THE RIPPER OF STORYVILLE
and Other Ben Snow Tales
by Edward D. Hoch
The Ripper Of Storyville ($40.00; paper $16.00; Dec. 15; 212 pp.; 1-885941-18-8; paper 1-885941-19-6): Hoch goes all the way back to 196065 for the first seven of these stories about Ben Snow (the last seven date from 198487), the gunslinger who may or may not be Billy the Kid, but who certainly has the fortune to solve a lot of impossible crimes, from a vanishing steamboat to an unexpectedly animated waxwork.