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Best Detective Magazine [Volume III Number 1, November 1930] (20¢, 160pp, pulp) · The Elusive Third · John J. Chichester · na Detective Story Magazine November 11 1922 · Beat Number Nine · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Detective Story Magazine July 16 1918, as “Number Nine” · The Lead Slug Clew · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine December 15 1923 · Thubway Tham’s Inthuranthe [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine April 15 1919 · Blind Justice · Frederick Ames Coates · ss Detective Story Magazine December 18 1920 · Whom the Law Forgot · William S. Dutton · ss Detective Story Magazine August 5 1922 · Through the Reading Glass [Garnett Bell] · Cecil H. Bullivant · ss Yes or No August 26 1916, as “Delgray’s Alibi” · All on Edge · Carl Clausen · ss Detective Story Magazine November 13 1917 · Twin Rooms · Robert Winton · ss Detective Story Magazine April 15 1919 · In the Social Whirligig · Roy W. Hinds · ss Detective Story Magazine May 6 1922 · Odd Dodd · Carolyn Wells · ss Detective Story Magazine June 5 1916 · On the Level · Edward Rutledge · ss Detective Story Magazine October 9 1917

Best Detective Magazine [Volume III Number 2, December 1930] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 1 · The Silver Fork · Ernest Pascal · nv Detective Story Magazine August 12 1922 26 · Thubway Tham’s Bank Account [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine May 27 1919 36 · Off the Course · Kenneth Duane Whipple · ss Detective Story Magazine April 1 1922 42 · His Stupid Stenographer · Hugh Kahler · ss Detective Story Magazine September 17 1921 50 · Trimmed to the Quick · Christopher B. Booth · na Detective Story Magazine February 17 1923 96 · The Great Sylvester · Dahlia Graham · ss Detective Story Magazine May 6 1922 101 · Hidden Death · Ellis Parker Butler · ss Detective Story Magazine November 27 1917 109 · With Ouija’s Aid [Balbane, Man of Mystery] · Lewen Hewitt · ss Detective Story Magazine February 5 1921 119 · Bad Blood [Doctor Bentiron] · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine June 3 1919 131 · The Man in the Brown Rain Coat · George Barton · ss Detective Story Magazine December 20 1916 139 · Surgery’s Masterpiece · Eva Pittaro · ss Detective Story Magazine April 29 1922 145 · In Cherry Street · J. R. Ward · ss Detective Story Magazine June 4 1921 151 · A Prism Song · Anna Alice Chapin · pm (r) 152 · Voices · H. M. Hamilton · ss Detective Story Magazine August 12 1922 157 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc

Best Detective Magazine [Volume III Number 3, January 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · False Faces · Hugh Kahler · nv Detective Story Magazine August 6 1918 45 · Human Aural Screens · [uncredited] · ms Detective Story Magazine January 8 1921 46 · Thubway Tham’s Vacation [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine June 10 1919 54 · Hanging in “The Good Old Days” · [uncredited] · ms 55 · The Flick of Ash · Oscar Schisgall · ss Detective Story Magazine January 5 1924 71 · Bromidic · John Baer · ss Detective Story Magazine May 6 1922 78 · A Champion of Poverty · Roy Vickers · ss Detective Story Magazine December 25 1917 86 · The Punishment for Certain Crimes · [uncredited] · ms 87 · The House of Whispers · Christopher B. Booth · nv Detective Story Magazine September 2 1922 128 · The First Prison Matron · [uncredited] · ms 129 · Beneath the Brand [Balbane, Man of Mystery] · Lewen Hewitt · ss Detective Story Magazine September 3 1921 138 · Facts About the Child Delinquent · [uncredited] · ms 139 · Something for Nothing · Paul Williams · ss Detective Story Magazine September 9 1919 142 · Women as Drug Smugglers · [uncredited] · ms Detective Story Magazine July 23 1921 143 · A Matter of Senses · Charles C. Jones · ss Detective Story Magazine November 13 1917 147 · A Police Duty in 1825 · [uncredited] · ms 148 · Through the Open Window · Harold de Polo · ss Detective Story Magazine August 5 1919 151 · Savings · Victor Lauriston · ss Detective Story Magazine August 17 1920 156 · Origin of Bertillon Method · [uncredited] · ms 157 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc

