The Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Index by Name: Page 807

Usticke, Bertram (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * The Cook, (ss) London Mystery Selection #37, June 1958
• * No Indictment, (ss) London Mystery Selection #39, December 1958
• * The Third Place, (ss) London Mystery Selection #40, March 1959

Ustinov, [Sir] Peter (Alexander) (1921-2004)
_____, [ref.]
• * Interview: Sir Peter Ustinov by Andrew F. Gulli, (iv) The Strand Magazine #3, November 1999/February 2000

Utechin, Nicholas (1952-2022) (chron.)
• * Do What You Like with Him!, Part 1: Pastiches, (ar) Sherlock Holmes: The Detective Magazine #38, 2000
• * Do What You Like with Him!, Part 2: Parodies, (ar) Sherlock Holmes: The Detective Magazine #39, 2000

Utley, Steven (D.) (1948-2013) (about) (chron.)
• * After the Killing, (ss) Mystery Monthly November 1976
• * The Dinosaur Season, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1992
• * Girlie (with A. Camille Renwick), (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January/February 2016
• * Never You Mind, (ss) Mystery Monthly February 1977
• * Slices of Sylvia, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine December 1980

Utrecht, Mark Uit (fl. 2010s) (chron.)
• * [front cover], (cv) The Big Click #10, September 2013

Uytdewilligen, Ryan (fl. 2020s) (chron.)
• * The Dust Thief, (ss) Mystery Magazine December 2022

Uzzell, Orestus (Kilpatrick) (1904-1955) (about) (chron.)
• * The Cruise of the Mentor, (ss) Murder Stories September/October 1931
• * [front cover], (cv) The Black Mask (UK) February 1 1924
• * [front cover], (cv) Murder Mysteries July 1929
• * [front cover], (cv) The Dragnet Magazine September 1929

V., M. (chron.)
• * [illustration(s)], (il) Malcolm’s Jan, Mar 1954

V, Ram (fl. 2010s-2020s) (about) (chron.)
• * The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, (cs) Mystery Tribune #17, January/February 2022

Vacca, Diane (fl. 2010s) (chron.)
• * Interview with Naïri Nahapétian, (iv) Noir Nation #5, October 2014 [Ref. Naïri Nahapétian]

Vaccaro, Roger (fl. 2020s) (chron.)
• * Satan’s Circle, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2021

Vace, Geoffrey; joint pseudonym of Geoffrey & Hugh B. Cave (fl. 1930s) (chron.)
• * The House of Evil, (nv) (by Hugh B. Cave) Dime Mystery Magazine November 1933

Vachell, Horace Annesley (1861-1955) (chron.)
• * The Shadow on the Blind, (ss) The Strand Magazine June 1917
• Detective Story Magazine January 28 1919

Vachss, Andrew (Henry) (1942-2021) (about) (chron.)
• * Alibi, (ss) Born Bad by Andrew H. Vachss, Black Lizard, 1994
• Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1995
• * Big Sister [Underground], (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1999
• * Born Bad, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1992
• * Chocolate Bar, (ss) Hardboiled #19, November 1994
• * Choice of Weapons, (ss) The Strand Magazine #28, June/September 2009
• * Cough, (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1989
• * Cripple [Cross], (vi) Hardboiled Detective #10, December 1990
• * Dope Fiend [Underground], (ss) Everybody Pays by Andrew Vachss, Vintage, 1999
• Hardboiled #27/28, December 2001
• * Family Resemblance, (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1990
• * Joyride, (vi) Cemetery Dance #7, 1991
• Hardboiled #13, March 1992
• * Mad Dog [Cross], (ss) The Armchair Detective Winter 1990
• * Perp Walk [Underground], (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1996
• * A Piece of the City, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 2003
• * Pigeon Drop [Cross], (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1999
• * Placebo, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1989
• Mean Streets #2, February 1991
• * They’re All Alike, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2001
• * A Tout’s Guide to Crime Fiction, (br) Hardboiled #13, March 1992
• * Two-Way Radio [Cross], (ss) Hardboiled #24, July 1998; reprint from Das Magazin, in Switzerland; first appearance in English language.
• * Value Received [Cross], (vi) Hardboiled #10, Spring 1989
• * Warlord, (pl) New Mystery v1 #1, 1991
• * White Alligator, (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1990
_____, [ref.]
• * Andrew Vachss by Wayne D. Dundee, (iv) Hardboiled #8, Summer/Fall 1987
• * A Conversation with Andrew Vachss by Gary Lovisi, (iv) A Shot in the Dark #3, March 1995
• * A Conversation with Andrew Vachss: Part II by Gary Lovisi, (iv) A Shot in the Dark #4, June 1995
• * Review [of Blossom by Andrew Vachss] by C. J. Henderson, (br) Detective Story Magazine #9, September 1990
• * The Secret War by Gary Lovisi, (iv) Mean Streets #16, February 1996
• * [front cover] by Peter Papadopolous, (cv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1992

