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Original title: In at the Death
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Ghosts

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Masters of Suspense (1980) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Donald E. Westlake , Patricia Highsmith , Bill Pronzini , Richard Laymon , Joyce Harrington , Lloyd Biggle, Jr. , Edward D. Hoch , Patricia McGerr , Celia Fremlin , Lawrence G. Blochman , Michael Gilbert , Edmund Crispin , Jack Ritchie , Ellery Queen , Erle Stanley Gardner , Brian Garfield , John Ball , Vincent McConnor , Lawrence Treat , Florence V. Mayberry , Ursula Curtiss , Harold Q. Masur , Barry Perowne , Edgar Wallace , Barbara Callahan , Hugh Pentecost , Nedra Tyre , Thomas Walsh , Robert Twohy , James Holding , Ernest Savage , Kathryn Gottlieb , Henry T. Parry , Victor Canning , Ann Mackenzie , Douglas Shea , Jean L. Backus , L.E. Behney , Davis Grubb , Pete Hamill
     Tomorrow's Crimes (1989) [Collection]
      Author: Donald E. Westlake
     New England Ghosts (1990) [Anthology]
      Authors: H. P. Lovecraft , Barry N. Malzberg , Donald E. Westlake , August Derleth , Joyce Carol Oates , Talmage Powell , Seabury Quinn , Jeff Hecht , Dahlov Ipcar , Dana Burnet , Stephen Vincent Benét , Josephine Daskam Bacon , Anne Serling
     Great American Ghost Stories (1991) [Anthology]
      Authors: H. P. Lovecraft , Ambrose Bierce , Oliver Lafarge , Harlan Ellison , Donald E. Westlake , Jack L. Chalker , Madeleine L'Engle , Joyce Carol Oates , Donald Hamilton , Mary Higgins Clark , Manly Wade Wellman , Lester del Rey , Nancy Varian Berberick , Michael Cassutt , Talmage Powell , Jack Cady , Burton Kline , Helen R. Hull , Seabury Quinn , Jeff Hecht , Margaret St. Clair , William Wood , Dahlov Ipcar , Mary Elizabeth Counselman , Arthur J. Burks , Julius Long
     Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (1991) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Donald E. Westlake , Patricia Highsmith , Robert Bloch , Avram Davidson , Peter Lovesey , Dorothy B. Hughes , Mignon G. Eberhart , W.R. Burnett , Helen Nielsen , Edward D. Hoch , Margery Allingham , Jean Potts , Anthony Boucher , John Dickson Carr , Celia Fremlin , Robert Barnard , Simon Brett , Michael Gilbert , Stanley Ellin , Clark Howard , Julian Symons , James Powell , Ellery Queen , Thomas Burke , Florence V. Mayberry , Frederick Irving Anderson , Ursula Curtiss , Barry Perowne , George Harmon Coxe , Charlotte Armstrong , Anthony Gilbert , Hugh Pentecost , C. Daly King , Philip MacDonald , Michael Arlen , Nicholas Blake , Anthony Armstrong , Octavus Roy Cohen , C.S. Forester , Andrew Garve , A.H.Z. Carr , Harold R. Daniels , David Ely , Nedra Tyre , Thomas Walsh , Robert Twohy , George Baxt , David Alexander
     Great American Ghost Stories, Volume One (1992) [Anthology]
      Authors: H. P. Lovecraft , Ambrose Bierce , Harlan Ellison , Donald E. Westlake , Jack L. Chalker , Madeleine L'Engle , Donald Hamilton , Mary Higgins Clark , Manly Wade Wellman , Lester del Rey , Nancy Varian Berberick , Talmage Powell , Burton Kline , Helen R. Hull , Jeff Hecht , Margaret St. Clair
     Century of Great Suspense Stories, a (2001) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ruth Rendell , Stephen King , Harlan Ellison , Lawrence Block , Donald E. Westlake , James M. Cain , Robert Bloch , Sharyn McCrumb , Ross MacDonald , John D. MacDonald , Bill Pronzini , Ed Gorman , Max Allan Collins , Georges Simenon , Jeffery Deaver , Sara Paretsky , Marcia Muller , John Lutz , Jeremiah Healy , Margaret Millar , Mickey Spillane , Rex Stout , Edward D. Hoch , Fredric Brown , Anthony Boucher , Robert Barnard , Tony Hillerman , Lisa Scottoline , Stanley Ellin , Michael Malone , Ed McBain , Ellery Queen , Anna Katharine Green , Erle Stanley Gardner , Janwillem van de Wetering , Steve Martini

Notes:

• Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Short Story, 1979