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This page lists crime fiction anthologies published in the Black Lizard Big Book series.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age: The '20s, '30s & '40s

Editor: Otto Penzler

2007

"Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train--a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best."

• One, Two, Three (Paul Cain)
• The Creeping Siamese (Dashiell Hammett)
• Honest Money (Erie Stanley Gardner)
• Frost Rides Alone (Horace Mccoy)
• Double Check (Thomas Walsh)
• Stag Party (Charles G. Booth)
• The City Of Hell! (Leslie T. White)
• Red Wind (Raymond Chandler)
• Wise Guy (Frederick Nebel)
• Murder Picture (George Harmon Coxe)
• The Price Of A Dime (Norbert Davis)
• Chicago Confetti (William Rollins, Jr.)
• The Third Murderer (Carroll John Daly)
• The Cat-Woman (Erie Stanley Gardner)
• The Dilemma Of The Dead Lady (Cornell Woolrich)
• The House Of Kaa (Richard Sale)
• The Invisible Millionaire (Leslie Charteris)
• You'll Always Remember Me (Steve Fisher)
• Faith (Dashiell Hammett)
• Pastorale (James M. Cain)
• The Sad Serbian (Frank Gruber)
• Finger Man (Raymond Chandler)
• The Monkey Murder (Erie Stanley Gardner)
• About Kid Deth (Raoul Whitfield)
• The Sinister Sphere (Frederick C. Davis)
• Pigeon Blood (Paul Cain)
• The Perfect Crime (C.S. Montanye)
• You'll Die Laughing (Norbert Davis)
• The Crimes Of Richmond City: Raw Law)
• Bog Eat Dog / The Law Laughs Last / Law Without Law / Graft (Frederick Nebel)
• Introduction (Harlan Ellison)
• The Cat Woman (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• The Dilemma Of The Dead Lady (Cornell Woolrich)
• The House Of Kaa (Richard B. Sale)
• The Invisible Millionaire (Leslie Charteris)
• You'll Always Remember Me (Steve Fisher)
• Pastorale (James M. Cain)
• The Sad Serbian (Frank Gruber)
• Faith (Dashiell Hammett)
• Finger Man (Raymond Chandler)
• The Monkey Murder (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• About Kid Deth (Raoul Whitfield)
• The Sinister Sphere (Frederick C. Davis)
• Pigeon Blood (Paul Cain)
• The Perfect Crime (C.S. Montanye)
• You'll Die Laughing (Norbert Davis)
• The Crimes Of Richmond City (Frederick Nebel)
• Angel Face (Cornell Woolrich)
• Chosen To Die (Leslie T. White)
• A Pinch Of Snuff (Eric Taylor)
• Killer In The Rain (Raymond Chandler)
• Sally The Sleuth (Adolphe Barreaux)
• A Shock For The Countess (C.S. Montanye)
• Snowbound (C.B. Yorke)
• The Firl Who Knew Too Much (Randolph Barr)
• The Corpse In The Crystal (D.B. Mccandless)
• He Got What He Asked For (D.B. Mccandless)
• Gangster's Brand (P.T. Luman)
• Dance Macabre (Robert Reeves)
• The Girl With The Silver Eyes (Dashiell Hammett)
• The Jane From Hell's Kitchen (Perry Paul)
• The Duchess Pulls A Fast One (Whitman Chambers)
• Mansion Of Death (Roger Torrey)
• Concealed Weapon (Roger Torrey)
• The Devil's Bookkeeper (Carlos Martinez)
• Black Legion (Lars Anderson)
• Three Wise Men Of Babylon (Richard Sale)
• The Adventure Of The Voodoo Moon (Eugene Thomas)
• Brother Murder (T.T. Flynn)
• Kindly Omit Flowers (Stewart Sterling)

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories: The Greatest Crime Fiction From The Legendary Magazine

Editor: Otto Penzler

2010

"Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America's finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America's underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this."

