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1942 story collection by Dornford Yates

Period Stuff
First edition
Author	Dornford Yates
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Ward Lock & Co
Publication date	1942
Media type	Print
Pages	319

Period Stuff is a collection of short stories by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer). Some were written in 1939 but not published in book form until 1942. Some of the tales had originally appeared in The Windsor Magazine and others in The Strand Magazine.

Stories


Chapter	Title	Magazine	Date	Volume	Issue	Pages	Illustrator
I	My Lady's Chamber	The Windsor	September 1927	LXVI	393	394-407	Howard K Elcock
II	Behind The Scenes
III	A Special Case	The Windsor	May 1939	LXXXIX	533	704-716	Isabel Veevers
IV	His Brother's Wife	The Windsor	September 1939	XC	537	410-419	Claude Bendall
V	While The Iron Is Hot
VI	Beggar On Horseback	The Strand	February 1940	XCVIII	590	314-325	Jack Grandfield
VII	Finesse
VIII	Missing, Believed Killed	Woman's Home Companion	October 1941				Floyd Davis
IX	And Adela, Too	The Strand	June 1941	CI	606	82-90	M Mackinlay
X	Above Suspicion	The Strand	October 1940	XCIX	598	426-435	M Mackinlay
XI	Smooth Justice
XII	Way Of Escape
XIII	Period Stuff

References

^ "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
Smithers 1982, p. 181.

Bibliography

Smithers, AJ (1982). Dornford Yates. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-27547-2.

v t e Books by Dornford Yates
'Berry' books	The Brother of Daphne (1914) The Courts of Idleness (1920) Berry and Co. (1921) Jonah and Co. (1922) Adèle and Co. (1931) And Berry Came Too (1936) The House That Berry Built (1945) The Berry Scene (1947) As Berry and I Were Saying (1952) B-Berry and I Look Back (1958)
'Chandos' books	Blind Corner (1927) Perishable Goods (1928) Blood Royal (1929) Fire Below (1930) She Fell Among Thieves (1935) An Eye for a Tooth (1943) Red in the Morning (1946) Cost Price (1949)
Other volumes	Anthony Lyveden (1921) Valerie French (1923) And Five Were Foolish (1924) As Other Men Are (1925) The Stolen March (1926) Maiden Stakes (1928) Summer Fruit (1929, US) Safe Custody (1932) Storm Music (1934) She Painted Her Face (1937) This Publican (1938) Gale Warning (1939) Shoal Water (1940) Period Stuff (1942) Lower than Vermin (1950) Ne'er-Do-Well (1954) Wife Apparent (1956)

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