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The Last Pin

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Howard Wandrei
Illustrator	Gary Gianni
Cover artist	Gary Gianni
Language	English
Genre	Mystery
Publisher	F & B Mystery
Publication date	1996
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xxviii, 355 pp
ISBN	1-878252-25-9
OCLC	36283116

The Last Pin is a series of mystery stories by author Howard Wandrei. It was released in 1996 by F & B Mystery in an edition of 1,600 copies of which 100 were specially bound and released in a slipcase with Wandrei's Saith the Lord. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Detective Fiction Weekly, Private Detective Stories, Detective Action Stories, Spicy Detective Stories, Romantic Detective, and Black Mask under Wandrei's pseudonyms, Robert A. Garron and H. W. Guernsey.

Contents

• Introduction, by D. H. Olson
• "Smot Guy"
• "Wrong Number"
• "I’ll Be Murdering You"
• "The Man with the Molten Face"
• "League of Bald Men"
• "Marked in Indigo"
• "Too Good Looking"
• "Dressed to Kill"
• "Jongkovski’s Wife"
• "Fur-Bearing Animal"
• "The Last Pin"

References

• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)". Retrieved 2008-03-30.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 255.