Vagstad, Kristi (fl. 1990s) (chron.)
• * Yankees on the Orient Express, (ar) The Armchair Detective Winter 1995

Vahey, John (George) Haslette (1881-1938) (about) (chron.)
• * Fear, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine November 1923
• * Mr. James Explains, (ss) The Detective Magazine #62, March 27 1925
• * Nemesis, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine November 1925
• * The Voice in the Wild, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine May 1925

Vaid, Sanford; pseudonym of Dorothy Les Tina & Wilson Tucker (fl. 1940s) (chron.)
• * Drown or Die, (ss) Crack Detective January 1943
• Private Detective (Canada) November 1943

Vail, A. Worthington (fl. 1910s) (chron.)
• * The Brand of Jealousy, (ss) Mystery Magazine #31, February 15 1919

Vail, Katherine (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Better Off Dead, (ss) The Phantom Detective Winter 1953

Vail, Steven (fl. 1970s) (chron.)
• * Movies, (mr) Mystery Monthly Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Dec 1976, Jan, Feb 1977

Vaill, C. B. H. (fl. 1930s-1940s) (chron.)
• * Lucky, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly November 24 1934

Valade, Michael Steele (fl. 2010s) (chron.)
• * Dead Man’s Hand, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2019

Valastro, Ken (fl. 2010s) (chron.)
• * [front cover], (cv) The Strand Magazine #35, October 2011/January 2012

Valcoe, H. Felix; pseudonym of Harry F. Swartz (fl. 1940s) (chron.)
• * An Aspirin for Murder, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly June 8 1940
• * Death Had No Memory, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly July 13 1940
• * Death Takes a Fall, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly July 27 1940
• * Lawyer’s Fee, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly October 5 1940
• Rex Stout Mystery Quarterly #1, May 1945
• * The Microscope Murder, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly August 24 1940

Valda, J(ohn) H(arris) (1874-1942) (about) (chron.)
• * [front cover], (cv) The Thriller Library #545 Jul 15, #548 Aug 5, #551 Aug 26, #556 Sep 30, #560 Oct 28 1939
• * [illustration(s)], (il) The Thriller Library #544 Jul 8, #545 Jul 15, #548 Aug 5, #556 Sep 30, #558 Oct 14, #560 Oct 28, #561 Nov 4, #562 Nov 11 1939
_____, [?]
• * [front cover], (cv) The Thriller Library #558, October 14 1939
• * [front cover] (with Joe Wakeley ,[?]), (cv) The Thriller Library #555, September 23 1939

Valdez, Paul; pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates (1923-1985) (chron.)
• * Feline Frame-Up, (na) Scientific Thrillers May 1952
• Male Giant Mystery Magazine #6, 1957

Valdron, D(ennis) G. (fl. 1990s-2000s) (about) (chron.)
• * Saint John Falling, (ss) Over My Dead Body! #7, Spring 2000

