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“Inspector Fleming’s Last Case” Copyright © 1957 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Crime & Justice.
“The Man Who Was Everywhere” Copyright © 1957 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Manhunt.
“The Passionate Phantom” Copyright © 1960 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Off-Beat.
“The Night People” Copyright © 1961 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Web.
“Festival in Black” Copyright © 1962 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Saint (British).
“I’d Know You Anywhere” Copyright © 1963 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
“The Way of Justice” Copyright © 1965 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
“The Empty Zoo” Copyright © 1965 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Magazine of Horror.
“Ring the Bell Slowly” Copyright © 1966 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Saint.
“Stop at Nothing” Copyright © 1967 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
“Another War” Copyright © 1967 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
“The Impossible ‘Impossible Crime’” Copyright © 1968 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
“The Way Out” Copyright © 1971 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
“The Man at the Top” Copyright © 1972 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
“Burial Monuments Three” Copyright © 1972 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
“The Scorpion Girl” Copyright © 1976 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
“The Price of Wisdom” Copyright © 1977 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
“Second Chance” Copyright © 1977 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
“Three Weeks in a Spanish Town” Copyright © 1978 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
“The Rattlesnake Man” Copyright © 1979 by Edward D. Hoch. First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
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