The FictionMags Index

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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v12, #58, September 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Through a Glass, Darkly [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · nv 26 · The Adventure of the Gent’s Romeo · Margery Sharp · ss (r) 39 · The Lady and the Tiger · Jack Moffitt · nv [Frank R. Stockton]; continuation of Frank R. Stockton’s “The Lady, Or the Tiger?”. 63 · The Perfect Secretary · W. T. Brannon · ss 1939 65 · Hard Guy [Hunt Lannin] · Thomas Walsh · ss Ten Detective Aces Jan 1935, as “Framed in Fire” 78 · The Undertaker · Jack Jonas · vi 81 · Murder Walks in Marble Halls · Lawrence G. Blochman · na The American Magazine Sep 1942, as “Death Walks in Marble Halls” 126 · The Dummy Murder · Clarke Olney · vi; winner of the May 1948 cover contest. 129 · Farewell Performance [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick · ss 1947, as “Footlights and Murder” 139 · Crime Lesson [Munro] · Dale Clark · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v12, #59, October 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · The Green-and-Gold String [Dr. Alcazar] · Philip MacDonald · nv 28 · Sugar and Spice · Vera Caspary · na The American Magazine Dec 1943 65 · The Cockroach and the Tortoise [Inspector Field] · Anthony Gilbert · ss 1935 74 · Telling · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Black Cap, ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson 1927 81 · Criminals in Disguise · Anthony Boucher · qz 82 · A Case of Facsimile · Viola Brothers Shore · ss 94 · Coincidence [F.T. Carrington] · J. Storer Clouston · nv Carrington’s Cases, Blackwood 1920 112 · Speaking of Crime · Howard Haycraft · cl 117 · The Man Who Married Too Often [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine Feb 1936, as “Molly the Marchioness” 132 · Extradition · Brett Halliday · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v12, #60, November 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 5 · The Death Position Enigma [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv 19 · Le Chateau de l’Arsenic [Dr. Jean Dollent] · Georges Simenon · ss The Strand Magazine Oct 1947; translated from the French (Le Petit Docteur, 1943). 30 · Salt on His Tail [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss 42 · Love-in-a-Mist · Joseph Shearing · ss Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Jan 1933 53 · The Motive · Ronald Knox · ss The Illustrated London News Nov 17 1937 65 · Getaway Money · Thomas Walsh · ss 1943 81 · The Thrill Is Gone · Fulton Oursler & Rupert Hughes · vi Collier’s 1942; previously in EQMM “Overseas Edition” September 1945. 84 · A Case for Deduction · M. P. Shiel & John Gawsworth · nv Thrills, ed. John Gawsworth (anonymously), Associated Newspapers 1936 108 · Dr. Gettler, Real-Life Detective · Edward D. Radin · ar 1946 112 · Dear Louisa · Miriam Bruce · ss 126 · Johnny on the Spot · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly May 2 1936

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v12, #61, December 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · The Clue of the Red Wig · John Dickson Carr · nv The Strand Magazine Dec 1940 27 · Nouchi [Monsieur Froget] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from the French (Détective 10 & 24 Apr, 1930, as by Georges Sim). 32 · The Body in Grant’s Tomb · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine Jan 1943 58 · Three Against Deeth · Lee Hays · ss; modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale”. 65 · The Frantick Rebel [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · nv 81 · The Dauphin’s Doll [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv 102 · Triangle · Pierre Boileau; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from the French. 106 · The Brother of Heaven [Barnabas Hildreth] · Vincent Cornier · nv Pearson’s Magazine Oct 1933 119 · A Bottle of Perrier · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post Mar 27 1926, as “A Bottle of Evian” 139 · A Dilemma · S. Weir Mitchell · ss The Century Magazine Jul 1902 144 · Index to Volume 12—July-December 1948 · Anon. · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v13, #62, January 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · This King Business [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv Mystery Stories Jan 1928 45 · Thimble, Thimble · O. Henry · ss Hampton’s Broadway Magazine Dec 1908 55 · The Grand Duke’s Rubies · Edgar Saltus · ss A Transient Guest, and Other Episodes, Belford 1889 65 · The Case Is Altered [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine Dec 1938 78 · The Maniac · Maurice Level · vi Hearst’s Magazine Mar 1920; translated from the French (Les Portes de l’Enfer, 1910). 81 · Various Traces [Munro] · Dale Clark · ss 92 · The Missing Motive [Dr. Cedric Dodd] · Kenneth Livingston · ss The Dodd Cases, Doubleday 1934 111 · The Purple Flame [Mr. White] · Frederick Irving Anderson · ss Adventure Nov 1912 122 · Dinner for Two [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss 136 · The Roses in Black Velvet · Alfredo Segre · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v13, #63, February 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · The Jack of Diamonds · Q. Patrick · na The American Magazine Nov 1936 48 · Two Exploits of Harry the Hat · Philip MacDonald · gp (r) _49 · The Absence of Tonathal [Harry the Hat] · Philip MacDonald · vi _52 · Sheep’s Clothing [Harry the Hat] · Philip MacDonald · vi 56 · Never Trust a Murderer · Quentin Reynolds · ss Collier’s Mar 23 1946 65 · Up the Garden Path · Barry Perowne · ss 78 · Painted Faces · Joseph Harrington · vi 81 · The Rainbow Murders Begin [Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask Feb 1931, as “Diamonds of Dread” by Ramon Decolta 97 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: “With the Author’s Compliments” · Ellery Queen · ar 102 · The Leak [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · ss Associated Sunday Magazine Jun 9 1907, as “The Silver Box” 114 · A Broadsheet Ballad · A. E. Coppard · ss The Dial Mar 1922 121 · Case of the Landlady’s Brother [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch Jul 31 1940, as “The Case of the Drunken Socrates” 126 · Speaking of Crime: Homicidal Highlights of 1948 · Anthony Boucher · cl 132 · The Good Prospect [McCann] · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s Feb 20 1937