• Come And Get It (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• Cry Silence (Fredric Brown)
• Arson Plus (Peter Collinson)
• Fall Guy (George Harmon Coxe)
• Doors In The Dark (Frederick Nebel)
• Luck (Lester Dent)
• The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
• Ten Carats Of Lead (Stewart Sterling)
• Murder Is Bad Luck (Wyatt Blassingame)
• Her Dagger Before Me (Talmadge Powell)
• One Shot (Charles G. Booth)
• Dance Rats (Richard Sale)
• Bracelets (Katherine Brocklebank)
• Diamonds Mean Death (Thomas Walsh)
• Murder In The Ring (Raoul Whitfield)
• The Parrot That Wouldn't Talk (Walter C. Brown)
• Let The Dead Alone (Merle Constiner)
• Knights Of The Open Palm (Carroll John Daly)
• Waiting For Rusty (William Cole)
• Rainbow Diamonds (Ramon Decolta)
• The Ring On The Hand Of Death (William Rollins, Jr.)
• Body Snatcher (Theodore A. Tinsley)
• Murder On The Gayway (Dwight V. Babcock)
• The Key (Cleve F. Adams)
• The Bloody Bokhara (William Campbell Gault)
• A Taste For Cognac (Brett Halliday)
• Sauce For The Gander (Day Keene)
• A Little Different (W. T. Ballard)
• G The Shrieking Skeleton (Charles M. Green)
• Drop Dead Twice (Hank Searles)
• The Sound Of The Shot (Dale Clark)
• Flaming Angel (Federick C. Davis)
• Odds On Death (Don M. Mankiewicz)
• Those Catrini (Norvell Page)
• Smoke In Your Eyes (Hugh B. Cave)
• Blood, Sweat And Biers (Robert Reeves)
• The Black Bottle (Whitman Chambers)
• The Corpse Didn't Kick (Milton K. Ozaki)
• Try The Girl (Raymond Chandler)
• Don't Cry For Me (Norbert Davis)
• T. Mcguirk Steals A Diamond)
• Wait For Me (Steve Fisher)
• Ask Me Another (Frank Gruber)
• Dirty Work (Horace Mccoy)
• Merely Murder (Julius Long)
• Murder In One Syllable (John D. Macdonald)
• The Apes From The East (H.H. Stinson)
• The Color Of Honor (Richard Connell)
• Middleman For Murder (Bruno Fischer)
• The Man Who Chose The Devil (Richard Deming)
• Beer-Bottle Polka (C.M. Kornbluth)
• Borrowed Crime (Cornell Woolrich)

The Big Book of Ghost Stories

Editor: Otto Penzler

2012

"A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted - and haunting--ghost tales. Includes eerie vintage ghost illustrations."

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Editor: Otto Penzler

2013

"From Victorian detective stories to modern mysteries, police procedurals to pulp fiction, comic gems to cozy crime, there's something for every festive mood in this must-read collection starring sixty of the world's favourite detectives."

