The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, edited by Otto Penzler

Dove Books, New York, 1998. ISBN: 0-7871-0963-0

Fiction Contents

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Fiction Index

Poe, Edgar Allan, (1809-1849)
--The Purloined Letter, 1844.

Collins, Wilkie, (1824-1889)
--A Terribly Strange Bed, 1852.

Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928)
--The Three Strangers, 1883.

Doyle, Arthur Conan, (1859-1930)
--The Red-Headed League, 1891.

Post, Melville Davisson, (1869-1930)
--The Corpus Delicti, 1896.

Hornung, E. W., (1866-1921)
--Gentlemen and Players, 1898.

Wharton, Edith, (1862-1937)
--A Journey, 1899.

London, Jack, (1876-1916)
--The Leopard Man's Story, 1903. (short short)

Henry, O., (William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910)
--A Retrieved Reformation: Criminal: Jimmy Valentine, 1903.

Futrelle, Jacques, (1875-1912)
--The Problem of Cell 13, 1905.

Barr, Robert, (1850-1912)
--The Absent-Minded Coterie, 1906.

Chesterton, G. K. (1874-1936)
--The Invisible Man, 1911.

Anderson, Frederick Irving, (1877-1947)
--The Infallible Godahl, 1913.

Starrett, Vincent (1886-1974)
--The Adventure of the Unique "Hamlet," 1920.

Huxley, Aldous, (1894-1963)
--The Gioconda Smile, 1921.

Lardner, Ring, (1885-1933)
--Haircut, 1925.

Hemingway, Ernest, (1894-1961)
--The Killers, 1927.

Burke, Thomas, (1886-1945)
--The Hands of Mr. Ottermole, 1931.

Simenon, Georges, (1903-1989)
--The Little House at Croix-Rousse, 1932.

Clendening, Logan, (1884-1945)
--The Case of the Missing Patriarchs, 1934. (short short)

Cozzens, James Gould, (1903-1978)
--Clerical Error, 1935. (short short)

Dunsany, Lord, (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 1878-1957)
--The Two Bottles of Relish, 1936. (short short)

Collier, John, (1901-1980)
--The Chaser, 1940. (short short)

Redman, Ben Ray, (1896-1961)
--The Perfect Crime, 1941. (Ellery Queen, #92, July, 1951.)

Bloch, Robert, (1917-1994)
--Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper, 1943.

Perowne, Barry, (Philip Atkey, 1908-1985)
--The Blind Spot, 1945.

Thurber, James, (1894-1961)
--The Catbird Seat, 1945.

Donnel, C. P., Jr., (1906-1977)
--Recipe for Murder, 1946. (short short)

Kemelman, Harry, (1908-1996)
--The Nine Mile Walk, 1947. (Ellery Queen, #41, April, 1947.)

Nash, Ogden, (1902-1971)
--Kill or Be Killed, 1947. (short short) (Ellery Queen, #169, December, 1957.)

Ellin, Stanley, (1916-1986)
--The Specialty of the House, 1948. (Ellery Queen, #54, May, 1948.)

Milne, A. A., (1882-1956)
--Nearly Perfect, 1950.

Queen, Ellery, (Frederic Dannay, 1905-1982; Manfred B. Lee, 1905-1971)
--The Gettysburg Bugle, 1951.

Hunter, Evan, (1926- )
--The Last Spin, 1956. *

Spillane, Mickey, (1918- )
--Stand Up and Die! 1958. (novelette)

Ritchie, Jack, (1922-1983)
--The New Leaf, 1963. (as The Green Heart, in Alfred Hitchcock, March, 1963.)

Highsmith, Patricia, (1921-1995)
--The Snail-Watcher, 1964. (short short)

Hoch, Edward D., (1930- )
--The Long Way Down, 1965. (Alfred Hitchcock, February, 1965.)

Asimov, Isaac, (1920-1992)
--The Man Who Never Told a Lie, 1972. (Ellery Queen, October, 1972.)

Gardner, John, (1926- )
--I Have, 1974. (short short)

King, Stephen, (1947- )
--Quitters, Inc., 1978.

Howard, Clark, (1934- )
--Horn Man, 1980. (Ellery Queen, July, 1980.)

Rendell, Ruth, (1930- )
--The New Girl Friend, 1983. (Ellery Queen, August, 1983.)

Block, Lawrence, (1938- )
--By the Dawn's Early Light, 1984. (Playboy, August, 1984.)

Greenleaf, Stephen, (1942- )
--Iris, 1984.

Ellroy, James, (1948- )
--High Darktown, 1986.

Paretsky, Sara, (1947- )
--The Pietro Andromache, 1988. (Alfred Hitchcock, December, 1988.)

Ellison, Harlan, (1934- )
--Soft Monkey, 1988.

McCarry, Charles, (1930- )
--The Hand of Carlos, 1992.

Leonard, Elmore, (1925- )
--Karen Makes Out, 1996. (Murder for Love, 1996.)

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