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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 17, Whole No. 89, April 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 2 · “The Best Mystery Writers of All Time” · Ellery Queen · ed 3 · The Case of the Crimson Kiss [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na The American Magazine June 1948 37 · The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle [Sherlock Holmes] · A. Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine January 1892 53 · The Emperor’s Dice [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss 64 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 69 · Philomel Cottage · Agatha Christie · nv The Grand Magazine November 1924 86 · Four A.M. [Anne Elizabeth Ward] · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss Cosmopolitan September 1948 101 · The Affair of the Twisted Scarf [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · nv The American Magazine September 1950, as “The Twisted Scarf” 139 · The Man Who Stood in the Way · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask June 15 1923, as “The Vicious Circle” by Peter Collinson

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 17, Whole No. 90, May 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Complete List of the 30 Prize-Winning Stories in EQMM’s Sixth Annual Contest · [uncredited] · ms 5 · The Enemy [Mike Russell] · Charlotte Armstrong · nv 23 · The Lord of Time [Count Alessandro Cagliostro] · Rafael Sabatini · nv Help Yourself! Annual 1932 41 · Woman Expert [Cornelius Kerrigan] · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s January 23 1937 53 · It Could Have Happened That Way [Colby] · A. A. Milne · ss 59 · Murder with Music · Frederic A. Birmingham · vi Esquire August 1949, as by F. A. Bee 61 · English Legend: The Voice of Justice · Mark Rondy · ss; given as “The Voice of Justice” in the Table of Contents. 65 · The Affair at the Hotel Splendide [Mr. Cronk] · W. A. Darlington · ss from Mr. Cronk’s Cases, Herbert Jenkins, 1933 81 · Because of Soney · Stewart C. Bailey · ss 95 · The Under Dog [Part 1 of 2; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · na Mystery Magazine April 1 1926 121 · What a Life! · J. B. Priestley · ss The Strand Magazine April 1931 130 · As Simple as ABC [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 17, Whole No. 91, June 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Sid Rosenbaum) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Cherchez la Frame [Hildegarde Withers; John J. Malone] · Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer · nv 23 · The Man Whose Wishes Came True · C. S. Forester · ss 32 · The Pipe · L. J. Beeston · ss The Strand Magazine September 1924 42 · Detective Directory · Robert Mills · br 44 · The Under Dog [Part 2 of 2; Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · na Mystery Magazine April 1 1926 65 · The Alchemical Egg [Count Alessandro Cagliostro] · Rafael Sabatini · ss Turbulent Tales by Rafael Sabatini, Hutchinson, 1946 77 · Moonshine · W. Heidenfeld · ss; a contest winner for South African radio, and read over the air in 1949. 81 · The Medical Finger [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss 95 · The Policeman Only Taps Once · Anthony Berkeley · nv The Daily Mail May 25 1936 - May 29 1936 115 · Detective Story · Billy Rose · vi 1949 from Rose’s newspaper column, “Pitching Horseshoes”, 1949. 117 · A Meal at Pernotti’s [The Inspector] · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Windsor Magazine #507, March 1937 130 · The Black Hat That Wasn’t There [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask November 1 1923, as “It” 143 · Index to Volume 17—January-June 1951 · [uncredited] · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 18, Whole No. 92, July 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Murder at City Hall [Commissioner Dunwood] · A. H. Z. Carr · nv 33 · Death in Round 3 · Cornell Woolrich · ss Pocket Detective Magazine April 1937 45 · Sparrow Cop [Nick & Dave Glennan] · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Detective Fiction Weekly March 18 1933 57 · The Wedding Present · Allan Vaughan Elston · vi The American Magazine February 1949 60 · Neighbors · G. Rostrevor Hamilton · pm 61 · Bible Lesson: The Pawn of Justice · Mark Rondy · ss; given as “The Pawn of Justice” in the Table of Contents. 65 · The New Hat · Thomas Burke · ss 1926 71 · The Snatching of Bookie Bob · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s September 26 1931 81 · The Most Dangerous Man in the World [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss 90 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 92 · The Perfect Crime · Ben Ray Redman · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1928; in EQMM’s “The Golden Twenty”. 107 · The Man Who Loved the Classics · Valma Clark · ss 1923 127 · The Fallen Angel [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 18, Whole No. 93, August 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Arson Plus [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask October 1 1923, as by Peter Collinson 19 · The Contradictory Case [Lt. David Pascal] · Hugh Pentecost · ss 32 · The Scoured Silk · Joseph Shearing · ss All-Story Weekly June 8 1918, as by Marjorie Bowen 48 · P. Moran, Personal Observer [P. Moran] · Percival Wilde · ss 65 · The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World September 7 1913 (+1); in EQMM’s “The Golden Twenty”. 81 · Gold-Mounted Guns · F. R. Buckley · ss The Red Book Magazine March 1922 87 · Town Blonde, Country Blonde [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · vi This Week October 16 1949 90 · The Happy Couple · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Cassell’s Magazine May 1908 102 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 104 · The Riddle of the Silver Death [Hamilton Cleek] · Mary E. & Thomas W. Hanshew · ss Short Stories March 1920; abridged; given as by Thomas W. Hanshew alone. 117 · No. 17 · Edith Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine June 1910, as by E. Bland 124 · The Needle’s Eye [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 18, Whole No. 94, September 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. ifc. · Get Him Out of This: The Problem of the Desolate Rock [Snip Carton, Insurance Agent] · Ernest Dudley · pz 3 · Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine July 1939 25 · Flowers for an Angel [Mrs. Palmyra Pym] · Nigel Morland · ss 37 · Traveling Light · W. R. Burnett · ss Collier’s December 7 1935 49 · The Case of the Peculiar Precautions [Dr. Colin Starr] · Rufus King · nv Redbook Magazine January 1942 65 · O Time, in Your Flight [Barnabas Hildreth] · Vincent Cornier · ss The Evening Standard August 16 1951, as “The Masterpiece” revised version of non-Hildreth story “The Time Test” (Pearson’s Magazine, November 1935). 