Vale, Derwent (fl. 1960s-1970s) (chron.)
• * Checkmate and Checkmate, Says Toni [Toni Blake], (nv) London Mystery Selection #110, September 1976
• * Picture of Value [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #83, December 1969
• * Red Rose in the Coffin [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #84, March 1970
• * Ski for Your Life, Toni! [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #91, December 1971
• * Target—Paris [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #81, June 1969
• * To Hijack a Lorry [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #85, June 1970
• * Toni and Salvation [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #99, November 1973
• * Toni and the Saladins [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #98, September 1973
• * Toni and the Yellow Hats [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #103, December 1974
• * Toni and Two Assassins [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #96, March 1973
• * Toni Celebrates the Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #93, June 1972
• * Toni Doesn’t Know Which Side She Is On [Toni Blake], (nv) London Mystery Selection #107, December 1975
• * Toni Enraged [Toni Blake], (nv) London Mystery Selection #90, September 1971
• * Toni Has a Pricking in Her Thumbs [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #97, June 1973
• * Toni Has Ten Seconds [Toni Blake], (nv) London Mystery Selection #95, December 1972
• * Toni in the Flea Market [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #100, March 1974
• * Toni Is Guilty of Graffiti [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #105, June 1975
• * Toni Makes the Punishment Fit the Crime [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #104, March 1975
• * Toni or Somebody Else? [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #102, September 1974
• * Toni Rescues a Paul Klee [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #89, June 1971
• * Toni Rides a Tiger [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #106, September 1975
• * Toni Smuggles Chianti [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #88, March 1971
• * Toni’s Odyssey [Toni Blake], (nv) London Mystery Selection #87, December 1970
• * Toni’s Rendezvous on Galata Bridge [Toni Blake], (nv) London Mystery Selection #92, March 1972
• * Toni Takes a Hornet’s Nest [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #101, June 1974
• * Toni Takes the Pushers [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #82, September 1969
• * Toni Wins at Roulette [Toni Blake], (ss) London Mystery Selection #86, September 1970
• * Toni Works the Ullyses Trick [Toni Blake], (nv) London Mystery Selection #94, September 1972

Vale, Rena M(arie) (1898-1983) (about) (chron.)
• * Timealide, (ss) Mystery Digest September/October 1960

Valeika, Anthony K. (fl. 2010s) (chron.)
• * SOS, (cv) Mystery Weekly March 2017

Valenti, Jim (fl. 2010s-2020s) (chron.)
• * What Would Oprah Do?, (ss) Rock and a Hard Place #13, Winter 2025

Valentine, Al (fl. 1940s)
_____, ed.
• * Editor:
  * ___ Daredevil Detective Stories
  * ___ Daring Detective (Canada)
  * ___ World Wide Detective Stories

Valentine, Arthur; pseudonym of Archibald Thomas Pechey (1876-1961) (chron.)
• * The Adjusters [The Adjusters], (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction September 10 1927
• * The Drayton Square Murder [The Adjusters], (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction September 24 1927
• * The Lightning Returns Co. [The Adjusters], (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction September 17 1927
• * The Other Man [The Adjusters], (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction May 12 1928
• * Return of the Adjusters [The Adjusters], (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction March 10 1928
• * The Wizard’s Safe [The Adjusters], (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly June 16 1928

Valentine, Chad (fl. 2020s) (chron.)
• * The Girl from North Korea, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2024

Valentine, DeAlton (1889-1936) (about) (chron.)
• * [illustration(s)], (il) The Illustrated Detective Magazine Mar, May, Jun, Aug, Oct, Nov 1931, Aug 1932

Valentine, Don (fl. 1930s) (chron.)
• * Dames Is Funny That Way, (ss) International Detective Magazine December 1933/January 1934

Valentine, John (fl. 1950s-1960s) (chron.)
• * Exit Edward, (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine October 1958
• John Creasey Mystery Magazine (US) June 1959
• * The Intruder, (ss) London Mystery Selection #50, September 1961
• * Lavender, (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine November 1958
• John Creasey Mystery Magazine (US) July 1959
• * An Occupational Hazard, (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine July 1958
• John Creasey Mystery Magazine (US) March 1959

Valentine, Kristen (fl. 2010s) (about) (chron.)
• * Already Seen, (nv) Betty Fedora #1, 2015
• * Introduction, (ed) Betty Fedora #2, 2015
_____, ed.
• * Editor: Betty Fedora #1, #2 2015, #3 Fll 2016, #4 2017

Valentine, Leroi (fl. 1990s) (chron.)
• * Valentine’s Venture, (ss) Mystery Time Spring/Summer 1998

Valentine, Mark (1959- ) (chron.)
• * Carnacki-the Ghost Finder, (ar) Sherlock Holmes: The Detective Magazine #24, 1998 [Ref. William Hope Hodgson]
• * Evil in the Blood, (ar) Sherlock #67, June 2006
• * The Golden Age of Crime Fiction, Part 7: Philip MacDonald—The Soul Shaker, (ar) Sherlock #65, 2005 [Ref. Philip MacDonald]

