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Collects together the four adult short story collections:
	 - Kiss Kiss,
	 - Over to You,
	 - Switch Bitch
	 - Someone Like You
as well as "eight further Tales of the Unexpected" (four from More Tales of
the Unexpected).

Contents

(based on The Locus Index to Science Fiction )

Kiss Kiss [New York: Knopf, 1959]

 The Landlady [New Yorker Nov 28 1959]                                  3
 William and Mary [Kiss Kiss, Knopf, 1959]                              12
 The Way Up to Heaven [New Yorker Feb 27 1954; EQMM Nov 1955]           37
 Parson’s Pleasure [Esquire Apr 1958]                                   49
 Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat [Nugget Dec 1959]                    70
 Royal Jelly [Kiss Kiss, Knopf, 1959]                                   85
 Georgy Porgy [Kiss Kiss, Knopf, 1959]                                  109
 Genesis and Catastrophe [“A Fine Son”, Playboy Dec 1959]               130
 Edward the Conqueror [New Yorker Oct 31 1953]                          137
 Pig [Kiss Kiss, Knopf, 1959]                                           154
 The Champion of the World [New Yorker Jan 31 1959]                     172

Over to You [Reynal, 1945]

 Death of an Old Old Man [Ladies Home Journal Sep 1945]                 199
 An African Story [Over to You, Reynal, 1946]                           210
 A Piece of Cake [The Saturday Evening Post, 1943]                      222
 Madame Rosette [Harper’s Aug 1945]                                     233
 Katina [Ladies Home Journal Mar 1944]                                  259
 Yesterday Was Beautiful [Over to You, Reynal, 1946]                    280
 They Shall Not Grow Old [Ladies Home Journal Mar 1945]                 285
 Beware of the Dog [Harper’s Oct 1944]                                  300
 Only This [Ladies Home Journal Sep 1944]                               311
 Someone Like You [Town & Country Nov 1945]                             317

Switch Bitch New York: Knopf, 1974]

 The Visitor [Playboy May 1965]                                         327
 The Great Switcheroo [Playboy Apr 1974]                                367
 The Last Act [Playboy Jan 1966]                                        388
 Bitch [Playboy Jul 1974]                                               414

Someone like you [New York: Knopf, 1953]

 Taste [New Yorker Dec 8 1951; EQMM Nov 1954; Playboy Apr 1956]         441
 Lamb to the Slaughter [Harper’s Sep 1953; EQMM Apr 1955]               454
 Man from the South [“Collector’s Item”, Colliers Sep 4 1948]           463
 The Soldier [Someone Like You, Knopf, 1953]                            473
 My Lady Love, My Dove [New Yorker Jun 21 1952]                         481
 Dip in the Pool [New Yorker Jan 19 1952]                               494
 Galloping Foxley [Town & Country Nov 1953]                             504
 Skin [New Yorker May 17 1952]                                          517
 Poison [Colliers Jun 3 1950]                                           532
 The Wish [1948]                                                        542
 Neck [Someone Like You, Knopf, 1953]                                   545
 The Sound Machine [New Yorker Sep 17 1949]                             561
 Nunc Dimittis [“The Devious Bachelor”, Colliers Sep 4 1953;
            as “A Connoisseur’s Revenge”, EQMM Feb 1955]                573
 The Great Automatic Grammatizator [Someone Like You, Knopf, 1953]      592
 Claud’s Dog  [Someone Like You, Knopf, 1953]
     The Ratcatcher                                                     609
     Rummins                                                            619
     Mr. Hoddy                                                          628
     Mr. Feasey [“Dog Race”, New Yorker Jul 25 1953]                    635

Eight further tales of the unexpected

 The Umbrella Man [More Tales of the Unexpected, Michael Joseph 1980]   661
 Mr. Botibol [MTU 1980]                                                 667
 Vengeance Is Mine Inc. [MTU 1980]                                      685
 The Butler [MTU 1980]                                                  702
 Ah, Sweet [Mystery of Life, 1974]                                      705
 The Bookseller [Playboy Jan 1987]                                      711
 The Hitch-Hiker [Atlantic Monthly Jul 1977]                            728
 The Surgeon [Playboy Jan 1988]                                         739