70 · The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery · Carolyn Wells · ss The Dolphin Winter 1941 81 · The Spy [Count Alessandro Cagliostro] · Rafael Sabatini · ss Turbulent Tales by Rafael Sabatini, Hutchinson, 1946 95 · L’Affaire Antoine · Pierre Boileau; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss translated from the French. 105 · The Mystery of Andorus Enterprises [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss 120 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 124 · Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing · Evelyn Waugh · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine May 1935, as “Mr. Crutwell’s Outing” 130 · All the Way to the Moon · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 18, Whole No. 95, October 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Dirone Photography) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. ifc. · Get Him Out of This: The Problem of the Precipice [Snip Carton, Insurance Agent] · Ernest Dudley · pz 3 · Danger in the Shadows · Thomas Walsh · ss Woman’s Home Companion September 1941 15 · The Grave of Brimstone Billy · George Bernard Shaw · ss Time March 1885, as “The Miraculous Revenge” 32 · The 51st Sealed Room; or, The MWA Murder · Robert Arthur · ss; given as “The MWA Murder” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. 47 · The Hair Shirt [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv 65 · An Irreducible Detective Story; or, Hanged by a Hair; or, A Murder Mystery Minimized [The Great Detective] · Stephen Leacock · vi Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock, John Lane, 1916 66 · Additions to a Cornerstone Library · Howard Haycraft · bi 71 · The Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Detective-Crime-Mystery Fiction · Howard Haycraft & Ellery Queen · bi enlarged from “A Reader’s list of Detective Story ‘Cornerstones’” (Murder for Pleasure by Howard Haycraft, 1941). 80 · Origin of the Detective Business · Newton Newkirk · fa Wood-Morgan Detective Agency, 1931 81 · The Exact Opposite [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Detective Fiction Weekly March 29 1941 110 · ’Bye, ’Bye, Bluebeard [Fayga Bendovid] · Viola Brothers Shore · ss 123 · Perchance to Dream [Lydia] · Lisa Robineau · ss 135 · Volturio Investigates · L. J. Beeston · ss Detective Story Magazine April 30 1921

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 18, Whole No. 96, November 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Fool’s Mate · Stanley Ellin · ss 17 · Woman Hunt No Good [Spotted Shield] · Oliver La Farge · ss 30 · The Point of Honor · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Good Housekeeping March 1947 42 · It Wouldn’t Be Fair · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s August 28 1948 54 · Corpus Delicti · Harry Miner · ss 65 · Bickmore Deals with the Duchess · J. S. Fletcher · ss Green Ink by J. S. Fletcher, Herbert Jenkins, 1926 77 · Hebraic Homily: The Will of Justice · Mark Rondy · ss; given as “The Will of Justice” in the Table of Contents. 81 · They Got the Wrong Guy [Don Burney] · Raoul Whitfield · nv Black Mask August 1930, as “Murder by Mistake” 106 · A Deal in Ostriches · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget December 20 1894 110 · All at Once, No Alice · Cornell Woolrich · nv Argosy March 2 1940

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 18, Whole No. 97, December 1951] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Sid Rosenbaum) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Goodbye Forever [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv 20 · Eva? Caroline? · Allan Vaughan Elston · nv Woman’s Home Companion April 1949 41 · The Oversight [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss 47 · His First Bow [Adam Lake] · J. W. Wells · ss 61 · The Lonely Bride [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week December 4 1949, as “The Lady Couldn’t Explain”; given as “Lost & Found Department: The Lonely Bride” on the story itself. 65 · The Parrot · Walter Duranty · nv The Red Book Magazine March 1928 81 · The Newtonian Egg [Rolf le Roux] · Peter Godfrey · ss 92 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 94 · The Open Door · Rafael Sabatini · ss Redbook Magazine July 1935 105 · A Simple Matter of Deduction [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss 110 · The Red Silk Scarf [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · nv The New Magazine (UK) September 1911; in EQMM’s “The Golden Twenty”. translated from the French (“L’Écharpe de soie rouge”, Je sais tout August 15, 1911). 129 · You Only Live Once · Michael Arlen · ss The Strand Magazine April 1939 142 · Index to Volume 18—July-December 1951 · [uncredited] · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 19, No. 98, January 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · A Matter of Life and Death · Georges Simenon; translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury · na translated from the French (“Sept Petites Croix dans un Carnet”, Un Noël de Maigret, Presses de la Cité, 1951). 48 · The Prognosis · Holloway Horn · ss The Evening Standard December 21 1951 52 · The Three Widows [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week January 29 1950, as “Murder Without Clues”; given as “Impossible Crime Department: The Three Widows” on the story itself. 56 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 58 · Whitemail · Joyce Kilmer · ss The Smart Set March 1914 65 · By the Sword · Selwyn Jepson · nv Cassell’s Magazine December 1930 81 · Murder in the Alps [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss This Week February 20 1949 89 · The Triple-Lock’d Room [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · nv 104 · Vertigo · Guy deVry · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 115 · The Way to Freedom · Percival Wilde · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine July 1922 129 · D.O.A. · Billy Rose · vi 1948 probably from Rose’s newspaper column, “Pitching Horseshoes”. 132 · Let Freedom Ring [Dr. Buchanan] · Kem Bennett · ss John Bull December 30 1950

