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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 5, #14, January 1944] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

5 · If Christmas Comes [Tony Key] · Steve Fisher · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 25 ’37
18 · The Witness for the Prosecution [“Traitor’s Hands”] · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s Jan 31 ’25; “Munsey’s, reprint— Dannay says, 1924”; The Fiction mags list says Flynns, 1925.
36 · No Corpse—No Murder [Dirty Dogs’ Club] · P. C. Wren · ss Rough Shooting, London: John Murray, 1938
51 · The Hound · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Aug ’31; reprinted from Doctor Martino and Other Stories, 1934.
63 · The Showdown [Careful Jones] · Pat Hand · ss
66 · The Flying Death · Samuel Hopkins Adams · ss McClure’s Jan ’03 (+1)
85 · Death in the Doghouse · Cornelius A. Tilghman · ss
96 · Guess Who? · Talbot C. Hatch · pz; answer on p. 110.
98 · The Djinn Murder · Fredric Brown · ss
111 · The Waters of Oblivion · S. Weir Mitchell · ss The Century May ’02; collected in Little Stores (1903).
116 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Christopher Morley · pl; based on the Doyle story.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 5, #15, March 1944] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

5 · Footprints in the Jungle · W. Somerset Maugham · nv The International Jan ’27; collected in Ah King, 1934.
33 · The Lady from Dubuque [“The Puzzle of the Scorned Woman”; Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss New York Sunday World Magazine Dec 27 ’42
43 · Safe As Houses [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Jan ’40
57 · Mr. Kiroshibu’s Ashes [Paul Dawn] · James Yaffe · ss
72 · The Watchman · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Colliers Feb 22 ’36
76 · The Silver Pencil [Insp. Joly] · Arthur Sherburne Hardy · ss Harper’s Monthly Jun ’12; collected in Diane and Her Friends (1914).
91 · Mortmain · Miriam Allen deFord · ss
97 · Prince Charlie’s Ruby [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss
112 · Thubway Tham, Thvilian [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss
124 · The Judge Laughed Last [“The New Racket”] · Dashiell Hammett · ss Black Mask Feb 15 ’24
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 5, #16, May 1944] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

5 · One Hour [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask Apr 1 ’24
17 · Affaire Ziliouk [Monsieur Froget] · Georges Simenon; trans. by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from Les 13 Coupables (1932).
23 · The Mystery of the Blue Jar · Agatha Christie · ss Metropolitan Magazine, 1924; collected in The Hound of Death (1933).
39 · The Nail and the Requiem [Trevis Tarrant] · C. Daly King · nv Mystery, 1935; reprinted from The Curious Mr. Tarrant (1935).
56 · The Man Who Dreamed Too Much [Baron von Genthner] · Quentin Reynolds · ss The Strand Sep ’36
72 · The Man Who Read Too Many Detective Stories · Henry Hasse · ss; The TOC abbreviates (or erroneously prints) the title to/as “The Man Who Read Too Many”.
77 · The Doctor and the Lunatic · Richard Connell · ss Mystery Jul ’35
91 · Mr. and Mrs. Abbey’s Difficulties · E. M. Forster · ss, 1936; reprinted from Abinger Harvest (1936).
99 · The Man in the Velvet Hat [Inspector Magruder] · Jerome & Harold Prince · ss
116 · Cabin B-13 · John Dickson Carr · pl; first broadcast on Suspense, CBS radio, Mar 16, 1943.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 5, #17, July 1944] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

5 · The Adventure of the Marked Man [Sherlock Holmes] · Stuart Palmer · ss; Sherlockian pastiche.
20 · The Baby in the Icebox · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury Jan ’33
35 · The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby [Dove Dulcet] · Christopher Morley · nv The Bookman Mar ’21 (+1); reprinted from Tales from a Rolltop Desk (1921).
55 · Criminological Data · John L. Cooney · pz; answer on p.127.
56 · Seeing Is Believing · Sergeant Russell S. Hughes · ss
74 · A Lesson in Crime [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & M. Cole · ss A Lesson in Crime, Collins, 1933
85 · Murder While You Wait · Fredric Brown · ss
97 · The Imponderables [Careful Jones] · Pat Hand · ss
104 · Guess Who? · Talbot C. Hatch · pz; solution on p.121.
106 · The Man Who Murdered in Public [“The Clew Proof Murders”; Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade, 1935
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 5, #18, September 1944] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

5 · The Labors of Hercules: The Nemean Lion, or The Case of the Kidnaped Pekinese [“The Nemean Lion”; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv The Strand Nov ’39; The cover of this issue of EQMM give the title as simply “The Kidnaped Pekinese” and the TOC as “The Case of the Kidnaped Pekinese”.
22 · Postiche [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator Aug ’35
39 · The Fingernail [“The Customer’s Always Right”] · Cornell Woolrich · ss Detective Tales Jul ’41
46 · Coroner’s Inquest · Marc Connelly · ss Colliers Feb 8 ’30
51 · The Guest · Cyril Plunkett · ss
69 · Lost Star [Trevis Tarrant] · C. Daly King · ss
82 · The Seventh Drink [Paul Dawn] · James Yaffe · ss
97 · The Open Window [Flavio Minetti] · Charles Caldwell Dobie · nv Harper’s Aug ’18; in San Francisco Tales (1935).
115 · The Hangman Won’t Wait [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · pl; first broadcast on Suspense, CBS radio, Feb 9, 1943.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 5, #19, November 1944] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

