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Kate Wilhelm
Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018)

literary critic, editing staff

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Skeletons
Cold case
Clear and convincing proof
Desperate Measures
The Unbidden Truth
The Price of Silence
A Wrongful Death
Sleight of Hand
A wrongful death
Sleight of Hand
Skeletons
Wrongful Death
Whisper Her Name
Wrongful Death
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
Isaac Asimov's Detectives
Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Four
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Again, Dangerous Visions
The Future in Question
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957)
A flush of shadows
Huysman's Pets
And the angels sing
Malice Prepense
Oh, Susannah!
No defense
The deepest water
Defense for the Devil
Seven kinds of death
A sense of shadow
Isaac Asimov's aliens & outworlders
The good children
Children of the Wind
City of Cain
Death of an artist
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
Death Qualified
Smart house
Justice for some
Let The Fire Fall
Juniper time
The Best Defense
Welcome, Chaos
Dark Door
The casebook of Constance and Charlie
Somerset dreams, and other fictions
Crazy time
The infinity box
Listen Listen
The Hamlet trap
Listen, listen
The killer thing
Justice for some
Heaven is high
Nebula Award Stories 9
Somerset dreams and other fictions
Fault Lines
Future Games
Damon Knight's Orbit 12
For the Defense
The best defense
The Future is Female!
The Clewiston test
The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels
Storyteller
Cambio Bay
Kate Wilhelm Sf Gateway Omnibus
Isaac Asimov's Choice
Nebula Award stories
The deepest water
Where late the sweet birds sang
Best New Horror 4 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
The Future is Female 2!
The Clewiston test
The Casebook of Constance and Charlie, Vol. 1
Juniper time
Sweet, sweet poison
The downstairs room
Welcome, Chaos
Defence for the Devil
Children of the wind
The good children
The Hamlet trap
Oh, Susannah!
Infinity Box
Abyss
The Casebook of Constance & Charlie Volume 2
Smart house
The nevermore affair
Margaret and I
City of Cain
Nebula Award Stories Nine
The mile-long spaceship
Andover and the Android
The killing thing
The hills are dancing
Skeletons
Inseln im Chaos
Univers 06
La mémoire de l'ombre
Let the fire fall
Fault Lines
For the Defence
Defense for the Devil
Seven kinds of death
Andover and the Android
Clarion
Cambio bay
More bitter than death
Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions
No Defence
Oh Susannah
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Points of Departure
Onde os Últimos Pássaros Cantaram
Fountainhead
Sleight of Hand
Storyteller
Death Qualified
Unbidden Truth
Death Qualified - A Mystery of Chaos
By Stone, by Blade, by Fire
CLEWISTON TEST (Timescape Book)
Clear and Convincing Proof
Heaven Is High
Cold Case
The Price of Silence
Whisper Her Name
The Fullness of Time
Heile, heile Segen
No Defense
Cold Case
Femmes au futur
The Hills Are Dancing
Naming the flowers
The deepest water
Storyteller
Abyss Two Novellas
Clear and Convincing Proof
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
In Between Lib/E
Margaret und Ich [Perfect Paperback] [Jan 01, 1984] Wilhelm, Kate
Écoute, écoute !
