated Gulls, And A Crippled Taxidermist (Delphine Lecompte)
• Entanglement (Hip Tinker)
• Like A Lady (Charlie Huston)
• Twenty Dollar Future (John Rickards)
• The Killer Whispers And Prays ... Like A Sledgehammer To The Ribcage (Nathan Singer)

Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table

Editor: Otto Penzler

2007

"Taking their inspiration from the card game that's more a way of life than an innocent pastime, there are no stories here that you'll want to sit out. Here are tales of games you'll wish you were part of . . . and games that you'd go to the ends of the Earth to avoid being dealt into."

• Mr. In-Between (Walter Mosley)
• Bump (Jeffery Deaver)
• In The Eyes Of Children (Alexander Mccall Smith)
• One-Dollar Jackpot (Michael Connelly)
• Strip Poker (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Stake (Sam Hill)
• Pitch Black (Christopher Coake)
• Deal Me In (Parnell Hall)
• Poker And Shooter (Sue Denymme)
• Monks Of The Abbey Victoria (Rupert Holmes)
• Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle (Peter Robinson)
• Uncertainty Principle (Eric Van Lustbader)
• Hardly Knew Her (Laura Lippman)
• A Friendly Little Game (John Lescroart)
• Missing The Morning Bus (Lorenzo Carcaterra)

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Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood

Editor: Robert J. Randisi

2007

The contents are:

• Introduction (Robert J. Randisi)
• Suicide Run (Michael Connelly)
• I Wasn't There (Bill Pronzini)
• Murderlized (Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens)
• And The Winner Is (Robert S. Levinson)
• Closing Credits (Terence Faherty)
• Too Sweet (Ken Kuhlken)
• And Then She Was Gone (Christine Matthews)
• Evangeline (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• Jack Webb's Star (Lee Goldberg)
• Devil Dog (Dick Lochte)
• When All Our Dreams Come True (Gary Phillips)
• Letter From A Dead Man (Percy Spurlark Parker)
• Barry Of Hollywood (Paul Guyot)
• Moving Pictures (Gar Anthony Haywood)

Crime Scenes

Wordsworth Editions

2008

"Crime Scenes is a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Within these pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a great variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnit to the psychological chiller to the history mystery to the crime procedural to the noir thriller to the gangster epic and the darkly humorous narrative. This volume demonstrates clearly how the crime story has developed and matured over the last two hundred years or so into the exciting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining form of fiction it is today."

• Introduction (David Stuart Davies)
• Under The Cherry Tree (Natasha Cooper)
• Yes And No (Edward Marston)
• Initial Impressions (Judith Cutler)
• Eternally (Martin Edwards)
• Missing (Bill Kirton)
• Showmen (Peter Lovesey)
• A Certain Resolution (Margaret Murphy)
• Brace Yourself (Russell James)
• A Regular Correspondent (Joan Lock)
• Written In Stone (Paul Freeman)
• Shaping The Ends (Judith Cutler)
• Colour Me Blood 124 (Jerry Sykes)
• A dead language (Gillian Linscott)
• The Postman Only Rings If He Can Be Bothered (Peter Guttridge)
• Melusine (Martin Edwards)
• Green Wounds (Natasha Cooper)
• Contre Temps (Rafe McGregor)
• The perfectionist (Peter Lovesey)
• The Lammergeier Vulture (Christine Poulson)
• Lost (Russell James)
• The obstacle (David Stuart Davies)
• Slaughter in the Strand (Keith Miles)
• The Masquerade (Sarah Rayne)
• Symptoms Of Loss (Jerry Sykes)
• Big End Blues (Margaret Murphy)
• Murder In The Air (Yvonne Eve Walus)
• Homework (Phil Lovesey)
• Special Delivery (Adrian Magson)
• A Darkness Discovered (Matthew Booth)

Politics Noir: Thirteen Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power

Editor: Gary Phillips

2008

"A chilling and subversive collection of new crime stories featuring greed, corruption, insatiable ambition ... and murder in the very highest places."

• Negative Nixons (Mike Davis)
• The Legend Of Bayboy And The Mexican Surfer (John Shannon)
• Pork (Pete Hautman)
• Strange Bedfellows (Twist Phelan)
• The Art Of Avarice (Darrell James)
• Ambition (Michele Martinez)
• Madame Secretary's Lover Man (Jake Lamar)
• Collateral Damage (Robert Greer)
• Slingin' (Black Artemis)
• Dissed (K.J.A. [Sic] Wishnia)
• Dead Right (Ken Bruen)
• The Mayor's Movie (Sujata Massey)
• Swift Boats For Jesus (Gary Phillips)

At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries from Today's Best Writers

Editor: Dana Stabenow

2008

"With the long-term success of procedural shows dominating prime-time television, the readership for a forensic anthology extends well beyond traditional mystery readers."

• Smart Aleck (Loren D. Estleman)
• Better Lucky Than Good (Jeanne C. Stein)
• The High Life: A Heartland Homocide Story (Max Allan Collins And Matthew V. Clemens)
• Rust (N.J. Ayres)
• I/M-Print: A Tess Cassidy Short Story (Jeremiah Healy)
• A Trace Of A Trace (Brendan Dubois)
• Five Sorrowful Mysteries (Julie Hyzy)
• Mitt's Murder (John Lutz)
• The Retired Arsonist (Edward D. Hoch)
• Patriotic Gestures (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
• Articulation Of Murder (Michael A. Black)
• Occam's Razor (Maynard F. Thomson)
• On The Evidence: A Liam Campbell Short Story (Dana Stabenow)

The Mammoth Book of the World's Best Crime Stories

Editor: Maxim Jakubowski

2009

"Get your fix with a winning collection that covers a full range of crime fiction, from noir and thrillers to whodunits and procedurals that take place across the globe."

• A Crime For A Crime (Giorgio Faletti)
• Rumpole And The Christmas Break (John Mortimer)
• The Temp (Rene Appel)
• Serum (Jo Nesbø)
• Huxley (Chad Taylor)
• Among Partisans (Carmen Korn)
• Ethnic Cleansing (Dominique Manotti)
• A Really Shitty Day (Camilla Lackberg)
• That Fat, Sadistic Bastard (Jose Carlos Somoza)
• The Strawberry Tree (Ruth Rendell)
• Out Of The Blue (Carla Vermaat)
• Wedding In Voerde (Gunter Gerlach)
• When He Finally Came (Inger Jalakas)
• An Angel Is Speaking (Francois Riviere)
• Table Talk, 1882 (Boris Akunin)
• Dead End (Julian Ibanez)
• Die Wanderung (Michael Gregorio)
• Pot Luck (Lisa Allen-Agostini)
• Angel Child (Tove Klackenberg)
• All For Bergkamen (Sebastian Fitzek)
• An Urban Legend Puzzle (Norizuki Rintaro)

Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery

Editor: Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez

2009

"This groundbreaking anthology of short fiction by Latino mystery writers features an intriguing and unpredictable cast of sleuths, murderers and crime victims. Reflecting the authors' and society's preoccupation with identity, self, and territory, the stories run the gamut of the mystery genre, from traditional to noir, from the private investigator to the police procedural."

