Title: Chinoiserie

Title: Chinoiserie Title Record # 96615
Author: Helen McCloy
Date: 1946-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English

Note: A mystery story set in 19th-century Peking. Borderline speculative--one character believes that the spirit of the ancient painter Wang Wei intervened in events, offended by one of his paintings being misappropriated, and the story leaves it ambiguous whether this is true.

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Year	Language	Title
1987^ⓘTranslated by Maurice B. Endrèbe.	French	Chinoiseries [as by Helen Macloy]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1946	1946-07-00	ed. Editors of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine			$0.25^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag
Argosy (UK), July 1965	1965-07-00	ed. Editors of Argosy (UK)	Fleetway Publications		3/6^?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).	168	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag
A Month of Mystery	1969-00-00	ed. Alfred Hitchcock	Random House			xii+ 403	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
A Month of Mystery	1969-00-00	ed. Alfred Hitchcock	Random House			xiv+ 428	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
A Month of Mystery	1970-00-00	ed. Alfred Hitchcock	Max Reinhardt	0-370-01436-7	30/-^?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).	435	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
A Month of Mystery: Book Two	1973-00-00	ed. Alfred Hitchcock	Pan Books	0-330-23731-4	£0.30^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	ix+ 241	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.	anth
Alfred Hitchcock's Fear	1982-00-00	ed. Cathleen Jordan	Davis Publications		$2.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	348	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	anth
Alfred Hitchcock's Your Share of Fear	1982-00-00	ed. Cathleen Jordan	The Dial Press	0-385-27773-3		348	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Alfred Hitchcock's Your Share of Fear	1983-00-00	ed. Cathleen Jordan	The Dial Press / SFBC	4909	$4.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	348	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Histoires à faire peur^?Histoires a faire peur	1988-09-00	ed. Alfred Hitchcock	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket #2369)	2-266-02640-2		279	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.	anth

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