Anthony Boucher

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(William Anthony Parker White)

(1911 - 1968)
aka
H H Holmes, Herman W Mudgett

Series

Fergus O'Breen
1. The Case of the Crumpled Knave (1939)
2. The Case of the Baker St. Irregulars (1940)
aka Blood on Baker Street
3. The Case of the Solid Key (1941)
4. The Case of the Seven Sneezes (1942)

Novels

Omnibus

Collections

Series contributed to

Anthologies edited

Anthologies containing stories by Anthony Boucher

Short stories

	Snulbug (1941)
	Barrier (1942)
	The Compleat Werewolf (1942)
	The Ghost of Me (1942)
	Q.U.R. (1942) (writing as H H Holmes)
	They Bite (1942)
	Elsewhen (1943)
	Expedition (1943)
	Robinc (1943)
	Sriberdegibit (1943)
	Star Bride (1943)
	We Print the Truth (1943)
	Mr Lupescu (1945)
	The Pink Caterpillar (1945)
	Review Copy (1949) (writing as H H Holmes)
	The Quest for Saint Aquin (1951)
	The Ambassadors (1952)
	The Anomaly of the Empty Man (1952)
	The First (1952)
	The Other Inauguration (1953)
	Secret of the House (1953)
	Balaam (1954)
	Report on the Sexual Behavior of the Extra-Sensory Perceptor (1954) (writing as Herman W Mudgett)
	Nellthu (1955)
	A Shape in Time (1970)
	Gandolphus

Anthony Boucher recommends

8 Faces at 3 (1939) (John J. Malone) Craig Rice "There has never been another mystery writer like Craig Rice."	The Innocent Flower (1945) (MacDougal Duff) Charlotte Armstrong "One of the few authentic witches of modern times."	Murder of a Martinet (1951) (Robert Macdonald) E C R Lorac "Mayhem and murder abound as a stately mansion becomes an elegant deathtrap. Excellent."
The Green Millennium (1953) Fritz Leiber "Extraordinarily good."	You'll Die Next! (1954) Harry Whittington "The best sheer storytelling... I couldn't have held my breath any longer."	Web of Murder (1958) Harry Whittington "Whittington does some of the last sheer storytelling since the greatest days of the detective pulps."
The Galton Case (1959) (Lew Archer, book 8) Ross MacDonald "Exciting, beautifully plotted, and written with taste, perception and compassion."	Hopjoy Was Here (1962) (Flaxborough) Colin Watson "Mr. Watson has an unforgivably sharp eye for the ridiculous."	The Light of the Day (1962) Eric Ambler "Arthur Abdel Simpson . . . is one of fiction's most delightful rogues, and his adventures provide the best Ambler entertainment in years."
Gideon's Vote (1964) (Gideon, book 10) J J Marric "The novel is wholly admirable, and no one else could possibly have written it."	The Hollywood Murders (2000) Ellery Queen "Ellery Queen IS the American detective story."

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