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VALENTINO

• Loren D. Estleman: (stories)
  • Shooting Big Ed (ss) EQMM May 2005
  • Garbo Writes (ss) EQMM Feb 2007
  • The Profane Angel (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2007
  • Wild Walls (ss) EQMM Dec 2007
  • Preminger’s Gold (ss) EQMM Jul 2009

VALL, VERKAN

• H. Beam Piper: (stories)
  • Last Enemy (na) Astounding Aug 1950 [Paratime Police]
  • Temple Trouble (nv) Astounding Apr 1951 [Paratime Police]
  • Time Crime (na) Astounding Feb 1955 [Paratime Police]

VALMONT, EUGÈNE

• Robert Barr: (stories)
  • The Clue of the Silver Spoons (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 27 1904
  • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont: Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 29 1905
  • The Absent-Minded Coterie (nv) The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905; The Windsor Magazine, May 1906; collected in Barr’s The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont, Appleton, 1906; Hurst, 1906.
  • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont: The Absent-Minded Coterie (nv) The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905
  • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont: The Ghost with the Clubfoot (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 27 1905
  • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont: The Liberation of Wyoming Ed (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 10 1905
  • The Fate of the Picric Bomb (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 1 1905
  • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont: The Fate of the Picric Bomb (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 1 1905
  • Lady Alicia’s Emeralds (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 8 1905
  • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont: Lady Alicia’s Emeralds (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 8 1905

VAMPIRE CHRONICLES

• Anne Rice: (stories)
  • The Tale of the Body Thief (ex) Playboy Oct 1992

VAN DAM

• Elmer Brown Mason: (stories)
  • The White Gorilla (ss) All-Story Weekly Jun 5 1915

VAN der POOL, PAUL

• Bertram Atkey: (stories)
  • On Time, But Too Late (ss) Top-Notch Sep 15 1915; different author than previously.

VAN DER POOL, PAUL

• Robert Carlton Brown: (stories)
  • When Rogue Meets Rogue (ss) Top-Notch Jul 1 1912
  • The Chaldean Necklet (ss) Top-Notch Aug 1 1912

VAN der VALK

• Nicolas Freeling: (stories)
  • Van der Valk and the Two Pigeons (ss) EQMM Feb 1971
  • Van der Valk and the Cavalier (vi) EQMM Jan 1974

VAN DUSEN, PROF. AUGUSTUS S. F. X. (The Thinking Machine)

• Jacques Futrelle: (stories)
  • The Problem of Cell 13 (nv) Boston American Oct 30-Nov 5 1905; collected in Futrelle’s The Thinking Machine, Dodd, Mead, 1907.
  • The Chase of the Golden Plate (sl) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 8, Sep 15, Sep 22, Sep 29, Oct 6 1906
  • The Haunted Bell (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 17 1906
  • The Problem of the Stolen Rubens (ss) The Sunday Magazine Feb 17 1907; also as “The Stolen Rubens”.
  • The Stolen Rubens (ss) The Sunday Magazine Feb 17 1907
  • The Leak (ss) The Sunday Magazine Jun 9 1907
  • The Silver Box (ss) The Sunday Magazine Jun 9 1907; also as “The Leak”.
  • ? (ss) The Sunday Magazine Aug 11 1907; a contest for readers to discern the original title.
  • The Problem of the Vanishing Man (ss) The Sunday Magazine Aug 11 1907; also as “?”.
  • The Vanishing Man (ss) The Sunday Magazine Aug 11 1907
  • The Case of the Scientific Murderer (nv) The Popular Magazine Sep 1 1912; also as “The Mysterious Weapon”.
  • The Mysterious Weapon (nv) The Popular Magazine Sep 1 1912; Also as “An Absence of Air”; The Storyteller, date unknown.; this version is quite different from the earlier printing in The Popular Magazine. Dannay’s introduction implies that he received a copy from Futrelle’s widow, and it is copyright 1940 by May Futrelle.
  • The Thinking Machine: III. The Case of the N--- M--- (ss) The Popular Magazine Sep 1 1912
  • The Thinking Machine: IV. The Jackdaw (ss) The Popular Magazine Sep 15 1912
  • The Grinning God: The House That Was (ss) The Sunday Magazine; also as “The House That Was”.
  • The House That Was (ss) The Sunday Magazine
  • The Thinking Machine Investigates (ss)
• May Futrelle: (stories)
  • The Grinning God (ss) The Sunday Magazine
  • The Grinning God: Wraiths of the Storm (ss) The Sunday Magazine; also as “The Grinning God”.

