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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 25 #6, No. 139, June 1955] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by Dirone Photography) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 26 #1, No. 140, July 1955] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by George Salter) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · What Would You Have Done? · Charlotte Armstrong · nv
  • 23 · Give a Man a Rope · Stuart Cloete · ss Colliers May 19 ’51
  • 35 · Life Begins at 2:15 · Willard Marsh · ss; In EQMM’s Black Mask Magazine section.
  • 41 · Blackmailers Have Their Uses [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss (r); Probably first in The Evening Standard.
  • 45 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Broken Shaft: Unwin’s Annual for 1886, ed. Sir Henry Norman, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1885; collected in Stevenson’s The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (London: Chatto & Windus, 1887).
  • 59 · Merlini and the Lie Detector [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · pz; short story omitting the last half page; an award was offered for the best conclusion. Rawson’s final paragraphs would be published in the October 1955 issue.
  • 65 · Killers Three: The Letter · Fredric Brown · vi; In EQMM’s Black Mask Magazine section.
  • 66 · Make Westing · Jack London · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Apr ’08; Sunset Magazine, April 1909; collected in London’s When God Laughs (Macmillan, 1911).
  • 81 · The Hand Is Quicker than the Eye [“Lester Leith, Magician”; Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 16 ’39
  • 111 · The Pearly Gates Are Open · Gladys Cluff · ss; Department of “First Stories”.
  • 115 · Storm Warnings · Stewart Beach · ss
  • 128 · EQMM’s Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br
  • 130 · Invitation to an Accident · Wade Miller · ss


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 26 #2, No. 141, August 1955] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by Nicholas Solovioff) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · Bride in Danger [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss
  • 16 · This Will Do Nicely · Thomas Flanagan · ss
  • 29 · Shadow in the Night [“The Submarine Plans”; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Nov 7 ’23; Blue Book, July 1925 as “The Submarine Plans”; collected in Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951).
  • 40 · The Man Who Got Away with Murder · Armando Perretta · ss; In EQMM’s Black Mask Magazine section and in Department of “First Stories”.
  • 50 · EQMM’s Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br
  • 52 · Callahan in Buttons [“Callahan’s Revenge”] · Thomas Walsh · ss Colliers Aug 8 ’36
  • 65 · Stay on the Sidewalks, Kid · Saul Levinson · ss; In EQMM’s Black Mask section.
  • 75 · A Ghost of the Sierras · Bret Harte · ss (r); from Harte’s Drift from Two Shores (Houghton, Osgood, 1878).
  • 81 · London Night’s Entertainment · Margery Sharp · ss Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate Jul 27 ’41
  • 85 · La Spécialité de M. Duclos · Oliver La Farge · ss New Yorker Apr 29 ’50
  • 92 · No Cry of Murder [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week Jun 25 ’52
  • 101 · The Mysterious Mansion · Honoré de Balzac · ss; translated from “La Grand Breteche” in Balzac’s Contes Brun, 1831.
  • 118 · The Incongruous Action [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss (r)
  • 128 · Stay Away from My Mother · Joseph Whitehill · ss


