The Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

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The Masked Detective [v4 #3, Spring 1943] (10¢, pulp) 10 · Strictly Routine · John L. Benton · ss 13 · Candles of Murder [Rex Parker (The Masked Detective)] · C. K. M. Scanlon (by Laurence Donovan) · na 88 · Smart Guys Are Saps · Thomas Thursday · ss

The Masked Detective [v5 #1, Summer 1943 (unpublished)] (pulp) One story was announced for the unpublished Summer 1943 issue. · Monarchs of Murder [Rex Parker (The Masked Detective)] · C. K. M. Scanlon (by Sam Merwin, Jr.) · na Thrilling Mystery Fall 1944

Masked Gun Mystery   (about) Launched as a companion magazine to Fantasy and Fear and Peculiar Adventures. After the first issue, all three were gathered under the umbrella title of Pro Se Presents…, with each of the titles, using their original numbering, published once every three months in a rotating schedule. Publishers: ProSe Productions; 133 ½ Broad Street, Batesville, Arkansas, AR 72501: Masked Gun Mystery. Editors: Barry Reese - Editor: Masked Gun Mystery.

Masked Gun Mystery [v1 #1, August 2010] ed. Barry Reese (Pro Se Press, $7.50, 92pp, tp, cover by John A. Palmer, IV) Details taken from Table of Contents. · The Things He Leaves Behind · Aric Mitchell · ss · Hello New Life, Hello Old [Aloha McCoy] · Ken Janssens · ss · The Day He Found the Clown · Aaron Smith · ss · Dineena’s Dilemma [Hugh Monn, Private Detective] · Lee Houston, Jr. · ss · Murphy’s Wake · Tommy Hancock · ss · Dragon Night · C. William Russette · ss; given as “Demon Night” in the Table of Contents. · Run · Andrew Salmon · ss · Crime of the Arts [Part 1 of ?] · Robert E. Kennedy · sl

Masked Gun Mystery [v1 #2, November 2010] ed. Barry Reese (Pro Se Press, $10.00, 156pp, tp, cover by Norm Breyfogle) Details taken from Table of Contents. 3 · Pro Se Previews: The Rook, Volume 6—The Scorched God · Barry Reese · ex 10 · The Compassion Play [Aloha McCoy] · Ken Janssens · ss 24 · Clean Up in Aisle Six · Aaron Smith · ss 39 · Shortages · Lee Houston, Jr. · ss 50 · The Scarlet Courtesan of Sovereign City [Sovereign City] · Derrick Ferguson · ss 69 · Staying Dead [Virgil] · William Russette · ss 79 · The Gray Ghost and the Lighthouse Murders · Bill Craig · ss 90 · Imprints · Joshua Allen · nv 116 · Crime of the Arts [Part 2 of ?] · Erwin K. Roberts · sl 125 · On the Edge of a Hero [The Rapier] · Don Thomas · ss 145 · What Is the Fate of Gary Wooten? - V · Fuller Bumpers & John Palmer, IV · cs

Master Mysteries Magazine   (about) A short-lived magazine which published a series of stories by Arthur Hoerl, seemingly syndicated to various newspapers previously as “Master Mysteries”, although the sources have not yet been traced. The fifth issue appears to be, at least in the main, a reprint of stories published in earlier issues. Publishers: F.G. Wilson Publishing Company, Inc.; 304 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY: Master Mysteries Magazine.

Master Mysteries Magazine [v1 #1, Summer 1933] (F.G. Wilson Publishing Co., Inc., 10¢, digest) Details taken from Table of Contents. 3 · The Wayne Murder Case · Arthur Hoerl · nv 23 · His Last Performance · Arthur Hoerl · nv 44 · Scrimley’s Ghost · Arthur Hoerl · nv 70 · Murders at the Circus · Arthur Hoerl · nv 92 · Solutions to Mysteries · [uncredited] · ms

Master Mysteries Magazine [v1 #2, Fall 1933] (digest) · Falling Star · Arthur Hoerl · nv · Five $1,000 Bills · Arthur Hoerl · nv · Murders at Sea · Arthur Hoerl · nv · A Perfect Crime · Arthur Hoerl · ss

Master Mysteries Magazine [v1 #3, Winter 1933] (digest) Issue not indexed.

Master Mysteries Magazine [v1 #4, Spring 1934] (digest) Issue not indexed.

