The Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

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Detective Short Stories [v2 #5, August 1940] (10¢, pulp, cover by J. W. Scott) · Murder Is My Middle Name · Edward S. Ronns · ss · Lady Killer · Dwight Babcock · ss · Hell-Ship Homicide · Murray Smith · ss · Death Is No Bargain · Eric Howard · ss · A Bullet for the Bridegroom · Brent North · ss · You Can’t Frame a Friend · James Hall · ss · No Chance of Hanging · Duane Decker · ss

Detective Short Stories [v2 #6, November 1940] (Manvis Publications, Inc., 10¢, 116pp, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 8 · Million-Dollar Murders, Inc. · William Edward Hayes · nv 29 · Case of the Blushing Butcher · Lawrence Treat · ss 40 · A Mortgage on the Morgue · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · ss 49 · A City-Dick Has to Use Science · Fenton W. Earnshaw · ss 56 · Death’s Door · Hugh B. Cave · ss 59 · The Blonde Will Die Daintily [O.B. “Obie” O’Brien] · John Wallace · ss 74 · A Little Matter of Murder · Mindret Lord · ss 83 · Hang onto Your Gat! · Dale Clark · ss 95 · Blood Is Where You Find It · Mark Harper · ss 102 · Tailor-Made Fall-Guy · Robert W. Thompson · ss

Detective Short Stories [Vol. 3 No. 1, February 1941] (10¢, pulp, cover by J. W. Scott) 8 · Case of the Doomed Debutante · Roger Torrey · ss 25 · The Man Who Hallowed Homicide · Lawrence Treat · ss 35 · The Candid Cadavers · Eaton K. Goldthwaite · ss 46 · The Corpse That Came to Stay · Edward Ronns · ss 63 · Too Tough and Too Mean · Eric Howard · ss 70 · Murder Plus · John Wallace · ss 80 · Comic People, These Killers · Walt Sheldon · ss 88 · Death, Yes, but Not Murder! · William Rough · ss 98 · The Alibi That Was Too Air Tight · W. T. Ballard · ss 102 · Cop Without a Conscience · C. S. Montanye · ss

Detective Short Stories [Vol. 3 No. 2, April 1941] (10¢, pulp) 8 · Most Dicks Go Out for Murder · E. Hoffmann Price · nv; given as by E. Hoffman Price. 31 · You Can’t Get Married in the Morgue · John McCurnin · ss 38 · Death on Duty · Roger Torrey · ss 42 · Four Killers and a Kid · W. T. Ballard · ss 51 · So You’ve Got a Gat—So What? · J. Lane Linklater · ss 58 · The Fighting Cop · Edward S. Ronns · nv 79 · No Corpses, No Cash · Eric Howard · ss 91 · Homicide Has Its Points · Dale Clark · ss 95 · Boy Meets Gun-Girl · Cyril Plunkett · ss 103 · Murder for the Many · Mark Harper · ss

Detective Short Stories [Vol. 3 No. 3, June 1941] (10¢, pulp, cover by J. W. Scott from Star Detective Magazine July 1938) 8 · The Corpse Was Beautiful · Edward S. Ronns · nv 31 · Case of the Kindly Killer · Arthur W. Phillips · ss 40 · Make Mine Murder · John McCurnin · ss 49 · No Law Can Touch Me · George E. Clark · ss 56 · The Guy with the Educated Gun · Lawrence Treat · ss 67 · See You in Jail · Roger Torrey · ss 74 · Mortgage on the Morgue · Ted Coughlan · ss 82 · Hollywood’s No Place for Homicide · Eric Howard · ss 94 · Detour to Death · Omar Gwinn · ss 102 · Keep the Cadavers Coming · J. Lane Linklater · ss

Detective Short Stories [Vol. 3 No. 4, September 1941] (10¢, pulp) 8 · And So to Death · William Edward Hayes · nv 30 · Homicide Up to the Hilt · Edward Ronns · ss 39 · Design for Dying · Anthony Boucher · ss 44 · Murder Is Putting It Mildly · Eaton K. Goldthwaite · ss 58 · You Can’t Make a Case Against a Corpse · E. Hoffmann Price · ss 78 · Killer Who Couldn’t Use His Gun · Duane Yarnell · ss 81 · There’ll Be Blood, and a Blonde · Eric Howard · ss 91 · One Man’s Poison · J. Lane Linklater · ss 99 · Bullet Boomerang · Jim Kjelgaard · ss 102 · Twice Dead, Twice Guilty · Leonard B. Rosborough · ss

