The Westminster Detective Library is a work in progress. We welcome and solicit comments and would particularly appreciate additional bibliographical entries and texts to add to the library's collection.

Our editorial policy has been to modernize spelling and punctuation, but not to alter grammar in the stories. However, for clear typographical errors (e.g. "shool" for "school") and illegible text we have inserted corrections in square brackets.

LeRoy Panek
Mary M. Bendel-Simso

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Elizabeth Ennis
Sara Krome
Anne Mathews
Shannon McClellan
Joseph M. Ottomano
Samantha Stair
Natalie Stefanelli

Professors Panek and Bendel-Simso are the editors of Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology

McFarland, 2008.

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