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Edward D Hoch

(Edward Dentinger Hoch)

(1930 - 2008)

Edward D. Hoch is one of the most honored mystery writers of all time. In addition to winning an Edgar for Best Short Story, he has received the Mystery Writers of America's highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and he has been recognized for Lifetime Achievement by the Private Eye Writers of America and the Bouchercon. Ed Hoch is the only author who specializes in the mystery short story to receive such recognition.

Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction

Series

Simon Ark
   City of Brass (1971)
   The Judges of Hades (1971)
   Quests of Simon Ark (1985)

Carl Crader
   1. The Transvection Machine (1971)
   2. The Fellowship of the Hand (1973)
   3. The Frankenstein Factory (1975)

Jeffery Rand
The Spy and the Thief (1971)
The Spy Who Read Latin (1990)

Novels

The Shattered Raven (1969)
More Things Impossible (2006)

Collections

   The Monkey's Clue ; The Stolen Sapphire: (1978)
   The Thefts of Nick Velvet (1978)
   Baffling Detective Cases (1978)
   Mysteries for Crime Busters (1978)
   Leopold's Way (1985)
   The Night My Friend (1992)
   Diagnosis: Impossible (1996)
   The Ripper of Storyville (1997) (with Marvin Lachman)
   Snow White and the Eleven Dwarfs (2000) (with Ed Gorman)
   The Velvet Touch (2000)
   The Old Spies Club (2001)
   The Night People (2001)
   The Iron Angel (2003)
   The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (2012)
   Layout for Murder (2012)
   Noir Masters Triple Threat Treasury (2012) (with others)
   Challenge the Impossible (2018)
   Hoch's Ladies (2019)
   Funeral in the Fog (2020)
   Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries (2022)
   The Killer Everyone Knew and Other Captain Leopold Stories (2023)

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Anthologies edited

   Dear Dead Days (1972)
   All but Impossible (1981)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1982 (1982)
   Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1984 (1984)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1985 (1985)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1986 (1986)
   Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1987 (1987)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1989 (1987)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1988 (1988)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1990 (1990)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1991 (1991)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1992 (1992)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories 1993 (1993)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories 1994 (1994)
   The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories 1995 (1995)
   Twelve American Detective Stories (1997)

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Anthology series

Academy Mystery Novellas (with Martin H Greenberg)
4. Great British Detectives (1987)
5. Women Write Murder (1987)

Murder Most... (with Martin H Greenberg)
Murder Most Sacred (1989)

Anthologies containing stories by Edward D Hoch

The Big Book of Espionage (2020)
edited by
Otto Penzler

The Further Misadventures of Ellery Queen (2020)
edited by
Dale C Andrews and Josh Pachter

Tricks and Treats (2019)
(Mystery Writers of America Presents)
edited by
Joe Gores and Bill Pronzini

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