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Brown cloth over black boards. Seven short stories, chosen by the author. 275 pp.
The Best of Rumpole
Mortimer, John
New York: Viking Press, 1993.
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This anthology includes a short story set in each of the fifty states, plus one for Washington, DC. The editors chose the stories "for their drama, color, and variety."
A Treasury of American Mystery Stories
McSherry, Frank D., Jr., Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg
New York: Bonanza Books, 1989.
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This anthology of 11 stories resulted from a challenge made by Mary Higgins Clark to contribute a story. The authors could write whatever they wanted to write--but they must incorporate three things into the story: a thick fog, a thick steak, and a thick book. Authors include Lawrence Block, Edna Buchanan, Carol Higgins Clark, Nelson and Luren DeMille, Janet Evanovich, Linda Fairstein, Walter Mosley, Nancy Pickard, Ann Rule, Donald E. Westlake, and Mary Higgins Clark herself.
The Plot Thickens
Clark, Mary Higgins, ed.
New York: Pocket Books, 1997.
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A dozen and a half short stories by such authors as Nicholas Blake, Edmund Crispin, and Leslie Charteris, selected by Ellery Queen as representative examples of the evolution of the mystery in the decade of the 40s.
Masterpieces of Mystery. The Forties. Selected by Ellery Queen
Queen, Ellery, compiler.
Davis Publications, 1978.
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This anthology includes over 20 specially commissioned stories, with a focus on Roman and Celtic times, and the Middle Ages. Only one of the stories has been previously published. Authors include Cherith Baldry, Richard Butler, Mat Coward, Jean Davidson, Carole Anne Davis, Kate Ellis, Paul Finch, Margaret Frazer, Peter Garratt, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Claire Griffen, Edward D. Hoch, Michael Jecks, Michael Kurland, Mary Reed with Eric Mayer, Rosemary Rowe, Steven Saylor, Keith Taylor, Marilyn Todd, Peter Tremayne, and Derek Wilson.
The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits
Ashley, Mike, editor
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001.
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This anthology contains twenty stories ranging from classics by Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson to modern sleuths Jemima Shore and McLean of Scotland Yard. Other authors include Doug Allyn, Hugh B. Cave, Basil Copper, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Elizabeth Ferrars, Edward D. Hoch, James Hogg, P. M. Hubbard, Michael Innes, Christopher Johnston, Bill Knox, Ian Rankin, Rafael Sabatini, Catherine Sinclair, Guy N. Smith, and Peter Turnbull.
Murder Most Scottish
Dziemianowicz, Stefan, Bob Adey, Ed Gorman, and Martin H. Greenberg, selectors
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1999.
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Inscribed by author on title page: "Enjoy the journey! R. L. Edinger." A collection of short stories by Wisconsin author Edinger. The stories are linked by the protagonist, Private Investigator Andrew Knight.
Journey into the Knight
Edinger, R. L.
Madison, WI: Goblin Fern Press, 2005.
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This little volume includes 35 short works, illustrated with drawings by the author.
Good Bones and Simple Murders
Atwood, Margaret
New York: Nan A. Talese, 2001.
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The San Francisco Chronicle called this "a best book of the year." This collection of stories includes: Portions, The History of Vegas, Supplement, The Skin From the Muscle, Push, Seconds, Rolling Over, Donny, Whistle Pig, and Rounding Third.
The History of Vegas
Angel, Jodi
San Francisco: Chronicle Press, 2005.
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Mostly modern tales, written in the 1990s through 2000.
Crafty Cat Crimes: 100 Tiny Cat Tale Mysteries
Dziemianowicz, Stefan, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg, ed.
New York: Barnes & Noble, 2000.
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Mary Higgins Clark modeled her new husband and wife sleuths, Henry Parker Britland IV and his wife "Sunday" after the characters in a radio drama she listened to as a child. Henry is a former U.S. President, and "Sunday" is his wife and a member of Congress. The mysteries they solve are those that arise within their circle of friends. My Gal Sunday includes four stories.
My Gal Sunday
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966.
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Mary Higgins Clark modeled her new husband and wife sleuths, Henry Parker Britland IV and his wife "Sunday" after the characters in a radio drama she listened to as a child. Henry is a former U.S. President, and "Sunday" is his wife and a member of Congress. The mysteries they solve are those that arise within their circle of friends. My Gal Sunday includes four stories.
My Gal Sunday
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
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This is a textbook with collection of two dozen stories by mystery writers such as Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, and Joan Hess. Following each story is a series of questions and a writing exercise.
