The Oxford Book of American Det (113 page)

Barnes, Linda:
Lucky Penny
by Linda Barnes first appeared in
The New Black Mask,
no. 3, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Linda Barnes. Reprinted by permission of Gina Maccoby Literary Agency.

Boucher, Anthony:
Crime Must Have a Stop
by Anthony Boucher first appeared in
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine,
February 1951. Copyright © 1950 Mercury Publications, Inc. Copyright © 1978 Davis Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd.

Carr, John Dickson:
A Footprint in the Sky
from
The Department of Queer
Complaints
by John Dickson Carr. Copyright 1940 by William Morrow & Co., Inc.

Copyright renewed 1968 by John Dickson Carr. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

Chandler, Raymond:
I’ll Be Waiting
by Raymond Chandler first appeared in the
Saturday Evening Post,
October 14, 1939. Reprinted from
The Simple Art of Murder
by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. All rights reserved. Copyright 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1944, 1950 by Raymond Chandler. Copyright © renewed 1978 by Helga Greene. Published in the British Commonwealth, excluding Canada, by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. (Penguin Books 1950) in the collection
Trouble Is My Business
(pp.

125-143). Copyright © 1944 by Raymond Chandler. Reproduced by permission of Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Daly, Carroll John:
The False Burton Combs
by Carroll John Daly first appeared in
The Black Mask,
December 1922. Copyright © 1922 by Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1950 by Popular Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by arrangement with Argosy Communications, Inc., representing Mary A. Daly, heir of Carroll John Daly.

Davis, Dorothy Salisbury:
A Matter of Public Notice
by Dorothy Salisbury Davis first appeared in
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine,
July 1957. Copyright © 1957 by Dorothy Salisbury Davis. Copyright renewed 1985 by Dorothy Salisbury Davis.

Reprinted by permission of Mclntosh and Otis, Inc.

Eberhart, Mignon:
Spider
from
The Cases of Susan Dare
by Mignon Eberhart.

Copyright 1934 by Mignon Eberhart. Copyright renewed © 1962 by Mignon Eberhart.

Reprinted by permission of Brandt & Brandt Literary Agents, Inc.

F
aulkner, William:
An Error in Chemistry
from
Knight’s Gambit
by William Faulkner. Copyright © 1946 by William Faulkner. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

Gardner, Erie Stanley:
Leg Man
by Erie Stanley Gardner first appeared in
The Black
Mask,
February 1938. Copyright © 1938, 1966 by Erie Stanley Gardner. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd.

Gault, William Campbell
:
See No Evil
by William Campbell Gault first appeared in
New Detective
as
See No Murder.
Copyright 1950, renewed 1978 by William Campbell Gault. Reprinted by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc.

Glaspell, Susan:
A Jury of Her Peers
by Susan Glaspell first appeared in
Everyweek,
March 5, 1917. Copyright © 1917 by Susan Glaspell. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd.

Grafton, Sue:
The Parker Shotgun
by Sue Grafton first appeared in the anthology
Mean Streets.
Copyright © 1986 by Sue Grafton. Reprinted by permission of The Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency, Inc.

Hillerman, Tony:
Chee’s Witch
by Tony Hillerman first appeared in
The New Black
Mask.
Copyright © 1986 by Anthony Hillerman. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd.

Hoch, Edward D.:
Christmas Is for Cops
by Edward D. Hoch first appeared in
Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
Copyright © 1970 by Edward D. Hoch. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Macdonald, Ross:
Guilt-Edged Blonde
by Ross Macdonald first appeared in
Manhunt,
January 1954. Copyright 1953 by Flying Eagle Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1981 by The Margaret Millar’s Survivor’s Trust u/a 4/12/82. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

McBain, Ed:
Small Homicide
from
The McBain Brief
by Ed McBain. Copyright ©

1982 by Hui Corporation. Reprinted by permission of the William Morris Agency, Inc., on behalf of the author.

Muller, Marcia:
Benny’s Space
by Marcia Muller first appeared in the anthology
A
Woman’s Eye,
edited by Sara Paretsky and published by Delacorte Press. Copyright ©

1991 by Marcia Muller. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Pronzini, Bill:
Words Do Not a Book Make
by Bill Pronzini first appeared in
Alfred
Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
Copyright © 1968 by H.S.D. Publications, Inc.; revised version copyright © 1988 by Bill Pronzini. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Queen, Ellery:
The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue
by Ellery Queen first appeared in
MD Magazine.
Copyright © 1965, 1968 by Ellery Queen. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, L.P., 845 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022.

Rawson, Clayton:
From Another World
by Clayton Rawson first appeared in
Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine
in 1948. Copyright 1948 by Davis Publications, Inc.

Copyright renewed 1976 by Mrs. Clayton Rawson. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd.

Rinehart, Mary Roberts:
The Lipstick
by Mary Roberts Rinehart first appeared in
Cosmopolitan magazine,
July 1942. Copyright 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Copyright © 1972 by Frederick R. Rinehart and Alan G. Rinehart.

Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Co., Inc.

Sale, Richard:
A Nose for News
by Richard Sale first appeared in
Detective Fiction
Weekly,
December 1934. Copyright 1934 by Munsey Publications, Inc., and 1960 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Richard Sale c/o H.

N. Swanson, Inc.

Stout, Rex:
Christmas Party
from
And Four to Go
by Rex Stout. Copyright © 1956, 1957 by Rex Stout. Copyright © 1958 by the Curtis Publishing Company; renewed.

Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA, Inc.

Stribling, T. S.:
A Daylight Adventure
by T. S. Stribling first appeared in
Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine,
March 1950. Reprinted by permission of the estate of Louella Stribling.

Woolrich, Cornell:
Rear Window
by Cornell Woolrich is reprinted by permission of Sheldon Abend. Copyright © 1996 by Sheldon Abend d/b/a/ Authors Research Company.