• Oh, Yeah (Mario Acevedo)
• Hollow Point At The Synapses (Lucha Corpi)
• In My Hands (Sarah Cortez)
• The Right Profile (Carolina Garcia-Aguilera)
• Shortcut To The Moon (Alicia Gaspar De Alba)
• Los Simpaticos (Carlos Hernandez)
• Nice Climate, Miami (Rolando Hinojosa-Smith)
• A Broken String Of Lace (Bertha Jacobson)
• A Reunion With Death (John Lantigua)
• Made In China (Arthur Munoz)
• In The Kitchen With Johnny Albino (R Narvaez)
• A Not So Clear Case Of Murder (L.M. Quinn)
• The Skull Of Pancho Villa (Manuel Ramos)
• Death, Taxes ... And Worms (S. Ramos O'Briant)
• Under The Bridge (A.E. Roman)
• Caring For Jose (Steven Torres)
• A New York Chicano (Sergio Troncoso)

Once Upon A Crime

Editor: Gary R. Bush and Chris Everheart

2009

"Some of the region's best mystery and crime writers come together for an anthology named after, and dedicated to, that little basement bookstore in Minneapolis."

• Introduction (Vince Flynn)
• Perfectly Grimn : A Joe Pickett Story (C.J. Box)
• Time Of The Green (Ken Bruen)
• Last Laugh (David Housewright)
• Issue Of Women And Money (Michael Stanley)
• Dumber Than Dirt (Libby Fischer Hellman)
• Snow Birds (Gary Phillips)
• Pinked Off (Maureen Fischer)
• Santa's Little Helper (Anne Frasier)
• 17th Rule Of Highly Effective Bank Robbers (Troy Cook)
• Puck (Pat Dennis)
• Why I Write Mysteries (Pete Hautman)
• Eddie's Dungeon (Chris Everheart)
• Contender (William Kent Krueger)
• Den Of Iniquity (Lori L. Lake)
• You Can Be Too Thin (Gary R. Bush)
• Jibber Jabber (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Surrogate (Anthony Neil Smith)
• Cat's Meow (Mary Logue)
• Uninvolved (Lois Greiman)
• Rage Against The Machines (Terri Persons)
• Flyover Land (Max Allan Collins And Barbara Collins)
• Live Bait (Sujata Massey)
• Dumb Luck (Marilyn Victor)
• I Seen That (S.J. Rozan)

The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime

Editor: S.J. Rozan and Jonathan Santlofer

2010

"This tantalising collection abounds in dark-haired vixens and crimes of passion. Some stories are brooding, others twisted; some offer righteous satisfaction while others linger long in the mind. This innovative, exciting and intriguing book is a rare treat for fans of great fiction, whether it's high literature, good old-fashioned suspense, or anything in between."

• Dragon's Breath (Madison Smartt Bell)
• Scenarios (Lawrence Block)
• The Hereditary Thurifer (Stephen L. Carter)
• Me & Mr. Rafferty (Lee Child)
• The Perfect Triangle (Michael Connelly)
• You Are My Sunshine (Lynn Freed)
• Midnight Stalkings (James Grady)
• Greed (Amy Hempel)
• Deer (Janice Lee)
• The Salon (Jonathan Lethem)
• Tricks (Laura Lippman)
• Toytown Assorted (Patrick Mccabe)
• I've Seen That Movie, Too (Val Mcdermid)
• The Story Of The Stabbing (Joyce Carol Oates)
• The Beheading (Francine Prose)
• Celebration (Abraham Rodriguez Jr)
• Daybreak (S.J. Rozan)
• Ben & Andrea & Evelyn & Ben (Jonathan Santlofer)
• The Creative Writing Murders (Edmund White)

Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying

Editor: Bill Crider

2010

"Senior citizens kick ass in this wildly original hard-boiled sequel to Busted Flush Press' first award-winning 'geezer noir' anthology."

• Sleep, Creep, Leap (Patricia Abbott)
• The Last Long Ride Of El Canejo (Ace Atkins)
• Stiffs (Neal Barrett Jr.)
• The End Of Jim And Ezra (C.J. Box)
• Out Stealing Buddha (Declan Burke)
• Love Story /Scott A. Cupp)
• All About Eden (Christa Faust)
• Flying Solo (Ed Gorman)
• Neighborhood Watch (Carolyn Haines)
• Memory Sketch (David Handler)
• Some Things You Never Forget (Gar Anthony Haywood)
• The War Zone (Cameron Pierce Hughes)
• Gilding Lily (Jennifer Jordan)
• Kids Today (Toni L.P. Kelner)
• The Old Man In The Motorized Chair (Joe R. Lansdale)
• Angel Of Mercy (Russel D. McLean)
• Miss Hartly And The Cocksucker (Denise Mina)
• Sometimes You Can't Retire (Marcia Muller)
• The Investor (Gary Phillips)
• Bill In Idaho (Scott Phillips)
• Zypho The Tentacled Brainsucker From Outer Space Vs. The Mob (Tom Piccirilli)
• Trade Secret (Bill Pronzini)
• The Summer Place (Cornelia Read)
• Warning Shot (James Reasoner)
• Cutlass (Kat Richardson)
• Chin Yong-Yun Takes A Case (S.J. Rozan)
• Granny Pussy (Anthony Neil Smith)
• Old Men And Old Boards (Don Winslow)

Crime Square

Editor: Robert J. Randisi

2012

"Twenty top-flight mystery writers portray New York City's Times Square through a century of murder and mayhem."

• Murder At The Metropole (Robert J. Randisi)
• Frankie Light Fingers' Time Square Follies (William E. Chambers)
• Swell (John Lutz)
• His Times Square Princess (Albert Ashforth)
• Misdirection (Mel Odom)
• The Devil's Face (Max Allan Collins And Matthew Clemens)
• The Sailor In The Picture (Eileen Dreyer)
• The Night Of The Murder (Max Allan Collins And Matthew Clemens)
• The Night Of The Murder (Robert S. Levinson)
• A Quarter Past Dead (Angela Zeman)
• Nothing Is Ever What It Seems (Martin Meyers)
• You Would Cry, Too (Christine Matthews)
• Thirty-Six Stories Up (Brad Parks)
• Halley's Comet (Reel Farrel Coleman)
• Getting Out Of The Box (Michael Bracken)
• A Fox On Broadway (Gary Phillips)
• Dim Bulbs, Dead Roaches (Kenneth Wishnia)
• Blues For Miss Annabelle (Ira Berkowitz)
• The Gatekeeper (Warren Murphy)
• The Perils Of Penelope Pittson (Joseph Pittman)
• Times Square Shuffle (Parnell Hall)

Scoundrels: Tales Of Greed, Murder And Financial Crimes

Editor: Gary Phillips

2012

"In Scoundrels, an all-original anthology featuring bestselling and Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers, you’ll read stories of desperate grifters, brokers hedging big bets for the big take, schemers working the long con for the sure money, used car salesman with golden dreams and rusted hopes, crooked lawyers and bent clients, one percenters hustling for that last half-percent, kind-hearted killers and the lonely hearted who tell themselves any lie as the double down for the long count."

