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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 12, #56 July 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]
  • 4 · The Adventure of the Single Footprint · Robert Arthur · nv; A Sherlockian tale, but not actually a pastiche or parody.
  • 22 · Mother, May I Go Out to Swim? · Q. Patrick · ss
  • 35 · Murder in an Empty House [Hamilton Cleek] · Thomas W. Hanshew · ss, 1916; Chapters 9, 10, and 11 of Cleek’s Greatest Riddles, 1916 [US title, Cleek’s Government Cases, 1917].
  • 50 · The Trap · Harold Bloomfield · ss Colliers Apr 19 ’47
  • 61 · Eye Witness · David X. Manners · ss Ten Detective Aces Jan ’35
  • 65 · Death Certificate [Dr. Paul Standish] · George Harmon Coxe · ss Liberty, 1947
  • 78 · Up the River · Sidney S. Lenz · vi Vanity Fair, 1935
  • 81 · Observation · Robert Weinstein · vi; This short tale is the winner of EQMM’s third cover contest - to provide a story explaining George Salter’s cover for April 1948.
  • 84 · Corollary [Joe Hill] · Hughes Allison · ss
  • 101 · The Knife of the Celestial Brotherhood · Lemuel De Bra · ss (r); Probably retitled from a story in Ways That Are Wary, Clode, 1925.
  • 108 · Murder on Tuesday [Nero Wolfe; Arche Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine May ’46

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 12, #57 August 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 12, #58 September 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]
  • 4 · Through a Glass, Darkly [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · nv
  • 26 · The Adventure of the Gent’s Romeo · Margery Sharp · ss (r)
  • 39 · The Lady and the Tiger · Jack Moffitt · nv; A continuation of Frank R. Stockton’s “The Lady, Or the Tiger?”.
  • 63 · The Perfect Secretary · W. T. Brannon · ss, 1939
  • 65 · Hard Guy [“Framed in Fire”; Hunt Lannin] · Thomas Walsh · ss Ten Detective Aces Jan ’35
  • 78 · The Undertaker · Jack Jonas · vi
  • 81 · Murder Walks in Marble Halls [“Death Walks in Marble Halls”] · Lawrence G. Blochman · na The American Magazine Sep ’42
  • 126 · The Dummy Murder · Clarke Olney · vi; This short tale is the winner of EQMM’s fourth cover contest - to provide a story explaining George Salter’s cover for May 1948.
  • 129 · Farewell Performance [“Footlights and Murder”; Lieutenant Trant] · Q. Patrick · ss, 1947
  • 139 · Crime Lesson [Aarn Munro] · Dale Clark · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 12, #59 October 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 12, #60 November 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 12, #61 December 1948] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 13, #62, January 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 13, #63, February 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest, cover by George Salter) change from saddle wire-stitched (stapled in the center) to a flat spine. managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 13, #64, March 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35 cents, 144pp, digest, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [DG]

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 13, #65, April 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury Inc, cover photograph by Bill Stone, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/s) This is the first issue in EQMM’s eight years not to have a cover by George Salter. Salter will remain the art director, but off and on will use a photographic cover. managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 4 · Quadrennial Report on EQMM’s Prize Contests · Ellery Queen · ms; The TOC gives the title “Annual report on EQMM’s Prize Contests”
  • 10 · Blessed Are the Meek · Georges Simenon; trans. by Frances Frenaye · nv
  • 37 · Yellow Death [“The Blind Chinese”, as by Ramon Decolta; Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask Apr ’31; The third episode of “The Rainbow Murders”.
  • 51 · The Italian · A. E. W. Mason · ss (r); from Mason’s Dilemmas, Hodder & Stoughton 1934; the appearance in Christmas Pie, Christmas 1935, is apparently a reprint.
  • 65 · Double Trouble · Hugh O’Connor & Walter Duranty · ss Colliers Jul 11 ’36
  • 78 · Speaking of Crime: The Short Shudder · Anthony Boucher · cl
  • 81 · The Chinese Apple · Joseph Shearing · ss The Illustrated London News Nov 18 ’48
  • 94 · An Ounce of Curiosity [Scattergood Baines] · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss The American Magazine Aug ’31
  • 106 · The Great Italian Bank Fraud [Oliver Rator] · Edgar Wallace · ss (r); from Wallace’s The Orator, Hutchinson, 1928.
  • 116 · Mithridates the King · Morley Roberts · ss (r)
  • 124 · Kick · Hugh MacNair Kahler · vi Colliers Apr 12 ’30
  • 127 · The Mysterious Death in Percy Street [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine Oct ’01; collected with changes, especially whether the stories are told in the first person or the third person, in Orczy’s The Old Man in the Corner, Greening, 1909 (US title, The Man in the Corner, Dodd, Mead, 1909). The EQMM reprinting uses the book version.
  • 141 · Somebody on the Phone [as by Cornell Woolrich] · William Irish · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 31 ’37