Desperate Measures
The girl who fell into the sky
Seven Kinds of Death
Mirror, Mirror
Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume One
Price of Silence
More bitter than death
No Defense
Clear and Convincing Proof
Naming the Flowers
Bonjour, chaos
The Fullness of Time Lib/E
Death of an Artist
The Best Defense
Unbidden Truth
The Best Defence
Clear and Convincing Proof Lib/E (Barbara Holloway Novels)
Desperate Measures (Barbara Holloway Novels (Audio))
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

playwright, politician, poet, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain
The Last Days of Pompeii
Eugene Aram
The Coming Race
The Nightmare Reader
Alice or the Mysteries
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
Zanoni
Pelham
Kenelm Chillingly
Paul Clifford
Inhabited
What Will He Do With It
Devereux
Night and morning
Harold
My Novel
The last of the barons
The Parisians
Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes
Ernest Maltravers
Godolphin
The best ghost stories
Pausanias, the Spartan
England and the English
The Disowned
Tannhäuser
Ghost Stories
The Caxtons
The new Timon
The Book of the Dead
Athens, its rise and fall
Vril
Leila
A strange story
The pilgrims of the Rhine
Fables in song
Classic Ghost Stories
Bulwer's drama of Richelieu
The works of Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton)
Types of the Short Story
The lady of Lyons, or, Love and pride
[Dramas and poems]
Lord Lytton's novels
Falkland
Zicci
King Arthur
The student
The fallen star
Das verfluchte Haus in der Oxford Street
Leila: Or, The Siege of Granada. Pausanias the Spartan
Poems
Calderon Courtier
What Will He Do with it, Part Two
Asmodeus at Large
Dramatic works
Money: A Comedy, in Five Acts
What Will He Do with it, Part One
The Siamese Twins, A Tale Of The Times
New Timon; a Poetical Romance &: St. Stephens; a Poem
The New Timon: A Poetical Romance. And the Lady of Lyons, Or Love and Pride; a Play
Novels
My Novel, Book 12
The life, letters and literary remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton
Paul Clifford, V1
Letters of the late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to his wife
Survey of the State of Education, Aristocratic and Popular, and of the General Influences of ..
St Stephen's
A letter to a late Cabinet Minister on the present crisis
Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale And Vril
The sea-captain
Collection Set of Stories That Stick
My Novel, Books 4, 5, and 6
My Novel, Books 7, 8, and 9
Paul Clifford ; Eugene Aram
The birth of Rowland
London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies
My Novel. Volume 5 to 8
The pilgrims of the Rhine to which is prefixed The ideal world
The secret way
The Last of the Barons Volume 1
My Novel, Books 1, 2, and 3
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book V
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 06
Letters to John Bull, esq
My Novel, Books 10 and 11
Confessions of a Water Patient, in a Letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 02
My Novel Volume 1 to 4
Fables In Song V1
Lay of the Bell
The lost tales of Miletus
The Last Days of Pompeii
Speeches of Edward, lord Lytton
My Novel Volume 9 to11
Not so bad as we seem
Caxtoniana
The Duchess de la Vallière
The Dramatic Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 08
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book IV
Tales of Terror
The coming race, Leila
Renard ae foks
Bulwer's Plays
Richelieu : or, The conspiracy. A play in five acts, to which are added, Historical odes on the last days of Elizabeth, Cromwell's dream, The death of Nelson
The Parisians (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book I
Bulwer's works
A strange story and The haunted & and the haunters
The Last of the Barons Volume 2
Leila; or, The Siege of Granada
Pelham, Vol. 7
Ernest Maltravers, Book 4
Ismael
The coming race ; Leila, or, The Siege of Granada ; Zicci ; The haunted and the haunters
Night and morning : a novel ; Godolphin
The Siamese twins
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II
Lord Lytton's novels
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 04
The New Reform Bill
Alice Or The Mysteries, Book I & II
Alice Or The Mysteries, Book X & XI
Night and Morning, Book V
Pausanias, the Spartan, the Haunted and the Haunters
Alice Or The Mysteries, Book III & IV
Miscellaneous Prose Works By Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton V3 And V4
