The Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

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Leong, Ernest (fl. 1990s) (items)
• The Emperor’s Treasure, (ss) Detective Story Magazine #7, February 1990

Leopold, Brian (fl. 2010s) (about) (items)
• With One Stone, (ss) Thuglit #5, May/June 2013
• The Card Counter, (ss) M #2, November 2014

Leotta, Allison (fl. 2010s) (items)
• Discretion, (ex) Touchstone, 2012
• Writing a Thriller Based on Your Day Job, (ar) Suspense Magazine June/July 2016

Leotta, Joan (fl. 2000s-2010s) (items)
• The Dead Lady’s Coat, (ss) Crimestalker Casebook Spring 2006
• The Dying Season, (ss) Betty Fedora #4, 2017

Lepionka, Kristen (fl. 2010s-2020s) (items)
• Hitchcocktober: On Queer Coding in Hitchcock Films, (ar) Mystery Tribune #11, Fall 2019 [Ref. Alfred Hitchcock]

Lepovetsky, Lisa; [i.e., Alica E. Lepovetsky] [née Harvey] (1951-2019) (about) (items)
• Joe Frog’s Place, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1994
• Finding the Wind, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1994
• Storyteller, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1995
• Here Be Monsters, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1995
• Picture Perfect, (ss) Whispering Willow Premier Edition 1997
• Watch Your Step, (ss) Whispering Willow Mysteries #1 Sleuth Edition 1997
• Noodling, (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 2014

Leppard, Stanley R. (fl. 1940s) (items)
• The Hard Way, (ss) Detective Tales August 1948

Le Queux, William (Tufnell) (1864-1927) (about) (items)
• The Gamblers, (n.) Hutchinson, 1901
• Within Four Walls [Hugh Donovan], (ss) The Royal Magazine May 1916
• The Scarlet Kimono, (ss) The Grand Magazine January 1922
• The Man in the Round Spectacles, (ss) The Grand Magazine July 1922
• The Bronze Face, (n.) Ward, Lock & Co., 1923
• The Crystal Claw, (n.) Hodder & Stoughton, 1924
• The House of Souls, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine May 1926
• The Passport, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine August 1926
• The House on Richmond Green, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine October 1926
• The Affair of the Orange, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine November 1926
• A Secret of the Underworld, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine December 1926
• Chronicles of the Crimes Club, No. 1, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine January 1927
• Chronicles of the Crimes Club, No. 2, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine February 1927
• Chronicles of the Crimes Club, No. 3, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine March 1927
• The Peril of Helen Marklove, No. 1, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine July 1927
• The Peril of Helen Marklove, No. 2, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine August 1927
• The Great International Secret, (n.) Hutchinson’s Adventure & Mystery Story Magazine June 1928, etc.

Lerch, R(oger) S(herman, Jr.) (1890-1953); used pseudonym L. R. Sherman (items)
• The Last Cartridge, (ss) The Black Mask January 1927, as by L. R. Sherman
• The Man Who Would Not Quit, (ss) Black Mask January 1928, as by L. R. Sherman
• Reading Sign on the Sagebrush Kid, (ss) Black Mask December 1929, as by L. R. Sherman
• Blood on the Rink, (nv) Complete Underworld Novelettes Summer 1934, as by L. R. Sherman
• The House of Heavenly Hell, (nv) Clues Detective Stories February 1936, as by L. R. Sherman
• The Obsidian Knife, (nv) Clues Detective Stories June 1936, as by L. R. Sherman
• The Golden Scarab, (nv) Clues Detective Stories March 1937, as by L. R. Sherman
• Crawling Things, (nv) Clues Detective Stories May 1937, as by L. R. Sherman
• Murder Howls at Night, (nv) Detective Tales October 1937
• The Gray Wolf’s Fangs, (nv) Thrilling Detective December 1938
• The Little Silver Corpses, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine May 1939
• Match for Mr. Satan, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine August 1939
• The Case of the Eyeless Corpses, (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries September/October 1939
• The Test-Tube Murders, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine October 1939
• Workshop of the Lightning-Maker [Clay Breton], (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries November/December 1939
• Frankenstein’s Twenty Cousins [Clay Breton], (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries January/February 1940
• Murder Sends a Valentine, (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries May 1940
• Flesh for the Silver Venus, (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries July 1940
• Flowers Grow on Corpses, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine August 1940
• Flesh for the Chinatown Dragon, (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries September 1940
• Hounds of the Vampire, (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries November 1940
• The Things from Underground, (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries January 1941

