The Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Index by Date: Page 526

Speer, Gary (fl. 2000s) (items)
• Rats in the Belfry—or at Least the Attic, (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #32, Winter 2003

Speer, Hugh; pseudonym of Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) (items); possibly used as a house name by other authors.
• She Who Was He!, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories December 1935
• Philtre of Death, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories April 1936
• Cyclops, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories August 1936
• Death’s Dancing Partner, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories November 1936
• Kali’s Vine, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories December 1936
• The Time Dissolver, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories February 1937
• The Death God Awakes, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories September 1937
• Hell’s Tryst, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories October 1937
• The Vampire Doll, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories December 1937
• Body Divided, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories February 1938
• Beyond Hell’s Barriers, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories June 1938
• Dead Man’s Arm, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories August 1938
• A Date with the Goat God, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories October 1938
• Ogre Island, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories April 1939
• Pipes of Doom, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories June 1939
• Luck of the Cromwells, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories October 1939
• Isle of Refuge, (nv) Spicy Mystery Stories June 1940
• Marooned on Eros, (nv) Spicy Mystery Stories October 1940
• Scourge of Women, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories April 1941
• Viking’s Daughter, (nv) Spicy Mystery Stories October 1941
• The Captain’s Hook, (nv) Spicy Mystery Stories November 1941
• Half-Way House, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories October 1942
• The Unknown Factor, (nv) Speed Mystery February 1943
• Time Lag, (ss) Speed Mystery July 1943
• Kenney’s Stooge [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Mystery September 1943
• Sergeant Joe’s Return [Dr. Gabriel], (nv) Speed Mystery November 1943
• Among Those Present, (ss) Speed Mystery January 1944
• Crossed Wires [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Mystery March 1944
• Beggar-Ticks [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Mystery May 1944
• Curse of the Tremaines [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Private Detective Stories May 1944
• Death in the Tank [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Detective May 1944
• The Ghost Will Walk Tonight, (ss) Super-Detective June 1944
• Jailbreak, (ss) Speed Mystery July 1944
• Blood Racket, (ss) Speed Mystery September 1944
• Unborn Terror [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Mystery November 1944
• Living Dead Man [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Mystery March 1945
• Crazy House [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Mystery June 1945
• Gate of Death [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Mystery June 1945
• Sheriff-Tooth, (ss) Super-Detective November 1945
• Soul at Strife [Dr. Gabriel], (ss) Speed Detective December 1946

Speer, John Rawson (fl. 1930s) (items)
• The Carnal God (with Carlisle Schnitzer), (nv) Weird Tales June 1937

Speer, Victor (1872-1909) (about) (items)
• Manhunts of a Great Detective (with John Wilson Murray), (ex) Fleming H. Revell, 1905

Spehr, Janis (fl. 1990s-2000s) (items)
• Dead Woman in the Water, (ss) Crime Factory #1, February 2001

Speidell, Kevin (fl. 2010s-2020s) (about) (items)
• [illustration(s)], (il) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2020
• [illustration(s)], (il) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2020

Spellman, Martin (fl. 2000s) (items)
• A Shot Across the Bows (with Maureen Carlyle, Gaynor Coules, Peter Guttridge, Dinah Lampitt, Calum Macleod, Keith Miles, Fiona Shoop & Andrew Taylor), (ar) Shots #9, Spring 2001, as by Maureen Carlyle, Gaynor Coules, Peter Guttridge, Deryn Lake, Calum Macleod, Keith Miles, Fiona Shoop, Martin Spellman & Andrew Taylor
• Bourne Again, (ar) Crime Time #48, 2006 [Ref. Robert Ludlum]

Spellman, Roger G.; pseudonym of William R. Cox (1901-1988) (items)
• Hounds of Murder, (ss) Detective Tales October 1939

Spelvin, George; pseudonym (fl. 1930s-1980s) (about) (items)
• The Magic Coffin, (ss) Ace-High Detective Magazine December 1936

Spence, Done (fl. 1960s) (items)
• The Aztec Black Widow, (ss) Mystery Digest May/June 1963

Spence, (John) Hartzell (1908-2001) (about) (items)
• The Man Who Tipped the Croupiers, (ss) Bluebook November 1952

Spence, Laurence A. (fl. 1930s) (items)
• Tombstone, (vi) Popular Detective July 1935

Spence, (James) Lewis (Thomas Chalmers) (1874-1955) (about) (items)
• The Staff of Dr. Domingo, (ss) Hutchinson’s Story Magazine February 1920
• The House of the Red Bat, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine July 1923
• A Voice in Feathers, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine August 1923
• Lucifer Over London, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #1, 1949

