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Three-Corpse Parlay

Fredric Brown

First published 1988
Publisher Dennis McMillan
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Joe Servello
Pages 185
Price $25.00

All stories in this collection are mystery.

  • Don't Look (introduction) 1988-09-00 Max Allan Collins.
  • Six-Gun Song 1941-07-00 (10-Story Detective).
  • Blood of the Dragon 1939-09-00 (Variety Detective).
  • The Little Green Men 1940-00-00 (The Masked Detective, Fall 1940. No SF content despite the title.).
  • Murder-On-The-Hudson 1945-06-00 (Thrilling Detective) as Bob Woehlke (Bob Woehlke was a terminally ill man from Milwaukee who co-authored the story with Brown. Woehlke died before the story could be published and so Brown had it published under this "pseudonym").
  • Star-Spangled Night 1941-07-00 (Coronet).
  • The Discontented Cows 1941-03-00 (G-Men Detective).
  • Boner 1942-10-00 (Popular Detective).
  • Three-Corpse Parlay 1942-06-00 (Popular Detective).
  • Here Comes the Hearse 1941-07-00 (10-Story Detective, under the pseudonym "Allen Morse").
  • There Are Bloodstains in the Alley 1939-02-00 (Detective Yarns).
  • Murder and Matilda 1949-00-00 (Mystery Book Magazine, Summer 1949).
  • Heil, Werewolf! 1942-11-00 (Dime Mystery, under the pseudonym "Felix Graham").
  • Big-League Larceny 1941-04-00 (Ten Detective Aces, under the pseudonym "Jack Hobart").

  • Limited to 450 numbered copies signed by Max Allan Collins (introduction).
  • Cover artist credited on copyright page.
  • "FIRST EDITION" [over] "Published September 1988" on copyright page.
  • No ISBN.
  • No LCCN.
  • All stories in this collection are mystery.
    • 5 Don't Look (introduction) 1988-09-00 Max Allan Collins.
    • 9 Six-Gun Song 1941-07-00 (10-Story Detective).
    • 27 Blood of the Dragon 1939-09-00 (Variety Detective).
    • 39 The Little Green Men 1940-00-00 (The Masked Detective, Fall 1940. No SF content despite the title.).
    • 57 Murder-On-The-Hudson 1945-06-00 (Thrilling Detective) as Bob Woehlke (Bob Woehlke was a terminally ill man from Milwaukee who co-authored the story with Brown. Woehlke died before the story could be published and so Brown had it published under this "pseudonym").
    • 89 Star-Spangled Night 1941-07-00 (Coronet).
    • 95 The Discontented Cows 1941-03-00 (G-Men Detective).
    • 107 Boner 1942-10-00 (Popular Detective).
    • 111 Three-Corpse Parlay 1942-06-00 (Popular Detective).
    • 123 Here Comes the Hearse 1941-07-00 (10-Story Detective, under the pseudonym "Allen Morse").
    • 131 There Are Bloodstains in the Alley 1939-02-00 (Detective Yarns).
    • 145 Murder and Matilda 1949-00-00 (Mystery Book Magazine, Summer 1949).
    • 159 Heil, Werewolf! 1942-11-00 (Dime Mystery, under the pseudonym "Felix Graham").
    • 177 Big-League Larceny 1941-04-00 (Ten Detective Aces, under the pseudonym "Jack Hobart").