The World's Finest Mystery...

by Ed Gorman

  HUFFMAN, BOB. Legal Fictions. Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts. Fourteen very short stories about the American legal system.

  HUNTER, EVAN. Barking at Butterflies and Other Stories. Unity, Maine: Five Star. Eleven stories, 1953–99, three published for the first time in America.

  ILES, ROBERT L. The Burning Woman and Other Cases from the Files of Peter B. Bruck, Private Investigator. Brighton, MI: Avid Press. Thirteen connected stories and a novella.

  JAMES, DAVID. Sherlock Holmes and the Midnight Bell. Romford, Essex, U.K.: Ian Henry Publications. Five stories.

  LANSDALE, JOE R. High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon. Twenty-one stories of crime and suspense.

  LEINSTER, MURRAY. Malay Collins, Master Thief of the East. Bloomington, IL: Black Dog Press. Three stories from Short Stories Magazine, 1930.

  LOCHTE, DICK. Lucky Dog and Other Tales of Murder. Unity, Maine: Five Star. Nine stories from various sources, 1988–99.

  LOVESEY, PETER. The Kiss of Death. Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru. A single new Peter Diamond short story in a Christmas pamphlet from the publisher.

  MARIAS, JAVIER. When I Was Mortal. New York: New Directions. Twelve stories by a Spanish author, mainly criminous, including two fantasies and a whodunit.

  MATERA, LIA. Counsel for the Defense and Other Stories. Unity, Maine: Five Star. Nine stories from various sources.

  MCBAIN, ED. Running from Legs and Other Stories. Unity, Maine: Five Star. Eleven stories, 1956–2000, three previously unpublished.

  MCCABE, PATRICK. Mondo Desperado. New York: HarperCollins. Ten short stories, some criminous, published as a "serial novel."

  MORRELL, DAVID. Black Evening. New York: Warner Books. Fifteen crime and horror stories from various sources, several fantasy.

  MULLER, MARCIA. McCone and Friends. Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru. A novella and seven stories about Sharon McCone and her various colleagues at the detective agency, 1993–99.

  ———. The Time of the Wolves. Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru. A single short story from a 1988 anthology, in a pamphlet to accompany the limited edition of McCone and Friends.

  NOLAN, WILLIAM F. Down the Long Night. Unity, Maine: Five Star. Twelve stories, 1957–2000, one new. Introduction by Ed Gorman.

  NYE, E.R. (TED). The Adventure of the Teddy Bear's Ribbon and Other Tales. Dunedin, New Zealand: Halvon Press. Eleven Sherlockian pastiches.

  PARKER, T. JEFFERSON. Easy Street. Mission Viejo, CA: A.S.A.P. Publishing. A single short story in a limited edition, with an introduction by Elizabeth George and an afterword by Robert Crais.

  PAXTON, WILLIAM C. The Hidden Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Chillicoth, MO: Community Press. Two novellas and two short stories.

  PRONZINI, BILL. Night Freight. New York: Leisure Books. Twenty-six stories, 1971–2000, one new. Some fantasy and horror, nonseries except for a single Nameless tale.

  ———. Oddments: A Short Story Collection. Unity, Maine: Five Star. Fourteen stories from various sources, 1971–2000, including one each from his Nameless and Quincannon series and one science-fiction tale.

  RENDELL, RUTH. Piranha to Scurfy. London. Hutchinson. Nine stories and two previously unpublished novellas. (U.S. edition: Crown, 2001).

  RHEA, NICHOLAS. Constable Around the House. London: Robert Hale. Nine untitled stories.

  ROZAN, S. J. "The Grift of the Magi." New York: Mysterious Bookshop. A single new story in an annual Christmas pamphlet from a New York bookstore.

  SHAW, MURRAY. Anatomy of Two Murders. New York: The Mysterious Bookshop. A new Holmes pastiche in the Mysterious Sherlock Holmes series.

  SMITH, JULIE. Mean Rooms. Unity, Maine: Five Star. Thirteen stories, 1978–99, from various sources.

  STRAUB, PETER. Magic Terror. New York: Random House. Seven stories and novelettes of mystery and horror.