Lercher, Lisa (fl. 2010s) (items)
• The Women’s Table, (ss) Noir Nation #2, September 2012; translated by Mary Tannert

Lerdall-Fitterer, Terry (Lynn) (1952-2019) (about) (items)
• Blank Check (with Katherine H. Brooks), (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 2002
• He Auto Be Ashamed, (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2002
• Adios, Amigo!, (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 2003
• Snored to Death, (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 2004
• Photo Finish (with Katherine H. Brooks), (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2006
• Ice Cube Trey, (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2006

Lermontoff, Michael (Yurievich) (1814-1841) (items)
• A Fair Smuggler, (ss) The Strand Magazine January 1891

Lerner, Edward M. (1949- ) (about) (items)
• I’ve Got the World on a String, (ss) Galaxy’s Edge January 2019

Lerner, Eric J. (1947- ) (about) (items)
• Pinkerton’s Secret, (ex) Henry Holt, 2008

Leroux, Gaston (1868-1927) (about) (items)
• The Floating Prison, (n.) Laurie, 1922; translated by Hannaford Bennett
• Chéri-Bibi, Mystery Man [Chéri-Bibi], (n.) J. Long, 1924
• The Puppet, (sl) Flynn’s May 15 1926, etc.
• The Machine to Kill, (sl) Flynn’s Weekly June 12 1926, etc.
• The Inn of Terror [Capt. Michel], (nv) Weird Tales August 1929; translated by Mildred Gleason Prochet
• The Woman with the Velvet Collar [Capt. Michel], (ss) Weird Tales October 1929

LeRoy, Ben(jamin M.) (fl. 2000s-2010s) (about) (items)
• CH CH CH Changes, (ar) Crimespree Magazine #10, January/February 2006
• Editorials (with Ruth Jordan), (ed) Crimespree Magazine #12, May/June 2006
• Shawn Ryan of the Shield—Interviewed, (iv) Crimespree Magazine #17, March/April 2007 [Ref. Shawn Ryan]

Lescroart, John T. (1948- ) (items)
• The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra by John H. Watson, M.D., (ss) Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Summer/Fall 1997

Leslie, A.; pseudonym of A. Leslie Scott (1893-1974) (items)
• The Breaks, (ss) The Phantom Detective September 1935
• Fanged Death [Dexter Hollis], (ss) G-Men October 1935
• Blood Madness [Dexter Hollis], (ss) G-Men January 1936
• The Murder Fan, (nv) Popular Detective April 1936
• The Living Dead, (ss) Thrilling Mystery October 1936
• The Rocking Chair Feud, (ss)

Leslie, Arthur (fl. 1980s) (items)
• Not Quite Dead, (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1988

Leslie, David (fl. 1950s) (items)
• Mr. Foster’s Diary, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #17, 1953

Leslie, Eugene (fl. 1930s-1950s) (items)
• Focus for Death [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective June 1949
• Ghostly Killer [Gail Ford (Girl Friday)], (cs) Super-Detective October 1949
• Primeval Passions [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective October 1949
• Death at the Party [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective December 1949
• Brush with the Law [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective January 1950
• Death Scene [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective February 1950
• Doubling for a Moll [Gail Ford (Girl Friday)], (cs) Super-Detective February 1950
• Death Directs [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective March 1950
• Death on Display [Gail Ford (Girl Friday)], (cs) Super-Detective March 1950
• Death on Tour [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective April 1950
• Muscling-In on Doom [Gail Ford (Girl Friday)], (cs) Super-Detective April 1950
• Death Is the Prize [Ray Hale], (cs) Super-Detective July 1950