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 13, #66, May 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, 35¢, 144pp, digest, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · A Study in White [“The Snow Line”] · Nicholas Blake · ss The Strand Feb ’49; conclusion given on pp. 142-144.
  • 15 · Momentum [“Murder Always Gathers Momentum”] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 14 ’40
  • 40 · Beyond the Sea of Death · Miriam Allen deFord · nv
  • 58 · Monsieur Lucien, Burglar · Pierre Boileau; trans. by Anthony Boucher · ss
  • 65 · Red Dawn [as by Ramon Decolta; Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask May ’31; the fourth episode of “The Rainbow Murders”.
  • 78 · Which Is the Heir? · Anonymous · vi (r); from The Little Gem, A Christmas, New Year’s and Birth-Day Present, ca. 1844.
  • 81 · The Missing Mortgagee [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · ss (r); from Freeman’s The Great Portrait Mystery, Hodder & Stoughton, 1918.; The original story was anti-semitic, so Dannay, who was himself Jewish, silently removed the offending comments.
  • 97 · The Fine Italian Hand · Thomas Flanagan · ss
  • The Adventures of Karmesin,
    ___ 110 · 6: Karmesin, Con Man [“Karmesin and Human Vanity”] · Gerald Kersh · ss Courier Spr ’38
  • 115 · The Problem Club [“The Giraffe Problem”; The Problem Club] · Barry Pain · ss The Strand Dec ’17; collected in Pain’s The Problem Club, Collins, 1919.
  • 121 · Killer’s Keeper · David X. Manners · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 27 ’40
  • 128 · Wit’s End [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade, 1936

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 13, #67, June 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, photographic cover, 35¢, 144pp, digest) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · The Cat’s-Paw · Stanley Ellin · ss
  • 17 · Outside the Law · Francis Iles · ss The Strand Jul ’34; Dannay gives 1930 as the copyright date.
  • 28 · An Honest Deal · Walter D. Edmonds · ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’29
  • 42 · Lacrimae Rerum [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss
  • 52 · Blue Glass [as by Ramon Decolta; Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask Jul ’31; the fifth episode of “The Rainbow Murders”.
  • 65 · Hard Sheriff · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 30 ’39
  • 69 · A Lady’s Shoe · James M. Barrie · ss (r); from Barrie’s A Lady’s Shoe, 1898.
  • 81 · Ask Maria · Floyd Mahannah · ss
  • 98 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part One · Ellery Queen · ar; revised from Twentieth Century Detective Stories, World, 1948.
  • 105 · The Biter Bit [“Who Is the Thief?”] · Wilkie Collins · nv Atlantic Monthly Apr, 1858; collected in Collins’ The Queen of Hearts, 1859.
  • 126 · Speaking of Crime: Sock the Mystery Year · Anthony Boucher · cl
  • 129 · Room Number Twenty-Three [as by Judson P. Philips] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Flynn’s Detective Fiction Jun 20 ’25
  • 144 · Index to Vol. Thirteen — January-June 1949 · Misc. · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 14, #68, July 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury Inc, 35¢, 144pp, digest s/s, cover by George Salter) managing editor Robert P. Mills. [Douglas G. Greene]
  • 3 · Thou Lord Seest Me · Q. Patrick · nv
  • 21 · The Trail of the Brown Sedan [Nick & Dave Glennan] · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 6 ’34
  • 35 · The Big Shots · John Di Silvestro · nv
  • 57 · Dirge · Hector Bolitho · ss The House in Half Moon Street, Cobden-Sanderson, 1935; Appleton, 1936.
  • 65 · Karmesin, Blackmailer [“Karmesin and the Big Flea”; Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss Courier Win ’38/39
  • 71 · Floor, Please · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Detective Story Magazine Mar 8 ’24
  • 81 · The Rainbow Murders End [“Diamonds of Death”, as by Ramon Decolta; Jo Gar] · Raoul Whitfield · ss Black Mask Aug ’31; the 6th installment of “The Ranbow Murders”.
  • 92 · Subject to Review · Mary Adams Sarett · ss
  • 103 · Condemned! · Francis Beeding · ss Mystery Jun ’35
  • 109 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Two · Ellery Queen · ar; revised from Twentieth Century Detective Stories, 1948.
  • 115 · Out of His Head · Thomas Bailey Aldrich · ex Carleton, 1862; chapters 11 through 14 of Aldrich’s Out of His Head, Carleton, 1862.
  • 125 · Collared · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask Oct ’39

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