• The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding (Agatha Christie)
• Gold, Frankincense And Murder (Catherine Aird)
• Boxing Unclever (Robert Barnard)
• The Proof Of The Pudding (Peter Lovesey)
• The Adventure Of The Dauphin's Doll (Ellery Queen)
• Morse's Greatest Mystery (Colin Dexter)
• More Than Flesh And Blood (Susan Moody)
• The Butler's Christmas Eve (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
• The Trinity Cat (Ellis Peters)
• The Burglar And The Whatsit (Donald E. Westlake)
• Dancing Dan's Christmas (Damon Runyon)
• A Visit From St. Nicholas (Ron Goulart)
• The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
• Rumpole And The Spirit Of Christmas (John Mortimer)
• A Reversible Santa Clause (Meredith Nicholson)
• A Scandal In Winter (Gillian Linscott)
• The Christmas Client (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Secret In The Pudding Bag & Herlock Sholmes's Christmas Case (Peter Todd)
• Christmas Eve (S.C. Roberts)
• The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Dead On Christmas Street (John D. Macdonald)
• Crime's Christmas Carol (Norvell Page)
• Serenade To A Killer (Joseph Commings)
• The Haunted Crescent (Peter Lovesey)
• A Christmas In Camp (Edmund Cox)
• The Christmas Bogey (Pat Frank)
• The Killer Christian (Andrew Klavan)
• The Ghost's Touch (Fergus Hume)
• A Wreath For Marley (Max Allan Collins)
• The Carol Singers (Josephine Bell)
• Waxworks (Ethel Lina White)
• Cambric Tea (Marjorie Bowen)
• The 74th Tale (Jonathan Santlofer)
• The Uninnocent (Bradford Morrow)
• Blue Christmas (Peter Robinson)
• Noel, Noel (Barry Perowne)
• Death On Christmas Eve (Stanley Ellin)
• The Chinese Apple (Joseph Shearing)
• And All Through The House (Ed Mcbain)
• An Early Christmas (Doug Allyn)
• The Live Tree (John Lutz)
• Three-Dot Po (Sara Paretsky)
• Mad Dog (Dick Lochte)
• Sister Bessie (Cyril Hare)
• That's The Ticket (Mary Higgins Clark)
• Death On The Air (Ngaio Marsh)
• The Thirteenth Day Of Christmas (Isaac Asimov)
• The Christmas Kitten (Ed Gorman)
• The Santa Claus Club (Julian Symons)
• The Flying Stars (G.K. Chesterton)
• Christmas Party (Rex Stout)
• The Raffles Relics (E.W. Hornung)
• The Price Of Light (Ellis Peters)
• A Present For Santa Sahib (H.R.F. Keating)
• The Christmas Train (Will Scott)
• Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry)
• The Chopham Affair (Edgar Wallace)
• A Christmas Tragedy (Agatha Christie)

The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries

Editor: Otto Penzler

2014

"Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form--a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth--this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances."

• The Murders In The Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Problem Of Cell 13 (Jacques Futrelle)
• A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins)
• The Two Bottles Of Relish (Lord Dunsany)
• The Invisible Man (G. K. Chesterton)