• What The Creature Hath Built (David Corbett)
• We Shall Overthug (Tyler Dilts)
• The Movement (Travis Richardson)
• The Prophet (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Arbitraging The Blood Brain Barrier (Eric Stone)
• Occupy This! (SJ Rozan)
• Digital Dingus Four-Point-O (Bob Truluck)
• Easy Money (Pamela Samuels Young)
• The Biggest Fish In Texas (Darrell James)
• Sentence Of A Lifetime (Brendan Dubois)
• Leverage (Lono Waiwaiole)
• Eight Ballers (Gary Phillips)
• The $3,3000 Loser (Seth Harwood)
• Survivor (Kelli Stanley)

Vintage Detective Stories

Macmillan Collector's Library

2012

The contents are:

• The Murders In The Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Black Cross (Arthur B. Reeve)
• The Mystery At Merrill's Mill (J.S. Fletcher)
• The Mysterious Railway Passenger (Maurice Leblanc)
• The Mind Reader (Edgar Wallace)
• The Invisible Man (G.K. Chesterton)
• The Horror At Staveley Grange (Sapper)
• The Curious Circumstances Of The Two Left Shoes (Ernest Bramah)
• The Dancing Men (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture (Victor Whitechurch)
• The Ebony Box (Mrs. Henry Wood)
• Out Of Paradise (E.W. Hornung)
• Murder! (Arnold Bennett)
• The Hanover Court Murder (Sir Basil Thomson)
• The Phantom Motor Car (Jacques Futrelle)
• In The Grip Of The Green Demon (Robert Barr)
• Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (Stacy Aumonier)
• The Surrey Cattle-Maiming Mystery (Herbert Jenkins)
• The Secrets Of The Black Brotherhood (Dick Donovan)
• The Seal Of Nebuchadnezzar (R. Austin Freeman

Murder and Mayhem in Muskego

Editor: Jon & Ruth Jordan

2012

"Since 2005, the Muskego Public Library has welcomed and hosted over 150 authors and a few thousand fans of crime fiction to Muskego, WI. Just in time for the 8th annual benefit, MURDER & MAYHEM IN MUSKEGO is accompanied by a short story anthology featuring bestselling, Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers who have attended the day-long convention. All profits from sales of this anthology will benefit the Friends of the Muskego Public Library."

• Welcome To Murder & Mayhem In Muskego (Penny Halle)
• Hollywood Lanes (Megan Abbott)
• Pattern Recognition (Dana Cameron)
• Slider (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Undying Love (Hilary Davidson)
• Nice Guy Type (Sean Doolittle)
• Kross Kill (J.M. Edwards)
• Loose Lips (Andrew Grant)
• The Name Of The Dame (Ted Hertel, Jr.)
• The Great Plains (Chris F. Holm)
• Serenity (Brad Parks)
• Chatter (Gary Phillips)
• Chemotherapy (Kat Richardson)
• The End Is Never Pretty (Greg Rucka)
• Gravity And Need (Marcus Sakey)
• The Muskego Long Count (Tom Schreck And Nathan Banks)
• The Particular Talents Of Lenny Bright (Zoe Sharp)
• Last Call (Bryan Vanmeter)
• Universal Donor (Jeri Westerson)
• Acknowledgments (Jon & Ruth Jordan)

Kwik Krimes

Editor: Otto Penzler

2013

"In this mystery anthology, renowned editor and author Otto Penzler weaves together to heart-stopping effect more than ninety tales of brutality, terror, and unexpected demise, with each story told in a swift one thousand words or less."

• Lambs Of God (Patricia Abbott)
• Day After Tomorrow (Richard Aleas)
• Hansel, Gretel, And The Witch (Gary Alexander)
• Preparations (Tasha Alexander)
• Thunder At The Horizon (Charles Ardai)
• Fortune (Erik Arneson)
• One Person's Clutter (Albert Ashforth)
• Fightin' Man (N.J. Ayres)
• Break-In (Eric Beetner)
• Once Upon A Time In The Woods (Raymond Benson)
• Job Opening (John Billheimer)
• The Chair (Peter Blauner)
• Sucker's Bet (James O. Born)
• Entitled (Rhys Bowen)
• Get The Confession (Jay Brandon)
• Piece Of Cake (R. Thomas Brown)
• Thug City (Ken Bruen)
• What You Wish For (C.E. Lawrence)
• Where's Dad? (Peter Cannon)
• They'll Call Me Whistlin' Pete (Chuck Caruso)
• The Bunny (William E. Chambers)
• The Banyan Tree (Joe Clifford)
• Acknowledgments (Christopher Coake)
• The Terminal (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• The Ant Who Carried Stones (David Corbett)
• Watch The Skies (Bill Crider)
• A Foolproof Plan (Bruce Desilva)
• A Tree In Texas (Jo Dereske)
• After (Tyler Dilts)
• Next Right (Sean Doolittle)
• The Professional (Brendan Dubois)
• The Promise (Warren C. Easley)
• A Student Of History (Gerald Elias)
• Wolfe On The Roof (Loren D. Estleman)
• Hit Me (Christa Faust)
• Beneath The Bridge (Lyndsay Faye)
• The Girl Who Loved French Films (Christopher Fowler)
• David To Goliath (Matthew C. Funk)
• The One Who Got Away (Jim Fusilli)
• Halloween (Carolina Garcia Aguilera)
• The Old Gal (Gregory Gibson)
• Necessity (Ed Gorman)
• Lost Cat (Ron Goulart)
• Sunday In The Park With Sarge (Chris Grabenstein)
• Nails (James Grady)
• Lye (Derek Haas)
• The Pledge (Parnell Hall)
• Games People Play (Bruce Harris)
• Built With Love (Jamie Harrison)
• The Gun With Two Triggers (Rob W. Hart)
• Blindfolded (John Harvin)
• Present Company (Michael Haynes)
• The Einstein Divorce (Gar Anthony Haywood)
• Fringe Benefit (Jeremiah Healy)
• Wyolene (Sam Hill)
• Aka (Steve Hockensmith)
• Hijackers (Chuck Hogan)
• Full Bloom (Wendy Hornsby)
• The Blackmailers Wanted More (David Housewright)
• Nothing Left To Lose (Dana C. Kabel)
• In The Hours Before Her Death (Michael Kardos)
• Arson And Old Luce (Marvin Kaye)
• Daddy's Girl (Nicola Kennington)
• Countdown (John Kenyon)
• Atm: Get Cash Inside (Jonathon King)
• Testimony (Andre Klavan)
• Losing My Religion (K.A. Laity)
• The Tenth Notch (Jon Land)
• The Ear (Joe R. Lansdale)
• The Imperfect Detective (Janice Law)
• Michael Coalhouse (Adrian Mckinty)
• Dog (Charles Mcleod)
• Slow Roasted (M.B. Manteufel)
• Saturday Night Live (Paul Newman)
• Dealer Sets Price (Tom Pitts)
• Death Buys A Burger (Stephen D. Rogers)
• Hail, Tiger! (Cindy Rosmus)
• Fall Guy (Jim Spry)
• Death By Sobriety (J.M. Vogel)
• A Russian Storm (Andrew Waters)
• Hell's Belle (Jim Wilsky)

