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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 21, #116, July 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury Inc, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills.. [Douglas G. Greene]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 22, #117, August 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by Taylor Oughton) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 22, #118, September 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by Dirone Photography & George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · Little Things Like That [Insp. Peter Curwen] · Roy Vickers · nv
  • 19 · The Quality of Mercy · Eleazar Lipsky · ss
  • 33 · The Blackmailer [“Blackmail Is So Difficult”] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull Jun 24 ’50
  • 39 · Burden of Guilt · John & Ward Hawkins · nv Colliers Mar 4 ’50
  • 54 · Murder Is No Accident · David Dodge · ss Esquire Oct ’49
  • 65 · The Three Horsemen [“The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse”; Mr. Pond] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Story-Teller Jul ’35; collected in Chesterton’s The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (Cassell 1937; Dodd, Mead 1937).
  • 78 · ’Tec’s Twilight · R. G. G. Price · fa (r); probably from Punch, 1951.
  • 81 · A Break in the Film · John F. Suter · ss
  • 93 · All the Birds of the Air [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Colliers Jun 17 ’50
  • 105 · A Sleep and a Forgetting · Dorothy Canfield Fisher · ss, 1913; copyright 1913, Harper and Brothers (“Gifts of Oblivion”, Harper’s Sep. 1913?).
  • 117 · The Loophole [“Three Kills for One”] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask Jul ’42; in EQMM’s “Black Mask Magazine” section.
  • 142 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 22, #119, October 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by Fred Kirberger) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 22, #120, November 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by George Salter) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 22, #121, December 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by Dironne Photography) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · The Frame-Up [Insp. Kyle] · Roy Vickers · ss
  • 20 · Two Rolls, No Coffee · Don M. Mankiewicz · ss, 1948; Probably a retitlng of “Odds on Death,” Black Mask, November 1948. In EQMM’s “Black Mask Magazine” section
  • 29 · The Man on the Iron Palings [Evan Pinkerton] · David Frome · ss, 1941
  • 39 · Bird in the Hand [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 9 ’32
  • 64 · Out of Patience... · Anthony Boucher · pm; An attack on Mickey Spillane, though Spillane himself is not named.
  • 65 · The Trip to London · Rhys Davies · ss, 1930; collected in Davies’s The Trip to London (Heinemann, 1946; Howell, Soskin, 1946).
  • 73 · Nobody’s All Bad · W. R. Burnett · ss Colliers Jun 7 ’30
  • 81 · Cinder City Blues · E. H. Renier · ss; Department of “First Stories”.
  • 91 · The Fourth Degree [Doc Rennie] · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss Black Mask Feb ’41; in EQMM’s “Black Mask Magazine” section.
  • 103 · The Poison Typewriter · William Abrahams · ss
  • 111 · The Man · Mel Dinelli · ss Story, 1945
  • 122 · Open File · Richard Deming · nv
  • 140 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br
  • 142 · Index to Volumes Twenty-Two — July-December 1953 · Misc. · ix


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 22, #122, January 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by Emsh) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · Maigret’s Christmas [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; trans. by Lawrence G. Blochman · nv; translated from Simenon’s “Un Noél de Maigret” (Presses de la Cite, 1951).
  • 44 · The Disappearance of Captain Harwell [“A Man of Magic”; Harley Quin] · Agatha Christie · ss The Grand Magazine Nov ’25; also in Flynn’s Weekly, July 17, 1926 as “A Man of Magic.” Collected in Christie’s The Mysterious Mr. Quin (Collins, 1930; Dodd, Mead, 1930) as “At the ’Bells and Motley’”.
  • 57 · Murder by Jury [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg; Hargest Macrea] · Michael Gilbert · ss Britannia and Eve Jul ’51; probably previously in the Evening Standard.
  • 65 · The Attacker [Anthony J. Quinn] · Morton Wolson · ss; in EQMM’s “Black Mask Magazine” section.
  • 81 · The Glamorous Opening [Lieutenant Trant] · Q. Patrick · ss, 1951; copyright 1951, United Newspapers Magazine Corp., probably from This Week.
  • 85 · Try to Remember · Lillian King · ss; Department of “First Stories”.
  • 92 · One Wicked Impulse! · Walt Whitman · ss A Special Day, 1882; revised from “Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped”, Democratic Review Jul-Aug 1845, as by “Walter Whitman”.
  • 101 · The Way I Killed Him · Oscar Schisgall · nv Liberty, 1948
  • 121 · The Pariah · Thomas Burke · ss Vanity Fair Jan ’20
  • 126 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br
  • 128 · The Dark Night [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Country Gentleman Nov ’27
  • 140 · The Curse of Stonewall Jackson · Will Stanton · ss