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1803-1873
Ernest Maltravers, Book 1
Zanoni Book Two : Art, Love, and the World
Leila; Or, the Siege of Granada; Calderon, the Courtier; the Pilgrims of the Rhine
Night and Morning, Book I
Delmour; or, The Tale of Sylphid, and Other Poems
Ernest Maltravers, Book 5 & 6
Personal & literary letters of Robert first Earl of Lytton
The Life Letters And Literary Remains Of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton V1
The Arts of cheating, swindling, and murder
Zanoni Book One : the Musician
Eva
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 05
The Bulwer Lytton Birthday Book
The Parisians ; The pilgrims of the Rhine
The Life Letters And Literary Remains Of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton V2
The Caxtons ; a family picture ; The coming race, or, The new Utopia ; Leila, or, The siege of Granada
Letters of Bulwer-Lytton to Macready
The Dracula Book of Great Horror Stories
Ernest Maltravers, Book 7 & 8 & 9
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 10
Rienzi, the pilgrims of the Rhine. The coming race
Was wird er damit machen? Nachrichten aus dem Leben eines Lords
Sculpture
Eva, a true story, of light and darkness
Short Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Paul Clifford, and Tomlinsoniana
Boxing
Kenelm Chillingly : his adventures and opinions ; Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes
My Novel, Part Two
Alice Or The Mysteries, Book V & VI
Walpole, or, Every man has his price
The rightful heir
Bulwer and Macready
Zanoni [Vol. 2]
Night and Morning, Book III
Zanoni Book Three : Theurgia
The last of the barons. Pausanias. Calderon
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 01
My novel, or, Varieties in English life - Vol. I
What will he do with it? [Leila
Quarterly essays
Night and Morning, Book II
Ernest Maltravers, Book 2 & 3
The last of the barons ; Pausanias, the spartan ; Calderon the courtier
The Incantation
Miscellaneous Prose Works By Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton V1 And V2
Pamphlets and sketches
Bulwer's novels
Alice Or The Mysteries, Book VII & VIII & IX
Night and Morning, Book IV
Conversations with an ambitious student in ill health
My Novel, Part One
Pausanias the Spartan
Darnley
Godolphin. Falkland
On the Water-Treatment
Night and Morning
The Disowned, Volume 1
Novels, Volume 10
My Novel; Or, Varieties In English Life, Zicci, And The Pilgrims Of The Rhine (volume 3) (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
What Will He Do with It, Part Two (Esprios Classics)
Strange Story; Volume 2
Miscellaneous Prose Works; Volume 2
Bulwer's plays: being the complete dramatic works of Lord Lytton (Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, bart.) ..
Pausanius, the Spartan
O'Neill; or, The Rebel (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
Kenelm Chillingly, Devereux, The Disowned, And The Coming Race (volume 2) (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
The last days of Pompeii ; The disowned
Pelham
The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes)
Pelham
A strange story ; The haunted and the haunters, or, The house and the brain ; Zanoni
Parisians
Speeches
E.L. Bulwer's sämmtliche Romane
Romances
Prose Works
Pausanias, the Spartan, and the Haunted and the Haunters (Esprios Classics)
"The Haunted and the Haunters" and Other Gothic Tales
Caxtoniana : Volume 1
Novels of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
The novels of Lord Lytton
Volume 4 (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
Speech Delivered at the Leeds Mechanics' Institution (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
Ernest Maltravers; or, the Eleusinia; 1 Part. 1
King Arthur
[Works]
The wit and wisdom of E. Bulwer-Lytton
Strange Story, The Haunted And The Haunters, The Last Of The Barons, And Rienzi (volume 7) (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 61
The Disowned, Volumes 1-2
Caxtoniana : Volume 2
The wooing of Master Fox
Reinzi
"my Novel", Or, Varieties In English Life, Volume 2
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 43
Zicci (Esprios Classics)
[Bulwer's works]
Bulwer's Works
The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton Volume 7
What Will He Do with It, Part One (Esprios Classics)
Harold, the last of the Saxon kings ; Falkland ; Calderon, the Courtier
Paul Clifford ; Tomlinsoniana ; Eugene Aram
