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Mystery Detective (Stories) (Canada)

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 6?

Original Canadian magazine that seems to have run for at least six issues in the 1940s, possibly in a variety of formats. The title also seems to drift between Mystery Detective, Mystery Detective Magazine, and Mystery Detective Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s?: Crime Fiction Index (Missing: all except #3 & #6)
Publishers:   Super Publications
Editors:   Lou W. Ruby
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   32pp
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Mystery Digest

Country: US
Total Issues: 41

Mystery Digest was one of the more successful digest magazines, publishing an impressive array of stories and authors.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1957 – May/Jun-1963: Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

  Filosa Publications, NY, first 2 issues; then Shelton Publishing, NY.

Editors

  May-1957 – Jul-1957: Rolfe Passer
  Sep-1957 – Mar-1958: Joseph Commings
  May-1958 – Feb-1959: William MacFarlane
  Mar-1959 – Dec-1959: Donald E. Westlake
  Jan/Feb-1960: Jon A. Tetra
  Mar/Apr-1960 – May/Jun-1963: Rolfe Passer

Formats

  digest

Prices

  35c

Pagecounts

  128pp (reduced to 96pp)

Frequency

  bimonthly, except monthly Nov-1958 - Jun-1959

Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Mystery Island Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

Small-press print magazine focussing on a different theme each issue, containing art, articles, essays, poems, and short stories. Known issues include:

#1, Summer 2004: Walking the Plank (Johnny Cash tribute) #2, Autumn 2004: Bottled at the Source (the "All Blues" issue) #3, Winter 2004: Rocket Party (Star Trek tribute) #4, Spring 2005: Pinheads from Mars (the "Punk Rock" issue) #5, Summer 2005: Love & Sadistic Dharma (Hunter S. Thompson tribute)

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 2004 – Summer 2005
Website:   www.mysteryisland.net
Publishers:   Mystery Island, 384 Windward Way, Sacramento CA 95831
Editors:   Nicky Clifton
Formats:   8.5" x 11"
Prices:   $4.99
Frequency:   quarterly

Mystery League

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Created by "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) just three years after their first successful book , Mystery League was an attempt to produce a magazine that would publish only quality fiction. While the quality was indeed high, so was the price and with the state of the economy at the time it was doomed from the start and folded after only four issues.

A fifth issue was assembled, but not printed.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1933 – Jan-1934: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Mystery League Publishers, Inc., 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, IL
Editors:   Ellery Queen
Formats:   large pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Mystery Magazine [1917]

Country: US
Total Issues: 195+21=216

Mystery Magazine was one of the earliest crime pulps, first appearing in November 1917, a mere two years after Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. It ran for seven years on a twice-monthly schedule, featuring undistinguished stories by undistinguished authors. It then vanished for a year, returning in 1926 for a further 12 twice-monthly issues.

There was then a further hiatus before it restarted, under a new publisher, on a monthly schedule, publishing a much wider range of detective and mystery-suspense stories (including some science fiction). After only ten issues, it changed its name to Mystery Stories, but only lasted a further two years before folding.

The title was then acquired by Street & Smith and merged into Best Detective Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  15-Nov-1917 – Aug-1927: Crime Fiction Index (Missing: May-1927)
  Sep-1927 – May-1929, as Mystery Stories: Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

  15-Nov-1917 – 1-Mar-1922: Frank Tousey, Publisher
  15-Mar-1922 – 15-Jan-1925: Harry E. Wolff, Publisher
  15-Jan-1926 – 1-Jul-1926: Mystery Magazine Company
  Oct-1926 – May-1929: The Priscilla Company

Editors

  Luis P. Senarens to 1924, then Robert Simpson

Formats

  1917 – 1925: dime novel format
  1925 – 1929: pulp

Prices

  1917 – 1925: 10c

Pagecounts

  1917 – 1925: 64pp

Frequency

  twice monthly to 1-Jul-1926, though no issues appeared between 15-Jan-1925 and 15-Jan-1926; monthly from Oct-1926

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

Online Sources

  Villanova University
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Mystery Magazine [1939]

see also under Best Detective Magazine

Mystery Magazine [2021]

see under Mystery Weekly

Mystery Magazine (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Seemingly a one-shot that reprinted three stories from Dime Mystery Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  1946?: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   William C. Merrett, Ltd., London, England.
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Mystery Monthly

Country: US
Total Issues: 9

Short-lived digest which attempted to cover, in a comprehensive manner, all mystery-related entertainment— fiction, book reviews, film reviews, puzzles, articles and interviews with prominent personalities in the field.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1976 – Feb-1977: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Looking Glass Publications, NY
Editors:   Eric Protter
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $1.00
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Mystery Novels and Short Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

One of the better weird-menace magazines, stressing the luscious female in most distressing situations. The first issue was Vol.1 No.4 - it is not known whether any magazine preceded this for the first three issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1939 – Sep-1941: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Double-Action Magazines, Inc. (Columbia Publications)
Editors:   A. Sundell
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Frequency:   irregular
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Mystery Novels Magazine (Quarterly)

Country: US
Total Issues: 8+9+?+?=?