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v13, #64, March 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Speak to Me of Death [Lieutenant McManus] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Argosy Feb 27 1937 32 · The Cosy Room · Arthur Machen · ss Shudders, ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson 1929 37 · On the Banks of the Ohio · Lee Hays · ss 45 · King of the Firsters · Richard Connell · vi Collier’s Apr 9 1938 48 · Time Out of Mind [Rolf le Roux] · Peter Godfrey · ss Milady 1948 60 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: More “Compliments of the Author” · Ellery Queen · ar 65 · The Crocodile Case [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv 81 · White Duck [Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask Mar 1931, as “The Man in White” by Ramon Decolta 95 · The Enchanted Garden [Mr. Mycroft] · H. F. Heard · nv 118 · Cheating the Gallows · Israel Zangwill · ss The Idler Feb 1893 130 · The Grave Grass Quivers · MacKinlay Kantor · ss The Elks Magazine Jul 1931

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v13, #65, April 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Bill Stone) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Quadrennial Report on EQMM’s Prize Contests · Ellery Queen · ms; given as “Annual report on EQMM’s Prize Contests” in the Table of Contents. 10 · Blessed Are the Meek [Kachoudas] · Georges Simenon; translated by Frances Frenaye · nv; translated from the French. 37 · Yellow Death [Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask Apr 1931, as “The Blind Chinese” by Ramon Decolta 51 · The Italian · A. E. W. Mason · ss Dilemmas, Hodder 1934 65 · Double Trouble · Hugh O’Connor & Walter Duranty · ss Collier’s Jul 11 1936 78 · Speaking of Crime: The Short Shudder · Anthony Boucher · cl 81 · The Chinese Apple · Joseph Shearing · ss The Illustrated London News Nov 18 1948 94 · An Ounce of Curiosity [Scattergood Baines] · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss The American Magazine Aug 1931 106 · The Great Bank Fraud [Oliver Rater] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Nov 1927, as “A Bank and a Secretary” 116 · Mithridates the King · Morley Roberts · ss King Billy of Ballarat and other stories, Lawrence 1892 124 · Kick · Hugh MacNair Kahler · vi Collier’s Apr 12 1930 127 · The Mysterious Death in Percy Street [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine Oct 1901 141 · Somebody on the Phone · William Irish · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 31 1937, as by Cornell Woolrich

