Title: The Crewel Needle

Title: The Crewel Needle Title Record # 97814
Author: Gerald Kersh
Date: 1953-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: Borderline genre content. Also appeared in Ellery Queen's 1968 Anthology (ed. Ellery Queen, Davis 1967) and EQMM (UK) 83, December 1959, as 'Open Verdict' (Details from Harlan Ellison's Kersh site.)

Synopsis: A detective must solve a mystery about how a woman died with a knitting needle embedded in her head.

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1959^ⓘAlso appeared in <i>Ellery Queen's 1968 Anthology</i> (ed. Ellery Queen, Davis 1967).	Open Verdict

Year	Language	Title
1967^ⓘTranslated by P. Groen	Dutch	De borduurnaald

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Lilliput, May-June 1953	1953-05-00	ed. Editors of Lilliput					unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	mag
Esquire, December 1953	1953-12-00	ed. Editors of Esquire					unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	mag
Guttersnipe: Little Novels	1954-03-29	Gerald Kersh	William Heinemann		10/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	223	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
On an Odd Note	1958-00-00	Gerald Kersh	Ballantine Books	268	$0.35^?$: US dollar	154	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Richard Powers
On an Odd Note	1958-00-00	Gerald Kersh	Ballantine Books	268	C$0.35^?C$: Canadian dollar	154	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Richard Powers
The Best of Gerald Kersh	1960-08-22	Gerald Kersh	William Heinemann			viii+ 344	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Best of Gerald Kersh	1960-08-22	Gerald Kersh	British Book Service			viii+ 343	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Best of Gerald Kersh	1963-07-22	Gerald Kersh	William Heinemann			viii+ 343	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Best of Gerald Kersh	2013-10-17	Gerald Kersh	Faber and Faber (Faber Finds)	978-0-571-30448-6	£14.00^?£: UK pound	viii+ 343	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Best of Gerald Kersh	2013-10-17	Gerald Kersh	Faber and Faber (Faber Finds)	978-0-571-30449-3	£14.00^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
On an Odd Note	2014-11-04	Gerald Kersh	Valancourt Books (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)	978-1-939140-09-8	$14.99^?$: US dollar	x+ 127	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Lorenzo Princi
On an Odd Note	2015-01-08	Gerald Kersh	Valancourt Books (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)		$4.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Lorenzo Princi

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