The Last Pin

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The Last Pin
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Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Howard Wandrei
Illustrator Gary Gianni
Cover artist Gary Gianni
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Mystery short stories
Publisher F & B Mystery
Publication date 1996
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xxviii, 355 pp
ISBN ISBN 1-878252-25-9

The Last Pin is a collection of mystery stories by author Howard Wandrei. It was released in 1996 by F & B Mystery in an edition of 1,600 copies of which 100 were specially bound and released in a slipcase with Wandrei's Saith the Lord. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Detective Fiction Weekly, Private Detective Stories, Detective Action Stories, Spicy Detective Stories, Romantic Detective and Black Mask under Wandrei's pseudonyms Robert A. Garron and H. W. Guernsey.

[edit] Contents

  • Introduction, by D. H. Olson
  • "Smot Guy"
  • "Wrong Number"
  • "I’ll Be Murdering You"
  • "The Man with the Molten Face"
  • "League of Bald Men"
  • "Marked in Indigo"
  • "Too Good Looking"
  • "Dressed to Kill"
  • "Jongkovski’s Wife"
  • "Fur-Bearing Animal"
  • "The Last Pin"

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