VAN DYK, PETER

• Frederick C. Davis: (stories)
  • Fanged Fury (nv) Secret Agent “X” Feb 1934

VAN LOAN, RICHARD CURTIS (The Phantom Detective)

• Anonymous: (stories)
  • The Case of the Luckless Gambler (cs) Thrilling Comics
  • Phantom Detective (cs) Thrilling Comics
• G. Wayman Jones: (stories)
  • The Emperor of Death (na) The Phantom Detective Feb 1933
  • The Crime of Fu Kee Wong (na) The Phantom Detective Apr 1933
  • The Jewels of Doom (na) The Phantom Detective Jul 1933
  • Thirteen Cards of Death (na) The Phantom Detective Aug 1933
  • Cities for Ransom (na) The Phantom Detective Sep 1933
  • The Sinister Hand of Satan (na) The Phantom Detective Oct 1933
  • Gamblers in Death (na) The Phantom Detective Nov 1933
  • The Yellow Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Dec 1933
  • The Sign of Death (na) The Phantom Detective Jan 1934
• Robert Wallace: (stories)
  • Death’s Diary (na) The Phantom Detective Feb 1934
  • The Tick-Tack-Toe Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Mar 1934
  • Murder City (na) The Phantom Detective Apr 1934
  • The Crimson Killer (na) The Phantom Detective May 1934
  • Diamonds of Death (na) The Phantom Detective Jun 1934
  • The Talking Dead (na) The Phantom Detective Jul 1934
  • The Silent Menace (na) The Phantom Detective Aug 1934
  • Spawn of Death (na) The Phantom Detective Sep 1934
  • Merchant of Murder (na) The Phantom Detective Oct 1934
  • The Tomb of Death (na) The Phantom Detective Nov 1934
  • The Crime Castle (na) The Phantom Detective Dec 1934
  • The Crime Castle (nv) The Phantom Detective Dec 1934
  • Death on Swift Wings (na) The Phantom Detective Jan 1935
  • The House of Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Feb 1935
  • The Hollywood Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Mar 1935
  • Master of the Damned (na) The Phantom Detective Apr 1935
  • Written in Blood (na) The Phantom Detective May 1935
  • Notes of Doom (na) The Phantom Detective Jun 1935
  • The Prince of Murder (na) The Phantom Detective Jul 1935
  • The Pharaoh’s Mark (na) The Phantom Detective Aug 1935
  • Master of the World (na) The Phantom Detective Sep 1935
  • Island of Sudden Death (na) The Phantom Detective Oct 1935
  • Murder Cracks Down (na) The Phantom Detective Nov 1935
  • Murder Empire (na) The Phantom Detective Dec 1935
  • Chateau of Crime (na) The Phantom Detective Feb 1936
  • The Circus Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Mar 1936
  • The Death Skull Murders (na) The Phantom Detective May 1936
  • Dealers in Death (n.) The Phantom Detective Jul 1936
  • The Sign of the Scar (na) The Phantom Detective Sep 1936
  • Empire of Terror (na) The Phantom Detective Oct 1936
  • Death Rides the Blizzard (na) The Phantom Detective Nov 1936
  • The Torch of Doom (na) The Phantom Detective Feb 1937
  • The Henchmen of Death (na) The Phantom Detective Mar 1937
  • Harvest of Death (na) The Phantom Detective May 1937
  • Cavalcade of Death (nv) The Phantom Detective Aug 1937
  • Double Stamped Doom (na) The Phantom Detective Oct 1937
  • The Front Page Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Jun 1938
  • The Murder Syndicate (na) The Phantom Detective Dec 1938
  • The Chain of Death (na) The Phantom Detective Mar 1939
  • Murder at the Circus (na) The Phantom Detective May 1939
  • Murder at the Worlds Fair (na) The Phantom Detective Jun 1939
  • The Phantom Comes Through (nv) The Phantom Detective Jan 1940
  • The Phantom and the Uniformed Killers (n.) The Phantom Detective May 1940
  • “The Phantom Hits Murder Steel” (n.) The Phantom Detective Jun 1940; Death, Destruction and Sabotage in the Great invincible Steel Mills Follow in the Wake of a Fiendish Murder Mob—and an Industrial Secret of Vast Importance is the Hub of a Baffling Mystery! Follow Richard Curtis Van Loan as He Smashes Through to the Solution of an Amazing Case....“
  • The Phantom’s Murder Money (na) The Phantom Detective Aug 1940
  • The Trail to Death (n.) The Phantom Detective May 1941
  • The Grim Shadow of Hate (ex) The Phantom Detective Jun 1941
  • The Grim Shadow of Hate (na) The Phantom Detective Jun 1941
  • The Sabotage Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Jul 1941
  • Murder Makes the Bets (n.) The Phantom Detective Jan 1943
  • Death in the Desert (na) The Phantom Detective Jun 1943
  • Death in the Desert (n.) The Phantom Detective Jun 1943
  • The Rubber Knife Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Apr 1944
  • Killer Portfolio (na) The Phantom Detective Aug 1945
  • The Case of the Poison Formula (n.) The Phantom Detective Dec 1945
  • Model for Murder (na) The Phantom Detective Apr 1946
  • The Case of the Murdered Mendicant (na) The Phantom Detective Jun 1946
  • Death Rides the Winner (na) The Phantom Detective Aug 1946
  • The Tidewaters Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Nov 1946
  • The Clue of the Second Murder (na) The Phantom Detective Mar 1948
  • The Timber Tract Murders (na) The Phantom Detective Jul 1948
  • Murder Acres (na) The Phantom Detective Nov 1948
  • The City of Dreadful Night (na) The Phantom Detective Spr 1949
  • The Tall Tomb (na) The Phantom Detective Win 1950
  • Murder Millions (na) The Phantom Detective Fll 1951

