Bill Denton, I have copies of all the Bestseller, Mercury, and Jonathan Press Hammett anthologies put together by Frederic Dannay, and can send you the contents (along with series characters of each story). First publication in a book by the author IS important bibliographically. You can probably also get this information in Al Hubin's CRIME FICTION II, though he lists the stories in each book alphabetically rathere than in the order they were printed I make this offer even though I haven't had the time yet to send Bill Denton a few more Chandler short story details he requested. I WILL get on it. Very busy right now with Crippen & Landru stuff. Doug - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca