Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (ed.): Kill or Cure (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
These mystifying and spine-tingling short stories are just what the doctor ordered for first-rate suspense. Kill or Cure presents sixteen hair-raising tales of murder and mayhem in the medical world. Here are country doctors and medical examiners, surgeons and psychiatrists, nurses and pharmacists, dentists and veterinarians, whose prescriptions just might be lethal, their bedside manners -- deadly, and their diagnoses -- criminal.

Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, himself a physician, first sent Sherlock Holmes on his adventures with his chronicler, Dr. Watson, medical practitioners have figured prominently in stories of crime and detection. The best in this tradition are here in this spellbinding anthology.

To begin, join Holmes and Watson in "The Resident Patient," as they unravel the mystery behind the highly paranoid behavior of a young physician's benefactor and live-in client that is a complicated puzzle indeed.

In Anthony Wynne's "The Cyprian Bees, Dr. Eustace Hailey uses his deductive talents to solve the murder of a woman found dead in her car, the only visible wound being a small welt on her forehead from the sting of a bee.

Or in Ben Hecht's "Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers," you can attend the macabre meeting of the X Club, a group of doctors who gather to confess to killing their patients through misdiagnosis, incorrect medication, or negligence. These stories of suspense and mystery all acknowledge the powerful hold the world of medicine has on the imagination. Kill or Cure offers an unforgettable look at the dark side of the healing arts.

MARCIA MULLER has published fourteen mystery novels-three of them with Bill Pronzini-as well as numerous short stories, articles, and book reviews. In addition she has co-edited nine mystery and suspense anthologies, including Lady on the Case.

BILL PRONZINI has published more than 40 novels, most of them in the mystery/suspense field, and has co-edited numerous anthologies in a wide variety of categories. He has received two Shamus awards and a Life Achievement Award from the Private Eye Mnitone of A monito

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Resident Potient, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Superfluous Finger. Jacques Futrelle
The Cyprion Bees, Anthony Wynne
Easter Devil, Mignon Eberhart
But the Potient Died, Lawrence G. Blochman
The Problem of the Covered Bridge, Edward D. Hoch
Hurting Much?, Cornell Woolrich
The Memorial Hour, Wade Miller
Guilty Witness, Morris Hershman
The Doctor Takes a Case, George Harmon Coxe
Mirocle of the Fifteen Murderers, Ben Hecht
Doctor's Orders, John F. Suter
The Splinter, Mary Roberts Rinehart
Sound Alibi, Jack Ritchie
Paint Doctor, Joe L. Hensley
The Other Side of the Curtain, Helen McCloy

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (ed.): Kill or Cure. 16 short stories about murder and mayhem in the world of medicine. New York: Bonanza Books, 1989, ISBN: 0517681358, 306 p., originally published at $19.95.

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (ed.): Kill or Cure (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
Murder and Mayhem in the Medical World
These spine-tingling stories are just what the doctor ordered for first-rate suspense. The fourth volume in the acelaimed Macmillan Midnight Library, Kill or Cure presents sixteen hairraising stories about the world of medicine, collected by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.

Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, himself a physician, first sent Sherlock Holmes on his adventures with Dr. Watson, medical practitioners have figured prominently in stories of crime and detection. Kill or Cure offers a broad range of ingenious and baffling medical mysteries, set here and abroad, featuring country doctors and medical examiners, surgeons and psychiatrists, nurses and pharmacists, dentists and veterinarians. This anthology has them all, with many carrying instruments more ominous than stethoscopes in their little black bags.

Authors include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mignon Eberhart, Lawrence G. Blochman, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Cornell Woolrich, Ben Hecht, and ten other masters of the medical thriller. The editors' introduction to these gripping stories and the biographical notes that precede each story probe the powerful attraction the world of medicine holds on the imagination.

After reading these stories, you'll never again believe it when your doctor tells you, "This won't hurt a bit.".

Marcia Muller is the author of five mystery novels and of several short stories and nonfiction articles. She was born in Detroit, was educated at the University of Michigan, and has lived in California since 1967.

Bill Pronzini has published more than thirty novels, most in the mystery and suspense fields. He is also the author of some 250 short stories, articles, and essays, and has edited or co-edited more than twenty anthologies. He is a native Californian and lives in San Francisco.

CONTENTS
THE RESIDENT PATIENT Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- THE SUPERFLUOUS FINGER Jacques Futrelle -- THE CYPRIAN BEES Anthony Wynne -- EASTER DEVIL Mignon Eberhart -- BUT THE PATIENT DIED Lawrence G. Blochman -- THE PROBLEM OF THE COVERED BRIDGE Edward D. Hoch -- HURTING MUCH? Cornell Woolrich -- THE MEMORIAL HOUR Wade Miller -- GUILTY WITNESS Morris Hershman -- THE DOCTOR TAKES A CASE George Harmon Coxe -- MIRACLE OF THE FIFTEEN MURDERERS Ben Hecht -- DOCTOR'S ORDERS John F. Suter -- THE SPLINTER Mary Roberts Rinehart -- SOUND ALIBI Jack Ritchie -- PAINT DOCTOR Joe L. Hensley -- THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CURTAIN Helen McCloy

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (ed.): Kill or Cure. Suspense Stories about the World of Medicine. New York: Macmillan, 1985, Macmillan Midnight Library, ISBN: 0025878808, 306 p., $19.95.