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 19, No. 99, February 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Suicide Hotel · André Maurois · ss 1938 9 · A Costume Piece [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss 27 · The Ten O’Clock Scholar [Nicky Welt] · Harry Kemelman · nv 43 · The Pluperfect Murder [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine April 1936, as “The Holburn Murder” 53 · Bank Job · Karl Detzer · ss The American Legion Magazine 1940 65 · The Hole in the Ice [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Austin Ripley · pz 1948 66 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 68 · International Investigators, Inc. [Lord Peter Wimsey; Father Brown; Miss Marple; Dr. Gideon Fell; Ellery Queen; Uncle Abner; Arsène Lupin; Sherlock Holmes] · E. G. Ashton · ss 81 · Strychnine in the Soup [Mr. Mulliner] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss The American Magazine December 1931, as “The Missing Mystery” 96 · The Gold Cup · Frank Gruber · ss Weird Tales July 1940, as “Golden Chalice” 104 · The Sensation Club · L. J. Beeston · ss (r) 113 · Gifts for His Highness · Sam Young · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 124 · The Quick Brown Fox [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard January 9 1950 130 · Only Ghosts Stay Young · Laurence Kirk · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 19, No. 100, March 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Loveday’s Secret · L. J. Beeston · ss The Strand Magazine October 1922 13 · Buck Fever · Mary Adams Sarett · ss 20 · The Trailor Murder Mystery · Abraham Lincoln · ts Quincy, Illinois Whig April 15 1846, as “A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder” 27 · A Fool for Her · Oliver La Farge · ss 1936 31 · Everybody’s Name Is Jones [Fayga Bendovid] · Viola Brothers Shore · ss 47 · Like an Apple · Walter E. Chaulk · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 50 · This Looks Like Murder [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss This Week April 30 1950 54 · The Wide-Awake Club · Rigdum O’Funnidos · ss Bentley’s Miscellany 1837 65 · The Taxi-Cab Murder [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Austin Ripley · pz 66 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 68 · The Perfect Murder · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine October 1926 81 · The Head of His House · Conrad Richter · ss The Grim 13 ed. Frederick Stuart Greene, Dodd, Mead, 1917 91 · The Door Key [Deputy Parr; Oliver Armiston] · Frederick Irving Anderson · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 28 1929 105 · The Cop Killer [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine February 1951

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 19, No. 101, April 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Cold Winds of Adesta [Major Tennente] · Thomas Flanagan · ss 19 · The Mystery of the Half-Painted House [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss 33 · The Affair of the Zodiacs [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction November 19 1927, as “Zodiacs” 51 · The Scapulary · Rafael Sabatini · ss Nash’s Illustrated Weekly December 6 1919 65 · The Case of the Lying Speedometer [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Austin Ripley · pz 1949 66 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 68 · The Customers Like Murder · John Dickson Carr · pl first broadcast on Suspense, CBS radio, March 23, 1943. 81 · Faith, Hope and Charity · Irvin S. Cobb · nv Cosmopolitan April 1930 96 · The House That Nella Lived In · Mabel Seeley · ss 110 · Shoemaker’s Last [Rolf le Roux] · Peter Godfrey · ss (r) 117 · Mrs. Brierley Supplies the Evidence · Richard Hull · ss The Evening Standard August 30 1950 122 · Punchinello, Funny Fellow · Robert Passano · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 133 · Friend of the Family · Robert Passano · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 19, No. 102, May 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Snows of Bardonechhia · Gertrude Diamant · ss 13 · The Murder in Netherby Gardens · Lord Dunsany · ss The Evening Standard June 15 1951 17 · The Haunted Policeman [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Harper’s Bazaar February 1938 34 · A Job for the Macarone · Damon Runyon · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 2 1937 43 · Satan Had Another Name [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s January 24 1948 54 · Murder Story · H. L. Davis · ss The American Mercury November 1933 65 · The Case of the Faked Alibi [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Austin Ripley · pz 1948 66 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 68 · Thubway Tham’s Wonderful Day [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine 1925 original title not known. 78 · My First Interview with Artemus Ward · Mark Twain · ar Public and Parlor Readings by Mark Twain, Lee and Shepherd, 1872 81 · A Simple Act of Piety · Achmed Abdullah · nv All-Story Weekly April 20 1918 95 · Indian Sign · William Cunningham · vi Collier’s December 10 1949 98 · Money on the Floor [A.B.C. Hawkes] · Bechhofer Roberts · ss The Passing Show March 10 1934 109 · The Tea Pusher · Howard Schoenfeld · nv 138 · Who Killed Baker? [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin & Geoffrey Bush · ss The Evening Standard October 30 1950

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 19, No. 103, June 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Homecoming · Veronica Parker Johns · nv 21 · Death of an Old Man · Arthur Miller · ss Esquire August 1949, as “A Regular Death Call” 26 · Adrian Mulliner, Detective [Mr. Mulliner] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss The American Magazine October 1931, as “The Smile That Wins” 40 · The Grinning God [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · May Futrelle · ss Associated Sunday Magazine November 24 1907, as “The Grinning God: Wraiths of the Storm” 53 · His Eyes Bloodshot and Red · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Real Detective December 1931 65 · The Cosy Nook Murder [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv 81 · Casanova’s Alibi [Giacomo Casanova] · Rafael Sabatini · ss The Premier Magazine #5, September 1914 94 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 96 · Mom Knows Best [Mom] · James Yaffe · ss 108 · The Maggot [Detective Inspector Painton] · Anthony Armstrong · ss The Strand Magazine December 1947, as “The Plate in the Camera” 117 · The House That Was [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · ss Associated Sunday Magazine December 1 1907 126 · The Bishop of Hell · Joseph Shearing · ss The Blue Magazine #75, September 1925, as by Marjorie Bowen 139 · Papa’s Going Bye-Bye · Kitty Harwood · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 145 · Index to Volume 19—January-June 1952 · [uncredited] · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 20, No. 104, July 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Monsieur Donaque · Arthur Train · nv Everybody’s Magazine October 1911 21 · Hit and Run · A. H. Z. Carr · ss Vanity Fair (US) 1935 26 · Letter of the Law · Selwyn Jepson · ss The Evening Standard September 5 1950 33 · The Poor Pirate · John Steinbeck · ex from Tortilla Flat, Viking, 1935 44 · The Sweet Shot [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine March 1937 54 · Mr. Mann of London · J. S. Fletcher · ss 1930 61 · Over My Dead Body · Anthony Gilbert · ss The Evening Standard June 19 1951 65 · The Abstractor · Wyndham Martyn · ss Pearson’s Magazine (US) 72 · Farewell, Big Sister · Elisabeth Sanxay Holding · ss; satire of the hardboiled style featuring ‘Corney Bassard’. 