• The Doomdorf Mystery (Melville Davisson Post)
• The Adventure Of The Speckled Band (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Wrong Problem (John Dickson Carr)
• The Thing Invisible (William Hope Hodgson)
• Department Of Impossible Crimes (James Yaffe)
• The Aluminium Dagger (R. Austin Freeman)
• The Crewel Needle (Gerald Kersh)
• The Doctor's Case (Stephen King)
• A Knife Between Brothers (Manly Wade Wellman)
• The Glass Gravestone (Joseph Commings)
• The Tea Leaf (Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace)
• The Flung-Back Lid (Peter Godfrey)
• The Crooked Picture (John Lutz)
• Blind Man's Hood (Carter Dickson)
• The Man From Nowhere (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Laughing Butcher (Fredric Brown)
• The Sands Of Thyme (Michael Innes)
• The Flying Death (Samuel Hopkins Adams)
• The Flying Corpse (A. E. Martin)
• The Flying Hat (Vincent Cornier)
• The Day The Children Vanished (Hugh Pentecost)
• The Twelfth Statue (Stanley Ellin)
• All At Once, No Alice (William Irish)
• Beware Of The Trains (Edmund Crispin)
• The Locked Bathroom (H. R. F. Keating)
• Mike, Alec, And Rufus (Dashiell Hammett)
• The Episode Of The Torment Iv (C. Daly King)
• Greaves' Disappearance (Julian Hawthorne)
• The House Of Haunts (Ellery Queen)
• The Monkey Trick (J. E. Gurdon)
• The Ordinary Hairpins (E. C. Bentley)
• The Phantom Motor (Jacques Futrelle)
• The Theft Of The Bermuda Penny (Edward D. Hoch)
• Room Number 23 (Judson Philips)
• The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke (Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block)
• The Kestar Diamond Case (Augustus Muir)
• The Odour Of Sanctity (Kate Ellis)
• The Problem Of The Old Oak Tree (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Invisible Weapon (Nicholas Olde)
• The Confession Of Rosa Vitelli (Ray Cummings)
• The Locked Room To End Locked Rooms (Stephen Barr)
• Nothing Is Impossible (Clayton Rawson)
• Where Have You Gone, Sam Spade? (Bill Pronzini)
• In A Telephone Cabinet (G. D. H. Cole & M. I. Cole)
• Death Out Of Thin Air (Stuart Towne)
• The Dream (Agatha Christie)
• The Border-Line Case (Margery Allingham)
• The Bradmoor Murder (Melville Davisson Post)
• The Man Who Like Toys (Leslie Charteris)
• The Ashcomb Poor Case (Hulbert Footner)
• The Little House At Croix-Rousse (Georges Simenon)
• The Bird In The Hand (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• The Gulverbury Diamonds (David Durham)
• The Fifth Tube (Frederick Irving Anderson)
• The Strange Case Of Steinkelwintz (Mackinlay Kantor)
• Arsene Lupin In Prison (Maurice Leblanc)
• The Mystery Of The Strong Room (L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace)
• No Way Out (Dennis Lynds)
• The Episode Of The Codex' Curse (C. Daly King)
• The Poisoned Dow '08 (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• A Traveller's Tale (Margaret Frazer)
• Death At The Excelsior (P. G. Wodehouse)
• Waiting For Godstow (Martin Edwards)