  SYMONS, JULIAN. A Julian Symons Sherlockian Duet. Ashcroft, BC, Canada: Calabash Press. Two Sherlockian tales, edited by Jack Adrian, as a Christmas gift.

  TREMAYNE, PETER. Hemlock at Vespers. New York: St. Martin's. Fifteen stories and novelettes about seventh-century Irish sleuth Sister Fidelma, some published for the first time in America.

  WEIGHELL, RON. The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. Ashcroft, BC, Canada: Calabash Press. Five stories of Holmes's encounters with the supernatural, three new, one revised from a shorter version.

  WELLMAN, MANLY WADE. The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations: The John Thunstone & Lee Cobbett Stories. San Francisco: Night Shade Books. All the John Thunstone occult detective stories, volume one of the Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman, edited by John Pelan.

  WHEAT, CAROLYN. "Life, for Short." Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru. A single short story from Sisters in Crime IV, in a pamphlet to accompany the limited edition of Tales out of School.

  ———. Tales out of School Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru. Nineteen stories, one new, 1989–2000.

  Anthologies

  Adams Round Table. Murder Among Friends. New York: Berkley. Eleven new stories, one also published in EQMM and another in Block's Opening Shots (below), in a biannual anthology series.

  ASHLEY, MIKE, ed. The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes. New York: Carroll & Graf. Twenty-seven stories, fifteen new. Foreword by David Renwick.

  BLOCK, LAWRENCE, ed. Master's Choice, Volume II. New York: Berkley. Thirteen mystery writers choose a story of their own, paired with a story by a writer who inspired them.

  ———, ed. Opening Shots. Nashville: Cumberland House. First published short stories by nineteen mystery writers, 1952–2000.

  BREEN, JON L. & ED GORMAN, eds. Sleuths of the Century. New York: Carroll & Graf. Twenty-five stories and novelettes, one fantasy, 1905–95.

  CASMIER, SUSAN B., ALJEAN HARMETZ & CYNTHIA LAWRENCE, eds. A Deadly Dozen. Los Angeles: UglyTown. A second anthology of stories by members of the Los Angeles Chapter of Sisters in Crime.

  CHIZMAR, RICHARD & ROBERT MORRISH, eds. October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween. Abingdon, MD: Cemetery Dance. Ten new stories and ten reprints, mainly fantasy and horror, with essays and artwork.

  CLARK, MARY HIGGINS, ed. The Night Awakens. New York: Pocket Books. Ten new stories in an anthology from Mystery Writers of America.

  CRAIG, PATRICIA, ed. The Oxford Book of Detective Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press. An international selection of thirty-seven stories, two new.

  DZIEMIANOWICZ, STEFAN, ROBERT WEINBERG & MARTIN H. GREENBERG, eds. Crafty Cat Crimes: 100 Tiny Cat Tale Mysteries. New York: Barnes & Noble. One hundred brief tales, eighty-three new.

  EDWARDS, MARTIN, ed. Scenes of the Crime. London: Constable. Fourteen new stories and one reprint in the annual anthology from Britain's Crime Writers' Association. Foreword by Natasha Cooper.

  ELLIS, ALICE THOMAS, ed. Valentine's Day: Women Against Men. London: Duckworth. Stories of revenge.

  FOXWELL, ELIZABETH & MARTIN H. GREENBERG, eds. More Murder, They Wrote. New York: Berkley. Fourteen new stories in the third volume of an anthology series.

  GORMAN, CAROL & ED, eds. Felonious Felines. Unity, Maine: Five Star. Nine new stories and three reprints in an anthology of cat mysteries.

  GORMAN, ED, ed. The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, First Annual Collection. New York: Forge. Thirty-eight stories published during 1999, with a review of the year by Jon L. Breen and a bibliography and necrology by Edward D. Hoch.

  GREENBERG, MARTIN H., ed. Murder Most Confederate: Tales of Crimes Quite Uncivil. Nashville: Cumberland House. Thirteen new stories and three reprints set in the Confederacy during the Civil War.

  ———, ed. Murder Most Delectable. Nashville: Cumberland House. Eighteen tales of culinary crimes, with pertinent recipes.