FaceOff

Editor: David Baldacci

2014

"In this unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring their much-loved series characters. FACE OFF includes the first meeting of Ian Rankin's Rebus and Peter James' Roy Grace; a case for Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, as well as a page-turning mystery starring Lee Child's Jack Reacher and Joseph Finder's Nick Heller. Edited by international bestseller David Baldacci, this exclusive page-turning collection is one of a kind."

• Red Eye (Patrick Kenzie Vs. Harry Bosch) (Dennis Lehane / Michael Connelly)
• In The Nick Of Time (John Rebus Vs. Roy Grace) (Ian Rankin / Peter James)
• Gaslighted (Slappy The Ventiloquist Dummy Vs. Aloysius Pendergast) (R.L. Stine / Douglas Preston And Lincoln Child)
• The Laughing Buddha (Malachai Samuels Vs. D.D. Warren) (M.J. Rose / Lisa Gardner)
• Surfing The Panther (Paul Madriani Vs. Alexandra Cooper) (Steve Martini / Linda Fairstein)
• Rhymes With Prey (Lincoln Rhyme Vs. Lucas Davenport) (Jeffery Deaver / John Sandford)
• Infernal Night (Michael Quinn Vs. Repairman Jack) (Heather Graham / F. Paul Wilson)
• Pit Stop (Sean Reilly Vs. Glen Garber) (Raymond Khoury / Linwood Barclay)
• Silent Hunt (Wyatt Hunt Vs. Joe Trona) (John Lescroart / T. Jefferson Parker)
• The Devil's Bones (Cotton Malone Vs. Gray Pierce) (Steve Berry / James Rollins)
• Good And Valuable Consideration (Jack Reacher Vs. Nick Heller) (Lee Child / Joseph Finder)

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Bodies in the Bookshop

Editor: L.C. Tyler & Ayo Onatade

2014

"Investigate the killer plots of twenty mysteries - nearly all specially commissioned and all with a literary flavour - published in honour of Heffers and independent bookshops everywhere. …. The brief to the contributors was for a story based on any or all of four themes: bookshops, Cambridge, books and libraries. We succeeded with the first three, but, in the absence of any library-based offering, two stories on other themes have sneaked in, though not undetected!"

• Foreword (Richard Reynolds)
• Introduction (Ayo Onatade)
• The Body In The Bookshop (Simon Brett)
• Death Of The Author (Alison Bruce)
• The Best Revenge (Kate Charles)
• Killing Your Darlings (Ann Cleeves)
• Brought To Book (Judith Cutler)
• The Strange Affair At Sheepwash (Ruth Downie)
• The Guest List (Stella Duffy)
• Lucky Liam (Martin Edwards)
• The Good Theif's Guide To Bookselling (Chris Ewan)
• Remember My Name (Christopher Fowler)
• Flotsam And Jetsam (Michael Gregorio)
• The Photocopier Murders (Susanna Gregory and Simon Beaufort)
• Castles In The Air (Elly Griffiths)
• The Stain (Jenna Hawkins)
• The Storyteller (Suzette A. Hill)
• The Problems Of Staterrom 10 (Peter Lovesey)
• Closure (Michele Spring)
• Waiting For Mr Right (Andrew Taylor)
• Murder in Trumpington (L.C. Tyler)

Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology

Editor: LeRoy Lad Panek and Mary M. Bendel-Simso

2014

"Although the classic tales of mystery have faded from popular culture, avid collectors and cataloguers have ensured their place in the annals of literature. This anthology offers readers an exemplary sample of the hundreds of detective stories published in 19th century newspapers and magazines. All but two are stories published before 1891, before Sherlock Holmes appeared in America. The stories are categorized according to common motifs, including the largely unexplored field of women in late 19th century detection. Revealing cultural intricacies that other kinds of fiction cannot, the literature presented here provides new insights into the history of the detective story."

• Guest-Chamber Of The Inn At St. Ives (James Franklin Fitts)
• Knotted Handkerchief (Percy Garrett)
• Mr. Furbush (Harriet E. Prescott)
• Telltale Eye (James D. M'cbae, Jr.)
• Left-Handed Thief (Anonymous)
• Excerpts From Strange Stories Of A Detective Or Curiosities Of Crime , Introduction, Torn Glove (Anonymous)
• The First Case (Anonymous)
• The Hob Nailed Shoes (Anonymous)
• The Mute Witness (Anonymous)
• The Secret Cipher: A Detective's Story (Anonymous)
• A Tell-Tale Ink Mark (Anonymous)
• Story Of A Detective Expert (Anonymous)
• Vidocq, Or The Charcoal Burner Of France (Anonymous)
• In The Cellar (W. W. Buchanan)
• Wounded Hand... (Narissa Rosavo)
• Written In Blood (Anonymous)
• Twisted Ring (Anonymous)
• Costly Kiss: A New York Detective Experience (Anonymous)
• C. S. A. (George Arnold)
• Five Thousand Dollars Reward (Herbert Lee Standish)
• Detective's Story (Anonymous)
• Seventy Miles An Hour (James D. M'cabe)
• Hunting Rogues (William Russell)
• Tracing A Murderer (Anonymous)
• Tell-Tale Key, Or A Woman As A Detective (Anonymous)
• Girl Detective (Anonymous)
• An Old Offender (Capt. Charles Howard)
• Clubnose (Anonymous)
• Gramercy Park Mystery (Anonymous)
• Making A Fortune (Mark Twain)
• Detectives Story (Anonymous)
• Detective (Anonymous)
• Blown Upon: Or The Sagacious Reporter (Anonymous)
• Detective's Story (H. B. S.)
• Detective's Story (Anonymous)
• After A Clew (Anonymous)
• Detective From Baltimore (Anonymous)
• Long Arm (Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman) And Joseph Edgar Chamberlin)
• Twinkling Of An Eye (Brander Matthews)

Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Based on the Songs of Bruce Springsteen

Editor: Joe Clifford

2014

"Each of the accomplished authors in this unique anthology chose a Springsteen title as a starting point, and in the criminally inclined spirit of the Boss, drove headlong to wherever that inspiration called. The destinations are as wildly diverse and far-reaching as the songs that influenced them. Some arrive at hope and redemption; others end up smoking in a ditch. One thing’s for sure: you sign up for this ride, and Trouble in the Heartland will transport you somewhere unforgettable."