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories

Editor: Otto Pnzler

2015

"Here, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years.

• The Field Bazaar (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• How Watson Learned The Trick (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Unique "Hamlet" (Vincent Starrett)
• The Stolen Cigar-Case (Bret Harte)
• The Case Of The Man Who Was Wanted (Arthur Whitaker)
• The Adventure Of The Two Collaborators (James M. Barrie)
• The Sleuths (O. Henry)
• Holmes And The Dasher (A.B. Cox)
• An Irreducible Detective Story (Stephen Leacock)
• The Doctor's Case (Stephen King)
• The Brown Recluse (Davis Grubb)
• The Darkwater Hall Mystery (Kingsley Amis)
• The Case Of The Gifted Amateur (J.C. Masterman)
• The Late Sherlock Homes (James M. Barrie)
• Sherlock Holmes And The Drood Mystery (Edmund Pearson)
• The Rape Of The Sherlock (A.A. Milne)
• From A Detective's Notebook (P.G. Wodehouse)
• The Adventure Of The Remarkable Worm (August Derleth)
• The Enchanted Garden (H.F. Heard)
• A Study In Handwriting (Ring W. Lardner)
• The Case Of Death And Honey (Neil Gaiman)
• Murder To Music (Anthony Burgess)
• An Evening With Sherlock Holmes (James M. Barrie)
• Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures Of Sherlaw Kombs (Robert Barr)
• Sherlock Holmes Vs Conan Doyle (Anonymous)
• The Duke's Feather (R.C. Lehmann)
• The Sign Of The "400" (Roy. L. Mccardell)
• Codeine (7 Per Cent) (Christopher Morley)
• Mrs. Hudson's Case (Laurie R. King)
• The Final Problem (Bliss Austin)
• The Adventure Of The Boggle-Wolf (Anthony Boucher)
• The Martian Crown Jewels (Poul Anderson)
• Sherlock Among The Spirits (Anonymous)
• The Case Of The Missing Patriarchs (Logan Clendening)
• The Devil And Sherlock Holms (Loren D. Estleman)
• The Strange Case Of The Megatherium Thefts (S.C. Roberts)
• The Adventures Of The Noble Husband (Peter Cannon)
• A Night With Sherlock Holmes (William O. Fuller)
• The Adventure Of The Wooden Box (Leslie S. Klinger)
• The Case Of The Unseen Hand (Donald Thomas)
• The Abandoned Brigantine (Sam Benady)
• The Adventure Of The Curious Canary (Barry Day)
• The Adventure Of The Murdered Art Editor (Frederic Dorr Steele)
• The Darlington Substitution Scandal (David Stuart Davies)
• The Problem Of The Purple Moculas (James C. Iraldi)
• The Adventure Of The Second Swag (Robert Barr)
• Sheer Luck Again (Stanley Rubinstein)
• A Pragmatic Enigma (John Kendrick Bangs)
• Herlock Shomes At It Again (Anonymous)
• The Reigate Road Murder (Anthony Armstrong)
• The Succored Beauty (William B. Kahn)
• The Marriage Of Sherlock Holmes (Gregory Breitman)
• The Return Of Sherlock Holmes (E.F. Benson And Eustace H. Miles)
• The Unmasking Of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Chapman)
• The Adventure Of The Diamond Necklace (Gerome F. Forrest)
• The Adventure Of The Ascot Tie (Robert L. Fish)
• The Case Of Mis-Identity (Colin Dexter)
• The Startling Events In The Electrified City (Thomas Perry)
• The Case Of Colonel Warburton's Madness (Lyndsay Faye)
• The Infernal Machine (John Lutz)
• The Specter Of Tullyfane Abbey (Peter Tremayne)
• The Adventure Of The Agitated Actress (Daniel Stashower)
• The Adventure Of The Dorset Street Lodger (Michael Moorcock)
• The Adventure Of The Venomous Lizard (Bill Crider)
• The Case Of The Friesland Outrage (June Thompson)
• The Strange Case Of The Tongue-Tied Tenor (Carol Buggé)
• The Human Mystery (Tanith Lee)
• Hostage To Fortune (Anne Perry)
• The Adventure Of The Missing Countess (Jon Koons)
• The Adventure Of Zolnay, The Aerialist (Rick Boyer)
• The Adventure Of The Giant Rat Of Sumatra (John L. Lescroart)
• Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule ...? (Julian Symons)
• A Trifling Affair (H.R.F. Keating)
• Raffles: The Enigma Of The Admiral's Hat And Raffles On The Trail Of The Hound (Barry Perowne)
• The Adventure Of The Cipher In The Sand (Edward D. Hoch)
• The South Sea Soup Co. (Kenneth Millar)
• The Adventure Of The Clothes-Line (Carolyn Wells)
• Sherlock Holmes And The Muffin (Dorothy B. Hughes)
• The Man From Capetown (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• But Our Hero Was Not Dead (Manly Wade Wellman)
• The Adventure Of The Marked Man (Stuart Palmer)

The Big Book of Jack The Ripper

Editor: Otto Penzler

2016

"The Big Book of Jack the Ripper immerses you in the utterly chilling world of Red Jack's London, where his unprecedented evil still lurks.

