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The Smart Set [v72 #4, December 1923] ed. George Jean Nathan & H. L. Mencken (The Smart Set Co. Inc., 35¢, 144 +, standard) [RF] 12 · Housewife · Muna Lee · pm 13 · The Poseur · F. Hugh Herbert · nv 51 · Répétition Générale · George Jean Nathan & H. L. Mencken · cl 57 · Son and Brother · Hannah Bryant · ss 60 · A Study in Nationalities · Roda Roda · ms; sketch. 61 · The Vaudeville Doctor · John Forbes · ss 64 · Ragman · Leonard Lanson Cline · pm 65 · Americana · Maj. Owen Hatteras, D.S.O. · cl 69 · The Ancient Misgiving · A. Newberry Choyce · pm 70 · Sister Veolane · Alfons Petzold · ms; sketch. 71 · The Visiting Girl · Thyra Samter Winslow · ss 77 · In Defense of Marriage · John Torcross · ms; sketch. 78 · Bruff · Jay Jarrod · ms; sketch. 79 · Values · John C. Cavendish · ar 80 · October · Janes Draper · pm 81 · The Seminars of the Villages · Oscar Lewis · ar 84 · About the Sunrise · Gamel Woolsey · pm 85 · American Institutions, V. A Business Office · Charles G. Shaw · ms; epigram. 87 · Miss Monkey-Fur · Nancy Hoyt · ss 95 · What Happened to Tophet · John Mosher · ss 102 · The Seven Deadly Reforms · Mifflin Crane · ms; epigram. 105 · A Declaration · Jim Tully · ar 106 · Silence · Margaret Widdemer · pm 107 · The Decision · L. M. Hussey · ss 110 · Gina · Roda Roda · ms; sketch. 111 · A Bohemian Garden · Helen Woljeska · ar 113 · The Congressional Limited · Leonard Hall · ms; sketch. 114 · Excusiana · C. G. Sheldon · ms; epigram. 114 · Things · Elisabeth Clarke · pm 115 · An Unfinished Story · Frances Norville Chapman · ss 125 · Summer Moons · Abigail W. Cresson · pm 126 · A Case in Economics · Morris Gilbert · ss 129 · The Married Man · Arthur Fitzgerald · ss 130 · On Art and the Artist · Parker Ford · ar 131 · Blindman’s Buff · Hannah Bryant · ss 131 · Monthly Critique Number 180 · George Jean Nathan · rv 138 · Fifteen Years · H. L. Mencken · rv
The Smart Set [v73 #1, January 1924] (The Smart Set Co. Inc., 20¢, standard) [RF] 7 · The Visit · Roda Roda · ?? 8 · Rhymer’s Reason, Old Style · Basil Thompson · ?? 9 · The Winged Seed · Richmond Brooks Barrett · nv 37 · The Test · Logan Trumbull · ?? 38 · Jetta Goudal, a Portrait · Adrian · ?? 39 · The Girl Who Was Always a Star · Joel Harkness · ss 43 · Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum · Marjory Stoneman Douglas · ss 55 · The Voice of Urraca · Linton Reynolds Murray · ss 59 · The Apothecary · Fairfax Downey · ?? 59 · It Is a Strange Thing · Harold Lewis Cook · ?? 60 · The Idle Singer · Dick Ham · ss 68 · Jist a Little Onion · Art Smith · ?? 69 · Matters of Fact · Sterling Benson · ss 74 · Homo Sap · Jay Jarrod · ?? 75 · Chameleon · Nancy Hoyt · ss 83 · Six of Them · Myrtle Meyer Eldred · ss 88 · Sweet Grapes · Charles G. Shaw · ss 91 · Parting · Helen Constance Pitt · ?? 92 · The Witch of Erivan · Ellis O. Briggs · ss 103 · Moggs · Alexander Hull · ss 109 · I Am the Sea · Mary Carolyn Davies · ?? 110 · The Ad Section · Nunnally Johnson · ss 115 · The Hero · Katherine Knox · ?? 117 · A Certain Something Precious · Burton Kline · ss 127 · Brotherhood · Reese Reeds · ??