• State Trooper (Dennis Lehane)
• Prove It All Night (Jordan Harper)
• Candy's Room (Chris Leek)
• Hungry Heart (Hilary Davidson)
• I'm On Fire (James R. Tuck)
• Dancing In The Dark (Lynne Barrett)
• Thunder Road (James Grady)
• Dry Lightning (Dyer Wilk)
• Local Hero (Tom Pitts)
• Glory Days (CS DeWildt)
• Queen Of The Supermarket (Chuck Wendig)
• Something In The Night (Mike Creeden)
• Rosalita (Rob Pierce)
• The Ghost Of Tom Joad (David James Keaton)
• What Love Can Do (Peter Farris)
• Mansion On The Hill (Chris F. Holm)
• Highway Patrolman (Ryan Sayles)
• Wreck On The Highway (Brian Panowich)
• My Hometown (Matthew Louis)
• Death To My Hometown (Christopher Irvin)
• Nebraska (Paul J. Garth)
• Picture On The Edge Of Town (A collection of images by Mark Krajnak)
• The Iceman (Les Edgerton)
• We Take Care of Our Own (Todd Robinson)
• My Best Was Never Good Enough (Keith Rawson)
• Streets Of Fire (Isaac Kirkman)
• Spare Parts (John McFetridge)
• Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street? (Ezra Letra)
• It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Jen Conley)
• ATlantic City (Benoit Lelievre)
• Because The Night (Richard Thomas)
• Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Lela Scott MacNeil)
• Radio Nowhere (Chuck Regan)
• The Promised Land (Court Merrigan)
• Open All Night (Eric Beetner)
• Meeting Across The River (Steve Weddle)
• Wrecking Ball (Chris Rhatigan)
• Born To Run (Lincoln Crisler)
• Straight Time (Gareth Spark)
• This Little Light Of Mine (Jamez Chang)
• Last to Die (Richard Brewer)

World Enough And Crime

Editor: Donna & Alex Carrick

2014

"From the dangerous streets of Johannesburg to the hallowed halls of Toronto’s academia, from the raging swell of the English Channel, to the white sands of Canada’s Atlantic playground, crime is indeed a global affair."

• Crime…Noun (Michael C. Slater)
• Doctor Shediac (Donna Carrick)
• The Case of the Carriageless Horse (Steven M. Moore)
• Cover Girl (Melodie Campbell)
• The Prime Suspect (Rosemary Aubert)
• What Fresh Hell Is This? John Thompson)
• The Savages Among Us (Bianca Marais)
• Antonia (Rosemary McCracken)
• Delights in Novelty (Brad Ling)
• Runaway (Joan O’Callaghan)
• Live Free or Die (Judy Penz Sheluk)
• Writer’s Block (Kevin P. Thornton)
• Belief (Jane Petersen Burfield)
• Ghost Protocol (Angie Capozello)
• The Angels Wait (Ed Piwowarczyk)
• The Ultimate Mystery (M.H. Callway)
• An Inexpensive Piece (C.A. Rowland)
• A Locked Room Puzzle (Anne Barton)
• Danger by Moonlight (Anne Barton)
• Leverage (Andrea Kikuchi)
• Potluck (Lynne Murphy)
• Easter Aches (Jayne Barnard)
• The Peace of Mind Thief (Alex Carrick)

Coast to Coast: Murder from Sea to Shining Sea

Editor: Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks

2015

"Crime in high places. Crime in low places. Crime from Coast to Coast. Crime in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace of Boston to the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the Port of Los Angeles. From the wind-swept sails of the New England shoreline to the transitioning Italian-American neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco and the Disney Concert Hall in L.A. Crime is everywhere, from the murky depths of Echo Park Lake and the body dump of the Angeles National Forest, to the clear waters of Oyster Bay and the beaches of Cape Cod — even Mexico City — in this collection of stories that range from hardboiled to suspense-thrillers. And while these stories differ in locale, climate, mood and the tone and voices of the various writers, they all resonate with the dark underbelly of crime."

• Introduction (Paul D. Marks)
• Murder Medium Rare (William Link)
• Late, From The West Coast (William G. Tapply)
• Yellow Jag (G.B. Pool)
• Yankee Pot Roast Scandal (Andrew Mcaleer)
• Dead Detective (Robert S. Levinson)
• Candy (James T. Shannon)
• Loophole (Sheila Lowe)
• Disenchanted (Stephen D. Rogers)
• My Enemies Have Sweet Voices (Paul D. Marks)
• Rich Are Different (Judy Copek)
• La Bellezza Della Bellezze (Bill Pronzini)
• Dead Waltz (Thomas Donahue)

Toward the Golden Age: The Stories That Turned Crime to Gold

Editor: Mike Ashley

2016

"The 15 short stories in this anthology, which date from 1905 to 1921, trace the development of an increasingly sophisticated genre even as they abound in the timeless allure of a riveting mystery."

• Introduction (Mike Ashley)
• Christabel's Crystal (Carolyn Wells)
• The Crime at Big Tree Portage (Hesketh Prichard)
• The Case of Oscar Brodski (R. Austin Freeman)
• The Tragedy on the London and Mid-Northern (Victor L. Whitechurch)
• Spontaneous Combustion (Arthur B. Reeve)
• The Case of the Scientific Murderer (Jacques Futrelle)
• The Blue Cross (G.K. Chesterton)
• The Man Who Lived at Clapham (Edgar Wallace)
• Naboth's Vineyard (Melville Davisson Post)
• The Game Played in the Dark (Ernest Bramah)
• The Ninescore Mystery (Baroness Orczy)
• The Three Knocks (Edith Macvane)
• Whither Thou Goest (Edward H. Hurlbut)
• The Second Bullet (Anna Katharine Green)
• The Papered Door Mary Roberts Rinehart)

In Sunlight or In Shadow - Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper

Editor: Lawrence Block

2016

"Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance for writers and readers, and yet his paintings never tell a story so much as they invite viewers to find for themselves the untold stories within. So says Lawrence Block, who has invited seventeen outstanding writers to join him in an unprecedented anthology of brand-new stories. The results are remarkable and range across all genres, wedding literary excellence to storytelling savvy."

