Great American Detective Stories

Acknowledgments

Thanks are due the following authors, publishers, and agents for permission to use the stories indicated:

“I Won’t Take A Minute” by Cornell Woolrich. Copyright, 1940, by Cornell Woolrich. Originally published as “Finger of Doom,” in Detective Fiction Weekly, June 22, 1940. “Too Many Enemies” by William MacHarg. From The Affairs of O’Malley, published by The Dial Press. Copyright, 1933, by William MacHarg. “No Crime in the Mountains” by Raymond Chandler. Copyright, 1945, by Raymond Chandler. “Too Many Have Lived” by Dashiell Hammett. Reprinted by permission of Leland Hayward, Inc. “The Second Rullet” by Anna Katharine Green. From The Golden Slipper & Other Problems For Violet Strange, copyright, 1915, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. “His Heart Could Break” by Craig Rice. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright, 1943, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. “The Hidden Law” by Melville Davisson Post. From Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries. Copyright, 1918, D. Appleton-Century Company. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. “Black Murder” by Anthony Boucher. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright, 1943, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. “The Adventure of the African Traveler” by Ellery Queen. From The Adventures of Ellery Queen, copyright, 1934. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Stolen Rubens” by Jacques Futrelle. Reprinted from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Spring, 1942. Copyright, 1907, by Associated Sunday Magazine, Inc., and 1934, by May Futrelle. “The Riddle of the Yellow Canary” by Stuart Palmer. Permission to reprint granted by Paul R. Reynolds & Son, 599 Fifth Avenue, New York 17. “Ask Me Another” by Frank Gruber. From Black Mask, June, 1937. Reprinted by permission of the author. “A Passage to Benares” by T. S. Stribling. From Clues of the Caribbees, by T. S. Stribling, copyright, 1929, by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. “The Stickpin” by Antonio Helú. From Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November, 1944. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Roman Kid” by Paul Gallico. Copyright, 1944, by Paul Gallico. Reprinted by permission of the author.