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v13, #66, May 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · A Study in White · Nicholas Blake · ss The Strand Magazine Feb 1949, as “The Snow Line” 15 · Momentum · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 14 1940, as “Murder Always Gathers Momentum” 40 · Beyond the Sea of Death · Miriam Allen deFord · nv 58 · Monsieur Lucien—Burglar · Pierre Boileau; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss 65 · Red Dawn [Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask May 1931, as by Ramon Decolta 78 · Which Is the Heir? · Anon. · vi The Little Gem, A Christmas, New Year’s and Birth-Day Present 1844 81 · The Missing Mortgagee [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · ss The Great Portrait Mystery, Hodder 1918; abridged to remove offending anti-Semitic comments. 97 · The Fine Italian Hand · Thomas Flanagan · ss 110 · The Adventures of Karmesin, 6: Karmesin, Con Man [Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss Courier Spr 1938, as “Karmesin and Human Vanity” 115 · The Problem Club [The Problem Club] · Barry Pain · ss The Strand Magazine Dec 1917, as “The Giraffe Problem” 121 · Killer’s Keeper · David X. Manners · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 27 1940 128 · Wit’s End [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Pearson’s Magazine Oct 1934, as “The Starting-Handle Murder”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v13, #67, June 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Cat’s-Paw · Stanley Ellin · ss 17 · Outside the Law · Francis Iles · ss The Strand Magazine Jul 1934 28 · An Honest Deal · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Atlantic Monthly Mar 1929 42 · Lacrimae Rerum [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss; probably first in The (London) Evening Standard. 52 · Blue Glass [Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask Jul 1931, as by Ramon Decolta 65 · Hard Sheriff · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 30 1939 69 · A Lady’s Shoe · James M. Barrie · ss The Lady’s Shoe, Brentano’s 1893 81 · Ask Maria · Floyd Mahannah · ss 98 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part One · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories, ed. Ellery Queen, World 1948; revised. 105 · The Biter Bit · Wilkie Collins · nv The Atlantic Monthly Apr 1858, as “Who Is the Thief?”, uncredited 126 · Speaking of Crime: Sock the Mystery Year · Anthony Boucher · cl 129 · Room Number Twenty-Three · Hugh Pentecost · ss Flynn’s Jun 20 1925, as by Judson P. Philips 144 · Index to Volume 13—January-June 1949 · Anon. · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v14, #68, July 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Thou Lord Seest Me · Q. Patrick · nv 21 · Trail of the Brown Sedan [Nick & Dave Glennan] · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 6 1934 35 · The Big Shots · John Di Silvestro · nv 57 · Dirge · Hector Bolitho · ss The House in Half Moon Street, Cobden-Sanderson 1935 65 · The Adventures of Karmesin, 7: Karmesin, Blackmailer [Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss Courier Win 1938/’39, as “Karmesin and the Big Flea” 71 · Floor, Please · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Detective Story Magazine Mar 8 1924 81 · The Rainbow Murders End [Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask Aug 1931, as “Diamonds of Death” by Ramon Decolta 92 · Subject to Review · Mary Adams Sarett · ss 103 · Condemned! · Francis Beeding · ss Mystery Jun 1935 109 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Two · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories, ed. Ellery Queen, World 1948; revised. 115 · Out of His Head · Thomas Bailey Aldrich · ex Carleton 1862 125 · Collared · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask Oct 1939

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v14, #69, August 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. fc. · [photo] · Anon. · cv 3 · Double Exposure · Ben Hecht · ss 12 · Crisis, 1999 [Bela Joad] · Fredric Brown · ss 26 · How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped · Katherine Mansfield · ss Rhythm Sep 12 1912, as by Lili Heron 30 · Riding the Ghost · Harl Cook · ss 49 · Query · “Seamark” · ss Out of the Dark, Hodder 1931 58 · Speaking of Crime: The Smiling Englishman · Anthony Boucher · cl 61 · The Third Man [Webster Burgess] · Meredith Nicholson · ss Collier’s May 13 1916 79 · The Burglar’s Story · W. S. Gilbert · ss Holly Leaves Dec 8 1883 85 · Guess Who?: Simon Templar, The Saint · Talbot C. Hatch · qz 87 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Three · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories, ed. Ellery Queen, World 1948; revised. 94 · The Vanishing Diamonds [Paul Beck] · M. McDonnell Bodkin · nv Pearson’s Weekly Jan 23 1897 112 · Murder in One Scene [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick · ss This Week 1948 120 · Beginner’s Luck [Bill Parmelee] · Percival Wilde · ss The Popular Magazine Apr 20 1924, as “Tony Sits In”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v14, #70, September 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp+, digest) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. fc. · [photo] · Anon. · cv 3 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv 23 · Question No. 3 · Louis Golding · ss Argosy Aug 6 1938 26 · Off the Face of the Earth [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · nv 46 · Bars · Charles Francis Coe · ss The Smart Set 1929 63 · Guess Who?: Basil Willing · Talbot C. Hatch · qz 65 · The “Try-Out” Murder [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine May 1936, as “The Fish Pond” 74 · Let Me Help You with Your Murders · T. M. McDade · ss 81 · Only the Fools Get Caught · Walter Duranty · ss Esquire Oct 1936 86 · Cat and Mouse · Frank Gruber · ss Black Mask Aug 1938, as “The Ring and the Finger” 97 · Stan the Killer [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · nv; translated from the French (“Stan Le Tueur”, Police-Roman, December 23, 1938). 118 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Four · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories, ed. Ellery Queen, World 1948; revised. 124 · The Fire of London [Cecil Thorold] · Arnold Bennett · ss The Windsor Magazine Jun 1904 135 · The Man Who Played Hunches · A. H. Z. Carr · ss Harper’s Magazine Nov 1935, as “The Hunch”