Leslie, H. O. (fl. 1950s) (items)
• Personal Challenge, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1959

Leslie, Hal Field (fl. 1920s-1930s) (items)
• Tickets, (ss) Detective-Dragnet Magazine September 1930
• Murderer’s Needle, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly March 25 1933
• Thirteenth Floor, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly April 8 1933
• Strength of the Meek, (ss) The Shadow Magazine September 1 1933
• Skeleton Cabin, (ss) Clues Detective Stories June 1935
• The Marsh of Missing Men, (ss) The Feds December 1937

Leslie, Jean (Eva) (1908-1994) (about) (items)
• One Cried Murder [Peter Ponsonby], (n.) Doubleday, 1945
• Two Faced Murder [Peter Ponsonby], (n.) Doubleday, 1946
• A Hair of the Dog, (n.) Doubleday, 1947
• Shoes for My Love, (n.) Doubleday, 1948
• Dead Man’s Shoes, (ss) Thrilling Detective Fall 1952
• First Week in September, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1967

Leslie, John (fl. 1930s) (items)
• Creep Shadow, (ss) Mystery Tales March 1938

Leslie, O. H.; pseudonym of Henry Slesar (1927-2002) (items)
• Alibi on the Steve Allen Show, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1956
• The Morning After, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957
• My Robot, (ss) Fantastic February 1957, as by O. H. Leslie
• Kill the Umpire, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1957
• A Foot in the Door, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1957
• I’m Dead, Honey, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1957
• Something Short of Murder, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1957
• Pen Pal (with Jay Folb), (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1957
• Space Brat, (ss) Fantastic January 1958, as by O. H. Leslie
• I Promise to Kill, (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1958
• Whodunit?, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1958
• Ignore All Requests, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1958
• Better than Murder, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1958
• You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1959
• It Started Most Innocently, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1959
• Coroner’s Jury, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1959
• Curiosity Killed a—, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1959
• Last Drink, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1959
• Beware the Unloaded Weapon, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1959
• Terror Requires Preparation, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1960
• Key to a Skeleton Closet, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1960
• Welcome to Our Bank, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1960
• Faster Than an Honest Man, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1960
• A Child Was Lost, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1960
• Behind the Locked Door, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1961
• Stray Bullet, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1961
• Thoughts Before Murder, (vi) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1961
• Dead Give-Away, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1961
• Tony’s Death, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1964

Leslie, Ruth (fl. 1940s) (items)
• What Every Girl Should Know About Men, (ar) Love Fiction Magazine February 1946
• Are You Afraid of the Past?, (ar)

Leslie, Walter (fl. 1940s) (items)
• [front cover], (cv) Five Star Detective Stories August 1941
• [front cover], (cv) World Wide Detective Stories August 1941
• [front cover], (cv) World Wide Detective Stories September 1941

Lesser, Milton; former name of Stephen Marlowe (1928-2008) (about) (items)
• Pen Pal, (ss) Galaxy Science Fiction July 1951, as by Milton Lesser
• Son of the Black Chalice [John Hastings], (na) Amazing Stories July 1952
• Picnic, (ss) Rocket Stories July 1953, as by Milton Lesser
• Trapped, (ss) The Pursuit Detective Story Magazine #2, November 1953
• Tyrants of Time, (na) Imagination March 1954, as by Milton Lesser
• Slaves to the Metal Horde, (na) Imagination June 1954, as by Milton Lesser
• Revolt of the Outworlds, (na) Imagination December 1954, as by Milton Lesser
• No-Risk Planet, (nv) Imagination March 1955, as by Milton Lesser
• Return to Terror, (ss) Hunted Detective Story Magazine #9, April 1956
• The Earthman, (ss) Saturn, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1957

Lesser, Ron (fl. 1960s-2010s) (about) (items)
• [front cover], (cv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine April 1962

Lesser, Thomas M(arc) (1943- ) (items)
• Sins of the Preacher, (ss) Hardboiled #23, September 1997
• The Victim’s Revenge, (vi) Hardboiled #27/28, December 2001