• Girlie Show (Megan Abbott)
• Story Of Caroline (Jill D. Block)
• Soir Bleu (Robert Olen Butler)
• Truth About What Happened (Lee Child)
• Rooms By The Sea (Nicholas Christopher)
• Nighthawks (Michael Connelly)
• Incident Of 10 November (Jeffery Deaver)
• Taking Care Of Business (Craig Ferguson)
• Music Room (Stephen King)
• Projectionist (Joe R. Lansdale)
• Preacher Collects (Gail Levin)
• Office At Night (Warren Moore)
• Woman In The Window (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Still Life 1931 (Kris Nelscott)
• Night Windows (Jonathan Santlofer)
• Woman In The Sun (Justin Scott)
• Autumn At The Automat (Lawrence Block)

The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers and Dark Roads

Editor: Patrick Millikin

2016

"Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads, and our cars link us together."

• Test Drive (Patrick Milikin)
• Power Wagon (C.J. Box)
• Burnt Matches (Michael Connelly)
• Runs Good (Kelly Braffet)
• Night Run (Wallace Stroby)
• What You Were Fighting For (James Sallis)
• The Triple Black 'Cuda (George Pelecanos)
• Fogmeister (Diana Gabaldon)
• Whipperwill And Back (Patterson Hood)
• Driving To Geronimo's Grave (Joe R. Lansdale)
• Hannah Martinez (Sara Gran)
• Apache Youth (Ace Atkins)
• Two Falcons (Gary Phillips)
• Kill Switch (Willy Vlautin)
• Pleasure Of God (Luis Alberto Urrea)

Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns

Editor: Eric Beetner

2016

"For the first time, more than two dozen crime and mystery authors have joined together to use the strongest weapon at their disposal - words - in a call for reasonable gun control in the U.S.A. In this collection you get all the thrills and excitement you come to expect from a great crime story, but without any guns."

• From The Editor (Eric Beetner)
• The Old Man In The Motorized Wheel Chair (Joe R. Lansdale)
• Baby Pigeons (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Swan Song (Hilary Davidson)
• The Starry Night (Grant Jerkins)
• Copper (Keith Rawson)
• Creampuff (Rob Hart)
• The Escape (Kelli Stanley)
• The Shy One (Alison Gaylin)
• Lorelei (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Seesaw Sally (Alex Cizak)
• Tattoo (Joe Clifford)
• The Business Of Death (Eric Beetner)
• Ratcheting (Ryan Sayles)
• The Jungles Of Peekskill, New York (Angel Luis Colon)
• The Hammer Party (Kent Gowran)
• Ioki And The Fat Jap (Tom Pitts)
• The Tip (Tim O'Mara)
• The Final Encore Of Moody Joe Shaw (Thomas Pluck)
• Peep Show (Holly West)
• Blood Eyes (Trey R. Barker)
• A Feast For Hogs (Jeffery Hess)
• Itchy Feet (S.W. Lauden)
• Mysterious Ways (J.L. Abramo)
• Stark Raving (Patricia Abbott)
• Credits And Debits (Paul J. Garth)

Crime Plus Music: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir

Editor: Jim Fusilli

2016

"CRIME PLUS MUSIC exposes the nasty side of the world of popular music, revealing it to be the perfect setting for noir tales."

• Foreword (Jim Fusilli)
• The Last Temptation Of Frankie Lymon (Peter Blauner)
• The Blackbird (Peter Robinson)
• The Misfits (Naomi Rand)
• Shaderoc The Soul Shaker (Gary Phillips)
• The Long Black Veil (Val McDermid)
• Me Untamed (David Liss)
• 1968 Pelham Blue Sg Jr (Mark Haskell Smith)
• All Ages (Alison Gaylin)
• Are You With Me, Doctor Wu? (David Corbett)
• The Long Lament (Brendan DuBois)
• Unbalanced (Craig Johnson)
• A Bus Ticket To Phoenix (Willie Vlautin)
• Earworms (Zoe Sharp)
• Look At Me/Don't Look At Me (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Only Women Bleed (Galadrielle Allman)
• Vincent Black Lightning (Tyler Dilts)
• No Place You're Likely To Find (Erica Wright)
• Played To Death (Bill Fitzhugh)
• Watching The Detectives (A. J. Hartley)
• Boy Wonder (Jim Fusilli)

Mama Tried: Crime Fiction Inspired by Outlaw Country Music

Editor: James R. Tuck

2016

"It’s what makes the best of country music and crime fiction. Sometimes it’s hardened criminals: murders, thieves, and convicts, sometimes it’s just a poor fool driven to the edge by hard times, hard drinking, or a hard lover. In this collection you will find stories from the best voices in crime fiction inspired by the best voices in outlaw country music."

Motives for Murder: A Celebration of Peter Lovesey On His 80th Birthday by Members of the Detection Club

Editor: Martin Edwards

2016

"Members of London's famed Detection Club have joined together to honor Peter Lovesey, winner multiple times of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger, and Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar for Best Novel, as well as Grand Prix de Littrature Policire. He is the creator of Victorian sleuths Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray, Inspector Peter Diamond, and the almost true-to-life Bertie Prince of Wales."

• Introduction (Martin Edwards)
• Foreword (Len Deighton)
• The Reckoning Of Sins (Alison Joseph)
• The False Inspector Lovesey (Andrew Taylor)
• Dreaming Of Rain And Peter Lovesey (Ann Cleeves)
• The Walrus And The SPy (Catherine Aird)
• Unfinished Business (David Roberts)
• The Adventure Of The Marie Antoinette Necklace: A Case For Sherlock Holmes (David Stuart Davies)
• An End in Bath (Janet Laurence)
• The Marquis Wellington Mug (John Malcolm)
• A Question Of Identity (Kate Charles)
• The Mole Catcher’s Daughter (Kate Ellis)
• The Trials Of Margaret (L. C. Tyler)
• Ghost Station (Liza Cody)
• The Suffragette's Tale (Marjorie Eccles)
• Murder And Its Motives (Martin Edwards)
• Alive Or Dead (Michael Jecks)
• The Right Thing (Michael Z. Lewin)
• The Super Recognizer of Vík (Michael Ridpath)
• Digging Deep (Ruth Dudley Edwards)
• A Sonnet For Peter Lovesey (Simon Brett)
• A Village Affair (Susan Moody)
• Afterword: Spies, Superheroes and Stolen Goods: Peter Lovesey's Memories of the Detection Club In The 1970s (Peter Lovesey)

Bound By Mystery: Celebrating 20 Years of Poisoned Pen Press

Editor: Diane DiBiase

2017

"In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados .... Some have gone on to big deals with the big leagues .... Some authors have been on hiatus, and are writing something new for the first time in years. Most have remained comfortably ensconced with us here at the Press, enjoying a modicum of fame and a steadily growing base of loyal readers who eagerly anticipate their next-in-series."

