Title: Mr. Policeman and the Cook
Title Record # 573885
Author: Wilkie Collins
Date: 1881-01-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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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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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Little Novels | 1887-00-00 | Wilkie Collins | Chatto & Windus |
319+ 331+ 303+ 32 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | |
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. |
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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 | |
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 |