Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Contents Lists

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v173 #4, February 1947] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Homicide Handicap · Julius Long · na No Weeds for the Widow · William Campbell Gault · nv The Bronze Bust · Frances Beck · nv To Follow with Death · Joseph C. Stacey · ss The Corpse Moved Once · C. T. Sullivan · ss Eyes in the Night · Edward Ronns · ss The Parrot Really Talked · Thomas Thursday · ss The Giant Has Fleas · Carroll John Daly · ss You Only Die Once · Don James · ss I Love Ugly Faces · V. E. Thiessen · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v173 #5, March 1947] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 25¢, 130pp, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Details taken from eBay listing. Unremembered Murder [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Corpus Delectable · Dorothy Dunn · nv An Error in Elephants · Roland Phillips · ss Pick-Up · William Campbell Gault · nv A Wedding Postponed · Graham Berry · ss Snowballs of Death · Paul Twitchell · ss Star on Her Stomach · Lyle Robertson · ss The Ruptured Duck Murder · Florence Kerigan · ss Obeah Kill · James Causey · ss The Tale of the Siamese Cat · A. T. Leaverton · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v173 #6, April 1947] ed. Daisy Bacon (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Details taken from Table of Contents. 4 · From the Rocking Chair · Roland Phillips · nv 18 · Pale Hands I Loathed · William Campbell Gault · ss 31 · The Black Bull · J. Lane Linklater · ss 42 · Brother Gat · John H. Knox · na 89 · Killing Comes Easy · Lyle Robertson · ss 97 · Poker at Camelot · Arthur H. Hood · nv 116 · Death Dust · V. E. Thiessen · ss 125 · Murder in One Easy Lesson · C. S. Montanye · ss 139 · Too Hot for Murder · Edwin M. Adair · ss 147 · The Shrine · A. Boyd Correll · nv

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v174 #1, May 1947] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) The Man in the Street · William Campbell Gault · na Murder Goes to Brandywyne [Brandywyne] · Agatha Gandy · nv The Case of the Crooked Title · Julius Long · ss The Third Fortune Teller · Leonard Finley Hilts · nv Red Water · Robert Plate · ss Night-Blooming Cereus · Ben Benson · ss Opening Night · Murray Van Praag · ss Sinister House · Kenneth Fowler · ss Driven to Kill · Henry Norton · ss How Beautiful in Death · H. A. DeRosso · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v174 #2, June 1947] ed. Daisy Bacon (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) 4 · The Tie That Blinds · Camford Sheavely · nv 19 · Tombstone Votes · Paul Twitchell · ss 31 · A Day Off to Die · Rod Patterson · ss 43 · Hotel Homicide · Julius Long · ss 59 · Ghost Hands · Joes F. Mitchell · ss 69 · The Judge Has 9 Lives · Frank R. Read · ss 82 · That Girl Carol · William G. Bogart · na 120 · Pistols for Three · Richard Dermody · ss 132 · The Penny Bag · Lawrence Palmer · ss 146 · The Emperor’s Eye · Walt Sheldon · nv

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v174 #3, July 1947] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) The House of Death · Inez Sabastian · ss An Irishman’s Job · Frank R. Read · nv Daffodil Moon Murders · V. E. Thiessen · nv Sign of the Sunflower · Luther A. Wert · nv The Murderer and the Mute · Charles Larson · ss Helen Walker, M.D. · Charles B. Dickson · ss The Go-Between · Ronald Henderson · ss Destroying Angel · Margaret Manners · ss Murder in the Air · Graham Berry · ss Love, Honor and Homicide · Tom Betts · ss City in the Dark · Samuel M. Sargent · pm