Initially a giant-sized, 256-page, quarterly, the magazine changed hands after only 8 issues and shrank to 128-page issues, with an emphasis on weird crime. Although the new publisher claimed their magazine was not a continuation of the previous one, the issue numbering is continuous throughout. After a further 9 issues it changed to a frontier adventure magazine called Real Northwest Adventures.

Issues & Index Sources

  Summer 1932 – Summer 1934, as Mystery Novels Magazine Quarterly: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Jan-1935 – Aug-1936, as Mystery Novels Magazine: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Nov-1936 – Jun-1937, as Real Northwest Adventures: Western Fiction Index
  Dec-1937, as Real Northwest: Western Fiction Index

Publishers

  Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., NY
  Jan-1935 – Aug-1936: Winford Publications, Inc. (Columbia Publications), NY
  Nov-1936 – Dec-1937: Northwest Publishing

Editors

  Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: H.E. Maule

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: 25c

Pagecounts

  Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: 256pp

Frequency

  Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: quarterly
  mostly bimonthly

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Mystery Puzzle of the Month

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Mystery Puzzle of the Month was a series of jigsaws published by Pearl Publishing Co., each of which was accompanied by an original short story in a well-known series. The idea was that both story and jigsaw contained clues that would allow the reader to solve the mystery. The actual solution was given on the final page of the story in mirror text.

Issues & Index Sources:  1949: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Pearl Publishing Company, Brooklyn 31, NY
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Mystery Scene

Country: US

Non-fiction magazine about the crime and detective fiction genre.

Issues & Index Sources:  1985 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Website:   www.mysteryscenemag.com
Publishers:   Mystery Scene Magazine, 331 W. 57th Street, Suite 148, New York, NY 10019-3101
Editors:   Kate Stine
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Mystery Stories [1917]

Country: US
Total Issues: 18

Issues & Index Sources:  1917 – 1920: Dime Novel Bibliography (Missing: #1, #4, #7)
Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York
Formats:   7 1/8 x 3 3/4"
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   300 to 400
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Mystery Stories [193?]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 25

A companion title to Mystery and Detection, Mystery Stories was a mixture of new stories and reprints, but drew mostly from lesser-known British sources or American pulps.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1936 – Feb-1942?: Crime Fiction Index (Missing: #16, #17)
Publishers:   World's Work
Editors:   H. Norman Evans
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   128pp (reduced to 80pp after 1939)
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   The Age of the Storytellers
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Mystery Stories (UK) [195?]

see under Dime Mystery Magazine (UK)

Mystery Stories [1927]

see also under Mystery Magazine

Mystery Street

Listed on www.thrillingdetective.com, this was a stillborn magazine. "A fantastic idea by Pulphouse Publishing of Eugene, Oregon, MYSTERY STREET was going to be `The New Wave of Crime Fiction'. We started with a 10,000 word story by Kate Wilhelm, stories from John Lutz, George Alec Effinger, Lee Floren and others. We put together the first issue (a great cover by Peggy Ranson) but Pulphouse went under before we got the magazine into print." O'Neil de Noux was the magazine's editor.

Mystery Tales [1938]

Country: US
Total Issues: 9

One of Martin Goodman's "Red Circle" weird menace magazines, seemingly published as a companion to Star Detective. Began with Vol.2 No.3, possibly to match the current issue of Star Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1938 – May-1940: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago.
Editors:   Robert O. Erisman
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Mystery Tales [1958]

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

A short-lived magazine with an assortment of well-known and lesser-known authors writing crime-adventure stories, oriented more to fast action and swinging locales than to mystery.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1958 – Oct-1959: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Atlas Magazines, NY
Editors:   Evan Lee Heyman
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Mystery Thrillers

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2

The lead stories are reprinted from the "Master Thrillers" series of booklets from the 1930s but the other stories appear to be new (at least in the second issue). Two further issues were announced but probably never appeared.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1942 – Sep-1942: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Prices:   4d
Pagecounts:   48pp
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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