MANHATTAN MYSTERIES

New York: Avenel Books, 1987. Book. Illus. by Hector Garrido;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (x) 579 pp. Please note, this is a somewhat heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Hector Garrido. Edited with Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. This anthology contains: The Good Samaritan by Isaac Asimov; Mom Sings an Aria by James Yaffe; The Woman I Envied by George Baxt; New York Blues by Cornell Woolrich; Small Homicide by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter); The Gentleman from Paris by John Dickson Carr; The Lord of Central Park by Avram Davidson; A Craving for Originality by Bill Pronzini; The Day of the Bullet by Stanley Ellin; The Crime of the Century by R. L. Stevens; The Back Stairway by Hal Ellson; The Hawk and the Dome of Hell by S. S. Rafferty; The Beatings by Evan Hunter (Ed McBain); A Place of Her Own by Joyce Harrington; The Medical Finger by Ellery Queen; The Corpse in the Statue of Liberty by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich); The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry; Jericho and the Cardboard Box by Hugh Pentecost; The Man Who Came Back by Edward D. Hoch; Hildegarde Withers is Back by Stuart Palmer; The Quality of Mercy by Eleazar Lipsky; Murder in One Scene by Q. Patrick; The Missing Man by Katherine MacLean; The Garrulous Garrity Grand Scam by Francis M. Nevins; and God Save the Mark: A Novel by Donald E. Westlake. The Missing Man by Katherine MacLean won the Nebula Award for best novella in 1971..