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    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.

    Mean Streets [#6, May 1992] ($5.00, A4)
    Details taken from AustLit.
    • 44 · Rosie Bosanky: Australia’s First Female Private Eye? · Michael J. Tolley · ar
    • 46 · The Misplaced Corpse · A. E. Martin · ex NSW Bookstall, 1944
    • 54 · Book Reviews · Various · rc

    Mean Streets [#7, August 1992] ($5.00, A4)
    Details taken from AustLit, supplemented by information from Mike Ashley.

    Mean Streets [#9, July 1993] ($5.00, A4)
    Details taken from AustLit.
    • 16 · No Looking Back · Stuart Coupe · iv
    • 42 · Force and Fraud by Ellen Davitt: Australia’s First Crime Novel · Lucy Sussex · bg [Ref. Ellen Davitt]
    • 46 · Lodging in a Christian Family · Ellen Davitt · ex from Force and Fraud, The Australian Journal 1865
    • 48 · A Bazaar · Ellen Davitt · ex from Force and Fraud, The Australian Journal 1865
    • 52 · Book Reviews · Various · rc The Australian Journal 1865

    Mean Streets [#10, December 1993] ($5.00, A4)
    Details taken from AustLit.
    • 22 · Mr Brown Beats Inflation · Steve Wright · ss Case Reopened ed. Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden, Allen & Unwin Australia, 1993; based on “The Qantas Bomb Hoax” case.
    • 31 · Crime in Time and Space · Zoran Bekric & Brian Forte · ar
    • 43 · The Big Fairy Tale Sleep · Dominic Cadden · ss Crosstown Traffic ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood, Five Islands Press, 1993
    • 49 · Book Reviews · Various · rc
    • · Playing with Fire: Dan J. Marlowe, Al Nussbaum and Earl Drake · Josef Hoffmann · ar [Ref. Dan J. Marlowe]

    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: Menace.

    • Editors:

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