• The True Story. Victims In The Night (David Abrahamsen)
• The Jack The Ripper Murders (Anonymous)
• Key Texts / Witness Statements / Autopsy Reports / The "Ripper Letters" (Maxim Jakubowski And Nathan Braund, Eds.)
• London's Ghastly Mystery (Anonymous)
• The East End Murders: Detailed Lessons (Anonymous)
• Blood Money To Whitechapel (George Bernard Shaw)
• Who Was Jack The Ripper? (Peter Underwood)
• Mystery Solved! (Anonymous)
• "Frenchy": Amir Ben Ali (Edwin M. Borchard)
• Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick (Stephen Hunter)
• Copy Murders And Others (Robin Odell)
• Mystery, Crime, Suspense: Stories. In The Fourth Ward (Theodora Benson)
• Jack (Anne Perry)
• Spring-Fingered Jack (Susan Casper)
• The Uncertain Heiress (Isak Dinesen)
• Knucklebones (Tim Sullivan)
• A Kind Of Madness (Anthony Boucher)
• The Sparrow And The Lark (Lyndsay Faye)
• The Decorator (Boris Akunin)
• Guardian Angel (Gwendolyn Frame)
• In The Slaughteryard (Anonymous)
• The Lodger (Short Story) (Marie Belloc Lowndes)
• The Lodger (Novel) (Marie Belloc Lowndes)
• The Sins Of The Fathers (Scott Baker)
• Don't Fear The Ripper (Holly West)
• The Mysterious Card Unveiled (Cleveland Moffett)
• Jack Be Quick (Barbara Paul)
• A Matter Of Blood (Jeffery Deaver)
• A Study In Terror (Ellery Queen)
• Red Jack: An Inspiration. G.I. Jack (Loren D. Estleman)
• The Legacy (R.L. Stevens)
• Jack's Little Friend (Ramsey Campbell)
• The Stripper (H.H. Holmes)
• The Ripper Experience (Daniel Stashower)
• The Treasure Of Jack The Ripper (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole (Thomas Burke. Saucy Jack: Timeless)
• Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper (Robert Bloch)
• A Toy For Juliette (Robert Bloch)
• The Prowler In The City At The Edge Of The World (Harlan Ellison)
• Gentleman Of The Shade (Harry Turtledove)
• The Adventure Of The Grinder's Whistle (Howard Waldrop)
• Sagittarius (Ray Russell)
• The Demon Spell (Hume Nisbet)
• My Shadow Is The Fog (Charles L. Grant)
• By Flower And Dean Street (Patrice Chaplin)
• The Final Stone (William F. Nolan)
• The Gatecrasher (R. Chetwynd-Hayes)
• A Punishment To Fit The Crimes (Richard A. Gordon)
• From Hell Again (Gregory Frost)
• An Awareness Of Angels (Karl Edward Wagner)
• A Most Unusual Murder (Robert Bloch)
• Jack The Ripper In Hell (Stephen Hunter)

The Big Book of Rogues and Villains

Editor: Otto Penzler

2017

"Now, for the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the iconic traitors, thieves, con men, sociopaths, and killers who have crept through the mystery canon over the past 150 years, captivating and horrifying readers in equal measure.

