Portraits of Murder (book)

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Portraits of Murder: 47 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense

• published in 1988 in the USA by Galahad Books (hardback)
• edited by Eleanor Sullivan
• ISBN 0883657279
• 503 pages

Contents

1. Shattered Rainbow by Edward D. Hoch
2. Wonderful, Wonderful Violence by Donald Honig
3. The Most Unusual Snatch by Lawrence Block
4. A Murder is Arranged by Nedra Tyre
5. The Poisoned Pawn by Henry Slesar
6. The Lifesaver by Don Tothe
7. What Frightened You, Fred? by Jack Ritchie
8. Doctor's Dilemma by Harold Q. Masur
9. Money to Burn by Clark Howard
10. The House Guest by Babs H. Deal
11. The Man in the Lobby by William Link and Richard Levinson
12. Family Code by Lawrence Treat
13. To Kill an Angel by William Bankier
14. That Monday Night by Pauline C. Smith
15. The Waiting Room by Charles W. Runyon
16. The Keeper by Clark Howard
17. The Jade Figurine by Bill Pronzini
18. The Volunteers by Reynold Junker
19. Arbiter of Uncertainties by Edward D. Hoch
20. Variations on an Episode by Fletcher Flora
21. Finder-Killers by Ed Lacy
22. The Pearls of Li Pong by W.E. Dan Ross
23. Who? by Michael Collins
24. A Quiet Backwater by Stanley Abbott
25. Murder, Anyone? by Phil Davis
26. The Island by William Jeffrey
27. Room to Let by Hal Ellson
28. The One Who Got Away by Al Nussbaum
29. Unidentified and Dead by Bryce Walton
30. The Lure and the Clue by Edwin P. Hicks
31. The Big Bajoor by Borden Deal
32. The Operator by Jack Ritchie
33. The Souvenir by Donald Olsen
34. Speak Well for the Dead by Nancy Schachterle
35. The Girl in Gold by Jonathan Craig
36. Minutes of Terror by Donald Honig
37. Puddle by Arthur Porges
38. When This Man Dies by Lawrence Block
39. Public Office by Elijah Ellis
40. The Beast Within by Margaret B. Maron
41. Murder in Mind by C.B. Gilford
42. The Invisible Tomb by Arthur Porges
43. Just Curious by James H. Schmitz
44. The Girl Who Found Things by Henry Slesar
45. Death Trance by Clayton Matthews
46. The Healer by George C. Chesbro
47. Murder by Dream by Patrick O'Keeffe

Notes

• The Big Bajoor appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (June 1962)
• Room to Let appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (August 1962)
• Money to Burn appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (September 1962)
• The Lure and the Clue appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (July 1963)
• When This Man Dies appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (April 1964)
• Public Office appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (April 1964)
• The Volunteers appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (August 1966)
• The Most Unusual Snatch appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (April 1967)
• Death Trance appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (June 1970)
• The Girl in Gold appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (September 1970)
• The Jade Figurine appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (January 1971)
• The Keeper appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (October 1971)
• The Island appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (August 1972)
• Minutes of Terror appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (September 1974)
• To Kill and Angel appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (August 1976)

Links

• Open Library - available to borrow as an eBook
• WorldCat
• An Alfred Hitchcock Anthology Bibliography