- Title Listings
- Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Romances & Adventures
- Autobiographical
- Writing as 'Maxwell March'
- Notes About the Title List
- Short Story Cross-Reference
- Introduction
- By Title, with Alternates
- By Collection
The Short Stories: A Cross Reference
There are roughly sixty short stories in the Allingham canon. Many have been published with varying titles on different occasions, in magazines, newspapers, or anthologies. The following list is an attempt to reconcile all of the differing names and appearances. While the list is based upon my own collection, for several volumes which I do not own I have had to rely on Barry Pike's excellent guide in Campion's Career. In some cases, even Pike's guide has had to be updated (it was published in 1988), owing to the publication of The Return of Mr Campion and Other Stories in 1989, which includes several previously unpublished pieces.
Additional difficulties abound: two of the collections have the same title (Mr Campion and Others), but were published eleven years apart and have significantly different contents. Another collection (The Allingham Case-Book) now exists solely under its newer title (Mr Campion's Lucky Day and Other Stories). Further, some stories appear in multiple anthologies under different titles, and some have variant titles which do not appear in any known anthology. The following lists are an attempt to set all of these issues straight, and I hope that they will succeed to some degree.
For the time being, I have not actively attempted to track down the actual first publication of all sixty-odd stories, usually in newspapers or magazines, although I have included that information when it has appeared readily to hand (ie: been noted carefully in the collection, as in The Return of Mr Campion).
In the interests of thoroughness, I have also included the novellas, as some of them form the anchors of other short story collections (for example, Mr Campion: Criminologist, or Wanted, Someone Innocent).
Using the menu at left, view the stories by their first published title, with alternate titles referenced, or by the collection in which the story appeared, with reference to later (or earlier) publication.
For the sake of clarity, I have omitted introductory and prefatory materials, but I have included any Campion-related essays or other short works.
This effort should be considered a work in progress. If you should happen to see any obvious mistakes, please feel free to drop me a line.
