Edward D. Hoch

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Born:
Feb. 22, 1930
Died:
Jan. 17, 2008

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Longtime mystery writer and editor Edward Dentinger Hoch was practically an institution in the field. Born in 1930, he published over eight hundred mystery stories including one in every issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine from 1973 to 1981. His TV writing credits include episodes of "MacMillan and Wife", "Night Gallery", the "Alfred Hitchcock Show", and "Tales of the Unexpected". Mr. Hoch served as president of the Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote mysteries under the pseudonyms Anthony Circus, R.E. Porter and R.L. Stevens. Mr. Hoch died January 17, 2008. - Source: histmyst.org/profiles.html

Books by Edward D. Hoch

Connie Willis, Barry N. Malzberg, Hal Clement, George Alec Effinger, Mike Resnick, Pamela Sargent, Harry Harrison, George Zebrowski, Sheila Finch, Edward Wellen, Edward D. Hoch, Robert Silverberg, Orson Scott Card, Martin H. Greenberg, Harry Turtledove, Robert Sheckley, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl: Foundation's Friends (Paperback, 1997, Tor Books) 3 stars

Foundation's Friends

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E. Michael Blake, Paul Dellinger, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, F. M. Busby, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan E. Nourse, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher, K. W. MacAnn, Martin H. Greenberg, Joanna Russ, Fred Saberhagen, Frederik Pohl, Jerome Bixby, Larry Niven, Grant Carrington, Ray Russell, Martin Gardner, Alfred Bester, Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Roger Zelazny, Ambrose Bierce, Lee Killough, Karen Anderson, Damon Knight, Nelson Slade Bond, Walter Tevis, Anthony Boucher, George R. R. Martin, James E. Gunn, Bill Pronzini, Hayford Peirce, Thomas F. Monteleone, Keith Laumer, Reginald Bretnor, Jeffrey S. Hudson, David Bischoff, Gregory Benford, Fritz Leiber, Barry N. Malzberg, Donald E. Westlake, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Stephen Goldin, Bob Shaw, Alexei Panshin, Edward Wellen, Edward D. Hoch, Joseph D. Olander, William F. Nolan, Charles E. Fritch, C. M. Kornbluth, Richard Wilson, Laurence M. Janifer, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Robert Sheckley, Steven Utley, Maggie Nadler, James Blish: 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (Paperback, 1980, Pan Books) 4 stars

100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories

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John Betancourt, David Stuart Davies, Robert Weinberg, Michael Ashley, Roger Johnson, Stephen Baxter, David Langford, Claire Griffen, Barbara Roden, Guy N. Smith, Peter Crowther, Amy Myers, Michael Doyle, Zakaria Erzinclioglu, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, L. B. Greenwood, H. R. F. Keating, Claire Griffen, Eric Brown, Martin Edwards, Lois H. Gresh, Basil Copper, Simon Clark, Denis O. Smith, Derek Wilson, Michael Moorcock, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Paperback, 1997, Carroll & Graf Publishers) 4 stars

The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

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James McKimmey, Lew Gillis, Carroll Mayers, Judith F. Garner, Lawrence Treat, Al Nussbaum, Charles M. Plotz, Harold Q. Masur, Elsin Ann Graffam, Ed Dumonte, Martin H. Greenberg, Francis M. Nevins, Maxine O'Callaghan, Mary Bradford, Richard Deming, A. F. Oreshnik, Alvin S. Fick, James Holding, Michael Gilbert, John Lutz, Isak Romun, R. L. Stevens, Jeff Sweet, Charles Boeckman, Elaine Slater, Lael Littke, Helen McCloy, Jane Speed, Thomasina Weber, Carl Henry Rathjen, Marion M. Markham, Dion Henderson, Patricia Mathews, Morris Hershman, Leo R. Ellis, Michael Kurland, Isaac Asimov, Fred S. Tobey, Anne Chamberlain, John F. Suter, Penelope Wallace, Ruth H. Wissmann, Robert Edmond Alter, Kay Nolte Smith, Jeffrey Wallman, Robert H. Curtis, Bill Pronzini, Betty Ren Wright, Gary Brandner, Phyllis Ann Karr, Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Ritchie, Edward Wellen, Edward D. Hoch, Joseph D. Olander, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Julie Smith, Joe L. Hensley: 100 Malicious Little Mysteries (Paperback, 1981, Barnes and Noble Books)