The Smart Set [June 1929] (standard) Information from EBAY auction. · The Loyal Lover · Margaret Widdemer · ss · What Price Marriage? · May Cerf · ar · A House Needs a Husband · Alice Booth · ar · I am a Psychoanalyzed · Donald Ogden Stewart · ar · Thank You · Brooke Hanlon · ss · Just a Good Girl Scout · Milt Gross · ss · Pinkie Decides · Bernice Brown · ss · Life Isn’t So Bad · May Edginton · ss · A Good Horder · Katharine Hill · ss · Peter and Mrs. Pan · Frank R. Adams · ss · Amoung Us Girls · Ruth Waterbury · ss · Tomorrow’s Charm · Mary Lee · ss · Formality the New Notes · Georgia Mason · ar
Smash Stories
Smash Stories [v 1 #1, October 1941] ed. Anon. (66pp) Subtitled “True Life Sensations” Details taken from eBay listing. [PSP] · Leper on the Loose · Seymour J. Ettman · ts · The Girl Who Was Dynamite · John N. Makris · ts · I Hate You Americans · Thalia Meyer · ts · I Was a Yogi’s Love Slave · Avanakhadibra · ts · The Hired Husband and the Rose of Death · Brander Queets · ts · The Sergeant Always has the Devil’s Luck · Philip H. Godsell · ts
Smashing Detective Stories
Smashing Detective Stories [v 1 #3, September 1951] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 132pp, pulp) [MH] 8 · Keep the Corpse Hot · T. W. Ford · na 30 · So Dead the Rose · Sim Albert · na 50 · First Come, First Killed · D. A. Kyle · ss 62 · Gunning for Death · James L. Harte · nv 75 · Score None for the Chair · Thomas Thursday · ss 79 · You’ll Kill the People · Richard Brister · ss 87 · This Side Up! · John Ladd · ss 93 · Double-Crosser · Johnston McCulley · ss 101 · The Mountain Comes to Mohammed · Amelia R. Long · ss 104 · Death by Gas · J. J. Mathews · pz; (mystery story with solution at bottom, upside down). 105 · Butterfly of Death · Harold Gluck · ss 116 · Ghost-Town Slays · James E. Hungerford · ss 129 · For This Reason · John Thomas Urwin · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 1 #4, December 1951] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 130pp, pulp) [MH] 8 · The Comic Strip Killings · Sim Albert · na 32 · The Line Is Dead · E. Hoffmann Price · na 54 · Love, Honor, and Betray! · Roe Richmond · na 74 · No Hearse for Harry · W. Lee Harrington · nv 92 · The Ladies Loved a Louse · Thomas Thursday · ar 97 · Tell-Tales Marks · Harold Gluck · nf 99 · No Alibi Wanted · Jack Bradley · ss 105 · I Murdered Myself · T. W. Ford · ss 111 · Death of the Party · Robert Turner · nv
Smashing Detective Stories [v 1 #5, March 1952] (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 132pp, pulp) [RM] 8 · The Sulky Killer · Wadsworth Nealey · nv 31 · Strictly on the Ball · Seven Anderton · nv 44 · Homicide’s Sweetheart · Murray Leinster · ss 54 · Wrong Guy · John Thomas Urwin · ss 56 · Murder Goes to the Dogs · Talmadge Powell · nv 72 · The Bondsman of Big Street · Rex Whitechurch · ss 84 · The Amazing Ambrose Stubblefield · Thomas Thursday · ss 92 · I Could Kill You! · Judith Merril · ss 95 · Rainy-Weather Death · Harold Gluck · ss; “A quiz story” one page w/solution upside down. 96 · Wanted—One Blonde Corpse! · Daniel Pitt · nv