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 9
Pelham, Paul Clifford, Zanoni, And Falkland (volume 8) (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
Paul Clifford, and Tomlinsoniana (Esprios Classics)
The novels and romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton
Speculative Fiction in the Steam Era 1827-1871AD : C19th American Proto Sci Fi
Brightest nuggets
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 69
My Novel
Temper
[Bulwer's Works] Volume 2
Leila, or, The siege of Granada and Calderon, the courtier
Miscellaneous Prose Works (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
[Bulwer's Works] Volume 4
Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt
Haus des Schwarzen Magiers
Classic Ghost Stories
Ernest Maltravers, Alice; Or, The Mysteries, Pausanias; The Spartan, And Lucretia; Or, The Children Of Night (volume 6) (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; Volume 2
Weeds and wildflowers
Chairolas, Prince of Paida
Pelham
Novels : The Pilgrims of the Rhine. the Haunted and the Haunters. 1897
Race Future
The world as it is
Novels; Volume 2
Lucretia, or The children of night
Werke
Bulwer's Novels
Una famiglia originale
Novels
The last days of Pompeii ; Harold, the last of the Saxon kings
Pelham, or, Adventures of a gentleman ; Lucretia, or, The children of night
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 8
Last Days of Pompeii; Volume 1
Duchess De La Valliere, The Lady Of Lyons, Richelieu, Not So Bad As We Seem, Money, The Rightful Heir, Walpole, And Darnley (volume 9) (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
Used Fic
Pamphlets and Sketches (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
Novels; Volume 20
A Word to the Public (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
The new Timon ; St. Stephen's ; and, The lost tales of Miletus
The Boatman, by Pisistratus Caxton (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
Inter-colonial railway
Pelham, or, Adventures of a Gentleman
Pelham
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 68
The poetical and dramatic works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
Papers relative to the affairs of British Columbia
Last Days Of Pompeii, Harold; The Last Of The Saxon Kings, The Caxtons; A Family Picture (volume 1) (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
Eva, The Ill-Omened Marriage, and Other Poems (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
[Bulwer's Works] Volume 8
England and the English, Volumes 1-2
Novels; Volume 1
Novels, Volume 9
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 07
The Novels And Romances Of Edward Bulwer Lytton, Volume 36
Life at the water cure : facts and fancies noted down during a month at Malvern : a diary
Three Hours in Pompeii; a Real and Practical Guide-Book Compiled in Harmony with Description Given by Bulwer Lytton in His Work Entitled the Last Days of Pompeii
The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton
Miscellaneous prose works
Theater playbill for "The Lady of Lyons" and "Mr. & Mrs. White" at the Washington Theater, May 4, 1861
Theater playbill for the Great Star Company in "Lady of Lyons" and "The Hypocrite" at Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, January 15, 1858
The Complete Works, Volume 15
Miscellaneous prose works
The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton
Robert Macaire
[Bulwer's Works]
[Bulwer's Works] Volume 12
The Novels And Romances Of Edward Bulwer Lytton, Volume 18
Speech delivered in the House of Commons upon the motion of Sir Eardley Wilmot for the immediate abolition of negro apprenticeship in the British Colonies on Tuesday May 22, 1838
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 62
Pilgrims of the Rhine, and the Ideal World (Esprios Classics)
Wanderer
A Strange Story; Volume 2
Schiller and Horace
The Caxtons, Zicci, The haunted and the haunters
[Complete works]
Rienzo, the last of the Roman tribunes
[Works]
Speech on the Representation of the People Bill, Delivered in the House of Commons, March 22nd 1859 (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
The lady of Lyons, or, Love and pride
Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563
Historical romances
Arasmanes
Novels
Aventures de Pisistrate Caxton
MRS. PECK'S PUDDING, BY TOM HOOD. A HUMOROUS PAPER, BY CHARLES DICKENS. AND A DRAMATIC SKETCH, BY Sill E. LYTTON- BULWER.