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100 Malicious Little Mysteries

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Stanley Ellin, Rex Stout, Edward D. Hoch, Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Robert Somerlott, Isaac Asimov, Alice Scanlan Reach, John Dickson Carr, August Derleth, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ellery Queen, Martin H. Greenberg, S. S. Rafferty, Nick O'Donohoe: The Twelve Crimes of Christmas (Paperback, 1981, Avon) No rating

The Twelve Crimes of Christmas

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H. Paul Jeffers, Tanith Lee, Naomi Novik, Stephen King, Sharyn McCrumb, Dominic Green, Bradley H. Sinor, Tony Pi, Rob Rogers, Stephen Baxter, John Joseph Adams, Christopher Roden, Tim Lebbon, Neil Gaiman, Mary Robinette Kowal, Barbara Roden, Amy Myers, Darrell Schweitzer, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mark Valentine, Anthony Burgess, Robert J. Sawyer, Anne Perry, Michael Moorcock, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne, Vonda N. McIntyre, Chris Roberson, Laurie R. King, Barbara Hambly: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2010, Brilliance Audio) 3 stars

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Anna Quindlen, Virginia Hamilton, Wendy Rose, Bill Cosby, Mark Twain, Chief Dan George, Pat Mora, Cynthia Rylant, Ray Bradbury, James Ramsey Ullman, Aesop, Lewis Carroll, James Stephens, Karen Cushman, Emily Dickinson, Alex Haley, Rod Serling, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Robert Service, Laurence Yep, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sherwood Anderson, Alice Walker, Bashō Matsuo, Jon Krakauer, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Olivia E. Coolidge, Courlander, Harold, Jacqueline Dineen, Reid Goldsborough, Richard Holler, Phillip Hoose, Israel Horovitz, Barbara Jordan, William W. Lace, Don Lessem, Naomi Long Madgett, Eve Merriam, Zora Neale Hurston, Alfred Noyes, Raymond R. Patterson, Langston Hughes, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Josephine Preston Peabody, Juliet Piggott, Walter Dean Myers, William Jay Smith, Geoffrey C. Ward, Anne Terry White, Nikki Giovanni, Piri Thomas, Sandra Cisneros, Annie Dillard, Rudyard Kipling, James Herriot, Walter De la Mare, Jack Finney, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Russell Baker, Robert Frost, Maxine Kumin, Edward D. Hoch, Lucille Clifton, Gary Soto, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Ogden Nash, William Saroyan, James Dickey, Amy Tan, Joan Aiken, Charles Osgood, Ernesto Galarza, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Kate Kinsella, Gillian Standing, Paul Stillwell, Jim Willard, Terry Willard, Jane Wilson, Thomas Hardy: Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Pearson Prentice Hall) No rating

Literature

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Daniel Stashower, Jon L. Lellenberg, Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Howard Engel, Gillian Linscott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bill Crider, Carolyn Wheat, Jon L. Breen, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne, L. B. Greenwood, Lloyd Rose, Martin H. Greenberg, Stuart M. Kaminsky: Murder in Baker Street (Paperback, 2002, Carroll & Graf) 5 stars

Murder in Baker Street

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Edward D. Hoch: Diagnosis impossible (1996, Crippen & Landru) 4 stars

Diagnosis impossible

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Dorothy B. Hughes, Martin H. Greenberg, Michael Gilbert, John Lutz, Stephen King, Jon L. Lellenberg, Loren D. Estleman, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Barry Jones, Lillian De La Torre, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Gary Alan Ruse, John L. Breen, Michael Harrison, Joyce Harrington, Edward Wellen, Edward D. Hoch, John Gardner, Peter Lovesey: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback, 1999, Carroll & Graf Publishers) No rating

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Edward D. Hoch: Leopold's Way (1985, Southern Illinois University Press) No rating

Leopold's Way

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