Spence, Matthew (fl. 2000s-2020s) (items)
• Desert Run, (vi) Pulp Modern Flash December 14 2020

Spence, R. G. (fl. 1940s) (items)
• Girl at War, (nv) Super-Detective August 1943

Spencer, Brent (1952- ) (about) (items)
• Private Eye, (pm) Thriller Magazine v3 #2, 2020
• At Fury Crossing, (ss) Guilty Crime Story Magazine #2, Fall 2021

Spencer, Brian (fl. 2000s) (items)
• Keen Anticipation, (vi) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July/August 2008

Spencer, Cathy (fl. 2010s) (items)
• In the Playground, (ss) Suspense Magazine April 2012

Spencer, Charles (1955- ) (about) (items)
• Charles Spencer, (ar) Crime Time #24, 2001

Spencer, Charles C. (fl. 1930s) (items)
• Cracking Rods, (ss) The Underworld Magazine June 1933

Spencer, Donn (fl. 1960s) (items)
• Gilt Complex (with Eve Spencer), (ss) The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) October 1963

Spencer, Duncan (fl. 1980s) (items)
• Love Gone Wrong: The Story of Jean Harris, and Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower, (ex) Signet, 1981

Spencer, Edmund (fl. 1920s) (items)
• What the Detective Knew, (ss) The Detective Magazine #59, February 13 1925

Spencer, Eve (fl. 1960s) (items)
• Gilt Complex (with Donn Spencer), (ss) The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) October 1963

Spencer, G. R. (fl. 1960s) (items)
• The Polite Mr. Payne, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1967

Spencer, Garth R. (fl. 1940s-1950s) (items)
• Night of April 17, (nv) 5 Detective Novels Magazine Fall 1951
• Happy Ending, (ss) Mystery Digest September 1957

Spencer, John (Barry) (1944-2002) (items)
• Stitch, (ex) Do-Not Press, 1999

Spencer, Laurie (fl. 2000s) (items)
• Closeout, (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #26, April/May/June 2002

Spencer, Leonard G. (fl. 1950s); house pseudonym used by Randall Garrett (1927-1987) & Robert Silverberg (1935- ) (about) (items)
• The Girl from Bodies, Inc., (nv) Fantastic October 1956 (by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg), as by Leonard G. Spencer

Spencer, Lewis (fl. 1920s) (items)
• The Colour of Zuni, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine November 1926

Spencer, Marilyn J. (fl. 2000s) (items)
• Something Ventured, (ss) Mystery Time Spring/Summer 2001

Spencer, Matt (1979- ) (about) (items)
• Useful Instincts, (ss) Hardluck Stories Winter 2007

Spencer, Nick (fl. 1980s-2020s) (items)
• The Mamba Tale, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1984
• The Drum Story, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1988
• A Death in the Village, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July/August 2015
• A Death in the Parish, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2021
• A Death in the Swamp, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January/February 2024

Spencer, Ray (fl. 1950s) (items)
• Melody of Madness, (ss) 15 Mystery Stories August 1950

Spencer, Ross H(arrison) (1921-1998) (items)
• Murder Mystery, (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1982

Spencer, Shirley (fl. 1920s-1940s) (items)
• What Handwriting Reveals, (cl) Detective Story Magazine February 19 1927, etc.
• Handwriting No. 6, (cl) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine September 10 1935
• Anonymous Notes and Forgeries, (ar) The Shadow February 15 1943

Spencer, Stephen (fl. 1950s) (items)
• A Matter of a Tenner, (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine December 1957

Spencer, Victor; pseudonym of Jack Schiff (fl. 1930s-1940s) (items)
• Death’s Double Play, (ss) Popular Detective June 1938
• Concrete Evidence, (ss) The Phantom Detective July 1938
• Heir to Doom, (ss) Detective Novels Magazine February 1940
• Spies by Proxy, (ss) G-Men Detective July 1940

Spencer, Will (fl. 1960s) (items)
• [illustration(s)], (il) Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine #30, January 1967

Spencer-Fleming, Julia (fl. 2000s-2010s) (items)
• Interview with Zoe Sharp, (iv) Crimespree Magazine #8, September 2005 [Ref. Zoë Sharp]
• The Column with No Name, (cl) Crimespree Magazine #10, January/February 2006
• Spencer-Fleming for Hire, (cl) Crimespree Magazine #11, March/April 2006, etc.