81 · In Round Figures [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly August 23 1930 112 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 114 · The Pigeon Woman · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss 128 · The Challenge · John W. Vandercook · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 20, No. 105, August 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Singing Stick · Edgar Pangborn · ss 20 · The Old Lady of Bayeux [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · nv translated from the French (“La Vieille Dame de Bayeux”, Police-Roman, February 3, 1939). 41 · Always Trust a Cop · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss 55 · You Can’t Love Two Women · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Forum 1929 65 · The Evening Hour [Mike Russell] · Charlotte Armstrong · ss The Philadelphia Inquirer March 12 1950 78 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 80 · The Case of the Blue Footprints [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Austin Ripley · pz 1948 81 · For Value Received [Lloyd Chalmers] · Richard Deming · ss 90 · Tom Sawyer, Detective [Part 1 of 3; Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn] · Mark Twain · ex Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1896 (+1) 104 · Money Talks [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week April 2 1950, as “The Sound of Blackmail”; given as “Blackmail Department: Money Talks” on the story itself. 108 · The Case of XX-2 [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss 1951 114 · The Dragoon Pistol · Frank Gruber · ss Weird Tales July 1942, as “The Gun” 127 · An Episode at the Honeypot [unnamed inspector] · Mark Van Doren · ss 132 · Lonely Boy · Hugh Pentecost · ss Collier’s May 14 1949

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 20, No. 106, September 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Given as v19 in the Table of Contents. Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Best of Everything · Stanley Ellin · nv 17 · The Y-Shaped Scar [Dr. Colin Starr] · Rufus King · ss 1939 30 · The Green Weed · Margaret Page Hood · ss 43 · In the Dark · Edith Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine September 1908, as by E. Bland 52 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 54 · Death Had a Voice [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s June 26 1948 65 · Death on the Riviera [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss This Week July 30 1950 69 · How Jacques Spent His Wedding Night · Henry Norton · ss 81 · Tom Sawyer, Detective [Part 2 of 3; Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn] · Mark Twain · ex Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1896 (+1) 98 · And Turn the Hour [Rolf le Roux] · Peter Godfrey · ss 1950 111 · The Human Leopards · L. J. Beeston · ss The Strand Magazine November 1923 121 · Hard Case · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly September 28 1940 126 · Dark Interlude · Jane McClure · ss 134 · The Portrait · Aldous Huxley · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1922

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 20, No. 107, October 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Given as v19 in the Table of Contents. Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Tyger! Tyger! · A. H. Z. Carr · nv 20 · The Bearded Golfer · Michael Arlen · ss The Crooked Coronet by Michael Arlen, Heinemann, 1927, as “Legend of the Bearded Golfer” 29 · The Gold-Makers · J. B. S. Haldane · ss The Strand Magazine November 1931 44 · Nesselrode to Jeopardy · S. J. Perelman · hu The New Yorker January 6 1951 52 · Stranger in the Park · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s December 27 1941 64 · The Case of the Arctic Explorers [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Austin Ripley · pz 1948 65 · Tom Sawyer, Detective [Part 3 of 3; Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn] · Mark Twain · ex Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1896 (+1) 81 · Two of a Kind · Laurence Kirk · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine December 1936 91 · You Got to Have Luck · S. R. Ross · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 96 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 98 · The Twelve-Minute Grave [Insp. Kyle] · Roy Vickers · nv 115 · De Crimine · Miriam Allen deFord · ss 128 · Dead Man · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury March 1936 137 · Torrid Zone · Fletcher Flora · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 20, No. 108, November 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Given as v19 in the Table of Contents. Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Spring Fever · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · nv 16 · The History of Bel · [uncredited] · vi from The Apocrypha (r) 21 · A Perfectly Ordinary Case of Blackmail · A. A. Milne · ss Collier’s July 10 1948, as “The Dear, Dead Past” 32 · Memory Test · Peter B. Kyne · ss Collier’s June 11 1949 41 · V Marks the Spot [Oscar Sail] · Lester Dent · nv Black Mask October 1936, as “Sail” 65 · The Case of the Abandoned Tower [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Austin Ripley · pz (r) 66 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 68 · Dear Departed Harold · Barbara Vetterlein · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 74 · Cat and Mouse [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss probably from The (London) Evening Standard under a different title. 