Master Mysteries Magazine [v2 #1, Summer 1934] (F. G. Wilson Publishing Co., 15¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Leo Manso) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 3 · Falling Star · Arthur Hoerl · nv Master Mysteries Magazine Fall 1933 23 · Who Killed Bob Adair? · Arthur Hoerl · ss 41 · Five $1,000 Bills · Arthur Hoerl · nv Master Mysteries Magazine Fall 1933 61 · Murders at Sea · Arthur Hoerl · nv Master Mysteries Magazine Fall 1933 80 · A Perfect Crime · Arthur Hoerl · ss Master Mysteries Magazine Fall 1933 97 · The Muffled Shot · Arthur Hoerl · ss 116 · The Butterfly Mystery · Arthur Hoerl · ss

The Master Thriller Series   (about) A series of anthologies in magazine format; each issue featured a different genre. For convenience, all issues have been indexed even though only a small number are mystery/detective. Publishers: The World’s Work (1913) Ltd.; Kingswood, Surrey: The Master Thriller Series.

The Master Thriller Series [#1, Tales of the Foreign Legion (July 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · Soldiers of France · [uncredited] · ms; brief piece about the foreign legion. · Gentlemen of the Legion · J. D. Newsom · nv Frontier Stories July 1927 · The Quest · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917 · The Dead Fight Hard · Bob du Soe · ss Short Stories May 25 1929 · Strength of the Legion · [uncredited] · ms · His Own People · J. D. Newsom · nv The Frontier November 1926 · Send No Flowers · Georges Surdez · ss Short Stories October 25 1929 · Kismet in Picardy · Don McGrew · ss Short Stories December 10 1928 · Six Feet Under · Robert Carse · ss Short Stories December 10 1929

The Master Thriller Series [#2, Tales of the North-West Mounted Police (September 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · A Free Rein · William Byron Mowery · nv Short Stories July 10 1925 · Prestige of the Scarlet · Harwood Steele · ss Short Stories January 10 1927 · The Galloping Hours · William Byron Mowery · ss Short Stories November 10 1925 · Blind Man’s Bluff · Walter W. Liggett · ss The Frontier August 1925 · On Patrol · James B. Hendryx · ss Short Stories February 10 1925 · The Last Potlatch · J. Allan Dunn · ss Short Stories January 25 1924 · Men Who Pay in Blood · T. Von Ziekursch · ss Short Stories October 25 1924 · Misadventure · Robert Ray · ss

The Master Thriller Series [#3, Tales of the Seven Seas (December 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 6 · The Pearl Raiders · R. de S. Horn · na Short Stories November 25 1925 9 · Sea Thirst · C. Wiles Hallock · pm Short Stories June 10 1931 60 · Mutiny at Five Bells · [uncredited] · ms (r) 61 · Yellow Piracy · E. Keble Chatterton · ss 67 · Discontent · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm Short Stories June 25 1932 68 · The Pirate Hunter · Capt. Frederick Moore · ss Short Stories July 10 1927 85 · Revise Your Maps! · [uncredited] · ms (r) 86 · Weeds · Ralph R. Perry · ss Short Stories October 25 1926 105 · Singing Johnny · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm Short Stories June 25 1931 106 · Twenty Fathoms Under · T. T. Flynn · ss Short Stories April 25 1927 116 · Terrors of the Deep · [uncredited] · ms (r) 117 · The Skipper Knows Best · Murray Leinster · ss Short Stories December 10 1928 126 · A Veteran Sealer · [uncredited] · ms (r) · The Editor’s Log · The Editor · ed (r)

The Master Thriller Series [#4, Tales of Mystery and Detection (March 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · The Image in the Mirror [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Hangman’s Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1933 · The Kidnapped Prime Minister [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv The Sketch April 25 1923 · Out of Paradise [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Collier’s Weekly December 10 1904 · An Ethical Dilemma [Major Forester] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss The London Magazine June 1928 · The Case of Oscar Brodski [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine December 1910 · The Cat Burglar [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly November 6 1926 · The Cliff Path Ghost [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · ss A Lesson in Crime by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1933 · The Sexton’s Wife · Margery Allingham · ss · The Blue Cross [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 23 1910, as “Valentin Follows a Curious Trail”

The Master Thriller Series [#5, Tales of the Foreign Legion #2 (June 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 4 · Stepsons of France · [uncredited] · ms 6 · The Ambush at Soueida · Ex-Legionnaire Francis A. Waterhouse · nv 40 · Sermons in Stones [Foreign Legion: John Bull] · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917 46 · The River Pirates of Indo-China · Ex-Legionnaire Reginald R. Forbes · nv 68 · My Moroccan Baptism · Ex-Legionnaire 1384 & W. J. Blackledge · ss 78 · Fighting the Berbers · Prince Aage of Denmark · ex from My Life in the Foreign Legion, Eveleigh Nash, 1928 110 · Strictly Private · J. D. Newsom · ss Short Stories September 10 1930