Detectives: Stories for Thinking, Solving, and Writing
Eidelberg, Robert
New York: AMSCO Publications, Inc., 2000.
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Fourteen short stories about the boxing world. Authors include: Doug Allyn, Andrew Bergman, Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Thomas H. Cook, Loren D. Estelman, James Grady, Edward H. Hoch, Clark Howard, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Mike Lupica, Joyce Carol Oates, John Shannon, and F. X. Toole.
Murder on the Ropes: Original Boxing Mysteries
Penzler, Otto, editor
Beverly Hills: New Millennium Press, 2001.
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The fifteen short stories included in this volume are: "The Last Open File," "Merrill-Go-Round," "Wild Mustard," "The Broken Men," "Deceptions," "Cache and Carry," "Deadly Fantasies," "All the Lonely People," "The Place That Time Forgot," "Somewhere in the City," "Final Resting Place," "Silent Night," "Benny's Space," "The Lost Coast," "Final Case."
The McCone Files
Muller, Marcia
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1995.
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Stories included in this anthology are: The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; A Marriage Tragedy, by Wilkie Collins; Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune, by Robert Barr; The Fordwych Castle Mystery, by Emmuska, Baroness Orczy; The Blue Scarab, by R. Austin Freeman; the Doom of the Darnaways, by G. K. Chesterton; The Shadow on the Glass, by Dame Agatha Christie; The Queen's Square, by Dorothy L. Sayers; Death on the Air, by Dame Ngaio Marsh; The Same to Us, by Margery Allingham; the Hunt Ball, by Freeman Wills Crofts; the Incautious Burglar, by John Dickson Carr; Jeeves and the Stolen Venus, by P. G. Wodehouse; Fen Hall, by Ruth Rendell; The Death of amy Robsart, by Cyril Hare; The Man on the Roof, by Christianna Brand; The Long Shot, by Nicholas Blake; An Unlocked Window, by Ethel Lina White; The Woods-for-the-Trees, by Philip MacDonald; Death in the Sun, by Michael Innes; A Very Desirable Residence, by P. D. James; and The Worcester Enigma, by James Miles.
English Country House Murders: Tales of Perfidious Albion
Godfrey, Thomas, ed.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1989.
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Perhaps better known for his thrillers, Elmore Leonard began his writing career writing westerns. This collection of 31 short stories includes his very first published tale, The Trail of the Apache. Other titles are: Apache Medicine; You Never See Apaches . . .; Red Hell Hits Canyon Diablo; The Colonel's Lady; Law of the Hunted Ones; Cavalry Boots; Under the Friar's Ledge; The Rustlers; Three-Ten to Yuma (on which the movie by the same name was based); The Big Hunt; Long Night; The Boy Who Smiled; The Hard Way; The Last Shot; Blood Money; Trouble at Rindo's Station; Saint with a Six-Gun; The Captives; No Man's Guns; The Rancher's Lady; Jugged; Moment of Vengeance; Man With the Iron Arm; The Longest Day of his Life; The Nagual; The Kid; Only Good Ones; The Tonto Woman; "Hurrah for Captain Early!"
The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
Leonard, Elmore
New York: Harper, 2007.
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Stories included in this compilation are: Ginger's Waterloo, by Peter Lovesey; Bedeviled: A "Nameless Detective" Story by Bill Pronzini; A Weekend at Lookout Lodge, by Joan E. Hess; Tea and 'Biscuit, by John L. Breen; Horatio Ruminates, by Dorothy B. Hughes; Scat, by Barbara Paul; Blindsided, by William J. Reynolds; the Last Temptation of Tony the C., by Cristopher Fahy; Buster, by Bill Crider; Catnap, by David H. Everson; Last Kiss, by Douglas Borton; Little Cat Feet, by Les Roberts; Finicky, by John Lutz; The Duel, by J. A. Jance; Archimedes and the Doughnuts, by Gene De Weese and Barbara Paul; The Lower Wacker Hilton, by Barbara D'Amato; A Proper Burial, by Barbara Collins.
Cat Crimes
Greenberg, Martin H. and Ed Gorman, eds.
Seacaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1991.
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More than 50 stories of the Ojibwe tradition. Illustrated with drawings by Sharon L. White.
When Beaver Was Very Great: Stories to Live By
Dunn, Anne M.
Mount Horeb, WI: Midwest Traditions, 1995.
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A collection of forty stories, gathered under such headings as: Legendary Sleuths; Masters of the Mystery; Masters of Suspense; and Masterworks of Crime and Detection.
Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense
Greenberg, Martin H.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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