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Who Killed Zebedee?

Wilkie Collins

First published November 1990
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Sensational non-supernatural crime story; the supposed murder while sleepwalking qualifies as an element of the fantastic, although it is a red herring rather than an actuality.
"Published as 'Who Killed Zebedee?' in The Seaside Library (23 January 1881); retitled 'Mr Policeman and the Cook' for its republication in Little Novels (1887)." — information from p 383 of Norman Page's collection of Wilkie Collins short fiction Mad Monkton and Other Stories.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1990 Cover The Best Supernatural Stories of Wilkie Collins Robert Hale Collection 257
1994 Cover Mad Monkton and Other Stories Oxford University Press Collection 355
2006 Cover Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories Wordsworth Editions Anthology 81
July 2016 Cover Murder Mayhem Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 86
November 2016 Cover Murder Mayhem Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology |86
June 2019 Cover Short Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 71