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Crime Does Not Pay

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1967 – ?

Publishers: Countrywide Publications, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, before 1974, then 257 Park Ave. South, New York, NY
Frequency: bimonthly

Crime Factory

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 9+23=32

Hardboiled crime quarterly. Converted to an ebook after the 9th issue, some of which issues also appeared in print.

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-2001 – Mar-2003:

Crime Fiction Index

Jan-2010 – Oct-2016:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

Feb-2001 – Mar-2003: Shiv Publishing
Jan-2010 – Oct-2016: Crime Factory Publications

Editors

Feb-2001 – Mar-2003: David Honeybone
Jan-2010 – Oct-2016: Cameron Ashley

Formats

Feb-2001 – Mar-2003: A4
Jan-2010 – Oct-2016: ebook, digest

Prices

Feb-2001 – Mar-2003: A$10

Pagecounts

Feb-2001 – Mar-2003: 64pp

Frequency

Feb-2001 – Mar-2003: quarterly
Jan-2010 – Oct-2016: initially bi-monthly; then irregular



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Crime Fiction Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

One-shot pulp from Trojan Magazines to provide a home for crime stories which "did not involve a police officer in the solution of the stories", and hence did not fit into Pocket Detective, Hollywood Detective or Private Detective.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1950:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Trojan Magazines, NY
Formats:   digest
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Crime File Detective

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1946 – Sep-1946?

Publishers: Waverly Publishing Inc., 1476 Broadway, New York, NY
Frequency: bimonthly

Crime File Detective (Canada)

Country: Canada

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1948

Publishers: Export Publishing

Crime Intrigue Detection Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 21

Issues & Index Sources:  11-Feb-1933 – 1-Jul-1933?: Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Target Publications
Frequency:   weekly

Crime Investigator

Country: UK

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War. In a loose series with Crime Detective, Homicide Reporter, Police Detective and Racket-Buster Detective.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1949?:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp
Sources:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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Crime Lab Mystery Magazine

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1954:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Editors:   Bradford Chambers & C.S. Green
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp

Crime Mysteries

Country: US
Total Issues: 8

An early horror-oriented crime pulp magazine with a decided macabre slant, Crime Mysteries started as a weekly, but dropped back to a monthly schedule after only six issues and folded two issues later.

Issues & Index Sources: 19-Aug-1927 – Dec-1927:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Dell Publishing, 97 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Editors:   Arthur Lawson; Eugene A. Clancy
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-weekly till last two issues
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Crime Shorts

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4

Small pamphlet magazines issued toward the end of the Second World War when paper rationing was at its height.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1944 – Mar-1946:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Gerald F. Swan, London
Formats:   digest
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   36pp


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Crimes Incorporated

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 1

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1944

Publishers: Rucker Publications

Crimes of Love and Passion

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4

Booklet printed in Holland collecting sensational true crime stories.

Issues & Index Sources: early 1950s

Publishers:   Federation Press, Ltd., London
Editors:   Paul Renin
Formats:   octavo, pictorial wrappers
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Crimespree Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 69 (as at Jul-2020)

A bimonthly critical magazine that published some fiction in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun/Jul-2004 – present:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #67, Jul-2018)

Publishers:   Jon and Ruth Jordan, 536 South 5th Street, Suite 1A, Milwaukee, WI 53204
Editors:   Jon and Ruth Jordan
Prices:   $4.95
Website:   www.crimespreemag.com



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Crimestalker Casebook

Country: US
Total Issues: 16

Founded in 1997 by Andrew McAleer and Edgar Allan Poe award-winning author, John McAleer, Crimestalker Casebook is a semi-annual crime fiction publication of traditional mystery short shorts and P.I. stories. From Winter 2001 on the cover title is given as Austin Layman's Crimestalker Casebook although it remained just Crimestalker Casebook in the Table of Contents.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1998 – Fall 2006:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Falconcroft Press, 329 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 6, Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
Editors:   Andrew McAleer
Prices:   $6.95



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Crime Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1?

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1948:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Grant Hughes
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   24pp


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Crime Stories Monthly

Apparently a magazine of this title was planned c. 1935 but was never published. All that survives is a cover of an ashcan edition produced for trademark purposes.