100 DASTARDLY LITTLE DETECTIVE STORIES

New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1993. Book. Illus. by Jack Eckstein;. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiv) 561 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Quarter bound in black cloth on black boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Jack Eckstein. Also edited with Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg. This anthology contains: According to Plan by Ray Darby; Adventure of the Baritone Singer by George Barton; The Adventure of the Table Foot by Zero; The Adventure of the Two Collaborators by Sir James M. Barrie; The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes; and The Clarion Call by O. Henry; Affirmative Action by Jon L. Breen; Anchor the Stiff by Dan Gordon; An Artful Touch by Charles Dickens; An Axe to Grind by Curt Hamlin; Behind Murder's Eight-Ball by Don James; Better Hands by Dale Clark; The Bloodles Corpse by O. R. Dale; Bread Ahead by C. J. Henderson; Cache and Carry by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini; Calling Dr. Death by C. William Harrison; The Cap'n Sleeps by John Earl Davis; The Carnival Caper by R. L. Steven; The Case of the Barking Beagle by R. L. Stevens; Checkmated by Coretta Slavska; The Clincher; and Escape by Jack Foxx; The Cop and the Lady by Booton herndon; Cop Maker by Ronald Henderson; The Course of Justice by Hugh B. Cave; Curtains for Kelly by John Randolph Phillips; Cut Glass by Frederick Arnold Kummer Jr.; Damsel with a Derringer by Stephen Dentinger; The Dead Go Overboard by Fenton W. Earnshaw; Death Racket by Frederick Arnold Kummer Jr.; The Deer that Ate a diamond by Edward D. Hoch; Detective for a Day; Die Before Bedtime; Dogs Know by Gary Lovisi; Duck Behind that Eight-Ball by Nick Spain; Dust by James W. Holden; Exhibit D by John Maclay; Extra Service by John Mallory; Eye-Witness by Donald S. Aitken; Eye Witness by David X. Manners; A Friend of Davy Jones' by Dan Gordon; GrannyGumption Solves a Murder by C. J. Henderson and Charles Hoffman; A Hand of Pinochle by Theodore Tinsley; Harsh Light of DAy by Wayne D. Dundee; Heir-in-a-Hurry by Morris Cooper; Higher Education by Sidney Waldo; Hip and Thigh by H. H. Matteson; If the Body Fits by Larry Holden; Ignorance of ARt by Vincent Hall; Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern by Bill Pronzini; In the Library by W. W. Jacobs; Ink's Jinx by Anthony Clemens; An Irreducible Detective STory by Stephen Leacock; Kansas City Connection by Wayne McMillan; Knit One-Kill Two by Fergus Truslow; The Leopard Man's Story by Jack London; The Man Who Collected "The Shadow" by J. V. Drexel The Man Who Died Too Often by Davie Crewe; The Mann Act by Michael A. Black; Memento Mori by Alex Saxon; Mrs. Belcourt Draws a Bier by Alan Ritner Anderson; Murder at Rose Cottage by Edward D. Hoch; Muderer's Handicap by Alex Barber; Murder Offstage by R. L. Stevens; Murder on the Limited by Howard Finney; The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud by O. Henry; Naked in Darkness by Hugh B. Cave; Night Watch by Scott O'Hara; Night Work by Gerald Tollesfrud; A Novel Forgery by Rodrigues Ottolengui; Old Calamity's Stick-up by Joseph Fulling Fishman; Old Guy by Maitland LeRoy Osborne; The Outside Ledge by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace; Packed House by Robert Zacks; The Pattern by Alex Saxon; The Rosary by Michael A. Black; Safety Deposit by B. B. Fowler; The Seventieth Number; and Smothered Mate by Stephen Dentinger; A Shroud with a Silver Lining by Marion Lineaweaver; The Sign by Tom Curry; The Sign of the "400" by R. K. Munkittrick; Smoke Sign by Dale Clark; Snapping Out of It by Bruce Holland Rogers; Something Green by Edward D. Hoch; Something Wrong; and Souls Burning by Bill Pronzini; The Spell of the Black Siren by Dick Donovan; The Stolen Cigar-Case by Bret Harte; Summer's End by William Manners; The Terrarium Principle by J. V. Drexel; Three Men and a Corpse by Victor K. Ray; Today's Special-Poison by V. E. Thiessen; The Trailor Murder Mystery by Abraham Lincoln; A Tulip in the Snow by John McCurnin; The Umbrosa Burglar.