81 · The Ebony Stick · Earl Derr Biggers · nv Collier’s September 9 1916 102 · The Head in the Barrel · Ralph Norman Weber · vi 105 · The Fifth Dimension [Rolf le Roux] · Peter Godfrey · ss 1950 116 · The History of Bel · [uncredited] · vi from The Apocrypha (r) 117 · One Way Street [Detective Inspector Painton] · Anthony Armstrong · ss 1946 125 · Guess Who?: John J. Malone · Talbot C. Hatch · qz 127 · Knowing What I Know Now · Barry Perowne · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 20, No. 109, December 1952] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Author in Search of a Character [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss Woman’s Home Companion July 1937, as “The Missing Character” 12 · The Man Who Voted for Ulysses S. Grant · MacKinlay Kantor · ss 1929 22 · Going My Way? · George Harmon Coxe · ss The Elks Magazine January 1936 33 · And the Birds Still Sing [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv 50 · A Matter of Timing · Victor Canning · ss The Evening Standard August 16 1950, as “A Matter of Time” 55 · The Inspector Had a Wife [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s August 21 1948 65 · The Sheriff Decides · Roark Bradford · vi Collier’s May 13 1939 68 · Mrs. Oliphant Deceased · Michael Gilbert · ss The Evening Standard July 24 1950, as “Back on the Shelf” 72 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 74 · Morte d’Alain [King Arthur] · Maxey Brooke · ss; subtitled “An Unrecorded Idyll of the King”. in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 81 · The Jinx Man [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · nv 101 · The Creative Impulse · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Harper’s Bazar August 1926 129 · The Point of Honor [Major Tennente] · Thomas Flanagan · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 21, No. 110, January 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Dirone Photography) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · On Christmas Day in the Morning [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Evening Standard December 23 1950 11 · Crime Passionnel · Louis Bromfield · ss The New Yorker March 25 1944 19 · 5 - 4 = Murderer [Capt. Duncan Maclain] · Baynard Kendrick · ss 31 · The Coward · Francis Iles · ss revised from “It Takes Two to Make a Hero” (The Saturday Book 3, ed. Leonard Russell, Hutchinson, 1943). 43 · The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl · Ray Bradbury · ss Detective Book Magazine Winter 1948, as “Touch and Go!” 51 · The Horns Were Wet · Howard F. Aldridge · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 65 · The Judge Corroborates · J. S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine August 22 1919 76 · Sky Writing [Dove Dulcet] · Christopher Morley · ss New York Herald Tribune December 25 1932 81 · Mom Makes a Bet [Mom] · James Yaffe · ss 92 · The Eastern Mystery [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923 112 · Death on Saturday Night [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss This Week November 26 1950 116 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 121 · The Manhunter · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss 1923 132 · New Year’s Eve in Panamint · Peter B. Kyne · ss 1916

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 21, No. 111, February 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Old Man · Daphne du Maurier · ss The Apple Tree by Daphne du Maurier, Gollancz, 1952 13 · The Man Who Could Not Hold Women [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv 34 · Without Benefit of Jury · Peter B. Kyne · ss Cosmopolitan January 1935 45 · The Speech · Lord Dunsany · ss Collier’s November 25 1950 49 · Woman of Ice [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss This Week October 30 1949 56 · The Name on the Window [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss 65 · Narky [Narky] · Sax Rohmer · ss Everybody’s Weekly May 6 1911 72 · The White Rabbit Caper · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 19 1949 78 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 80 · The Case of Mistaken Identity [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Austin Ripley · pz (r) 81 · The Unpleasantness at the Stooges Club · W. Heidenfeld · ss; a club made up of various detectives’ “Watsons”. 92 · A Lump of Sugar [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week July 9 1950, as “The Mystery of the 3 Dawn Riders”; given as “Dying Message Dept.: A Lump of Sugar” on the story itself. 96 · Crime à la Carte [Willie & Al Hosmer] · John Eugene Hasty · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 107 · Murder Is Everybody’s Business · Helen McCloy · nv 1951

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 21, No. 112, March 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Lion’s Mane [Major Tennente] · Thomas Flanagan · ss 16 · The King of the Bats · James Hilton · ss Collier’s July 3 1937, as “The Bat King” 26 · Blackmail · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss The American Magazine December 1949 38 · Within the Gates [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard March 1 1952 45 · The Dance · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss The Red Book Magazine June 1926 58 · In the Pincers · L. J. Beeston · ss The Strand Magazine January 1919 65 · The Feeble Folk · E. C. Bentley · ss 81 · The Warning on the Lawn [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss 92 · Squeeze Play · Michael Gilbert · ss The Evening Standard January 29 1951, as “The Squeeze” 96 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 98 · Honest Abe · Elba O. Carrier · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 102 · The Sheik It Was Who Died [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s December 11 1948 111 · The Lady, or the Tiger? · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Magazine November 1882 117 · The Discourager of Hesitancy · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Magazine July 1885 123 · Goodbye, New York · Cornell Woolrich · nv Story #63, October 1937