• Gold Digger (Reavis Z. Wortham)
• Gone Phishing (Tim Maleeny)
• The Bomb Booth (Charlotte Hinger)
• Be My Friend (Donis Casey)
• Telling Tales (Ann Parker)
• A Lure For Murder (Mark De Castrique)
• Quito (J.M. Donellan)
• Nantucket Plunder (Steven Axelrod)
• Sunday Drive (James Sallis)
• The Paternoster Pea (Priscilla Royal)
• The Olive Growers (Jeffrey Siger)
• Her Mama's Pearls (Vicki Delany)
• Chaos Points (Meg Dobson)
• Two Bits, Four Bits, Six Bits... (Frederick Ramsay)
• Dodo (Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel)
• La Corazonada (Warren C. Easley)
• Time's Revenge (Mary Reed And Eric Mayer)
• Taking The Waters (Kerry Greenwood)
• The Reading By The Polish Author (Vasudev Murthy)
• Wild By Name, Wild By Nature (Jane Finnis)
• The Customer (Laurie R. King)
• Reciprocity (Catherine A. Winn)
• The Price Of Belief (Dennis Palumbo)
• The Stranding (Sulari Gentill)
• Mabel, Still Gathering Wisdom (Carolyn Wall)
• Game, Set, Match (Zoe Burke)
• Hort-Head Homicide (Anne Littlewood)
• The Cry Of The Loon (Janet Hubbard)
• Judge Jillian (David Moss)
• Clear Knights (J.C. Lane)
• Disguise (David P. Wagner)
• Sage Advice (Kelly Garrett)
• Girls With Tools (Triss Stein)
• A Fox In The Hand (Tina Whittle)

Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea

Editor: Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks

2017

"Hardboiled. Softboiled. Noir. East Coast. West Coast. And all points in between. Whatever you call them, gumshoe, shamus, Pinkerton, detective, private eye, P.I., shadow, tail, investigator, and wherever you need them, from East to West, North to South. They’re all here. From the hard pavement of Brooklyn, New York, to the mean dusty streets of Carson City. Down to sultry New Orleans and the freak show that’s Venice, CA. From the flim-flammers of Waco, Texas to DC, Las Vegas to San Berdoo and LA. And from Iowa City to San Diego and small town North Carolina — not to mention the low-life drug dealers in a little place called King’s Quarter, Maine. No one is safe in this impressive collection featuring fifteen original private eye stories. Crime fiction connoisseurs will visit one major crime scene after another with some of today’s best-of-the-best crime writers serving as tour guides."

• Windward (Paul D. Marks)
• The Fedora (Terrill Lee Lankford)
• The #2 Pencil (Matt Coyle)
• Vengeance Is Mine (Gay Toltl Kinman)
• Kill My Wife, Please (Robert J. Randisi)
• Gun Work (John M. Floyd)
• Mr. Private Eye Behind The Motel With A .38 (Michael Bracken)
• Out Of Business (Eric Beetner)
• Featuring Martin And Lewis (O'Neil De Noux)
• A Necessary Ingredient (Art Taylor)
• Life Goes To The Dogs (Meredith Cole)
• Not The Way It Looks (J. L. Abramo)
• The House On Maple Street (Janice Law)
• Finding Justice (Thomas Donahue)
• King's Quarter (Andrew McAleer)

Hard Sentences: Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz

Editor: David James Keaton and Joe Clifford

2017

"Inside these walls, you'll find 19 stories detailing the cold, strange history of The Rock, nightmares real and imagined, including the deadly, acid-induced legacy of Whitey Bulger, Al Capone's final days, as well as dark tales of Robert "Birdman" Stroud, Creepy Karpis, and other less-notorious but equally memorable prisoners."

• Introduction: Slam Dunk At The Mesoamerican Ballgame (David James Keaton)
• Break (Glenn Gray)
• The Children And The Gardener (Amber Sparks)
• Being Whitey (Nick Mamatas)
• Dream Flyer (Les Edgerton)
• The Sympathizers (Rory Costello)
• Clean Shot (Jedidiah Ayres)
• The Ballad Of Easton Tucker (Michael Gonzalez)
• Xystocheir (Carrie Laben)
• The Eighth (Johnny Shaw)
• Bodhisattva Badass (Mark Rapacz)
• The Ghosts Of 14D (Joshua Chaplinsky)
• Send 'Im A Chicago Sunset (Nik Korpon)
• Creeping (Gabino Iglesias)
• Stash (Dino Parenti)
• Roller Canary (Max Booth III)
• The Gas Chamber (Rob Hart)
• A Broken Window (Matthew McBride)
• The Music Box (Leah Rhyne)
• Live At Alcatraz (Nick Kolakowski)

Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash

Editor: Joe Clifford

2017

"Featuring some of today’s best crime fiction writers, Just to Watch Him Die is a kick-ass collection of wronged men and women who, like Johnny, walk the line every day, fighting for what they believe is right."

• Foreword (Micah Schnabel)
• Like The 309 (Rob Hart)
• God's Gonna Cut You Down (Jen Conley)
• One Piece At A Time (David James Keaton)
• A Boy Named Zoe? (Lynne Barrett)
• Rusty Cage (David Corbett)
• The Ballad Of Forty Dollars (Tom Hazuka)
• Sunday Morning, Coming Down/ Mike Creeden)
• Rose Of My Heart (Nik Korpon)
• Missouri Waltz (Sarah M. Chen)
• Hurt (Terrence Mccauley)
• 25 Minues To Go (S.W. Lauden)
• Want To Go Home (Gabino Iglesias)
• Don't Take Your Guns To Town (Danny Gardner)
• Ring Of Fire (James Grady)
• Thirteen (Rene Asher Pickup)
• Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow (Hector Duarte Jr.)
• Folsom Prison Blues (Ryan Leone)
• Walk The Line (James R. Tuck)
• Jackson (Angel Luis Colon)
• I Don't Know Where I'm Bound (Jennifer Maritza McCauley)
• I Still Miss Someone (Steven Ostrowski)
• Man In Black (Terri Lynn Coop)
• Understand Your Man (Max Booth III)
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (Heath Lowrance)

Dirty Boulevard: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Lou Reed

Editor: David James Keaton

2018

"Inspired by the outcasts, outlaws, and other outré inhabitants of rock legend Lou Reed’s songbook, Dirty Boulevard traffics in crime fiction that’s sometimes velvety and sometimes vicious, but always, absolutely, rock & roll. Inside, you’ll find stories from the fire escapes to the underground, stories filled with metal machine music, stories for gender-bending, rule-breaking, mind-blasting midnight revelries and drunken, dangerous, dark nights of the heart."

