Boucher, Anthony (Ed.) - Four and Twenty Bloodhounds (1950)
A handy collection of relatively little-known stories from some masters of the genre, with a brief foreword by Boucher and a short 'biography' of the detective(s) given after each story. The contents are listed below:
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Title
|
Author
|
Detective(s)
|
| Never Trust the Obvious |
Verne Chute |
Shadrack Arnold |
| Death by Black Magic |
Joseph Commings |
Senator Brooks U Banner |
| The Perfect Secretary |
WT Brannon |
Jim Burgess |
| The Wrong Problem |
John Dickson Carr |
Dr Gideon Fell |
| Too Late for Murder |
Ken Crossen |
Mortimer Death |
| Three Strips of Flesh |
Matthew Head |
Dr Mary Finney |
| The Disappearing Servant Wench |
Lillian De La Torre |
Sam. Johnson |
| Widow in Waiting |
Harold Q Masur |
Scott Jordan |
| Slay Upon Delivery |
Frank Kane |
Johnny Liddell |
| The Finger Man |
Jerome & Harold Prince |
Inspector Magruder |
| Start from Scratch |
James M Fox |
John & Suzy Marshall |
| The Clues of the Tattooed Man / The Clue of the Broken Legs |
Clayton Rawson |
Merlini |
| The Fuzzy Things |
DB Olsen |
Miss Rachel Murdock |
| The Big Money |
Robert Arthur |
The Mysterious Traveler |
| Screwball Division |
Anthony Boucher |
Nick Noble |
| The Zarapore Beat |
Lawrence G. Blochman |
O'Reilly Sahib |
| Never Come Mourning |
Stewart Sterling |
Ben Pedley |
| The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt |
August Derleth |
Solar Pons |
| The Ides of Michael Magoon |
Ellery Queen |
Ellery Queen |
| Michael Shayne as I Know Him |
Brett Halliday |
Michael Shayne |
| Mr Smith Kicks the Bucket |
Fredric Brown |
Henry Smith |
| Death Certificate |
George Harmon Coxe |
Dr Paul Standish |
| Girl Overboard |
Q Patrick |
Lieutenant Timothy Trant |
| Two Over Par |
Kelley Roos |
Jeff & Haila Troy |
| The Riddle of the Tired Bullet |
Stuart Palmer |
Hildegarde Withers |
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