Best Detective Magazine [Volume III Number 4, February 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · The Phantom Dagger · Christopher B. Booth · na Detective Story Magazine December 22 1923 49 · Laws of 3000 B.C. · [uncredited] · ms Detective Story Magazine August 17 1920 50 · Thubway Tham’s Flivver [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine July 15 1919 58 · Strange Tales of “Klondike” Farm · [uncredited] · ms 59 · Among the Mourners · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine March 29 1924 69 · John Howard’s First Great Reform · [uncredited] · ms 70 · The Dove · Lucas Mortimer · ss Detective Story Magazine August 5 1917 85 · The Posse Long Ago · [uncredited] · ms 85 · Origin of the Patrol System · [uncredited] · ms 86 · The Cotton Stopper [Doctor Bentiron] · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine July 8 1919 100 · A Chinese Stool Pigeon’s Misadventure · [uncredited] · ms 101 · One Chance in a Thousand · C. S. Montanye · ss Detective Story Magazine July 1 1919 105 · Public Lamp-posts · [uncredited] · ms 106 · Fate Snaps the Shutter · Charles W. Tyler · ss Detective Story Magazine July 15 1922 115 · Doubly Trapped · Louis W. Hammett · ss Detective Story Magazine January 8 1918 122 · The Theories of Early Criminologists · [uncredited] · ms 123 · A Dicker in Art · Roy Vickers · ss Detective Story Magazine January 15 1918 131 · The Sands of Life · Douglas Dold · ss Detective Story Magazine October 9 1917 142 · Between Friends · Alden Myles · ss Detective Story Magazine February 20 1917 152 · Every Penny · J. R. Ward · ss Detective Story Magazine July 8 1922 157 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc

Best Detective Magazine [Volume III Number 5, March 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · The Wiremaster · Hugh MacNair Kahler · nv Detective Story Magazine April 9 1918 47 · The “Molly Maguires” · [uncredited] · ms 48 · Floor, Please · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Detective Story Magazine March 8 1924 55 · Haunted Walls · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine August 9 1924 63 · Some Important Facts · [uncredited] · ms 64 · Instinct vs. Logic · Roy Vickers · ss Detective Story Magazine January 1 1918 72 · The United States Secret Service · [uncredited] · ms 73 · The Tick in the Clock · Herbert Asbury · nv Detective Story Magazine January 6 1923 92 · The African Bowl Cult · [uncredited] · ms 93 · Water Shy · Kenneth Duane Whipple · ss Detective Story Magazine October 13 1923 102 · Dual Duty of Post-Office Inspectors · [uncredited] · ms 103 · Was Beatrice Guilty? · Carolyn Wells · ss Detective Story Magazine November 27 1917 112 · A Cobra Accomplice · [uncredited] · ms 113 · Crime Museum of Vienna Police · Joseph Gollomb · ar 118 · The Spell of Murder · [uncredited] · ms 119 · The Grim House · Richard Connell · nv Detective Story Magazine May 28 1921 131 · Handwriting As Evidence · [uncredited] · ms 132 · At the End of the Sentence · Carl Clausen · ss Detective Story Magazine November 3 1923 148 · Use X Ray to Locate Stolen Diamonds · [uncredited] · ms 148 · Appertaining to Thugs · [uncredited] · ms 149 · Hungry Waters · William Dutton · ss Detective Story Magazine June 24 1922 156 · A Chaplain versus a Connecticut Prison · [uncredited] · ms 156 · Not the Alligators’ Fault · [uncredited] · ms 157 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc

Best Detective Magazine [Volume III Number 6, April 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · By Candlelight · Edward Leonard · nv Detective Story Magazine November 19 1921 38 · Oriental Justice · [uncredited] · ms 39 · Told on Her Beads · John Baer · ss Detective Story Magazine June 7 1924 47 · A Watchful Waiting Policy · [uncredited] · ms 48 · Under the Tiger’s Paws · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine June 7 1924 56 · Occult Detective Methods · [uncredited] · ms 57 · The Crime Protector [Doctor Bentiron] · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine October 20 1923 75 · Hours of Evil · [uncredited] · ms 76 · Craig Kennedy’s Greatest Mystery [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · ss Detective Story Magazine July 12 1924 89 · Is Electrocution Painless? · [uncredited] · ms Detective Story Magazine July 23 1921 90 · Was Lillian Right? · Ernest Pascal · nv Detective Story Magazine January 28 1922 114 · A Buyer from Michigan · [uncredited] · ms 115 · Thubway Tham’s Fishing Trip [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine May 28 1921 127 · Pearl Fraud Discovered in London · [uncredited] · ms Detective Story Magazine July 23 1921 128 · Women in Crime · Edward H. Smith · cl 136 · A Prison De Luxe · [uncredited] · ms 137 · Her Stupid Lie · Ethel Watts Mumford · ss Detective Story Magazine April 12 1924 148 · Modern Times—Modern Methods · [uncredited] · ms 149 · Double Liability · Victor Lauriston · ss Detective Story Magazine April 12 1924 154 · A Late Model in Burglar Traps · [uncredited] · ms 155 · A Double-Edged Disguise · Keene Thompson · ss Detective Story Magazine June 5 1916 157 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc

Best Detective Magazine [Vol. IV No. 1, May 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 144pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · Flowers of Guilt · Christopher B. Booth · nv Detective Story Magazine October 6 1923 27 · Face Down · Howard Marsh · ss Detective Story Magazine December 1 1923 36 · Behavior Clinics · [uncredited] · ms 37 · Catty Stuff · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine May 19 1923 45 · Bandit Suppression Fund · [uncredited] · ms 46 · Questioned Sanity [Doctor Bentiron] · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine July 22 1919 56 · Two Bits of Camouflage · [uncredited] · ms 57 · Broken Matches · Donald Van Riper · ss Detective Story Magazine June 2 1923 71 · A Typical Scotland Yard Case · Joseph Gollomb · ar Detective Story Magazine June 15 1920 77 · The Fortune-Telling Racket · [uncredited] · ms 78 · The Crooked Roulette Wheel [Balbane, Man of Mystery] · Lewen Hewitt · ss Detective Story Magazine May 20 1922 87 · Why? · Douglas Dold · ss Detective Story Magazine October 2 1917 97 · Ingenious Drug Smugglers · [uncredited] · ms Detective Story Magazine June 4 1921 98 · Thubway Tham’s Preth Agent [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine November 25 1919 106 · Siren Summons · [uncredited] · ms 107 · Nothing to Smile At · Frederick Hemming · ss Detective Story Magazine April 14 1923 119 · A Book of Treasure · Don Richmond · ss Detective Story Magazine March 17 1923 132 · The A. T. Stewart Grave Robbery · [uncredited] · ms 133 · Watched · J. R. Ward · ss Detective Story Magazine April 1 1922 140 · The Chinese Criminal · [uncredited] · ms 141 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc

Best Detective Magazine [Vol. IV No. 2, June 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 144pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 2 · The White Rook’s Mate [Enfield Bray (The White Rook)] · Hugh Kahler · nv Detective Story Magazine December 31 1918 48 · Sweet Marie · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine May 10 1924 56 · Some Indian Beggars’ Tricks · [uncredited] · ms 57 · The Little Blue Bottle · Adele Luehrmann · nv Detective Story Magazine July 14 1923 81 · Police Justices · [uncredited] · ms 82 · One Sweet Crime · John Baer · ss Detective Story Magazine March 29 1924 90 · The Evolution of the “Bobby” · Joseph Gollomb · ar Detective Story Magazine March 16 1920 94 · A Prisoner Too Many · [uncredited] · ms 95 · Two Years in His Grave · C. C. Andrews · ss Detective Story Magazine March 15 1924 105 · Tired of Their Job · [uncredited] · ms 105 · Failure of the Death Penalty · [uncredited] · ms 106 · Thubway Tham’s Darkest Day [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine January 27 1920 114 · Few Swedes in Prison · [uncredited] · ms 115 · Because the Light Went Out · Carl Clausen · ss Detective Story Magazine July 21 1923 125 · Boy Bandit Gets Reward · [uncredited] · ms 125 · Not Conducive to Penitence · [uncredited] · ms 126 · Grease Paint and Violets · Dahlia Graham · ss Detective Story Magazine August 20 1917 132 · Farms for Drug Addicts · [uncredited] · ms 133 · Thieves Three · C. S. Montanye · ss Detective Story Magazine April 1 1919 136 · A Last Jest · [uncredited] · ms 136 · Sponsor System of Parole · [uncredited] · ms 137 · A la Carte · Caroline S. Osborn · ss Detective Story Magazine March 4 1919 141 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc