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 21, No. 113, April 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Dirone Photography) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · My Brother Down There · Steve Frazee · nv; first prize winner in EQMM’s eighth annual contest. 33 · Sweet William · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss 40 · The Ghost Patrol · Sinclair Lewis · ss The Red Book Magazine June 1917 51 · Pursued · Fletcher Flora · ss 56 · Murder by Extraction · John Oakum · ss A Snapper-Up of Unconsidered Trifles by John Oakum, W.J. Johnston, 1876 60 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 62 · The Cave of Belarius [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · vi The Evening Standard January 2 1952 65 · Help Me—If You Can · Fred Levon · ss Maclean’s 1948, as “Turmoil”; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 77 · Caribbean Blow · Grover Brinkman · ss 81 · The Long Dinner [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv The Windsor Magazine #481, January 1935 106 · Cheat for Me · John & Ward Hawkins · ss The American Magazine April 1950 116 · In the Absence of Monsieur · Guy Wetmore Carryl · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1903 128 · All in the Way You Look at It [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss 136 · Man Who Bought Things Cheap · Marjorie L. C. Pickthall · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1914, as “Cheap”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 21, No. 114, May 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover: [photo]) [] Starting with this issue, Black Mask Detective Magazine is merged into Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · It Takes a Thief · Arthur Miller · ss Collier’s February 8 1947 9 · Blood-Brothers [Baron von Genthner] · Quentin Reynolds · ss 1936 18 · Unbreakable Alibi [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss 22 · The Gatewood Caper [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask October 15 1923, as “Crooked Souls” 36 · Dormant Account · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask May 1942 65 · The Witch of Times Square [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week November 5 1950; given as “False Claimant Dept.: The Witch of Times Square” on the story itself. 70 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 72 · The Man Without a Head · T. W. Hanshew · ss (r) 81 · Nothing So Hard as a Diamond · Henry Myers · ss 93 · He Had a Little Shadow [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s January 14 1950 106 · Really It Was Quite Simple · Evelyn E. Smith · ss 111 · The Silver Spurs · E. C. Witham · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 128 · Miss Paisley’s Cat · Roy Vickers · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 21, No. 115, June 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Betrayers · Stanley Ellin · ss 17 · Winning Sequence · Margery Sharp · ss The Strand Magazine September 1936 27 · The Numbers Man · Anthony Boucher · ss Black Mask July 1945, as “The Catalyst” 38 · One Hundred in the Dark · Owen Johnson · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 21 1911 53 · Glimpses of the Moon · Leslie Bigelow · ss 65 · Inspector Appleby’s First Case [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss 68 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 70 · The Panther · Browning Norton · ss 81 · A Woman Can Kill [Dion Davies] · Raoul Whitfield · nv Black Mask September 1933 105 · A Night at the Theater · Ben Ray Redman · ss 109 · Heads I Win, Tails You Lose · John D. MacDonald · ss Black Mask September 1947, as “Manhattan Horse Opera” 119 · Emerald Bait · Val Duncan · ss Esquire October 1951 123 · Doublecross · Aljean Meltsir · ss 128 · The God of the Hills [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Country Gentleman September 1927 143 · Index to Volume 21—January-June 1953 · [uncredited] · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 22, No. 116, July 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · If a Body… · A. H. Z. Carr · nv 21 · Mrrrar! · Edgar Pangborn · ss 25 · ’Bye, ’Bye, Darling · John L. Hayward · ss 36 · The Fix · Norman Katkov · ss Black Mask July 1946 46 · The Neighbors · John Galsworthy · ss The Bellman #183, January 15 1910 51 · Rien Ne Va Plus · Alexander Woollcott · vi The New Yorker March 5 1932 53 · The Town Without a Straight Man · Will Stanton · ss 65 · The Quigley Librarian · Robert Lewis · vi Esquire April 1950 68 · Coronation Story [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss 81 · The McGregor Affair · Sidney Rowland · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 89 · The Automobile Game [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg] · Michael Gilbert · ss The Evening Standard July 11 1950, as “Something Like Hard Work” 94 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 96 · Molly, the Private Eyeful · Dick Ashbaugh · ss This Week 1950 104 · Calendar Girl [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · nv Collier’s September 20 1952 119 · Cinderella and the Mob · Cornell Woolrich · nv Argosy June 22 1940

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 22, No. 117, August 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Taylor Oughton) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · New Contest for EQMM Readers · [uncredited] · cn; prizes given to readers who identify the 20 deliberate errors in the following story. 4 · The Girl with the Burgundy Lips [Marshall T. Custer] · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Collier’s December 27 1952 17 · The Man Who Came Back · Edna Ferber · ss The American Magazine April 1911 26 · Unknown Quantity · Cary Lucas · ss 38 · Code of the Underworld · Jim Kjelgaard · ss Black Mask July 1941, as “Curse of the Beaver” 44 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 46 · On the Brink · James Yaffe · nv 65 · The Apron of Genius · Earl Derr Biggers · ss Hampton’s Magazine March 1909 77 · Hard Bargain · Richard West · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 81 · The Way Round · Phyllis Bentley · ss The Evening Standard June 2 1952 86 · Two Birds with One Spanner [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss 91 · The Society of the White Button · Pietro Di Donato · ss 1947 99 · Striding Folly [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Strand Magazine July 1935 110 · The Crazy House · Miriam Allen deFord · ss 120 · All of God’s Children Got Shoes · Howard Schoenfeld · ss 126 · Heaven Can Wait · C. B. Gilford · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 22, No. 118, September 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Little Things Like That [Insp. Peter Curwen] · Roy Vickers · nv 19 · The Quality of Mercy · Eleazar Lipsky · ss 33 · The Blackmailer · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull June 24 1950, as “Blackmail Is So Difficult” 39 · Burden of Guilt [Daniel “Pop” Egan] · John & Ward Hawkins · nv Collier’s March 4 1950 54 · Murder Is No Accident · David Dodge · ss Esquire October 1949 65 · The Three Horsemen [Mr. Pond] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Collier’s April 13 1935 78 · ’Tec’s Twilight · R. G. G. Price · fa (r) probably from Punch, 1951. 