Midnight specials

By Bill Pronzini

Subjects: Trains, Railroad stories, Railroads, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Description: Contents: 3 • The Signalman • (1866) • shortstory by Charles Dickens 18 • The Shooting of Curly Dan • (1973) • shortstory by John Lutz 26 • The Invalid's Story • (1882) • shortstory by Mark Twain 35 • A Journey • (1899) • shortstory by Edith Wharton 48 • The Problem of the Locked Caboose • (1976) • novelette by Edward D. Hoch 70 • Midnight Express • (1935) • shortstory by Alfred Noyes 81 • Faith, Hope and Charity • (1930) • shortstory by Irvin S. Cobb 103 • Dead Man • (1936) • shortstory by James M. Cain 118 • The Phantom of the Subway • (1983) • novelette by Cornell Woolrich (variant of You Pays Your Nickel 1936) 139 • The Man on B-17 • (1950) • shortstory by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon ] 147 • The Three Good Witnesses • (1945) • shortstory by Harold Lamb 165 • Snowball in July • (1956) • shortstory by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee [as by Ellery Queen ] 175 • All of God's Children Got Shoes • (1953) • shortstory by Howard Schoenfeld 189 • The Sound of Murder • (1963) • shortstory by William P. McGivern 202 • The Train • (1957) • shortstory by Charles Beaumont 213 • That Hell-Bound Train • (1958) • shortstory by Robert Bloch 231 • Inspector Maigret Deduces • (1966) • shortstory by Georges Simenon (trans. of Jeumont, 51 minutes d'arrêt 1938) 243 • Sweet Fever • (1976) • shortstory by Bill Pronzini 252 • The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady • (1977) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg 261 • Bibliography (Midnight Specials) • (1977) • essay by uncredited