Speracio, Mario (fl. 1930s-1940s) (items)
• Vigilance of Spring, (pm) unknown date

Spero, Leopold (1887-1970) (items)
• A Hanging Matter, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine May 1924

Sperry, Henry Treat (1903-1938); used pseudonym Paul Howard (items)
• Dream Monster, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine August 1935
• One Man Squad, (ss) Detective Tales November 1935
• Gunless Cop, (ss) Detective Tales December 1935
• Last Call for McQuade, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine January 1936
• Those Who Are About to Die—, (ss) Detective Tales March 1936
• Hell’s Gangplank, (ss) Detective Tales April 1936
• Death’s Floor Show, (ss) Detective Tales May 1936
• Terror’s Dark Pool, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine May 1936
• Murder Makes My Bed, (ss) Detective Tales June 1936
• Circe’s Lover, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine July 1936
• They Also Serve, (ss) Detective Tales July 1936
• Dark Path to Glory, (ss) Detective Tales September 1936
• Milady’s Black Bondage, (ss) Ace Mystery September 1936
• Caverns of the Damned, (na) Dime Mystery Magazine October 1936
• Thumbnail Sketches, (ms) Dime Mystery Magazine October 1936
• Satan’s Glassworks, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine December 1936
• Warden’s Wife, (ss) Detective Tales March 1937
• Witnesses Wanted, (ss) Detective Tales June 1937
• The Hunger Without a Name, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine July 1937
• Last Laugh for the Dying, (vi) Detective Tales July 1937
• No Trumpets for the Brave, (ss) Ace G-Man Stories July/August 1937
• “Vaccinated” by G-Men, (ms) Federal Agent July 1937
• The Woman from Hell, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine November 1937
• You Can’t Kill a Corpse, (ss) Detective Tales November 1937
• The Cat and the Corpse, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine December 1937
• Playthings for Madmen, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine January 1938
• A Corpse Stole My Wife, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine February 1938
• The Game of Love and Death, (ss) Star Detective Magazine February 1938
• Shoot Fast, G-Man, (ss) Detective Short Stories February 1938
• Listen to the Devil’s Drums, (nv) Mystery Tales March 1938
• Horror House, (ss) Detective Short Stories April 1938
• Monster of His Making, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine April 1938
• The Experiment of Dr. Sardi, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine May 1938
• Teach Me to Kill!, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine June 1938
• Goddess of the Half-World Brood, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine July 1938
• Woman-Haters Revenge, (ss) Detective Short Stories July 1938
• A Kiss for the Damned, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine August 1938
• Murder on the Wing, (ss) Top-Notch Detective September 1938
• Brotherhood of Destruction, (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine November 1938
• Dweller in Darkness, (ss) Mystery Tales November 1938
• Twelve Blue Corpses, (nv) Strange Detective Mysteries November/December 1938

Sperry, Raymond; pseudonym of Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) (items)
• Larry Dexter and the Bank Mystery [Larry Dexter], (n.) Grosset & Dunlap, July 1912, as by Howard R. Garis

Speyer, Edward (1884-?) (about) (items)
• Alias Bad Luck, (ss) Detective Story Magazine November 21 1925

Speyerer, Jay (fl. 1990s) (items)
• Class Act, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1992

Spicer, E. J. (fl. 1920s) (items)
• Smiling Jimmy, (ss) Flynn’s Weekly August 21 1926

Spicer, Henry (T.) (?-1891) (about) (items)
• Ghosts in Court, (ss) Judicial Dramas by Henry Spicer, Tinsley Brothers, 1872, as by Henry Spicer

Spider, Star (fl. 2010s) (items)
• Muriel and Ryan, (ss) Close to the Bone (online) August 27 2014

Spiegelman, Peter (fl. 2000s) (items)
• An Author’s Education, (ar) Crimespree Magazine #17, March/April 2007
• Red Cat [John March], (ex) Knopf, 2007

Spielberg, Christoph (fl. 2000s) (items)
• The Copyist (with Anke Gebert, Richard Lifka, Paul Ott, Thomas Przybilka & Stefan Slupetzky), (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 2006; translated by Mary Tannert, as by Anke Gebert, Paul Lascaux, Richard Lifka, Thomas Przybilka, Stefan Slupetzky & Christoph Spielberg

Spies, Vic(tor Carlyle) (fl. 1930s-1940s) (items)
• The Case at Sand Wash Underpass, (ar) All Star Detective Stories January 1932
• Death at the Springs, (ss) Black Mask (UK) December 1932