• At The Edge Of The Crater (L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace)
• The Episode Of The Mexican Seer (Grant Allen)
• The Body Snatcher (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker)
• The Narrative Of Mr. James Rigby (Arthur Morrison)
• The Ides Of March (E.W. Hornung)
• The Story Of A Young Robber (Washington Irving)
• Moon-Face (Jack London)
• The Shadow Of Quong Lung (C.W. Doyle)
• The Fire Of London (Arnold Bennett)
• Madame Sara (L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace)
• The Affair Of The Man Who Called Himself Hamilton Cleek (Thomas W. Hanshew)
• The Mysterious Railway Passenger (Maurice Leblanc)
• An Unposted Letter (Newton Mactavish)
• The Adventure Of "The Brain" (Bertram Atkey)
• The Kailyard Novel (Clifford Ashdown)
• The Parole Of Gevil-Hay (K. & Hesketh Prichard)
• The Hammerpond Park Burlglary (H.G. Wells)
• The Zayat Kiss (Sax Rohmer)
• The Infallible Godahl (Frederick Irving Anderson)
• The Caballero's Way (O. Henry)
• Conscience In Art (O. Henry)
• The Unpublishable Memoirs (A.S.W. Rosenbach)
• The Universal Covered Carpet Tack Company (George Randolph Chester)
• Boston Blackie's Code (Jack Boyle)
• The Gray Seal (Frank L. Packard)
• The Dignity Of Honest Labor (Percival Pollard)
• The Eyes Of The Countess Gerda (May Edginton)
• The Willow Walk (Sinclair Lewis)
• A Retrieved Reformation (O. Henry)
• The Burglar (John Russell)
• Portrait Of A Murderer (Q. Patrick)
• Karmesin And The Big Flea (Gerald Kersh)
• The Very Raffles-Like Episode Of Castor And Pollux, Diamonds De Luxe (Harry Stephen Keeler)
• The Most Dangerous Game (Richard Connell)
• Four Square Jane (Edgar Wallace)
• A Fortune In Tin (Edgar Wallace)
• The Genuine Old Master (David Durham)
• The Colonel Gives A Party (Everett Rhodes Castle)
• Footsteps Of Fear (Vincent Starrett)
• The Signed Masterpiece (Frederick Irving Anderson)
• The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole (Thomas Burke)
• "His Lady" To The Rescue (Bruce Graeme)
• On Getting An Introduction (Edgar Wallace)
• The Fifteen Murderers (Ben Hecht)
• The Damsel In Distress (Leslie Charteris)
• After-Dinner Story (William Irish)
• The Mystery Of The Golden Skull (Donald E. Keyhoe)
• We Are All Dead (Bruno Fischer)
• Horror Insured (Paul Ernst)
• A Shock For The Countess (C.S. Montanye)
• A Shabby Millionaire (Christopher B. Booth)
• Crimson Shackles (Frederick C. Davis)
• The Adventures Of The Voodoo Moon (Eugene Thomas)
• The Copper Bowl (George Fielding Eliot)
• The Cat-Woman (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• The Theft From The Empty Room (Edward D. Hoch)
• The Shill (Stephen Marlowe)
• The Dr. Sherrock Commission (Frank Mcauliffe)
• In Round Figures (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• The Racket Buster (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• Sweet Music (Robert L. Fish)
• The Ehrengraf Experience (Lawrence Block)
• Quarry's Luck (Max Allan Collins)
• The Partnership (David Morrell)
• Blackburn Sins (Bradley Denton)
• The Black Spot (Loren D. Estleman)
• Car Trouble (Jas. D. Petrin)
• Keller On The Spot (Lawrence Block)
• Boudin Noir (R.T. Lawton)
• Like A Thief In The Night (Lawrence Block)
• Too Many Crooks (Donald E. Westlake)

The Big Book of The Continental Op

Dashiell Hammett

Editor: Richard Layman; Julie M Rivett

2017

"This book features all twenty-eight of the original standalone Continental Op stories, the original serialized versions of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, and previously unpublished material. This anthology of Continental Op stories is the only complete, one-volume work of its kind."

• Foreword: Through Mud And Blood And Death And Deceit
• Section One: The Sutton Years, 1923-1924
  Introduction
  Arson Plus
  Crooked Souls
  Slippery Fingers
  It
  Bodies Piled Up
  The Tenth Clew
  Night Shots
  Zigzags Of Treachery
  One Hour
• Section Two: The Cody Years, 1924-1926
  Introduction
  The House In Turk Street
  The Girl With The Silver Eyes
  Women, Politics & Murder
  The Golden Horseshoe
  Who Killed Bob Teal?
  Mike Or Alec Or Rufus
  The Whosis Kid
  The Scorched Face
  Corkscrew
  Dead Yellow Women
  The Gutting Of Couffignal
  Creeping Siamese
• Section Three: The Shaw Years, 1926-1930
  Introduction
  The Big Knock-Over
  $106,000 Blood Money
  The Main Death
  This King Business
  Fly Paper
  The Farewell Murder
  Death And Company
• Bonus: The Unfinished Op. Commentary
• Three Dimes
  
• Section Four: The Continental Op Novels
  Introduction: The Cleansing Of Poisonville
  Crime Wanted--Male Or Female
  Dynamite
  The 19th Murder
  Introduction: The Dain Curse
  Black Lives
  The Hollow Temple
  Black Honeymoon
  Black Riddle
  

The Big Book of Female Detectives

Editor: Otto Penzler

2018

"For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.