Best Detective Magazine [Vol. IV No. 3, July 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 144pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 2 · Execution Island · Roy W. Hinds · nv Detective Story Magazine April 7 1923 43 · Flogging as a Deterrent to Crime · [uncredited] · ms 44 · Blank White · Carolyn Wells · ss Detective Story Magazine December 30 1922 52 · Laundry Work at Sing Sing · [uncredited] · ms 53 · Out of the Whispering Jungle · Frank Shaw · nv Detective Story Magazine September 28 1920 68 · A Most Unusual Death Trial · [uncredited] · ms 69 · Women in Crime · Edward H. Smith · cl 77 · Lure of the West Lands Youth in Tombs · [uncredited] · ms 78 · Bluff · Anthony M. Rud · ss Detective Story Magazine November 26 1921 89 · Thubway Tham’s Revenge [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine October 5 1920 101 · After Forty Years [Doctor Bentiron] · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine July 29 1919 115 · Costly Satisfaction · Frederick Ames Coates · ss Detective Story Magazine October 19 1920 123 · All in a Blaze · Frederick Hemming · ss Detective Story Magazine December 9 1922 132 · “Keep off the Grass” · Kenneth Duane Whipple · ss Detective Story Magazine July 28 1923 142 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc

Best Detective Magazine [Vol. IV No. 4, August 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 144pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 2 · False Fronts · Christopher B. Booth · na 56 · An Unusual Scent · [uncredited] · ms 57 · Curtain—Quick [Balbane, Man of Mystery] · Lewen Hewitt · ss Detective Story Magazine September 10 1921 67 · His Nagging Wife · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine October 18 1924 76 · Women in Crime: Shoplifters and Pickpockets · Edward H. Smith · ar Detective Story Magazine September 16 1922 84 · Handcuffs and Hacksaw · [uncredited] · ms 85 · Under the Rays of the Red Star · Paul Ellsworth Triem · ss Detective Story Magazine June 23 1923 93 · A Burglar’s Visiting Card · [uncredited] · ms 93 · Law versus Alienists · [uncredited] · ms 94 · Thubway Tham’s Curiothity [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine January 7 1922 101 · Four Generations of Pinkertons · [uncredited] · ms 102 · The Toll of the Stairs · William S. Dutton · ss Detective Story Magazine May 19 1923 112 · A Rose for a Night · Frederick Ames Coates · ss Detective Story Magazine August 4 1923 118 · A Brutal Weapon · [uncredited] · ms 119 · Swamps · Lemuel L. de Bra · ss Detective Story Magazine November 10 1923; given as by Leonard L. DeBras. 126 · Slicked · James W. Egan · ss Detective Story Magazine May 18 1920 130 · Vanishing Ink · [uncredited] · ms 131 · Prey · C. S. Montanye · ss Detective Story Magazine October 28 1919 137 · Antiquated Prison System of the United States · [uncredited] · ms 138 · The Thief Who Couldn’t Fail · Keene Thompson · ss Detective Story Magazine February 20 1917 142 · A Skillful Forger · [uncredited] · ms 142 · Farm Work for Convicts · [uncredited] · ms 144 · The Jury Box · The Readers · lc