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Title: Blue Murder Title Record # 96028
Author: Wilbur Daniel Steele
Date: 1925-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note:
  • A non-speculative mystery/suspense story. The horse who is suspected of having viciously murdered a human is actually just an ordinary horse.
  • first appearance in Harper's Magazine, Volume CLI (Volume 151)October 1925, pages 559-570. The story is available on-line to Harper's Magazine subscribers at www.harpers.org/archive/1925/10/page/0049.
  • Appeared in The Golden Book Magazine, 1930. 9 pages.
Synopsis: Three brothers, a tangle of jealousies, and a horse one of them buys, named Blue Murder. Soon one brother is found with his head smashed in and the mark of horseshoes on him.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories 1927-00-00 Wilbur Daniel Steele Harper & Brothers  
$2.50?$: US dollar
396
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele 1946-00-00 Wilbur Daniel Steele Doubleday  
$3.00?$: US dollar
469
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele (abridged) 1946-00-00 Wilbur Daniel Steele Editions for the Armed Services 1213
$0.00?$: US dollar
512
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
In the Dead of Night 1961-02-00 ed. Michael Sissons Anthony Gibbs & Phillips  
13/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
191
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
In the Dead of Night 1961-08-00 ed. Michael Sissons The Canterbury Press  
$3.25?$: US dollar
191
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
In the Dead of Night 1962-04-00 ed. Michael Sissons Panther 1349
2/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
154+
[1]
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Checkmark
In the Dead of Night 1963-06-00 ed. Michael Sissons Panther  
2/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
155
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth  
In the Dead of Night 1968-00-00 ed. Michael Sissons Panther 025847
3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
155
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth  
The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele 1976-08-25 Wilbur Daniel Steele Greenwood Press 0-8371-8637-4   469
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
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