Smashing Detective Stories [v 1 #6, June 1952] (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 132pp, pulp) [RM] 6 · Spotlight on Crime · Harold Gluck · ar 10 · Little Miss Murder [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · nv 30 · The Fatal Maneuver · Arthur J. Burks · nv 55 · The Bracelet · Richard Brister · ss 59 · Bucking the Big Wheel · J. M. Sheppard · ar 68 · Sing a Song of Homicide · John C. Lawrence · nv 95 · Perfect Timing · C. C. Staples · ss 98 · The Case of the Phantom Killer [Archie McCann] · David MacGregor · ss 107 · Copper’s Duty · John Rogers · ss 110 · The Givaway · Wm. F. Kreuger & Larry Sternig · ss 112 · An Old Chinese Saying · Zene Tuttler · ss 117 · One of Us · Wallace McKinley · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 2 #2, December 1952] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 130pp, pulp) [MH] 6 · Spotlight on Crime · Harold Gluck · cl 10 · Mayhem for Mickey · Richard Deming · na 33 · Romance at Key West · Thomas Thursday · ar 40 · Mr. Freedom’s Torch · Seven Anderton · nv 66 · Rookie Misdirection · J. J. Mathews · nf 67 · Blind Newsie Nabs Killer · Richard Brister · ss 73 · The Trout in the Milk [Inspector Carruthers] · Walter Kanitz · ss 84 · The Chincoteague Enigma · William C. Bailey · nv 100 · The Twelfth Shot · H. Wieand Bowman · nv 113 · Voice of Experience · Mat Rand · nf 114 · Flatfoot · Robert Turner · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 2 #3, March 1953] (25¢, 132pp, pulp) Information from EBAY auction. · Dead Wrong · T. S. Stribling · ss [Poggioli Prof. Henry] · The Talking Corpse · Don De Boe · na · Whitemail · Daniel R. Gilgannon · nv · Spotlight on Crime · Harold Gluck · cl · No Murder Tonight · William F. Schwartz · ss · The Past Squeals · Seven Anderton · ss · 10,000 Witnesses to Murder · Frank Kane · ss · A Hotel Man Looks at Some Burglaries · J. J. Mathews · nf · I Write As I Bleed · Bryce Walton · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 2 #6, December 1953] (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 132pp, pulp) [RM] 6 · Spotlight on Crime · Tom Thursday · ar 10 · One Skull Too Many · Jonathan Craig · nv 29 · First Aid for Murder · Bramley Fox · ss 40 · The Deadly Diary [Edna Pender; Steve Ware] · Seven Anderton · nv 70 · Die Tomorrow, Please · Buck Gilmore · nv 100 · One Dumb Cop · Richard Brister · ss 108 · The Body in My Bed · William F. Schwartz · ss 115 · An Assist from Archibald · David James · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 3 #1, March 1954] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 98pp, pulp) [RM] 6 · Spotlight on Crime: Illusions About Death, Sudden and Otherwise By Asst. Police Chief James A. Youell, Miami, Florida · James A. Youell · cl 10 · The Iron Claw · Daniel R. Gilgannon · nv 41 · The Children’s Gun · John D. Carroll · ss 52 · Trial by Trigger · T. W. Raines · ss 61 · The Muted Horn · Richard Brister · ss 68 · Justice Guides a Bullet · Seven Anderton · ss 79 · Kindly Die Quickly · Will O. Grove · ss 84 · The Extra Passenger · Harold Gluck · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 3 #4, December 1954] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 98pp, pulp) assoc. editors: Marie Antoinette Park & Cliff Campbell. [MH] 6 · Spotlight on Crime · Harold Gluck · cl 10 · The Brilliant Deaths · Don De Boe · na 34 · Big Catch · Ruel McDaniel · ss 41 · Job for a Hero · Francis C. Battle · ss 52 · The Green Door · V. E. Thiessen · ss 57 · Face Down · Mark Carrel · ss 67 · Foolproof · Cliff Campbell · ss 71 · Murder’s Masquerade · E. E. Clement · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 