VAN MANDERPOOTZ

• Stanley G. Weinbaum: (stories)
  • The Worlds of If (ss) Wonder Stories Aug 1935

van RIJN, NICHOLAS

• Poul Anderson: (stories)
  • The Man Who Counts (n.) Astounding Feb 1958 (+2)
  • Hiding Place (nv) Analog Mar 1961

VAN WAGENER, PROFESSOR

• W. L. Alden: (stories)
  • A Flying March (ss) The Idler Jul 1896

VAN WYCK

• J. U. Giesy: (stories)
  • A Case of Contre-Coup (ss) Romance Jan 1915; “The sixth of the Peculiar Cases of Dr. Van Wyck”.
  • The Case of the Little Seamstress (ss) Romance May 1916; “The Fourth of the New Series of Van Wyck Stories, ’Van Wyck, Untangler’”.
  • The Matter of Martin Lemere (ss) Romance Jun 1916; “The Fifth of the New Series of Van Wyck Stories, ’Van Wyck, Untangler’”.

VANCE, JEFF

• C. S. Montanye: (stories)
  • Double Face (nv) Complete Stories Nov #1 1930
  • Double Face Takes an Encore (nv) Complete Stories Nov #2 1930
  • The Death Trail (nv) Complete Stories Dec #2 1930

VANCE, PHILO

• S. S. Van Dine: (stories)
  • The Bishop Murder Case (sl) The American Magazine Oct, Dec 1928, Feb 1929
  • The Bishop Murder Case (ss) The American Magazine Nov 1928, Jan, Mar 1929
  • The Scarab Murder Case (sl) The American Magazine Dec 1929, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr 1930
  • The Dragon Murder Case (sl) Pictorial Review Jun, Aug, Sep, Oct 1933
  • The Casino Murder Case (sl) Cosmopolitan Jul 1934
  • The Garden Murder Case (sl) Cosmopolitan Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct 1935
  • The Kidnap Murder Case (sl) Cosmopolitan Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Dec 1936

VANE, JIM

• Leslie Scott: (stories)
  • The City of Silver (na) West Jan 1949

VANIA, KARA

• Franz Le Baron: (stories)
  • Lady of Doom (ss) Scarlet Adventuress Nov 1937
  • Siren of Flame (ss) Scarlet Adventuress Feb 1938
  • Lady of Destiny (na) Scarlet Adventuress Jul 1938

VARA the TAILOR

• Gerald Kersh: (stories)
  • The Immovable Man (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 1 1958; also as “The Incorruptible Tailor”.
  • The Incorruptible Tailor (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 1 1958
  • The Tailor’s Secret (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 16 1960

