Elusive small press crime magazine that was a companion and/or successor to Whispering Willow Mysteries.

A Literary Vehicle for Crime Fiction, Suspense, Thrillers & other writing related to the Mystery genre.

Published "in cooperation with the Mystery Writers of America, Inc.", Sleuth Mystery Magazine provided light-hearted, crime-adventure vignettes by well-known writers, in much the same style as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. It folded after only two issues, possibly because of distribution problems.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950

Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

One-shot thin magazine, reprinting stories from Black Hood Detective and Crack Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1952

Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s

Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950

Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Subtitled "The Airman's Magazine" and published by the RAF in Souther Rhodesia - published a small amount of fiction.

Experimental magazine of fiction, poetry and graphics. Publishes what it calls "vital writings". Sponsors annual chapbook competition with $1000 prize. Circulation 500.

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#merges with Smart Novels

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Each issue contained a lead novelette, in between the wars, also had a back-up serial, dropped during WW2 and seemingly never to return.

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#merges with Christian Novels

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Publishers:   Union Publishing Company, Toronto
Formats:   Pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   32pp

Brought sophistication to muck-raking. Authors include William Rose Benet, Frank Harris, Lord Dunsany, W.B. Yeats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thorne Smith, Sinclair Lewis, James Branch Cabell, Dashiell Hammett, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, George Moore, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill, Gelett Burgess, Ben Hecht, Michael Arlen. Circulation peaked at around 22,000 in early 20s.

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Started as a reprint of the US magazine of the same name but in 1905, under the editorship of William James Thorold, it began adding photographs of leading British socialites and theatre personalities, cartoons, fashion columns, social notes, and, occasionally, English fiction and verse that did not find its way into the New York edition.

Always more heavily illustrated than its American parent and lacking the topical items in the New York edition and those with peculiarly American reference (all of the editorial departments and reviews, for instance, were omitted), the English Smart Set was really a distinctive periodical. Most of the magazine's American readers (and, indeed, the contributors themselves) remained blissfully unaware that there ever was such a thing as the London Smart Set and, to tell the truth, so did the vast majority of the British reading public. Even so, it prospered--in part because it had no need to wrestle with the problems that beset the parent journal (these were all solved before the material crossed the ocean), in part because, as a minor periodical with a very low 'overgead,' it was content with a small stake in the Fleet Street market.

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#merges with Standard Stories

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Pinup magazine that published some fiction.