Detective Short Stories [Vol. 3 No. 5, November 1941] (Manvis Publications, Inc., 10¢, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders) 8 · Homicide Highway · William Edward Hayes · nv 31 · Counterfeit Killer · Lawrence Treat · ss 41 · Case of the Promiscuous Corpses · Edward Ronns · ss 52 · Mortgage on a Murder · Dale Clark · ss 69 · Hot Ice for Hitler · Brent North · ss 80 · Bad Blood · H. Q. Masur · ss 84 · You Built a Frame for Me · Leonard B. Rosborough · ss 87 · Dead End · William Beggarate · ss 94 · Grapevine Vengeance · Eric Howard · ss 103 · Murder by Installment · Eric Preston · ss

Detective Short Stories [Vol. 3 No. 6, January 1942] (Manvis Publications, Inc., 10¢, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders) 6 · Worse Than Murder · Wyatt Blassingame · nv 29 · Blood on the Ballots · Eric Howard · ss 40 · The Tourist Cabin Murders · Edward Ronns · ss 48 · A Stiff in Time · Jimmy O’Brien · ss 60 · Detour to Death · Jim Kjelgaard · ss 64 · A Corpse Will Call for You · Roger Torrey · ss 78 · Horrible Business, This Homicide · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · ss 87 · Sweet Mystery of Death · Cyril Plunkett · ss 95 · When the Bloody Finger Points · Lawrence Treat · ss 103 · Cadaver on Wheels · J. J. Meany · ss

Detective Short Stories [Vol. 3 No. 6, April 1942] (10¢, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders) This is the second issue labelled v3 #6. Details taken from eBay listing. 8 · Death Hires a Dancehall · Dale Clark · nv 32 · Public Corpse Number One · Fenton W. Earnshaw · ss 41 · The Ghoul Will Choose a Girl · Wyatt Blassingame · ss 48 · Killer for a Day · Jim Kjelgaard · ss 51 · Sometimes It’s Suicide · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · ss 62 · Case of the Curious Cadavers · Robert C. Blackmon · ss 71 · Tommy-Gun Wedding · Roger Torrey · ss 80 · Sinister Saturday · Eleanor Berdon · vi 82 · Horror Is My House · Cyril Plunkett · ss 96 · “Who Did I Murder?” · Fredric Brown · nv

Detective Short Stories [Vol. 3 No. 6, July 1942] (Manvis Publications, Inc., 10¢, 114pp, pulp) This is the third issue labelled v3 #6. Details supplied by Morgan Wallace. 8 · Homicide Can’t Happen Here · Russell Gray · nv; illustrated by Stanley A. Drake 29 · Case of the Wanton Cadavers · A. Boyd Correll · ss 38 · Blue Eyes, Golden Hair and Blood · Charles Ingerman · ss; illustrated by Stanley A. Drake 57 · Stand-In for Death · Eric Howard · ss; illustrated by Stanley A. Drake 68 · But I Call It Murder · Brent North · ss 80 · I Have to See the Killer · Cyril Plunkett · ss; illustrated by Stanley A. Drake 95 · Coppers Don’t Cash In · Leo Hoban · ss 99 · For Corpses Only · Ralph Berard · vi; illustrated by S. Gilman 101 · Rookie on a Rampage · Norman A. Daniels · ss; illustrated by S. Gilman 108 · Post Mortem Payoff · Miles Overholt · ss; illustrated by S. Gilman

Detective Short Stories [v4 #1, September 1942] ed. Robert O. Erisman (Manvis Publications, 10¢, 114pp, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 6 · Scarlet Her Lips, Scarlet My Hands · Edward Ronns · nv 22 · The Black Hour · Charles Ingerman · ss 27 · Trigger Test · Cyril Plunkett · ss 33 · Murder of a Blonde · Wyatt Blassingame · nv 48 · Queen of the Mayhem · Robert Turner · ss 59 · When a Dick Uses His Dukes · Frederick C. Davis · nv 82 · No Corpses, No Cops · Bill Davis · ss 90 · The Blood in the Night · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · ss 100 · I Thought I’d Die Laughing · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss 106 · Murder Wears a Mask · Eric Howard · ss

Detective Short Stories [v4 #2, November 1942] (10¢, pulp) 8 · Death Is a Blonde or a Saboteur · Russell Gray · ss 27 · Take this Corpse for Example · Robert W. Cochran · ss 38 · Murder in the Modern Mode · Stewart Sterling · ss 56 · The Girl the Ghoul Chose · Robert Turner · ss 68 · The Clue Is the Cadaver · Frederick C. Davis · ss 87 · All-Out Homicide · Lawrence Treat · ss · How Forgery Is Detected · Kenneth P. Wood · ar 98 · Anything Up to Murder · Cosmo Bennett · ss 102 · Make It Look like Suicide · Cyril Plunkett · ss 105 · Not Only a Great Detective · Ralph Berard · ss

