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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.
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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 Nine stories and two previously unpublished novellas.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
.
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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.
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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.
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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 murder 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.
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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.
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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.