Unloaded Vol 2: More Crime Writers Writing Without Guns

Editor: Eric Beetner

2018

"Two dozen more crime writers have come together to raise their voices and take pen in hand to call for a sensible and reasoned debate about guns in America. As the mass shootings continue, the avoidable accidents, the suicides, the gun violence that consumes our country rolls on unabated and unaddressed by our leadership other than to say, 'Now is not the time to discuss it,' these crime writers have chosen to start the dialogue."

• Introduction (Sara Paretsky)
• From The Editor (Eric Beetner)
• Con Season (Chris Holm)
• Endgame (Laura Mchugh)
• Pan Paniscus (James Ziskin)
• The Neon Punch (Steve Cavanagh)
• You Kill Me (Terry Shames)
• We Have To Talk (Dave White)
• Poo-Poo (Bill Crider)
• I'll Miss You, Baby (Alex Segura)
• Do What He Says (Dana King)
• Julie Heart Number Three (James R. Tuck)
• Flight (Kris Calvin)
• Habeas Corpus (Andrew Case)
• Losing Kind /Jay Stringer)
• Character Is Everything (Jon Mcgoran)
• Outlaws (Lori Rader-Day)
• A Vanishing Story (Michael Kardos)
• Barrio Math (Josh Stallings)
• When At Last She Spoke (John Rector)
• Maiden's Light (Lili Wright)
• Amanda: A Confession (Nick Kolakowski)
• Magic 8 Ball (Scott Loring Sanders)
• The Unforeseen Hazards Of Hitchhiking (David James Keaton)
• The Center (E.A. Aymar)

Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction

Editor: Lawrence Raphael

Jewish Lights

2018

"From a corporate giant's kidnapping of a rabbi, to the disappearance of the clarinetist in a klezmer band, to four rabbis' use of their text interpretation skills to help a detective solve a murder that one of them has committed, this unique collection of mysteries will enlighten you at the same time it intrigues and entertains. While featuring enough death and deception to keep the detective protagonists on their toes, each story presents the uncertainties that are a part of contemporary Jewish identity inviting us all to confront our own mysteries of being."

• O! Little Town Of Bedlam (Toni Brill)
• The Reading (Howard Engel)
• A Final Midrash (Richard Fliegel)
• The Bread Of Affliction (Michael A. Kahn)
• Confession (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• Holy Water (Faye Kellerman)
• Jacob's Voice (Ronald Levitsky)
• Poison (Ellen Rawlings)
• Lost Polars (Shelley Singer)
• The Good Rabbi (Bob Sloan)
• Wailing Reed (Janice Steinberg)
• Mom Remembers (James Yaffe)
• Kaddish (Batya Swift Yasgur)

Blood Work: Remembering Gary Shulze Once Upon A Crime

Editor: Rick Ollerman

2018

"Many of today’s top writers get together to celebrate the themes of books and bookstores (and even a tuba or two!) As we celebrate the life of Mystery Writers of America Raven Award-winning Gary Shulze, long-time owner of the legendary Once Upon a Crime bookstore in Minneapolis. Gary left an indelible mark on the crime fiction community across the world before he passed away in 2016 due to complications from leukemia. Join as Duane Swierczynski, William Kent Krueger, Randy Wayne White, Jess Lourey, Stuart Neville and more come together in this tribute to a man whose legacy will not be forgotten."

• Introduction (Rick Ollerman)
• Lush (Duane Swierczynski)
• Undeliverable (Libby Fischer Hellmann)
• Seven Fiancees (David Housewright)
• House on the Mound (Randy Wayne White)
• Just Another Cold Case (William Kent Krueger)
• Ticket to Hell (Kristi Belcamino)
• Message from a Dead Man (Michael Allan Mallory)
• Melanie (Jen Conley)
• Faith (Stuart Neville)
• Tommy the Turtle and the Tuba (Michael A. Black)
• The Adventure of the First Problem (Jess Lourey)
• The Stolen Arm (Scott Adlerberg)
• The Shoe Tack (Reed Farrel Coleman)
• Return (Eric Beetner)
• Malta (Terrence McCauley)
• Unsafe (Lois Greiman)
• At the Laundromat (Nick Petrie)
• The Secret Adversary (Jessie Chandler)
• I’m With It: A Love Story (Gary R. Bush)
• The Case of the Missing Tuba (Michael Stanley)
• Tide Kings (Rick Ollerman)
• An Orchestral Caper (Don Bruns)
• The Last Customer (John Gaspard)
• The Dead Man Blues (Lissa Marie Redmond)
• The Truck Stop (Jenny Milchman)
• Backlit (Michael Bracken)
• The Funkafied Man (Gary Phillips)
• Moose Tracks (Dave Case)
• One for the Books (Austin Camacho)
• Subtle Notes (Case Younggren)

Blood Work: Remembering Gary Shulze Once Upon A Crime

Editor: Chris Rhatigan and Ron Earl Phillips

2018

"Deadlines is a tribute anthology dedicated to the memory of writer and crime fiction enthusiast, William E. Wallace. A career journalist, Wallace got a first-hand look at the darker side of humanity working at various papers in California before settling at the San Francisco Chronicle. Upon retiring, Wallace engaged fully into the crime fiction community connecting with writers and readers not only to promote his own writing, but to promote other writers he enjoyed. It is through William E. Wallace’s career and his stories that the contributors to this anthology take inspiration. These stories are presented with appreciation to his unselfish contribution to our community and our publications."

Murder-a-Go-Go's: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of The Go-Go's

Editor: Holly West

Down & Out Books

2019

"The Go-Go’s effervescent sound and cheerful pop stylings, a darkness underlies many of their lyrics and melodies, hinting at the heartache and frustration inherent in growing up. In other words, plenty to inspire murder and mayhem."

• Foreword (Jane Wiedlin)
• Introduction (Holly West)
• Our Lips Are Sealed (Lori Rader-Day)
• You Thought (Susanna Calkins)
• Vacation (S.W. Lauden)
• Good For Gone (Jen Conley)
• This Town (Greg Herren)
• Tonite (R.D. Sullivan)
• Blades (Steve Weddle)
• It’s Everything But Partytime (Lisa Alber)
• Skidmarks On My Heart (Eric Beetner)
• Head Over Heels (Craig Faustus Buck)
• You Can’t Walk In Your Sleep (Nadine Nettmann)
• We Got The Beat (Thomas Pluck)
• We Just Don’t Get Along (Diane Vallere)
• Mercenary (Bryon Quertermous)
• Beatnik Beach (Patricia Abbott)
• Fading Fast (Sarah M. Chen)
• Johnny Are You Queer? (Travis Richardson)
• The Way You Dance (Renee Asher Pickup)
• The Whole World Lost Its Head (Josh Stallings)
• Kissing Asphalt (Dharma Kelleher)
• Girl Of 100 Lists (Stephen Buehler)
• Forget That Day (Wendall Thomas)
• Lust To Love (Jessica Ellis)
• How Much More (Lisa Brackmann)
• Unforgiven (Hilary Davidson)