81 · A Break in the Film · John F. Suter · ss 93 · All the Birds of the Air [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s June 17 1950 105 · A Sleep and a Forgetting · Dorothy Canfield Fisher · ss 1913 117 · The Loophole · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask July 1942, as “Three Kills for One 3 Kills for 1” 142 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 22, No. 119, October 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Fred Kirberger) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · High Court · Thomas Kyd · ss 16 · Laugh It Off · Charlotte Armstrong · ss 27 · Back in Five Years [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull December 18 1948 34 · Day Never Came · Steve Fisher · ss Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine July 1938 42 · Cry Silence · Fredric Brown · ss Black Mask November 1948 46 · A Wish for a Cigar [Giglamps] · Will Scott · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine March 1923, as “Giglamps Revokes” 58 · Ms. in a Safe [Inspector Calloway] · Frank Swinnerton · ss 65 · The Stroke of Thirteen [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss 81 · Night of the Execution · Faith Baldwin · ss The American Magazine February 1950 93 · Helpless Victim · C. G. Lumbard · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 97 · Before the Act [McCann] · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s July 8 1939 110 · The World Series Murder [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · nv The American Magazine September 1952, as “This Will Kill You” 142 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 22, No. 120, November 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Born Killer · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss 15 · Merry-Go-Round [Gervase Fen; Insp. Humbleby] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard February 23 1953 18 · I’ll Wake You Early · Margaret Page Hood · ss 30 · All in the Day’s Work · William Krasner · ss 40 · The Clue That Wasn’t There [Detective-Inspector Ellis McKay] · L. A. G. Strong · ss 50 · Florian Slappey, Private Eye [Florian Slappey] · Octavus Roy Cohen · nv The Elks Magazine 1950 65 · The Devil’s Track [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Country Gentleman July 1927 78 · All Day Sunday · Ben Ray Redman · ss 81 · Murder at Chanticleer Hall · Ralph Jones · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 89 · Walk Across My Grave · Norbert Davis · ss Black Mask April 1942 99 · Horse Thief · Erskine Caldwell · ss Vanity Fair (US) November 1933 104 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 106 · One for the Road · Will C. Brown · ss 110 · Murder in Manhattan · Hugh Pentecost · nv The American Magazine February 1952

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 22, Whole No. 121, December 1953] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Dirone Photography) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Frame-Up [Insp. Kyle] · Roy Vickers · ss 20 · Two Rolls, No Coffee · Don M. Mankiewicz · ss Black Mask November 1948, as “Odds on Death” 29 · The Man on the Iron Palings [Evan Pinkerton] · David Frome · ss 1941 39 · Bird in the Hand [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly April 9 1932 64 · Out of Patience… · Anthony Boucher · pm 65 · The Trip to London · Rhys Davies · ss 1930 73 · Nobody’s All Bad [Billy the Kid] · W. R. Burnett · ss Collier’s June 7 1930 81 · Cinder City Blues · E. H. Reynier · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 91 · The Fourth Degree [Doc Rennie] · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss Black Mask February 1941 103 · The Poison Typewriter · William Abrahams · ss 111 · The Man · Mel Dinelli · ss Story #113, May/June 1945 122 · Open File · Richard Deming · nv 140 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 142 · Index to Volume 22—July-December 1953 · [uncredited] · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 23, No. 122, January 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Emsh) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Maigret’s Christmas [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Lawrence G. Blochman · nv translated from the French (“Un Noél de Maigret”, Presses de la Cite, 1951). 44 · The Disappearance of Captain Harwell [Harley Quin] · Agatha Christie · ss The Grand Magazine November 1925, as “A Man of Magic” 57 · Murder by Jury [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg; Hargest Macrea] · Michael Gilbert · ss Britannia and Eve July 1951 65 · The Attacker [Anthony J. Quinn] · Morton Wolson · ss 81 · The Glamorous Opening [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss This Week June 3 1951 85 · Try to Remember · Lillian King · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 92 · One Wicked Impulse! · Walt Whitman · ss A Special Day by Walt Whitman, 1882 revised from “Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped” (Democratic Review, July-August 1845). 101 · The Way I Killed Him · Oscar Schisgall · nv Liberty August 1948 (+1) 121 · The Pariah · Thomas Burke · ss Vanity Fair (US) January 1920 126 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 128 · The Dark Night [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Country Gentleman November 1927 140 · The Curse of Stonewall Jackson · Will Stanton · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 23, No. 123, February 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Kirberger) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Unstoppable Man [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull November 19 1949, as “Amateur in Violence” 11 · The Girl Who Married a Monster [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss 26 · The Bird House · William March · ss 39 · The Street of the Buzzards · Dennis Wiegand · ss 48 · A G Is a G · David Vincent Sheehan · ss 52 · Pass the Bottle · Hayden Howard · ss 65 · Sherlock Holmes First Editions: A New and Revised Catalogue of the Queen Collection · Ellery Queen · bi 74 · Conversation at an Inn · Phyllis Bentley · ss 81 · The Ghost of Greenwich Village · Donald McNutt Douglass · ss 91 · The Survivor · Ralph Norman Weber · vi 93 · London Nights’ Entertainment · Youngman Carter · ss 108 · Food for Thought · Victor Canning · ss The Evening Standard April 24 1951 113 · Junie-No-Name · Zelda Popkin · ss 129 · The Man Who Punished Himself · Roy Vickers · ss 142 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 23, No. 124, March 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · ? · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, St. Dunstan Society, 1903, as “A Matter of Business”; $100 given to the reader who sent in the best title for the story. translated from the French (“Une vente”, Gil Blas, February 22, 1884 as by Maufrigneuse). 