“High Noon in the Big Country” is copyright © 2023 by John M. Floyd and appears here for the first time.
“The Case of the Patriotic Pilferage” is copyright © 2022 by Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet. Reprinted by permission of the authors.
“Mercy” is copyright © 2020 by Joseph S. Walker. First published by Untreed Reads, in their anthology Peace, Love, and Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the ’60s. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Consultant” is copyright © 1970 by James Holding. Originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, November 1970. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery MagazineRiddles Read, by d**k Donovan, was originally published in 1896.
Riddles Read“In the Wake of the Autumn Storm” is copyright © 2015 by Adrian Cole. First published in The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Robinson UK. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories“The Belt,” by Wallace West, was originally published in Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1951. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Science Fiction QuarterlyThe World-Mover, by George O. Smith, was originally published in Future, November 1950.
The World-MoverFutureAfter World’s End, by Jack Williamson, was originally published in Marvel Science Stories, February 1939.
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