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A short-lived magazine which published a series of stories by Arthur Hoerl, seemingly syndicated to various newspapers previously as “Master Mysteries”, although the sources have not yet been traced. The fifth issue appears to be, at least in the main, a reprint of stories published in earlier issues.

Publishers: F.G. Wilson Publishing Company, Inc.; 304 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.

The Master Thriller Series (about)

A series of anthologies in magazine format; each issue featured a different genre. For convenience, all issues have been indexed even though only a small number are mystery/detective.

Publishers: The World’s Work (1913) Ltd.; Kingswood, Surrey.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1933

# 1

# 2

# 3

1934

# 4

# 5

# 6

# 7

1935

# 8

# 9

#10

1936
#11

#12

#13

#14

1937 #15

#16

#17

#18

1938 #19

#20

#21

#22

1939
#23

#24
Apr #25
May
#26
Jun
#27
Jul
#28
Aug #29
Sep #30
Oct
#31
Nov
#32
Dec

Mean Streets (about)

Australian crime/mystery magazine that ran mostly non-fiction but usually had one or two stories per issue, several of them US reprints. Note that the following listing has been compiled from a number of different, partial, sources and is probably incomplete.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1990

#1
Oct

1991

#2
Feb

#3
May

#4
Sep

1992

#5
Feb

#6
May

#7
Aug

1993

#8
Mar

#9
Jul

#10
Dec

1994

#11
May

#12
Dec

1995

#13
May

#14
Sep

#15
Dec

1996

#16
Feb

#17
Dec

Menace (about)

Menace, like Murder, was a short-lived attempt to please the reading public with contemporary crime-adventure stories that were but one step removed from the pulp magazines. Although not lacking better-known writers, the competition was too fierce and the magazine folded after only two issues.

Publishers: St. John Publishing Corporation; 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1954

v1 #1
Nov

1955
v2 #1
Jan

Mercury Mystery Book-Magazine:

Mercury Mystery Book-Magazine was the continuation of a long-running series of full-length (and condensed) mystery novels published in a digest-sized, paperback format, under the title of Mercury Mystery since March 1940. It ran for 23 issues (starting with #210) before merging with Bestseller Mystery Magazine.

— Mercury Mystery Book-Magazine

Publishers: Mercury Publications, Inc.; 527 Madison Avenue, New York 22, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1955

v1 #1
#210
Sep
v1 #2
#211
Oct
v1 #3
#212
Nov
v1 #4
#213
Dec

1956
v2 #1
#214
Jan
v2 #2
#215
Feb
v2 #3
#216
Mar
v2 #4
#217
Apr
v2 #5
#218
May

v2 #6
#219
Jul

v2 #7
#220
Sep

v2 #8
#221
Nov

1957

v3 #1
#222
Feb

v3 #2
#223
Jul

v3 #3
#224
Oct

1958
v4 #1
#225
Jan

v4 #2
#226
Apr

— Mercury Mystery Magazine

Title changed from Mercury Mystery Book-Magazine.

Publishers: Mercury Publications, Inc.; 527 Madison Avenue, New York 22, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1958

v4 #3
#227
Jun

v4 #4
#228
Aug

v4 #5
#229
Oct

v4 #6
#230
Dec

1959

v5 #1
#231
Feb

v5 #2
#232
Apr

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