3 #5, March 1955] (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 100pp, pulp) [RM] 6 · Double Payoff · Francis C. Battle · nv 23 · The Assassination of Homer Wright · James Himes · ar 28 · Alias the Turk · Daniel R. Gilgannon · nv 42 · The Late Occupant · Marc Miller · ss 48 · With a Bullet in You · Carroll John Daly · ss 60 · Not in My Cab! · Betty Brooks · ss 70 · Spotlight on Crime (The Modern Science of Thief-Taking-A Century Ago) · Harold Gluck · ar 73 · Spotlight on Crime (False Arrest) · J. J. Mathews · ar 75 · Death on His Trail · Zachary Strong · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 4 #3, November 1955] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, 25¢, 98pp, pulp) assoc. editors: Marie Antoinette Park & Cliff Campbell. [MH] 6 · As Long As I Breathe · Norman Daniels · na 29 · The Passenger · B. W. Scott · ss 34 · Motive for Murder · Talmage Powell · ss 40 · The Corpse Walked Home · Ernie Weatherall · ss 54 · Annals of Crime · Harold Gluck · cl 60 · Sitting Duck · Mat Rand · ss 64 · Murder with Folded Arms [Chief Howard] · Thomas Thursday · ss 75 · The Child Who Vanished · William F. Schwartz · ar 77 · Tip-Off from the Dead · Eugene Pawley · ss
Smashing Detective Stories [v 4 #5, March 1956] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, Inc., 25¢, pulp) [JF2] 6 · Hilt-Deep [Kirk Lowe] · Wade B. Rubottom · nv 23 · The Mission of Willie Potter · B. W. Scott · ss 30 · Blood Will Tell of Murder [Nate Stone] · William F. Schwartz · ss 42 · Dark Campus · Stephen Dentinger · ss 56 · Unusual Legal Case · Edward Garner · ar 57 · Shadow of Guilt · Talmage Powell · ss 64 · Gangster Quiz · James A. Hines · qz 65 · Murderous Suggestion · Joseph Henderson · ss 70 · Annals of Crime · Thomas Thursday · cl 72 · Death on Sunday · H. C. Butler · nv
Smashing Detective Stories [v 4 #6, May 1956] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, Inc., 25¢, 98pp, pulp) [JL] 6 · Remains to Be Seen · Wadsworth Nealey · nv 32 · The Parrot in Cow’s Lane · Edward A. Dieckmann · ss 44 · Annals of Crime: Servant of the State · Thomas Thursday · ts 47 · Minor Oversight · Joseph Henderson · ss 55 · Hiding Place · Basil Wells · ss 61 · Railroad Crossing · Dennis Wiegand · vi 65 · The Truth That Kills · Marc Miller · ss 74 · Quick Change · B. W. Scott · vi 77 · Anniversary of Death · Jack Ritchie · ss
Smashing Detective [v 5 #1, July 1956] ed. Robert W. Lowndes (Columbia Publications, Inc., 25¢, 98pp+, pulp) [JL] 6 · The Wrong Killer [Nate Stone] · William F. Schwartz · ss 22 · Death of a Pampered Pigeon [Sergeant Oliver] · Dennis Wiegand · ss 30 · The Cigaret Clue · Harold Gluck · sf 32 · The Squeeze · Matt Christopher · ss 42 · Doublecross Time · Saul Anthony · ss 56 · Death Is Invisible · Jim Harmon · ss 64 · No Burglars, Please! · E. E. Clement · sf 65 · The Big Squawk · Thomas Thursday · ss 75 · The Face of Nemesis · Reuben Jenner · ss
Smashing Detective [v 5 #2, September 1956] (25¢, 132pp, pulp) [eBay/MW] · Message from a Corpse · William F. Schwartz · nv · Comedy of Terrors · Richard Deming · nv · The Rain-Soaked Corpse · Wade B. Rubottom · ss · Death Laughs Last · E. E. Clement · ss · Blackmail! · B. W. Scott · ss · Don’t Wound a Copper · Cleve Curran · ss · The Making of a Private Eye · Harold Gluck · ar

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