Copyright © 2015 by Josh Pachter.
Cover art copyright © 2015 by Solodovnikov Alekhander / Fotolia.
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“The Dilmun Exchange” originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (July 1984). Reprinted in The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories (Walker & Co, 1985).
“The Beer Drinkers” originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (December 1984). Reprinted in The Ethnic Detectives (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985).
“The Tree of Life” originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Mid-December 1985).
“The Qatar Causeway” originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (January 1986).
“ASU” originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (April 1986).
“Jemaa el Fna” originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine as “The Exchange” (June 1986).
“The Night of Power” originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (September 1986). Reprinted in The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories (Walker & Co, 1987). Reprinted in Murder Intercontinental (Carroll & Graf, 1996).
“Sheikh’s Beach” originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine (Issue #2, 1988).
“The Ivory Beast” originally appeared in New Mystery (Vol. 2, #1, 1993).
“The Sword of God” originally appeared in The Mammoth Book of Best International Crime (Robinson, 2009). Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of the World’s Best Crime Stories (Running Press, 2009).
All of the stories, introductory materials, and afterwords in this book are copyright © 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 2009, 2015 by Josh Pachter. All rights reserved. Reproduction without the permission of the author—except for brief quotations in a review—is prohibited. See “Publication Information” at the end of the book for more details about where each story originally appeared.
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