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v174 #4, August 1947] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Lady with a Corpse · R. L. Lathrop · na Laughing on the Outside · Thorne Lee · nv Murder’s Million · James MacCreigh · nv Repercussion · Agatha Gandy · nv Murder Makes the Day · Don James · ss The Strong One · Dorothy Dunn · ss Natural Suspect · Harold F. Sorensen · ss Solution in Lead · Daniel A. Hoover · ss Buttons Come High · Mildred Houghton Comfort · ss A Man Dies · Paul Komisaruk · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v174 #5, September 1947] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) A Good Act · Dean Owen · na Busman’s Holiday · Florence Kerigan · nv Accidents Do Happen · Frank Bennett · ss Murder Strikes Three · James MacCreigh · nv The Polite Corpse · Robert J. Hogan · ss Miss Rachel on Vacation [Rachel Murdock; Jennifer Murdock] · D. B. Olsen · ss Ghost of a Murder Night · Dorothy Dunn · ss Something Soft to Die On · Lee Markward · ss There Comes a Time · Donald Van Riper · ss Death in the Evening · C. T. Sullivan · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v174 #6, October 1947] (25¢, digest) Through a Glass Darkly · Frances Beck · na The Girl Next Door · William Campbell Gault · nv King Death · Paul Ellsworth Triem · nv Murder Completed · Robert J. Hogan · ss Disappearing Corpse · John Kaylor Northway · ss Crescendo of Death · Ralph Berard · ss Murder Is a Mistake · Frank Donovan · ss Dispatcher of Death · Hal Dean Cooper · ss Night School · Dan Gordon · ss An Empire Crashes · Ric Hasse · ss The Absence of Things · Lyle Robertson · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v175 #1, November 1947] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) The Stilled Face · Frances Murray Parrott · na Murder Is My Business · Ronald Henderson · nv Too Many Volts · Ray Vicker · ss You Won’t Mind Burning · Ernest C. Clement · ss The Innocent Corpse · Raymond Drennen, Jr. · ss "Them Foreigners" · G. E. Grimes · ss Stakeout · Henry Norton · ss Midnight Mortuary · John Cleaveland · ss Freshly Raked Ground · Frank R. Read · ss Mileage Means Murder · Andrew J. Easter, Jr. · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v175 #2, December 1947] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) A Tombstone for Taro · William Campbell Gault · na Terror Holds the Gun · John Kavanaugh Polito · nv Blind Road · Edgar Pangborn · nv Pearls Are Unlucky · Dorothy Dunn · ss Night Blind · Edward Ronns · ss Murder Takes a Breathing Spell · Elizabeth Beecher · ss Goldfish Tell [Inspector Porky Neale] · Roland Phillips · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 21 1934 Emmy Was Efficient · Perry Adams · ss Atmosphere for Murder · Don James · ss Murder Is Colossal! · H. C. Butler · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v175 #3, January 1948] (digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Miscast for Murder · Margaret Manners · na Under the Marigolds · Dorothy Dunn · nv Death’s Bright Angel · Curtiss T. Gardner · nv "The Little Things" · Edward A. Dieckmann · ss A Misogynist Meets Murder · Frank R. Read · ss The Case of the Talebearer’s Wounds · Kenneth Fowler · ss The Four-Footed Witness · Edgar Pangborn · ss Death Takes a Bow · Etoile Holbrook · ss Even Up the Odds · John D. MacDonald · ss The Hands of Death · Paul Twitchell · ss Death Wears Feathers · Graham Berry · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v175 #4, February 1948] ed. Daisy Bacon (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 25¢, 160pp, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) 5 · Ghost in a Dinner Jacket · Henry Norton · ss 18 · You Can’t Forget Murder · Frank Donovan · ss 32 · “Dear Julie” · Mildred Beckman · ss; prize story at Mid-Western Writers’ Conference. 45 · Murder on the Cape · Eve Walters · nv 60 · A Mask for Dying · John H. Knox · na 95 · The Case of the Woodpecker · Beatrice Shaw Chapel · ss 101 · Postponed Christmas · Frank Richardson Pierce · nv 129 · One-Way Street · Ronald Henderson · ss 133 · Dressed to Kill · Edwin M. Adair · ss 137 · A Red-Headed Dame · Dean Evans · nv

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v175 #5, March 1948] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Waikiki Widow [Saunders “Sandy” McKane] · William Campbell Gault · na Model T Murders · Luther A. Wert · nv The Corpse Loved Flowers · Robert J. Hogan · nv The Big Picture · William P. McGivern · ss Love Me, She’s Dead! · Samm S. Baker · ss Murder Walks a Strange Path [Rachel Murdock; Jennifer Murdock] · D. B. Olsen · ss Music from the Grave · Paul Ellsworth Triem · ss Next in Line · C. T. Sullivan · ss Degree of Murder · Robert C. Dennis · ss The Ring · Joes F. Mitchell · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v175 #6, April 1948] ed. Daisy Bacon (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Details taken from Table of Contents. 5 · The Unlamented Corpse · John K. Polito · nv; given as by John N. Polito. 22 · The Grave of the Horseman · John Cleaveland · ss 30 · Murder Returns to Brandywyne [Brandywyne] · Agatha Gandy · na 71 · A Mandarin Coat · Paul Ellsworth Triem · ss 83 · Just a Little Crook? · Theodore English · ss 89 · Death in Yesterday’s Town · Victor K. Ray · nv 106 · Movie Stuff · Thomas Thursday · ss 118 · Black Magic · Julius Long · nv 137 · Bumper Crop of Murder · Jean Francis Webb · ss 151 · A Little Too Young · Ray Cummings · ss Midnight · Katharine Metcalf Roof · pm