Spiess, Jan; [i.e., Jan Spiess Cook] (1898-1972) (items)
• The Movie Murder Mystery, (ss) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine December 1936
• The Man on the Hour, (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine February 1937

Spillane, Dashiell Chandler (fl. 2000s) (items)
• The Duck That Slew the Golden Goose, (ss) Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine March/April 2006

Spillane, Mickey; [i.e., Frank Morrison Spillane] (1918-2006) (about) (items)
• Last Ride, (ss) Marvel Mystery Comics (comic) June 1942
• Everybody’s Watching Me, (na) Manhunt January 1953, etc.
• Everybody’s Watching Me, (na) Manhunt January 1953 (+3)
• The Girl Behind the Hedge [Inspector Early], (nv) Manhunt October 1953
• The Pickpocket, (ss) Manhunt December 25 1954
• Dead Street (with Max Allan Collins), (ex) Thrilling Detective (online) Fall 2007
• There’s a Killer Loose! (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 2008
• The Big Switch [Mike Hammer] (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) The Strand Magazine #26, October 2008/January 2009
• A Long Time Dead [Mike Hammer] (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) The Strand Magazine #31, June/September 2010
• So Long, Chief [Mike Hammer] (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) The Strand Magazine #39, February/May 2013
• Fallout [Mike Hammer] (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) The Strand Magazine #44, November 2014/February 2015
• A Dangerous Cat [Mike Hammer] (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) The Strand Magazine #48, February/May 2016
• The Punk (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Mystery Tribune #5, Spring 2018
• The Big Run (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2018
• Killer’s Alley [Mike Hammer] (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2021

Spillman, R. (fl. 1960s) (items)
• Small Boy: 1910, (ar) The New Strand December 1962

Spillum, Todd (1952-2025); used pseudonym Todd Grimson (about) (items)
• The Sticking Place, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1987, as by Todd Grimson

Spilman, Richard (fl. 2000s) (items)
• [poem], (pm) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #33, Spring 2004

Spilsbury, [Sir] Bernard (Henry) (1877-1947) (about) (items)
• Science—Ally and Antagonist, (ar) The Detective Magazine #1, November 24 1922

Spilstead, H. L. (fl. 1950s) (items)
• The Paper Brothers, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #31, December 1956

Spinale, John V. (fl. 2000s) (items)
• Cell Phone Anthology, (pm) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #31, Fall 2003

Spindler, Erica (1957- ) (about) (items)
• Justice for Sara, (ex) unknown date

Spinelli, (Alex) Laurence [born Alessandro Lorenzo Spinelli] (1892-1983) (about) (items)
• [front cover], (cv) Mystery Magazine February 1 1926
• [front cover], (cv) Mystery Magazine February 15 1926
• [front cover], (cv) Mystery Magazine April 1 1926

Spinelli, Sylvester (fl. 1930s) (items)
• [letter], (lt) Clues Detective Stories September 1938

Spingarn, Lawrence P(erry) (1917-2001) (items)
• Bad Medicine, (ss) Terror Detective Story Magazine #1, October 1956
• Was It Worth It, Mr. Markell?, (ss) Manhunt April 1957

Spinrad, Norman (Richard) (1940- ) (about) (items)
• Carcinoma Angels, (ss) Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, October 1967
• Riding the Torch, (na) Threads of Time ed. Robert Silverberg, Thomas Nelson US, July 1974
• Prime Time, (nv) Omni November 1980
• Journals of the Plague Years, (na) Full Spectrum ed. Lou Aronica & Shawna McCarthy, Bantam Spectra, September 1988
• The Fat Vampire, (ss) Albedo One #15, 1997
• Entities, (ss) Interzone August 2002
• A Man of the Theatre, (vi) Nature March 10 2005
• The Music of the Sphere, (ss) Asimov’s Science Fiction July 2011
• Water Worlds, (vi) Nature Physics December 2015
• Quarantine, (nv) Freedom of Screech ed. Craig Spector, Macabre Ink, July 2019
• An SF Manifesto, (ar) Amazing Stories (online) January 26 2023
• Save the SF Magazines from AI, Amazon, and SFWA?, (ar) Black Cat Weekly #94, 2023
• Life As We Don’t Know It?, (ar) Black Cat Weekly #154, 2024

Spirn, Michele (fl. 1970s) (items)
• Murder in the Pantry, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1974 [Ref. Agatha Christie]

Spitzer, James E. (fl. 2000s-2020s) (items)
• The Lies and Fall of Pierre Menteur, (vi) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 2007
• If Only, (vi) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November/December 2024