Anthologies of African American Writing

Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction

"Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction." Ed. Paula L. Woods. New York: Doubleday, 1996. xviii+350 pp.

● Paula L. Woods / Introduction

Part I / Black Mystery: Forefathers and Foremothers
Black Golden Age Writers
● Pauline E. Hopkins / Talma Gordon
● Rudolph Fisher / From “The Conjure-Man Dies”
● George S. Schuyler [writing as William Stockton] / The Shoemaker Murder
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Summer Session

Himes and Company: The Masters and Influencers
● Chester Himes / His Last Day
● Ann Petry / On Saturday the Siren Sounds at Noon
● Hughes Allison / Corollary
● Richard Wright / The Man Who Killed a Shadow

Part II / Spooks at the Door: The Second Black Arts Renaissance and the Political Thriller
● John A. Williams / From “The Man Who Cried I Am”
● Sam Greenlee / From “The Spook Who Sat by the Door”

Part III / The New Renaissance in Black Mystery Fiction
Men of Mystery
● Walter Mosley / Fearless
● Gar Anthony Haywood / And Pray Nobody Sees You
● Mike Phillips / Personal Woman
● Hugh Holton / The Thirtieth Amendment
● Gary Phillips / Dead Man’s Shadow
● Percy Spurlark Parker / Death and the Point Spread
● Njami Simon / From “Coffin & Co.”

Sistuhs in Crime
● Eleanor Taylor Bland / The Man Who Said I’m Not
● BarbaraNeely / Spilled Salt
● Charlotte Watson Sherman / Killing Color
● Aya De León / Tell Me Moore
● Penny Mickelbury / From “Night Songs”

● Permissions
● Appendix: Mystery Chronology

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