The Master Thriller Series [#6, Tales of the Uncanny (September 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Youngman Conors) 3 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 32 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” 40 · Honolulu · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Everybody’s October 1921 54 · The Wind in the Portico [The Runagates Club] · John Buchan · nv Pall Mall Magazine March 1928 68 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q 76 · Mrs. Lunt · Hugh Walpole · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 85 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony” 97 · Old Man’s Beard · H. Russell Wakefield · ss Old Man’s Beard by H. Russell Wakefield, Bles, 1929 108 · Mine · Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes · ss The Royal Magazine February 1924 119 · Rooum · Oliver Onions · ss The Fortnightly Review December 1910

The Master Thriller Series [#7, Tales of African Adventure (December 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Holland. · Thorns and Iron · Victor Rousseau · nv Frontier Stories September 1927 · Ivory [Keynes] · H. Bedford-Jones · nv Short Stories March 10 1930 · Cannibal Teeth · William Doughty · ss Short Stories April 25 1930 · Treasure of the Pharaohs · Charles Saxby & H. A. Noureddin Addis · nv Short Stories August 25 1930 · Dust · J. D. Newsom · nv Frontier Stories January 1927 · Lion Hunting in the Liuwa · J. P. Kay Robinson · ss

The Master Thriller Series [#8, Tales of the Orient (March 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 7 · The Road of Adventure · Albert Richard Wetjen · ss Short Stories October 10 1924 27 · The Malay Kris · Frederick Moore · ss Short Stories April 10 1925 44 · Three Gates Pagoda · H. Bedford-Jones · nv Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine November 1925 74 · Smoke of Dreams · Elmer Brown Mason · ss Short Stories January 25 1926 83 · The Ghost of Intelligence · S. B. H. Hurst · ss Short Stories August 25 1925 93 · Once Beyond Khyber · Jack Smalley · ss Short Stories March 10 1927 106 · Empire’s Edge · Nels Leroy Jorgensen · nv Frontier Stories July 1927

The Master Thriller Series [#9, Tales of the Jungle (July 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 4 · By Rule of Drum [Aubrey St. John Major] · L. Patrick Greene · nv Short Stories September 10 1934 31 · The Smartest Elephant · Edward T. Turner · ss Short Stories September 25 1934 42 · Whole Hog or None · Edmond Du Perrier · ss Short Stories March 25 1935 52 · Thirteen Heads · Herman Petersen · ss Short Stories February 25 1935 71 · Voodoo Moon · Edward T. Turner · ss Short Stories October 25 1934 81 · Borneo Diamonds · Frank J. Leahy · ss Short Stories November 25 1934 92 · “Well, I’ll Be—” · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories February 25 1935 101 · Siamese Twinge · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories December 10 1934 113 · Jungle Loot · Carl N. Taylor · ss Short Stories March 10 1935

The Master Thriller Series [#10, Tales of the Foreign Legion #3 (October 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Holland. · All You Do Is Fight! · J. D. Newsom · na Adventure January 1 1935 · Grenades for the Colonel · J. D. Newsom · nv Argosy February 16 1935 · Soldiers of Misfortune · J. D. Newsom · na Argosy June 1 1935 · The Good Shepherds · J. D. Newsom · ss Frontier Stories November 1928

The Master Thriller Series [#11, Tales of the Sea (January 1936)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. · The Silver Chain · William Chamberlain · nv Short Stories September 10 1935 · Devil’s Sunset · Edgar Piper · ss Short Stories December 25 1934 · Blind Man’s Bluff · R. V. Gery · ss Short Stories October 10 1934 · John Brown’s Son · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories September 25 1934 · The Terrible Mr. Terry [Mr. Riorden] · Frank J. Leahy · ss Short Stories November 10 1934 · Heritage · Denis Trent · ss Short Stories November 10 1934 · Cargo Awash · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories January 10 1935 · He Was a Coward · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories November 25 1934

The Master Thriller Series [#12, Tales of Valour (April 1936)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. · The Coward of the Legion [Foreign Legion: John Bull] · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917 · Hell’s Half Mile · Sam Kemp · ss · The Sahib with the Strong Liver · Scott Yorke · ss · Pioneering by Motor-Car · T. C. Bridges & Hessell Tiltman · ss · True Tales of the Jungle · George Hogan Knowles · ss · Open Boats · Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C. · ss · How Stanley Found Livingstone · Henry M. Stanley · ts (r); possibly the retelling by Orison Swett Marden (Stories from Life, American Book Company, 1904) or by Edward King (Scribner’s Monthly, January 1873). · Twentieth-Century Sailor-Men · E. Keble Chatterton · ss · McKecknie’s Lion · Juba Kennerley · ss · Scott · Capt. Robert Scott, R.N. · ex (r); extracts from Scott’s diary.