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The Edge of the Chair

Joan Kahn

First published 1967
Publisher Harper & Row
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xii+560
Price $6.95
ISBN 0060122382

The Queen of Spades translated by Rosemary Edmonds.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction or Some Notes on Becoming an Anthologist Joan Kahn Essay
3 The Sixth Capsule; or, Proof by Circumstantial Evidence Edmund Pearson Essay
14 Fool's Mate Stanley Ellin Short Story
29 The Axeman Wore Wings Robert Tallant Essay
50 Stone from the Stars Valentina Zhuravleva Novelette
63 The Queen of Spades Alexander Pushkin Novelette
88 Billy: The Seal Mission Stewart Alsop & Thomas Braden Essay
109 A Watcher by the Dead Ambrose Bierce Short Story
120 Tea Party Harold Pinter Short Story
124 Death Draws a Triangle Edward Hale Bierstadt Essay
156 The Net Robert M. Coates Short Story
165 Prisoner of the Sand Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Essay
202 The End of the Party Graham Greene Short Story
211 The Last Inhabitant of the Tuileries André Castelot Essay
218 Jesting Pilot Lewis Padgett Short Story
231 Shattering the Myth of John Wilkes Booth's Escape William G. Shepherd Essay
255 A Piece of Steak Jack London Short Story
272 The Game of Murder Gerd Gaiser Short Story
278 On the Killing of Eratosthenes the Seducer Kathleen Freeman Essay
289 The Adventure of the Clapham Cook Agatha Christie Short Story
302 The Last Night of the World Ray Bradbury Short Story
306 "They" Rudyard Kipling Novelette
326 The Chair John Bartlow Martin Essay
360 Old Fags Stacy Aumonier Novelette
380 "... Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields" William B. Seabrook Short Story
390 How the Brigadier Lost His Ear Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
409 Dry September William Faulkner Short Story
421 Rattenbury and Stoner F. Tennyson Jesse Essay
454 Sing a Song of Sixpence John Buchan Short Story
467 The Murder in Le Mans Janet Flanner Essay
474 Sleeping Beauty John Collier Short Story
490 The Shadow of the Shark G. K. Chesterton Short Story
509 A Small Buried Treasure John Fischer Essay
515 The Horla Guy de Maupassant Novelette
539 Scrawns Dorothy L. Sayers Short Story
553 Biographical Notes (The Edge of the Chair) Onica Friend Essay