Lessig, Hugh (fl. 1990s-2020s) (items)
• The Gift of Wallace Random [Picasso Smith, Sr.], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) January 1999
• Special Delivery [Alamo Barnes], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) April/May 2000
• Millstone [Picasso Smith, Jr.], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Summer 2001
• Whacking Scrooge [Picasso Smith, Jr.], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Winter 2003
• Victor Viral, (ss) Needle #7, Fall/Winter 2012
• PIN, (ss) Thuglit #6, July/August 2013
• Miranda’s Corner, (ss) Thuglit #15, January/February 2015
• Clean Fill Wanted, (ss) Crime Factory v2 #17, 2015
• Muscle Memory, (nv) Switchblade Tech Noir 2019
• The Shade Tree Mechanic, (ss) Black Cat Weekly #80, 2023

Lester, Elliott (fl. 1920s) (items)
• A Crimson Price, (nv) Mystery Magazine #101, January 15 1922

Lester, Frank B. (fl. 1960s) (items)
• The Case of the Watery Grave, (ar) John Creasey Mystery Magazine June 1961

Lester, H. P. (fl. 1940s) (items)
• The Strange Case of Mark Boren, (sa) Suspense, the Mystery Magazine March 1947 [Ref. E. Jack Neuman]

Lester, Irvin; pseudonym of Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) (items)
• Danger (with Fletcher Pratt), (ss) Amazing Stories July 1929

Lester, Jack (fl. 1930s) (items)
• Snaring the Slayer Without a Motive, (ar) Real Detective December 1934

Lester, Kay (fl. 1930s) (items)
• Two Dames and a Comic, (ss) Saucy Movie Tales April 1937

Lester, Kenneth (fl. 1960s-1990s) (items)
• Death on the Rocks, (ss) The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) July 1961
• Dance of the Hours, (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1962
• A Boy Names Tzu, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1994

Lester, R. Daniel (fl. 2000s-2020s) (about) (items)
• Magpie and the Goose, (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #27, Fall 2002
• Nowhere to Go but Dead, (ss) Switchblade #7, November 2018

Lester, Raymond; pseudonym of Dahlia Trenchant (fl. 1910s-1930s) (items)
• In Quest of Vengeance, (ss) All-Story Weekly December 27 1919
• Double Six, (ss) Argosy Allstory Weekly November 20 1920
• Saving His Money, (ss) Flynn’s September 20 1924
• For the Love of Pete, (ss) Detective Story Magazine September 13 1930

Lester, Wilfred (fl. 1950s) (items)
• Crime and Insanity, (ar) The London Mystery Magazine #19, 1954

Lester-Pond, Roy (fl. 1960s) (items)
• Give a Man Rope, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1969

Les Tina, Dorothy (1917-2003); used pseudonym Sanford Vaid (items)
• Drown or Die (with Wilson Tucker), (ss) Crack Detective January 1943, as by Sanford Vaid
• Nice Corpses Like Flowers, (ss) Crack Detective March 1943

Letchford, Stuart W. (fl. 1960s) (items)
• Over and Out, (ss) Suspense (UK) March 1960

Letchmere, Edward (fl. 1920s-1930s) (items)
• The Crooked Twist, (ss) The Dragnet Magazine November 1928
• Cell Number Seventeen, (ss) Prison Stories January 1931
• Eighty-Seven Cents an Hour, (ss) Prison Stories March 1931

Letten, Peggy (fl. 1960s) (items)
• “Our Sympathies Go—”, (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine May 1964

Leuci, Bob; [i.e., Robert Leuci] (1940-2015) (items)
• All-American Boy, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1995
• Gray Eyes, (ss) New Mystery v4 #2, 1996

Levack, Simon (fl. 2000s) (items)
• Aztec Blood, (ar) Crime Time #39, 2004
• The Coming of the Gods [Cemiquiztli Yaotl], (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2006
• Jade Skirt [Cemiquiztli Yaotl], (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2006
• One of Our Barbarians [Cemiquiztli Yaotl], (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 2008
• Four Hundred Rabbits [Cemiquiztli Yaotl], (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2008
• The Girl from the Pleasure House [Cemiquiztli Yaotl], (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2008