5 · William Wilson’s Racket [as by Carter Dickson; Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Feb ’41
16 · The Gutting of Couffignal [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv Black Mask Dec ’25
40 · The Meanest Man in Europe [as by David Durham; Fidelity Dove] · Roy Vickers · ss The Exploits of Fidelity Dove, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924; reprinted as by Roy Vickers (1935).
50 · P. Moran, Deductor [P. Moran] · Percival Wilde · ss
67 · Death on the South Wind · Valma Clark · ss
83 · Arsène Lupin vs. Colonel Linnaus [Arsene Lupin] · Anthony Boucher · ss; pastiche of Maurice LeBlanc’s character.
90 · The Garnet Ring · M. Lindsay · ss Ballou’s Dollar Monthly May, 1861
97 · Death at the Porthole [Cliff Chandler] · Baynard Kendrick · ss Country Home Magazine, 1938
108 · The Alibi · Pat Hand · ss
111 · The News in English · Graham Greene · ss The Strand Jun ’40
119 · The Stickpin [Máximo Roldán] · Antonio Helú; trans. by Anthony Boucher · ss; reprinted from Continental (Mexico), 1928; not collected in book form until LA OBLIGACION DE ASESINAR (Mexico City: Editorial Albatros, 1946).
128 · Index · Misc. · ix
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 6, #20, January 1945] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) [STM] 3 · The Chobham Affair [“A Christmas Present for His Wife”] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Strand Dec ’30 13 · Death on Pine Street [“Women, Politics and Murder”; The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss Black Mask Sep ’24 33 · The Case of the Drug Peddler [“The Horses of Diomedes”; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Strand Jun ’40 46 · Rumor, Inc. [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss 57 · A Victim of Amnesia · Arthur Somers Roche · ss The Elk’s Magazine, 1923 69 · Just an Old-Fashioned Murder [Sheriff Jeremy Dodd] · Ben Wilson · ss 77 · The Finger Man [Inspector Magruder] · Jerome & Harold Prince · ss 92 · The Ace of Spades [Careful Jones] · Pat Hand · ss 98 · The Testimony of Dr. Farnsworth [Dr. Mark Farnsworth] · Francis Leo Golden · ss 111 · A Matter of Form [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · nv The Strand May ’40
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 6 #21, March 1945] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

5 · The Gay Falcon [Falcon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Strand Jan ’40
22 · The Mathematics of Murder [“What the Well Dressed Corpse Will Wear”; Inspector Evans] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine Mar ’44
38 · The Case of the Emerald Sky [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch Jul 10 ’40
46 · The Riddle of the Twelve Amethysts [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss
60 · Cul de Sac [Paul Dawn] · James Yaffe · ss
73 · Monboddo’s Ape Boy [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss
89 · The Murder of Lady Twickinham · Ed (Archie) Gardner · pl; broadcast on the Chase & Sanborn show starring Gracie Fields, NBC radio, June 18, 1944.
92 · The Assassins’ Club [“A Slice of Bad Luck”; Nigel Strangeways] · Nicholas Blake · ss Detection Medley, ed. John Rhode, Hutchinson, 1939
99 · The Prince Who Was a Thief · Theodore Dreiser · ss, 1927; Chains, 1927.
115 · The Curious Incident of the Dog · Ralph Norman Weber · vi
118 · Something to Do with Figures · Miriam Allen deFord · ss
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 7 #22, May 1945] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

5 · The Empty Flat [as by Carter Dickson; Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand May ’39
18 · Leg Man [Burgess] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine Aug ’43
39 · The Meaning of the Act [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · nv The Strand Sep ’39; Dannay cites The Outspan, 1943.
52 · The Stripper [Sister Mary Ursula OMB] · H. H. Holmes · ss
62 · Rogues’ Gallery · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Colliers Aug 24 ’35
65 · Pattern for Murder · Herzl Fife · ss
75 · The Liqueur Glass · Phyllis Bottome · ss The Smart Set Mar ’15; collected in Innocence and Experience, 1934.
81 · Guess Who? · Talbot C. Hatch · pz
83 · The Case of the Merry Andrew [“The Cowboy of Oxford Street”; Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade, 1935
96 · The Quick and the Dead · Owen Cameron · ss
99 · The Statement of the Accused [“The Mystery of Room 666”] · Jacques Futrelle · ss The Story-Teller Aug ’10
111 · Squeakie’s Second Case [Squeakie Meadows] · Margaret Manners · nv
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 7 #23, July 1945] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