Last Days of Pompeii; Volume 2
Luoma ying xiong Liyinji
Night and morning ; Leila, or The siege of Granada ; and, Pausanias the Spartan
Lord Lytton's Novels
The Last Days of Pompeii; Volume 1
My Novel, or, Varieties in English Life; Volume 4
Dramatic Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton, Vol. 9
Calderon, the Courtier
Address to the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh on His Installation as Their Honorary President and His Speech at the Public Dinner, January 20th 1854 (The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (19 Volumes))
[Bulwer's Works] Volume 7
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 09
Night And Morning, Godolphin, Eugene Aram, Leila; Or The Siege Of Granada, And Calderon; The Courtier (volume 5) (The Works Of Edward Bulwer Lytton)
Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes; Volume 3
Lord Lytton's Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2
Destruction of Pompeii
THE WORKS OF EDWARD BULWER LYTTON VOLUME 3
Historical Romances
Pelham, or, Adventures of a gentleman to which is added, Falkland
Gu cheng mo ri ji
Alice, or the Mysteries Book 03
"Beautiful thoughts" from Bulwer-Lytton
A strange story ; Zanoni
Bulwer's novels
Godolphin, and Calderon the Courtier
Falkland, and Zicci
Lailā, yā, Muạ̄ṣira-i-G̲h̲arnātā
Works
Dramas
The Caxtons ; Leila ; The coming race
La casa y el cerebro
Dramas and poems
The student, and Asmodeus at large
Novels and romances
Bulwer Lytton's novels
The poetical works of the Right Hon. Lord Lytton
The wife of Miletus
Das kommende Geschlecht
Julian Symons
Julian Symons (1912-1994)

poet, literary critic, historian

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The Players and the Game
The man who lost his wife
The paper chase
The Gigantic Shadow
The Progress of a Crime
The Blackheath poisonings
Color of Murder
Playing happy families
The man who hated television and other stories
Mortal consequences
Something like a love affair
The Belting Inheritance
Great cases of Scotland Yard
Conan Doyle
The Kentish manor murders
A criminal comedy
A sort of virtue
The thirties
The General Strike
A pictorial history of crime
The Great Detectives
The Sport of crime
Sweet Adelaide
The man who killed himself
The killing of Francie Lake
Tigers of Subtopia
Buller's campaign
The man whose dreams came true
Thomas Carlyle
The Big Call / The Baby Merchants / A Three-Pipe Problem
The tell-tale heart
Makers of the new
The immaterial murder case
Horatio Bottomley
The narrowing circle
Show Business is Murder
Agatha Christie, the art of her crimes
England's Pride
Death's Darkest Face
The plot against Roger Rider
Did Sherlock Holmes meet Hercule Poirot?
Bland beginning
A la carte
The 31st of February
Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
Ellery Queen's Eyes of Mystery
The broken penny
The Detling murders
The detective story in Britain
Selected Tales
A.J.A. Symons, his life and speculations
The Penguin Classic Crime Ombnibus
Critical observations
A Three-pipe Problem (Classic Crime)
The Julian Symons omnibus
A man called Jones
The end of Solomon Grundy
The Name of Annabel Lee (Crime Monthly)
The Detections of Francis Quarles (Lost Classics)
Charles Dickens
Dashiell Hammett
Critical occasions
A reasonable doubt
The Advertising Murders
Two brothers
A. J. A. Symons
Crime and detection
Portraits of the Missing
Between the Wars: Britain in photographs
The second man
Bogue's fortune
The thirties and the nineties
Julian Symons papers
The plain man
Criminal practices
Standard occupational classification manual
the players and the game,first blood,the skytrap.
Carlyle
CRIMINAL ACTS
Verdict of thirteen
Oscar Wilde
Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie
Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story
Twentieth century verse
The Angry 30's
Confusions about X
The general strike
Notes from another country
The object of an affair, and other poems
Charles Dickens
A.J.A. Symons, Brother Speculator
1948 and 1984
Something like a Love Affair
The modern crime story
A.J.A. Symons 1900-1941
Ellery Queen presents Julian Symons' How to trap a crook, and 12 other mysteries
Crime and detection quiz
1948 and 1984
New Poetry
Somebody else and other stories
Murder under the Mistletoe and Other Stories