Valeri, John B. (fl. 2010s-2020s) (about) (chron.)
• * Ang Pompano on “When It’s Time for Leaving”, (iv) Suspense Magazine Spring 2020 [Ref. Ang Pompano]
• * “Chaos” Reigns, (iv) Suspense Magazine January/February 2017 [Ref. Patricia D. Cornwell]
• * Christmas Cozy Caper, (iv) Suspense Magazine November/December 2018 [Ref. G. A. McKevett]
• * Delving Deep, (iv) Suspense Magazine Summer 2020 [Ref. Andrew Mayne]
• * Domestic Disturbance, (iv) Suspense Magazine March/April 2017 [Ref. Faye Kellerman]
• * The Edge of Cozy, (iv) Suspense Magazine November/December 2018 [Ref. Jon Land]
• * Family Treason: Lis Wiehl on “Hunting Charles Manson”, (iv) Suspense Magazine May/June/July 2018 [Ref. Lis Wiehl]
• * Greg Iles on “Mississippi Blood” & Wrapping Up His Natchez Burning Trilogy, (iv) Suspense Magazine March/April 2017 [Ref. Greg Iles]
• * Hank Phillippi Ryan on “Trust Me”, (iv) Suspense Magazine August/September/October 2018 [Ref. Hank Phillippi Ryan]
• * James Rollins on Science, Suspense & “The Seventh Plague”, (iv) Suspense Magazine January/February 2017 [Ref. James Rollins]
• * The JFK Plot Thickens, (iv) Suspense Magazine January/February/March 2019 [Ref. Mark Shaw]
• * Lawful Intent, (iv) Suspense Magazine April/May/June 2019 [Ref. Linda A. Fairstein]
• * Lowcountry Bonfire, (iv) Crimespree Magazine #66, 2017 [Ref. Susan Boyer]
• * A Murderous Trio, (iv) Suspense Magazine October/November/December 2019 [Ref. Maddie Day, Alex Erickson & Carlene O’Connor]
• * On “Haunted House Murder” & the Evolution of Lucy Stone/Tinker’s Cove, (iv) Suspense Magazine July/August/September 2019 [Ref. Leslie Meier]
• * On “Moral Defense” and Having Hope in Hollywood, (iv) Suspense Magazine November/December 2016 [Ref. Marcia Clark]
• * On “The Cold Woods” of Northampton County, (iv) Suspense Magazine July/August/September 2019 [Ref. Karen Katchur]
• * On “The End of Temperance Dare” & More, (iv) Suspense Magazine May/June 2017 [Ref. Wendy Webb]
• * On “The Tuscan Child” & Balancing Series and Standalone Fiction, (iv) Suspense Magazine March/April 2018 [Ref. Rhys Bowen]
• * On “The Word Is Murder”, (iv) Suspense Magazine May/June/July 2018 [Ref. Anthony Horowitz]
• * On “True Fiction” & His Literary Lineage, (iv) Suspense Magazine March/April 2018 [Ref. Lee Goldberg]
• * Raising the Bar, (iv) Suspense Magazine May/June 2017 [Ref. Adam Mitzner]
• * Recipe for Reinvention, (iv) Suspense Magazine August/September/October 2018 [Ref. Lucy Burdette]
• * Revisiting Poirot, (iv) Suspense Magazine September/October 2016 [Ref. Sophie Hannah]
• * Scripted Suspense, (iv) Suspense Magazine July/August 2017 [Ref. Tess Gerritsen]
• * Segue to Suspense, (iv) Suspense Magazine April/May/June 2019 [Ref. Wendy Walker]
• * Shadows of New York, (iv) Suspense Magazine April/May/June 2019 [Ref. Hilary Davidson]
• * Spiritual Awakening, (iv) Suspense Magazine January/February 2018 [Ref. Wendy Corsi Staub]
• * Storyteller for Hire, (iv) Suspense Magazine April/May/June 2019 [Ref. Max Allan Collins]
• * Vanessa Lillie on For the Best, (iv) Suspense Magazine Winter 2020 [Ref. Vanessa Lillie]
• * The Waiting, (br) The Strand Magazine #74, 2024 [Ref. Michael Connelly]

Valero, Rodolfo Pérez (fl. 2000s) (chron.)
• * A Man Is Knocking at the Door, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2008; translated from the Spanish.