Detective Short Stories [v4 #3, January 1943] ed. Robert O. Erisman (Manvis Publications, 10¢, 114pp, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 10 · Three’s a Corpse · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · nv; illustrated by George Klein 30 · The Girl the Nazi Spies Forgot · Ralph Berard · ss 38 · Call the Cops or the Cadaver · Russell Gray · nv 61 · Danger—Murder Working · Duane Decker · ss 68 · Look for a Luscious Red-Head · W. T. Ballard · ss 81 · Dabblers in Death · Cyril Plunkett · ss; illustrated by W. Brooks 90 · First You Count the Cadavers · Robert Turner · ss; illustrated by W. Brooks 102 · Beware the Black Hatred · Joseph Bruce Fox · ss 104 · Gun Proof · Theodore J. Roemer · ss 109 · Service with a Laugh · Vincent A. Twice · ss

Detective Short Stories [v4 #4, April 1943] (10¢, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders) 10 · The Secret Weapon Murders · Russell Gray · ss 23 · Too Much Murder · Cyril Plunkett · ss 39 · Death Is a Damsel in Distress · Robert C. Blackmon · ss 48 · A Corpse for O’Hara · Fredric Sinclair · ss; given as by Frederic Sinclair. 58 · Japs in the Belfry · L. R. Batman · ss 66 · Dangerous Dame · Eric Howard · ss 78 · Copper’s Kid · Ralph Berard · ss 81 · The Patriotic Phantom · Dale Cochrane · ss 91 · Don’t Worry about the Killer · Thomas Thursday · ss 95 · Cadavers Don’t Make a Fifth Column · Fredric Brown · nv

Detective Short Stories [v4 #5, October 1943] (10¢, pulp) 8 · This Girl, Miss Murder · Russell Gray · ss 20 · Make the Dead Ones Pay · Ralph Berard · ss 30 · Too Dangerous for a Dame · Cyril Plunkett · ss 38 · Saboteur Means Mass Killer · Robert Turner · ss 57 · Somebody Will Dance with Death · A. Boyd Correll · ss 66 · Blood for the Black Market · George Beltz · ss 80 · Homicide Is the Hard Way · John Scott Douglas · ss 83 · Murder in Their Eyes · Hugh Barnett · vi 85 · A Gun in the Hand · David X. Manners · ss 88 · Case of the Friendly Fiend · Vincent A. Twice · ss

Detective Short Stories [v4 #6, October 1947] (Exclusive Detective Stories, Inc., 15¢, 98pp, pulp, cover by Mat Kauten) 4 · A Kiss Goodnight Leads to Another—Murder · Lee E. Wells · ss 21 · It’s Your Funeral · Eric Howard · ss 27 · Watch the Dead Man Walk · Ken Jason · ss 35 · Homicide Is My Hobby · Herbert Brean · ss 42 · Case of the Waterlogged Clue · Leo Stalnaker · ss 49 · The Gentle Killer · Ralph Berard · ss 58 · The Book of the Damned · W. Fredric Kruger & William Campbell Gault · ss 67 · I’ll Be Slaying You · Robert Turner · ss 74 · Death Keeps a Date · Rod Patterson · ss 86 · An Eye for Murder · Bryce Walton · ss

Detective Stories:   (about) Thin digest that ran for two separate series with a blend of original stories by Australian authors and reprints from American pulps.

Detective Stories (first series) Publishers: Blue Diamond Publishing Company: Detective Stories.

Detective Stories [v6 #1, June 1952] (66pp, digest) Details supplied by Tom Lesser. 4 · The Case of the Lukewarm Lips · Leonard Hilts · ss The Evening Citizen February 26 1949 17 · The Case of the Scorned Murderess · Milton K. Ozaki · ss F.P. Detective Stories November 1951, as “The Scorned Murderess”; given as by Milton K. Ozake. 31 · The Case of the Blades of Damascus · Vincent Starrett · ss The Evening Citizen February 5 1949 43 · The Case of the Purple Hair · Polly Simpson McManus · ss The Evening Citizen March 4 1950 56 · Framed for Murder · Frank Morris · ss The Evening Citizen July 2 1949, as “A Case of Framing—for Murder”; probably a retitled story from a US pulp.