VARNLEY, LADY SARA

• Lloyd Biggle, Jr.: (stories)
  • The Case of the Unrepentant Ghost (nv) AHMM Sep 2006

VAUGHN, VERONICA

• Rae King: (stories)
  • Ways That Are Wary (ss) Scarlet Adventuress Jan 1937
• W. Clyde Young: (stories)
  • Beauty in Bronze (ss) Modern Adventuress Sep 1937

VEDDERS, CAPTAIN JOHN

• Frank Gruber: (stories)
  • The Coffin That Went to Sea (ss) Operator #5 Oct 1935

VEGA, DON DIEGO

• Johnston McCulley: (stories)
  • The Curse of Capistrano (sl) All-Story Weekly Aug 9, Aug 16, Aug 23, Aug 30, Sep 6 1919
  • The Further Adventures of Zorro (sl) Argosy All-Story Weekly May 6 1922
  • Zorro Rides Again (sl) Argosy Oct 3, Oct 17, Oct 24 1931
  • Zorro Hunts a Jackal (ss) Argosy Apr 22 1933; also as “Zorro Hunts by Night”.
  • Zorro Hunts by Night (ss) Argosy Apr 22 1933
  • Zorro Deals with Treason (nv) Argosy Aug 18 1934
  • Zorro Draws His Blade (ss) West Jul 1944
  • Zorro Upsets a Plot (ss) West Sep 1944
  • Zorro Saves a Herd (ss) West Jan 1945
  • Zorro Fights a Duel (ss) West May 1945
  • Zorro Opens a Cage (ss) West Jul 1945
  • Zorro Prevents a War (ss) West Sep 1945
  • Zorro Fights a Friend (ss) West Oct 1945
  • Zorro’s Hour of Peril (ss) West Nov 1945
  • Zorro Lays a Ghost (ss) West Dec 1945
  • Zorro Frees Some Slaves (ss) West Jan 1946
  • Zorro’s Double Danger (ss) West Feb 1946
  • Zorro’s Masquerade (ss) West Mar 1946
  • Zorro Stops a Panic (ss) West Apr 1946
  • Zorro’s Twin Perils (ss) West May 1946
  • Zorro Plucks a Pigeon (ss) West Jun 1946
  • Zorro Raids a Caravan (ss) West Oct 1946
  • Zorro’s Moment of Fear (ss) West Jan 1947
  • Zorro Saves his Honor (ss) West Feb 1947
  • Zorro and the Pirate (ss) West Mar 1947
  • Zorro Beats a Drum (ss) West Apr 1947
  • Zorro’s Strange Duel (ss) West May 1947
  • A Task for Zorro (na) West Jun 1947
  • Zorro’s Masked Menace (ss) West Jul 1947
  • Zorro Aids an Invalid (ss) West Aug 1947
  • Zorro Saves an American (ss) West Sep 1947
  • Zorro Meets a Rogue (ss) West Oct 1947
  • Zorro Races with Death (ss) West Nov 1947
  • Zorro Fights for Peace (ss) West Dec 1947
  • Zorro Serenades a Siren (ss) West Feb 1948
  • Zorro Meets a Wizard (ss) West Mar 1948
  • Zorro Fights with Fire (ss) West Apr 1948
  • Gold for a Tyrant (ss) West May 1948
  • Zorro Shears Some Wolves (ss) West Sep 1948
  • The Face Behind the Mask (ss) West Nov 1948
  • Zorro Starts the New Year (ss) West Jan 1949
  • Hangnoose Reward (ss) West Mar 1949
  • Zorro’s Hostile Friends (ss) West May 1949
  • An Ambush for Zorro (ss) West Sep 1949
  • Zorro Gives Evidence (ss) West Nov 1949
  • Zorro Curbs a Riot (ss) West Sep 1950
  • Zorro Nabs a Cutthroat (ss) West Jan 1951; Diego Vega battles to clear his name of a false murder charge.
  • Zorro Gathers Taxes (ss) West Mar 1951
  • Zorro Rides the Trail! (ss) Max Brand’s Western Magazine May 1954
  • Zorro’s Fight for Life (na)
• Johnston Steele: (stories)
  • Zorro Takes the Bait (ss) West Aug 1946