9 · The Mystery of the Five Money Orders [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss 24 · Murder at Eleven · A. A. Milne · ss John Bull July 30 1949 35 · The Swami of Northbank [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Collier’s July 15 1950 48 · The Superfluous Clues [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Mr. Fortune’s Practice by H. C. Bailey, Methuen, 1923, as “The Young Doctor” 65 · The Man Who Could Not Die · Raphael Hayes · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 76 · Life and Death in the Scillies [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss The Evening Standard March 13 1951, as “Death in the Scillies” 81 · Ashes · Julia Peterkin · ss Green Thursday by Julia Peterkin, Knopf, 1924 90 · The Neat Man [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg; Mr. Rumbold] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull June 18 1949, as “Touch of Genius” 99 · The Roman Candles · John Bell Clayton · vi Epoch Winter 1948 102 · A Piece of Life [Sitka Charley] · Jack London · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine December 1905, as “The Sun-Dog Trail” 116 · The Last Bus Home · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly March 15 1941, as “Of Time and Murder” 142 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 23, No. 125, April 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Given as v24 in the Table of Contents. Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Complete List of the 53 Prize-Winning Stories in EQMM’s Ninth Annual Contest: The Best Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories of 1954 · [uncredited] · ms 5 · Double Image · Roy Vickers · nv; first prize winner in 9th annual contest. 34 · Triple Cross · John D. MacDonald · ss Black Mask July 1949, as “Heritage of Hate” 46 · Peters, Detective [Merivale] · Eden Phillpotts · ss The Windsor Magazine #150, June 1907 59 · The Pale Sergeant · Henry Myers · ss 65 · April Fool · Mark Van Doren · ss 70 · Will You Make a Bet with Death? · John Dickson Carr · pl first broadcast on Suspense, CBS radio, November 10, 1942. 81 · Miser’s Gold [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week June 18 1950, as “Love Hunts a Hidden Treasure”; given as “Buried Treasure Dept.: Miser’s Gold” on the story itself. 86 · President Sam Houston: Detective · James C. Brough · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 96 · The Night Calhoun Was Off Duty · Thomas Walsh · ss 1938 106 · The Bookhawker · Lance Sieveking · ss 1932 113 · Anecdotage · Frederic Dannay, uncredited · is [Ref. Arthur Morrison] 115 · The Flitterbat Lancers [Martin Hewitt] · Arthur Morrison · nv The Windsor Magazine #16, April 1896, as “The Case of the “Flitterbat Lancers”” 132 · Death and Canasta [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · vi This Week October 15 1950 136 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 138 · Tall Story [Albert Campion; Charley Luke] · Margery Allingham · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 23, No. 126, May 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover: [photo]) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Trumpet Sounds · Mary Roberts Rinehart · nv Collier’s April 24 1926 20 · Right in the Heart · William Holder · ss 1951 25 · The Judgment of En-Lil · Miriam Allen deFord · ss 34 · Chain of Witnesses [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss 52 · The Crate at Outpost 1 · Matthew Gant · ss 58 · A Trip to Czardis · Edwin Granberry · vi Forum and Century April 1932 64 · How the Sergeant Was Fooled · [uncredited] · vi ca. 1890 65 · Mom in the Spring [Mom] · James Yaffe · ss 81 · Louisville Blues · Albert Johnston · ss 89 · The Talking Calf · Hugh Pentecost · na The American Magazine April 1952, as “The Talking Calf Murder” 124 · My Watch · Mark Twain · vi Buffalo Express November 26 1870 127 · The House Party · Stanley Ellin · ss 142 · Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 23, No. 127, June 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Dirone Photography) [] Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Whole Town’s Sleeping [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss McCall’s September 1950 16 · Mum Knows Best [Albert Campion; Charley Luke] · Margery Allingham · ss The (London) Evening News May 12 1954, as “Mother Knows Best” 22 · Backward, Turn Backward · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · nv 42 · The Master of Mystery · Jack London · ss Out West Magazine September 1902 51 · The Fortune Teller · Karel Capek; translated by Paul Selver · ss Tales from Two Pockets by Karel Capek, tr. Paul Selver, Faber and Faber, 1932 translated from the Czech (“Věštkyně”, Povídky z Jedné Kapsy, 1929). 55 · The Mystery of the Fabulous Laundryman · Ben Hecht · ss Liberty October 31 1931 65 · The Day of the Last Rock Fight · Joseph Whitehill · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 81 · Queen of the Graveyard Ghouls · Barry Benefield · ss Ladies’ Home Journal October 1914 96 · Dead Shot · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask July 1944, as “Picture Frame” 122 · Nothing Will Hurt You, Lucy · Luttrell Tucker · ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”. 132 · EQMM’s Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br 134 · At Midnight, in the Month of June [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss 143 · Index to Volume 23—January-June 1954 · [uncredited] · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 24 No. 1, Whole No. 128, July 1954] ed. Ellery Queen (Mercury Publications, 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) [] Given as v25 in the Table of Contents. Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Case of the Irate Witness [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Collier’s January 17 1953 16 · The Tuesday and Friday Thefts [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss 26 · On the Very Street You Live · Fred Charap · ss 32 · The Black Ruby · William D. Gent · ss 39 · The Detective · Kristin Field · vi 40 · Eddy Takes Vanishing Lessons · Todd Capp · vi 42 · Somebody Has to Make a Move [Wade Paris] · Ben Benson · ss 51 · The Persistent House-Hunters [A.B.C. Hawkes] · Bechhofer Roberts · nv The Passing Show November 24 1934 65 · A Case of Catnapping · A. H. Z. Carr · ss 76 · Boy for Tea · Ward Greene · ss The American Mercury June 1930 82 · The Long, Thin Man [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s September 16 1950 95 · The New Administration · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 20 1915 108 · Macavity, The Mystery Cat · T. S. Eliot · pm Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, Faber and Faber, 1939 110 · The Couple Next Door [Inspector Sands] · Margaret Millar · ss 123 · Wild Goose Chase [Lew Archer] · John Ross Macdonald · nv 142 · EQMM’s Detective Directory · Robert P. Mills · br