  GREENBERG, MARTIN H. & RUSSELL DAVIS, eds. Mardi Gras Madness. Nashville: Cumberland House. Eleven new mystery and horror stories.

  GREENBERG, MARTIN H. & JOHN HELFERS, eds. Murder Most Medieval. Nashville: Cumberland House. Twelve new stories of mu
rder in medieval times, with one reprint by Ellis Peters.

  GREENE, DOUGLAS G., ed. Classic Mystery Stories. New York: Dover. Thirteen stories, 1841–1920.

  HAINING, PETER, ed. Great Irish Stories of Murder and Mystery. New York: Barnes & Noble. Twenty stories from various sources, some fantasy.

  HESS, JOAN, presented by. Malice Domestic 9. New York: Avon. Thirteen new stories and an Agatha Christie reprint in an annual anthology series.

  HILLERMAN, TONY & OTTO PENZLER, eds. Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Forty-six stories from various sources.

  HUTCHINGS, JANET, ed. Crème de la Crime. New York: Carroll & Graf. Twenty-seven stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by award-winning authors.

  JAKUBOWSKI, MAXIM, ed. Murder Through the Ages: A Bumper Anthology of Historical Mysteries. London: Headline. Twenty-five stories, all but one new, ranging in time from the tenth century B.C. to 1941.

  JONES, STEPHEN, ed. Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths. Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer. Ten stories, three new, plus a new story cycle in seven episodes by Kim Newman.

  LAYMON, RICHARD, ed. Bad News. Abingdon, MD: Cemetery Dance. Eighteen new stories and a new one-hundred-page novella by the editor, mainly fantasy and horror.

  MCINERNY, RALPH & MARTIN H. GREENBERG, eds. Murder Most Divine: Ecclesiastical Tales of Unholy Crimes. Nashville: Cumberland House. Eighteen stories, 1911–1998, from various sources.

  NEWMAN, SHARAN, ed. Crime Through Time III. New York: Berkley. Eighteen new historical mysteries. Introduction by Anne Perry.

  O'SULLIVAN, MAURICE J. & STEVE GLASSMAN, eds. Orange Pulp: Stories of Mayhem, Murder, and Mystery. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press. Eight stories and novel excerpts, one previously unpublished, plus a 1963 novel by Don Tracy, The Hated One, all set in the state of Florida.

  PENZLER, OTTO, ed. Criminal Records. London: Orion. Fifteen original novellas, three separately published in individual editions.

  PERRY, ANNE, ed. A Century of British Mystery and Suspense. Garden City, NY: Mystery Guild. Thirty-eight stories from various sources. Foreword by Jon L. Breen.

  RANDISI, ROBERT J., ed. The Shamus Game. New York: Signet. Fourteen new stories by members of the Private Eye Writers of America, one previously published in England.

  ———, ed. Tin Star. New York: Berkley. New stories of crime-solving in the Old West.

  SELLERS, PETER & ROBERT J. SAWYER, eds. Over the Edge: The Crime Writers of Canada Anthology. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada: Pottersfield Press. Fourteen stories, three new, by Canadian and American members of CWC.

  STEVENS, SERITA, ed. Unholy Orders: Mystery Stories with a Religious Twist. Philadelphia: Intrigue Press. Eighteen new stories by various mystery writers, some fantasy.

  Nonfiction

  AUERBACH, NINA. Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. A biography of the author of Rebecca and other romantic suspense novels.

  BAYARD, PIERRE. Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? New York: The New Press. The conventions of detective fiction as shown in Agatha Christie's novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, with a new "solution" to the mystery.

  BLEILER, RICHARD F. Reference Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited 1999. An annotated listing of reference books in the mystery field.

  BOOTH, MARTIN. The Doctor and the Detective: A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: St. Martin's. A new biography of Sherlock Holmes's creator.

  BREEN, JON L. Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction, Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. An annotated bibliography, greatly expanded from its first edition.

  BUNSON, MATTHEW. The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia. New York: Pocket Books. Biography, novel and short-story plot synopses, character listings, film and TV listings, etc.

  CASH, WILLIAM. The Third Woman: The Secret Passion that Inspired 'The End of the Affair. London: Little, Brown. An account of Graham Greene's adulterous affair with an American woman, which figured in several of his novels.

  CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909–1959. London: Hamish Hamilton. A new selection of letters and papers, edited by Chandler biographer Tom Hiney and the late Frank MacShane.

  CHAPMAN, DAVID IAN. R. Austin Freeman, A Bibliography. Shelbourne, Ontario, Canada: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. An eighty-four-page listing of Freeman's books, magazine appearances, etc.

  COLLINS, WILKIE. The Letters of Wilkie Collins, Volume 1: 1838–1865, Volume 2: 1866–1889. New York: St. Martin's. A two-volume collection of letters by the author of The Moonstone and other early mysteries.

  DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Quotable Sherlock Holmes. New York: Mysterious Press. Hundreds of memorable quotes from all the Holmes novels and short stories, assembled by Gerard Van Der Leun.

  DUBOSE, MARTHA HAILEY. Women of Mystery: The Lives and Crimes of Notable Women Authors of Mystery Fiction. New York: St. Martin's. Biographies and minibiographies of eighteen leading mystery writers, with others mentioned briefly.

  DUNCAN, PAUL. The Pocket Essential Film Noir. Harpenden, England: Pocket Essentials. A ninety-six-page paperback examining seven films in depth and listing hundreds more.

  ———. The Pocket Essential Noir Fiction. Harpenden, England: Pocket Essentials. A ninety-six-page paperback examining nineteen writers in depth and mentioning several others.

  GOTTLIEB, SIDNEY, ed. Hitchcock Annual, 2000–2001. New London, NH: Hitchcock Annual Corporation. Eight new essays, an interview and reviews concerning Alfred Hitchcock's films, television series, and books pertaining to them.

  HAUSLADEN, GARY. Places for Dead Bodies. Austin: University of Texas Press. Locales used by more than thirty leading mystery writers.

  HAZZARD, SHIRLEY. Greene on Capri. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. A memoir of Graham Greene's frequent visits to Capri and the people he knew there.

  KING, STEPHEN. On Writing: A Memoir of a Craft. New York: Scribner. An account of King's early life, the writing of his books, his views of other writers, and his near-fatal accident.

  ———. Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing. New York: Book of the Month Club. Twenty essays, book introductions, interviews, and short stories on writing, including a long excerpt on horror fiction from Danse Macabre. Introduction by Peter Straub.

  KRAMER, JOHN E. Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Scarecrow Press. A bibliography of 483 mystery novels, 1910–1998, with college or university settings.

  LACHMAN, MARVIN. The American Regional Mystery. Minneapolis & San Francisco: Crossover Press. A detailed survey of regional mysteries, with chapters covering each state as well as major cities and vacation areas.

  LANDRUM, LARRY. American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. A history of the genre and its various subgenres, with sections on major authors and reference works.

  MERRILL, HUGH. The Red Hot Typewriter: The Life and Times of John D. MacDonald. New York: St. Martin's. A biography of the mystery writer, creator of Travis McGee.

  NICHOLS, VICTORIA & SUSAN THOMPSON. Silk Stalkings: More Women Write of Murder. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Scarecrow Press. An expanded survey of series characters created by women mystery authors, 1867–1997.

  NICKERSON, CATHERINE ROSS. The Web of Inequity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. A study of early women mystery writers in this country.

  PASCAL, JANET. Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: Oxford University Press. A new biography of Sherlock Holmes's creator.

  PENZLER, OTTO. Cornell Woolrich, Part II (William Irish & George Hopley). New York: The Mysterious Bookshop. A descriptive bibliography and price guide to first editions. One of a series of booklets for collectors.

  ———. John P. Marquand's Mr. Moto. New York: The Mysterious Bookshop. A descriptive bibliography and price guide to
first editions.

  ———. 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Direct. A listing, with credits and extensive commentary on each film.

  PHILLIPS, GENE D. Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. An analysis of Chandler's work in fiction, screenwriting, and on film. Preface by Billy Wilder.

  SALLIS, JAMES. Chester Himes: A Biography. New York: Walker. A biography of the creator of Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.

  ———. Difficult Lives. Brooklyn: Gryphon Books. Revised edition of a 1993 study on the life and work of noir authors Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes.