| Ed. by Ellery Queen.
Boston: Little, Brown. 1st edition, 1st printing 1953. Copyright 1953 by Mercury Publications. "First Edition" stated on copyright page. (viii)+1-286 pp. Approx. 5 1/2" by 8" hardback. Dust jacket is unclipped ($3.00). Dust jacket design by Samuel H. Bryant. Boards and binding is light orange cloth with black lettering on binding. Winners of the Eighth Annual Detective Short-Story Contest sponsored by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. |
| Binding is in Fine condition, with white pages. Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition, some tears and creases, a few light water stains that you can only see from the inside of the jacket. There are NO names or store stamps on the book. See scan which is extra large to allow you to see condition details. |
| Winners of the Eighth Annual Detective Short-Story Contest
sponsored by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
Includes the stories "My Brother Down There," by Steve Frazee; "Miss Paisley’s Cat," by Roy Vickers; "If a Body…", by A.H.Z. Carr; "The Betrayers," by Stanley Ellin; "The Quality of Mercy," by Eleazar Lipsky; "The Stroke of Thirteen," by Lillian de la Torre; "Laugh It Off," by Charlotte Armstrong; "All of God’s Children Got Shoes," by Howard Schoenfeld; "High Court," by Thomas Kyd; "Born Killer," by Dorothy Salisbury Davis; "On the Brink," by James Yaffe; "The Town Without a Straight Man," by Will Stanton; "Mrrrar!" by Edgar Pangborn; "The Silver Spurs," by E.C. Witham; "The Panther," by Browning Norton; and "Heaven Can Wait," by C.B. Gilford. |
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