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 23, #123, February 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by Kirberger) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. “Every story in this issue NEW”. [Douglas G. Greene]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 23, #124, March 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by George Salter) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · ? [sic; real title “A Sale”] · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r); $100 given to the reader who sent in the best title for the story.
  • 9 · The Mystery of the Five Money Orders [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss
  • 24 · Murder at Eleven · A. A. Milne · ss, 1950
  • 35 · The Swami of Northbank [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Colliers Jul 15 ’50
  • 48 · The Superfluous Clues [“The Young Doctor”; Reggie Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Mr. Fortune’s Practice, London: Methuen, 1923
  • 65 · The Man Who Could Not Die · Raphael Hayes · ss; Department of “First Stories”.
  • 76 · Life and Death in the Scillies [“Death in the Scillies”; Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss The (London) Evening Standard Mar 13 ’51
  • 81 · Ashes · Julia Peterkin · ss Green Thursday, Knopf, 1924
  • 90 · The Neat Man [“Touch of Genius”; Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg; Mr. Rumbold] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull Jun 18 ’49
  • 99 · The Roman Candles · John Bell Clayton · vi Epoch Win ’48
  • 102 · A Piece of Life [“The Sun-Dog Trail”] · Jack London · ss Harper’s Monthly Dec ’05; collected in London’s The Love of Life and Other Stories (Macmillan, 1907).
  • 116 · The Last Bus Home [“Of Time and Murder”] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 15 ’41; Woolrich expanded the novelette into the novel Deadline at Dawn. In EQMM’s “Black Mask Magazine” section.
  • 142 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 23, #125, April 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by George Salter) given as v24. Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · Complete List of the 53 Prize-Winning Stories in EQMM’s Ninth Annual Contest: The Best Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories of 1954 · Misc. · ms; not in TOC.
  • 5 · Double Image · Roy Vickers · nv; First Prize Winner in 9th annual contest.
  • 34 · Triple Cross [“Heritage of Hate”] · John D. MacDonald · ss Black Mask Jul ’49; in EQMM’s “Black Mask Magazine” section.
  • 46 · Peters, Detective · Eden Phillpotts · ss Human Boy Again, Chapman & Hall, 1908
  • 59 · The Pale Sergeant · Henry Myers · ss
  • 65 · April Fool · Mark Van Doren · ss
  • 70 · Will You Make a Bet with Death? · John Dickson Carr · pl; CBS Radio Suspense, November 10, 1942. Later expanded into the novel The Nine Wrong Answers.
  • 81 · Buried Treasure Dept.: Miser’s Gold [“Love Hunts a Hidden Treasure”; Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week Jun 18 ’50; the TOC has the shorter title “Miser’s Gold.”
  • 86 · President Sam Houston: Detective · James C. Brough · ss; Department of “First Stories”.
  • 96 · The Night Calhoun Was Off Duty · Thomas Walsh · ss, 1938
  • 106 · The Bookhawker · Lance Sieveking · ss, 1932
  • 113 · Anecdotage [by Frederic Dannay] · anon. · is; A reminiscence about Arthur Morrison. Not in TOC.
  • 115 · The Flitterbat Lancers [“The Case of the Flitterbat Lancers”; Martin Hewitt] · Arthur Morrison · nv The Windsor Magazine, 1896; collected in Morrison’s Adventures of Martin Hewitt (Ward Lock, 1896).
  • 132 · Death and Canasta [Lieutenant Trant] · Q. Patrick · vi, 1950; copyright 1950, United Newspapers Magazine Corporation; probably from This Week.
  • 136 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br
  • 138 · Tall Story [Albert Campion; Charley Luke] · Margery Allingham · ss; this is probably “Reach for It!”, London Evening News, May 4, 1954 — but if so, the EQMM publication appeared first.


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 23, #126, May 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover photo) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · The Trumpet Sounds · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss Colliers Apr 24 ’26
  • 20 · Right in the Heart · William Holder · ss, 1951; copyright 1951, Popular Publications. In EQMM’s “Black Mask Magazine” section.
  • 25 · The Judgment of En-Lil · Miriam Allen deFord · ss
  • 34 · Chain of Witnesses [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss
  • 52 · The Crate at Outpost 1 · Matthew Gant · ss
  • 58 · A Trip to Czardis · Edwin Granberry · ss The Forum Apr ’32
  • 64 · How the Sergeant Was Fooled · Anon. · vi ca., 1890; not in TOC.
  • 65 · Mom in the Spring [Mom] · James Yaffe · ss
  • 81 · Louisville Blues · Albert Johnston · ss; in EQMM’s “Black Mask Magazine” section.
  • 89 · The Talking Calf [“The Talking Calf Murders”] · Hugh Pentecost · na The American Magazine Apr ’52
  • 124 · My Watch · Mark Twain · vi Buffalo Express Nov 26, 1870; from Mark Twain’s Sketches New and Old (American Publishing Company, 1875).
  • 127 · The House Party · Stanley Ellin · ss
  • 142 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br


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