4 · The Mystery of the Chief of Police [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss
20 · Delayed Verdict · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss Colliers Dec 20 ’41
32 · The Alarm Bell · Donald Henderson · ss (r)
38 · Smash and Grab [Constable John Bragg] · Henry Wade · ss (r); Here Comes the Copper, 1938.
50 · Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer · S. J. Perelman · ss New Yorker Dec 16 ’44; A satire on the hard-boiled private eye.
57 · Mr. Bearstowe Says [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss The Saturday Book #3 ’43
72 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
89 · P. Moran, Fire-Fighter [P. Moran] · Percival Wilde · ss
107 · The Tenth Clue [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv Black Mask Jan 1 ’24
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 6 #24, September 1945] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

4 · The White Pillars Murder [“Dr. Hyde, Detective, and the White Pillars Murder”] · G. K. Chesterton · ss English Life Jan ’25
17 · Pastorale · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury Mar ’28
24 · The Labors of Hercules: The Stymphalian Birds, or The Cases of the Vulture Women [“The Vulture Women”; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week Sep 17 ’39; The title on the cover is “The Vulture Women” and on the TOC “The Case of the Vulture Women”.
36 · The Wax-Work Cadaver [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss
50 · Two Sharp Knives · Dashiell Hammett · ss Colliers Jan 13 ’34
74 · What, No Butler? · Damon Runyon · ss Colliers Aug 5 ’33; in collection Blue Plate Special, 1944.
84 · The Whistling Corpse · Ben Hecht · ss
88 · The Problem of the Emperor’s Mushrooms [Paul Dawn] · James Yaffe · ss
98 · The Adventure of Mr. Montalba, Obsequist [Mr. Mycroft] · H. F. Heard · nv
115 · Perkins’ “First Case” [Willis Perkins] · Philip Wylie · ss
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 6 #25, November 1945] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

4 · Mean Man’s Murder [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv
27 · Snafu Murder [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss
42 · Codeine (7 Per Cent) [Dove Dulcet] · Christopher Morley · ss (r); collected in Tales from a Rolltop Desk, Doubleday 1921.
46 · The Adventures of Karmesin
_47 · 1. Karmesin, Murderer [“Inscrutable Providence”; Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss The People Dec 24 ’44
_53 · 2. Karmesin, Jewel Thief [“Karmesin and the Raving Lunatic”; Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss Courier Spr ’39
57 · The Blind Spot · Barry Perowne · ss
69 · A Medieval Romance · Mark Twain · ss Buffalo Express Jan 1, 1870; collected in Sketches Old and New, 1871.
75 · The Footsteps That Ran [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Lord Peter Views the Body, London: Gollancz, 1928
88 · The Green Elephant · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Smart Set Oct ’23
97 · The Case of the Pinchbeck Locket [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch, 1940
102 · The Eye [Cliff Chandler] · Baynard Kendrick · ss
111 · White Carnations [Lieutenant Trant] · Q. Patrick · ss Colliers Feb 10 ’45
128 · Index to Volume 6 — 1945 · Misc. · ix
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 7 #26, January 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG] 4 · The Mystery of the Sock and the Clock [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss 20 · The Labors of Hercules: The Girdle of Hyppolyta, or The Case of the Missing Schoolgirl [“The Disappearance of Winnie King”; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week Sep 10 ’39; The title on the EQMM cover and TOC is “The Case of the Missing Schoolgirl”. 30 · Ultra Violent [Florian Slappey] · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Argosy Jan ’45 42 · Strictly Diplomatic · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Dec ’39 56 · The Priest · Irwin Shaw · ss New Yorker Apr 7 ’45 65 · The Magic Hat [“The Hat Trick”; Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Oct ’38 80 · The Stolen Christmas Box [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss 97 · The Dream · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan May ’24 104 · The Parrot’s Beak [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade and Golden Book Jun ’36 111 · Squeeze Play [William S. Gray] · Leonard Thompson · nv
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 7 #27, February 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Mildred Falk. [DG]

4 · Puzzle for Poppy [Peter & Iris Duluth] · Patrick Quentin · ss
16 · The Earring [“The Death Stone” as by Cornell Woolrich] · William Irish · nv Flynn’s Detective Fiction Feb ’43
41 · The Labors of Hercules: The Hydra of Lernea, or The Case of the Gossipers [“The Invisible Enemy”; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week Sep 3 ’39; The EQMM cover and TOC give the title as “The Case of the Gossipers”.
54 · The Comic Opera Murders [Paul Dawn] · James Yaffe · ss
66 · Cummings Monk [“He Wakes an Echo”; Cummings King Monk] · M. P. Shiel · ss The Pale Ape and Other Pulses, London: T. Werner Laurie, 1911; Dannay says that the story is “slightly condensed by Mr. Shiel himself.”
79 · Broadway Murder [O’Malley] · William MacHarg · ss Colliers Oct 8 ’38
86 · The Necklace · Jack Moffitt · ss; sequel to Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace”.
99 · Speaking of Crime · Howard Haycraft · cl
104 · Like Count Palmieri [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss
116 · Mr. Simpson Goes to the Dogs · Anthony Berkeley · ss The Strand Jun ’34

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