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Title: Mr. Policeman and the Cook Title Record # 573885
Author: Wilkie Collins
Date: 1881-01-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Sensational non-supernatural crime story; the supposed murder while sleepwalking qualifies as an element of the fantastic, although it is a red herring rather than an actuality. "Published as 'Who Killed Zebedee?' in The Seaside Library (23 January 1881); retitled 'Mr Policeman and the Cook' for its republication in Little Novels (1887)." — information from p 383 of Norman Page's collection of Wilkie Collins short fiction Mad Monkton and Other Stories.
Synopsis: A man is murdered and his wife suspected of the crime. She herself believes that she committed the crime while sleepwalking. She is cleared, but the crime remains unsolved, until many years later the investigating policeman confesses that he allowed the real culprit to escape.
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1881Sensational non-supernatural crime story; the supposed murder while sleepwalking qualifies as an element of the fantastic, although it is a red herring rather than an actuality. "Published as 'Who Killed Zebedee?' in The Seaside Library (23 January 1881); retitled 'Mr Policeman and the Cook' for its republication in Little Novels (1887)." — information from p 383 of Norman Page's collection of Wilkie Collins short fiction Mad Monkton and Other Stories.
Who Killed Zebedee?

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Little Novels 1887-00-00 Wilkie Collins Chatto & Windus     319+
331+
303+
32
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Tales of Suspense 1954-00-00 Wilkie Collins The Folio Society     255
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1972-00-00 Wilkie Collins Dover Publications 0-486-20307-7
$3.00?$: US dollar
ix+
294
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Checkmark
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1972-06-00 Wilkie Collins Peter Smith Publisher 0-8446-4725-X
$11.00?$: US dollar
ix+
294
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Little Novels 1977-00-00 Wilkie Collins Dover Publications 0-486-23506-8
$3.00?$: US dollar
244
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Checkmark
The Best Supernatural Stories of Wilkie Collins 1990-11-00 Wilkie Collins Robert Hale 0-7090-4224-8
£14.95?£: UK pound
303
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Helen Hale  
Mad Monkton and Other Stories 1994-00-00 Wilkie Collins Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics) 0-19-282260-8
£5.99?£: UK pound
xxxviii+
383
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Caspar David Friedrich Checkmark
The Dream-Woman and Other Stories 1998-09-00 Wilkie Collins Phoenix (Phoenix Short Stories) 0-7538-0454-9
£3.99?£: UK pound
x+
241
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Richard Prideaux  
Little Novels 2008-10-15 Wilkie Collins Project Gutenberg 1630
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Murder Mayhem Short Stories 2016-07-15 ed. Laura Bulbeck Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-78361-987-0
£20.00?£: UK pound
479
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Gabor Ruszkai , Slava Gerj Checkmark
Murder Mayhem Short Stories 2016-11-12 ed. Laura Bulbeck Flame Tree Publishing 978-1-78664-512-8
$18.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Gabor Ruszkai , Slava Gerj  
Short Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria 2019-06-24 ed. uncredited Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy: Classic Tales) 978-1-78755-286-9
$30.00?$: US dollar
 
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural date unknown Wilkie Collins Dover Publications 0-486-20307-7
$6.50?$: US dollar
ix+
294
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Fred Walker Checkmark
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