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Including Black Mask Magazine [v 26 #3, No. 142, September 1955] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b, cover by George Salter) Managing editor Robert P. Mills. 15th Anniversary issue. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · For Men Only [Insp. Kyle] · Roy Vickers · nv; continued on p. 125.
  • 22 · Murder at the Poe Shrine · Nedra Tyre · ss
  • 35 · The Most Exciting Show in Town [“Double Feature”] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly May 16 ’36; In EQMM’s Black Mask Magazine section.
  • 50 · Turtle Race · Paul W. Fairman · ss; In EQMM’s Black Mask Magazine section.
  • 60 · Star Witness · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss Dime Detective Magazine Aug 1 ’34; The American Magazine, May 1952, as “Caballero Alegre”.
  • 70 · The Devil and Mr. Wooller · R. J. Tilley · ss; Department of “First Stories”.
  • 77 · Double Your Money [“The Vanishing Wizard”; Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week Sep 30 ’51; collected in Queen’s Q.B.I.: Queen’s Bureau of Investigation (Little, Brown, 1954).
  • 83 · What Did Poor Brown Do · Mark Twain · ex (r); from chapter II of Following the Equator.
  • 90 · A Very Odd Case Indeed [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · vi (r); Probably from The Evening Standard.
  • 93 · The Man Who Made People Mad · Mark Van Doren · ss
  • 105 · Killers Three: (3) First Time Machine · Fredric Brown · vi; The title in the TOC is “The First Time Machine”.
  • 106 · EQMM’s Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br
  • 108 · Dead Pigeon · Jules Archer · vi Esquire Dec ’51
  • 111 · The Splinter · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 26 # 4, No.143, October 1955] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/b) The October issue began a new policy of having two different covers for each issue: for newsstand sales, a cover in full color; but for subscribers a different cover in only 2 colors - a solid background color, with printing in black listing much of the contents and including some line drawings. I have only the subscriber variant for the October issue, but for some later copies I have both versions and I shall be able to give the artist responsible for the full-color issue. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · The Little Doctor and the Slipper Fiend [Dr. Jean Dollent] · Georges Simenon; trans. by Frances Frenaye · nv; translation of “L’Amoureux aus Pantoufles” from Le Petit Docteur (Gallimard, 1943).
  • 24 · Only the Guilty Run · Vin Packer · ss
  • 32 · The Six China Figures [“The Affair at the Victory Ball”; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Mar 7 ’23; Blue Book, September 1923, as “The Affair at the Victory Ball”; collected in Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951).
  • 44 · The Stone on Abdul’s Head · D. MacClure · ss
  • 51 · “Well?” · Rebecca Weiner · ss
  • 55 · A Man Like His Daddy · Brian O’Sullivan · vi
  • 56 · Author’s Solution to Merlini and the Lie Detector [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · ms; final paragraphs of the contest story from the July 1955 issue. Not in TOC.
  • 57 · The Wagstaff Pearls [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week Sep 21 ’52
  • 65 · Tabloid News · Louis Bromfield · ss Cosmopolitan Feb ’31; first published as a limited edition pamphlet (Random House, 1930).
  • 77 · Looking for a Diamond [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss (r); probably first in The Evening Standard.
  • 81 · Two Can Play · Steve April · ss Colliers Jun 7 ’52; In EQMM’s Black Mask Magazine section.
  • 85 · Farewell to Kennedy · William Fay · ss The Elk’s Magazine, 1950; In EQMM’s Black Mask Magazine section.
  • 98 · The Mystery of Keesh [“Keesh: The Bear Hunter”] · Jack London · ss Holiday Magazine for Children Jan ’04; collected in London’s Love of Life and Other Stories (Macmillan, 1907).
  • 105 · Merlini and the Vanished Diamonds [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · pz; short story omitting the last half page; an award was offered for the best conclusion. Rawson’s final paragraphs would be published in the January 1956 issue.
  • 111 · A Test of Identity [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss (r); probably first in The Evening Standard.
  • 114 · Remember Madame Clementine · Anthony Gilbert · ss
  • 120 · EQMM’s Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br
  • 123 · The Perfectionist · Donald McNutt Douglass · nv


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v32 # 3, No. 177, September 1958] (35¢, 130pp, digest) given as v32 #2, No.177, August on contents page. [Gary G. Garner]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 36 # 4, No.203, October 1960] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Harold Bruder) Including Black Mask Magazine. [KB]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v41 # 5, No. 234, May 1963] (50¢, 162pp, digest) [Gary G. Garner]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 42 # 3, No.238, September 1963] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 50¢, 164pp, digest) [KB, from ToC]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 43 # 5, No. 246, May 1964] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis Publications, Inc., 50¢, 164pp, digest) Note: on contents page it states “including Black Mask Magazine”. [Stephen Fritter]


Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 62 # 3, No. 358, September 1973] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis Publications, Inc., 75¢, 162pp, digest) Note: on contents page it states “including Black Mask Magazine”. [TD]


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