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v176 #1, May 1948] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Murder Plays Cupid · Frank R. Read · na Double Suicide · Norman Anthony · nv The Snake Dance · D. B. Olsen · nv A Bier for Anello · Dean Evans · ss Nightfall · William Campbell Gault · ss The Knot · Thomas Thursday · ss South of Christmas · Raymond Drennen, Jr. · ss Insured Risk · Donald Van Riper · ss Murty Makes Good · Edward William Murphy · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v176 #2, June 1948] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) Murder, Hollywood Version · Muriel Bradley · na Death Rides in a Photo Finish · Howard Williams · nv Home to Die · William Campbell Gault · nv Dead Men in White · Charles Heminger · nv Case of the Missing Dictator · H. Thompson Rich & Dabney Horton · ss The New Order · Paul Twitchell · ss Blood on the Campus · C. M. Kornbluth · ss It Sounds Like Murder · William Groppenbacher · ss A Strange Man · Nina Purdy · ss Jailbait · Henry Norton · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v176 #3, July 1948] (25¢, digest, cover by Charles J. Ravel) "In Case of Death" · Inez Sabastian · na Fixed for Murder · R. L. Lathrop · ss Specialist in Death · C. T. Sullivan · nv Already Buried · George E. Tolx · nv Five Cats Cold · Frank R. Read · ss Sparrow Cop · Ronald Oliphant · ss Sleep No More · Robert P. Toombs · ss Act of God · Kenneth Pearce · ss In the Edge of Night · Grover Kidwell · ss Fed up on Murder · Edward A. Dieckmann · ss Plain and Fancy Homicide · H. William Norman · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v176 #4, September 1948] (25¢, digest) Fallen Star · William Campbell Gault · na Winged Horse Murder · James Bassett · na Death Rides a Winner · Norman Anthony · ss Fossil Skull · Frank Richardson Pierce · nv The Glass Castle · Paul Twitchell · ss Homicide Dicks Are Specialists · Edward A. Dieckmann · ss Mystery of the Deadline · R. Brownold Miller · ss Emeralds Have No Home · Frank Donovan · ss Footloose and Murder Free! · Hal Dean Cooper · ss Deadly Nightshade · Ronald Henderson · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v176 #5, Winter 1949] ed. Daisy Bacon (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 25¢, 132pp, pulp) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 4 · Last of the Kingmakers · Paul Ellsworth Triem · nv 16 · A Five-Pointed Clue · Pat Leonard · ss 26 · The Waiting Bride and the Corpse · T. T. Flynn · na 52 · She Came Back at Midnight · Iris Barry · ss 62 · Leaves from a Borgia Pen · Agatha Gandy · nv 78 · Murder Is When You Find It · William Groppenbacher · ss 90 · She Kissed Him Dead · Samm S. Baker · nv 105 · The Stand-in Is Out · Robert Ernest Gilbert · ss 115 · A Matter of Procedure · Harold F. Sorensen · ss 123 · Smart Fisherman · Frank Bennett · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v176 #6, Spring 1949] (25¢, pulp, cover by Zboyan) Murder Is an Alibi · Douglas & Dorothy Stapleton · ss The Black Dark · Milton K. Ozaki · ss Horror in the Museum · H. Thompson Rich · ss Alibi in Ice · D. B. Olsen · ss First It Was Smith · Paul Barbour · ss The Lady and the Tiger · Joseph Commings · ss Death Thumbs a Ride · David Kyle · ss Neighbors · Joes F. Mitchell · ss

Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v177 #1, Summer 1949] ed. Daisy Bacon (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Zboyan) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 4 · It Shouldn’t Happen to a Stiff · Russell Branch · na 30 · The Case of the Mad Concerto · John J. Appleyard · nv 49 · The Deaths of Laurie Ford · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · ss 59 · Accounting for Murder · Michael A. Thomas · na 89 · Behind the Words · Russell Wilsey · ss 93 · The Dead Walk · William P. McGivern · ss 104 · A Star Falls · Harriet K. Nye · ss; prize story at Mid-Western Writers’ Conference. 114 · The Dead Sleep Lightly · Ken Pettus · nv

Detective Story Magazine (1950s)    (about) A short-lived relaunch of the venerable Detective Story Magazine. Publishers: New Publications, Inc.; 1125 E. Vaile Avenue, Kokomo, IN: Detective Story Magazine

Detective Story Magazine [v1 #1, November 1952] (25¢, pulp) 12 · Malone Is Dead—Long Live Malone · Craig Rice · nv 28 · Double Harness · John D. MacDonald · ss 35 · A Fine Foggy Night · V. E. Thiessen · ss 46 · Tall Guys Come High · Fletcher Flora · nv 62 · The Thin Edge · Steve Frazee · ss 70 · Round Trip · Alan Ritner Anderson · ss 76 · Footsteps Behind Her! · Francis K. Allan · ss 86 · Concerning Mrs. Murder · Gordon Shelly · nv