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Crime Fiction Index

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Publishers:   Rainfall Books
Editors:   John B. Ford & Steve Lines
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £4.00

A mixed-genre magazine, inspired by the weekly radio show.

A character pulp. The lead novels are usually SF in nature, but the back up stories almost never are.

Canadian reprint edition of The Mysterious Wu Fang.

Mystery started in 1979 as a limited-distribution title, shifting to a nationally-distributed, slick, quarto-sized, magazine in January 1981. After 9 issues it converted to a digest, closing after a further two issues.

One of several pulp reprint magazines issued by World's Work as a spin-off from the Master Thriller series where the first Tales of Mystery and Detection had appeared in March 1934.

Mystery Book Magazine started life as a high quality digest magazine that achieved very positive reviews, but disappointing sales. It started as a monthly in 1945, dropped back to a bimonthly in schedule in 1947 and then in August 1947 dropped to a quarterly schedule and changed to a pulp format. After three years, with its fortunes failing, it changed its name dramatically to Giant Detective but folded after a mere two issues under that name.

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Canadian reprint edition of Mystery Book Magazine.

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Short-lived magazine featuring fiction, non-fiction, contests, news, gossip. Published in the late 1990s, but number and dates of issues not known.

A quarterly mystery magazine featuring a closed Syndicate of over a dozen mystery authors, writing stories inspired by a single theme.

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War. Third in a loose series with Crime Confessions, Phantom Detective Cases and Dynamic Detective Cases.

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.

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

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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)

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.

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.

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