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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 14, Whole No. 70, September 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv 23 · Question No. 3 · Louis Golding · ss The Evening Standard August 13 1937 26 · Off the Face of the Earth [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · nv 46 · Bars · Charles Francis Coe · ss Smart Set September 1929, as “Why One Man Went to Prison” 63 · Guess Who?: Basil Willing · Talbot C. Hatch · qz 65 · The “Try-Out” Murder [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine May 1936, as “The Fish Pond” 74 · Let Me Help You with Your Murders · T. M. McDade · ss 81 · Only the Fools Get Caught · Walter Duranty · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine June 1936 86 · Cat and Mouse · Frank Gruber · ss Black Mask August 1938, as “The Ring and the Finger” 97 · Stan the Killer [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · nv translated from the French (“Stan Le Tueur”, Police-Roman, December 23, 1938). 118 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Four · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories ed. Ellery Queen, World, 1948; revised. 124 · The Fire of London [Cecil Thorold] · Arnold Bennett · ss The Windsor Magazine June 1904 135 · The Man Who Played Hunches · A. H. Z. Carr · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1935, as “The Hunch”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 14, Whole No. 71, October 1949] 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 Pit [Snip Carton, Insurance Agent] · Ernest Dudley · pz 3 · ? · Philip MacDonald · ss; title contest story. 8 · The Singing Diamonds [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · nv 27 · Accessory After the Fact · Samuel Hopkins Adams · ss Liberty October 6 1945, as “Aunt Minnie and the Accessory After the Fact” 31 · The Two-Gun Man · Stewart Edward White · ss Collier’s April 15 1905 41 · Blind Date · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine September 1935, as “The Corpse and the Kid” 60 · Bridal Pond · Zona Gale · vi The American Mercury February 1928 65 · The Lakdoo Dinner [A.B.C. Hawkes] · Bechhofer Roberts · ss A.B.C. Solves Five by Bechhofer Roberts, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938, as “[untitled]” 76 · Old Beetle’s Crime · Alex. Barber · ss The Queen May 30 1928 81 · Cemetery Bait · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s December 12 1936 94 · The Greuze Girl · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv Pearson’s Magazine December 1921, as “The Greuze” 111 · A Matter of the Tax Payers’ Money · Vinnie Williams · ss 123 · The Hand on the Latch · Mary Cholmondeley · ss The Lowest Rung by Mary Cholmondeley, Murray, 1908 133 · Evidence in Camera · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine June 1949

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 14, Whole No. 72, November 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Black Cat · Edgar A. Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843 13 · The Million-to-One Chance [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv 29 · Forget-Me-Knot · Barry Perowne · ss 34 · Dust to Dust · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss 50 · ? [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · ss Associated Sunday Magazine August 11 1907, as “Problem of the Vanishing Man”; a contest for readers to discern the original title. 65 · The Etching · Hugh Walpole · ss Good Housekeeping April 1924 77 · The Mystery of Mary Rogers · Edward D. Radin · ar 1946 [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe] 81 · The Gewgaw Murder · I. J. Jay · ss 93 · He Will Never Know · Richard Sherman · vi Collier’s October 7 1933 96 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Five · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories ed. Ellery Queen, World, 1948; revised. 101 · Twelve Little Pickaninnies [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · ss Pall Mall Magazine April 1928, as “Twelve Little Nigger Boys” translated from the French (“Les Douze Africaines de Béchoux”, Lectures Pour Tous, November 1927). 116 · Haunted Ground · Oliver La Farge · vi Ladies’ Home Journal August 1930 120 · The Two Householders [Gabriel Foot, Highwayman] · Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Day February 5 1891, as by Q 129 · In the Wheat · Maurice Level · ss Crises by Maurice Level, tr. Alys Eyre Macklin, Erskine Macdonald, 1920 translated from the French (“Dans les blés”, Le Journal, 1904). 134 · The Forgotten Witness [Colonel Braxton] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The American Magazine September 1926

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Vol. 14, Whole No. 73, December 1949] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Mystery in Room 913 [Part 1 of 2] · Cornell Woolrich · na Detective Fiction Weekly June 4 1938; this part subtitled “The Suicide Room” and given as “The Suicide Room” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. · ? [Judge Ephraim Peck] · August Derleth · ss; title contest story; reprinted as “Fool Proof”. 36 · Local Rules · Stephen McKenna · ss Tales of Intrigue and Revenge by Stephen McKenna, Hutchinson, 1924 41 · The Man Who Killed Dan Odams · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask January 15 1924 50 · A Piece of String [Scattergood Baines] · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss The American Magazine May 1934 64 · The Most Dangerous Woman in the World · Ferenc Molnár · ss Vanity Fair (US) March 1927 69 · The Queen Is Dead · Mildred Arthur · ss 81 · The Man Who Sang in Church [The Just Men] · Edgar Wallace · ss The 20-Story Magazine September 1927 93 · Tell Me the Time · Marie F. Rodell · ss Ladies’ Home Journal November 1946 105 · Horseshoes for Luck [Inspector Field] · Anthony Gilbert · ss Detection Medley ed. John Rhode, Hutchinson, 1939 112 · All but Empty · Graham Greene · ss The Strand Magazine March 1947 117 · Mystery in Room 913 [Part 2 of 2] · William Irish · na Detective Fiction Weekly June 4 1938, as by Cornell Woolrich; this part subtitled “The Murder Room”. 144 · Index to Volume 14—July-December 1949 · [uncredited] · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v15, #74, January 1950] 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 Octopus Room [Snip Carton, Insurance Agent] · Ernest Dudley · pz 4 · Death on Christmas Eve · Stanley Ellin · ss 12 · The Same to Us · Margery Allingham · ss The Daily Express May 17 1934 17 · “Extra! Extra!” · Robert E. Sherwood · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1926 24 · Science and the Cop · Frederick Bechdolt · vi The Blue Book Magazine August 1942 27 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Six · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories ed. Ellery Queen, World, 1948; revised. 33 · The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel [Insp. Gabriel Hanaud; Mr. Ricardo] · A. E. W. Mason · na Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction December 1916 63 · The Wrong Guy · Samuel W. Taylor · vi Liberty March 29 1947 65 · A Life for a Life · Lawrence G. Blochman · vi Argosy September 18 1937 68 · Two Over Par [Haila & Jeff Troy] · Kelley Roos · ss 81 · Kill and Tell [Rolf le Roux] · Peter Godfrey · ss 1947 93 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 111 · Murder on New Year’s Eve [Carole Thorne; Miles Shenton] · Q. Patrick (by Richard Wilson Webb & Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · na The American Magazine October 1937, as “Exit Before Midnight”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v15, #75, February 1950] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by Bill Stone) Given as #74 in the Table of Contents. Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 2 · $100 Reward for the Body! · [uncredited] · cn; contest for best 1000-word story to explain the photographic cover for this issue. 3 · Woman in the Dark · Dashiell Hammett · nv Liberty April 8 1933 (+2) 34 · Speaking of Crime: The Best Mystery Books of 1949 · Anthony Boucher · br 38 · Clue in Blue · Will Scott · ss The Strand Magazine July 1936 48 · The Case of the Three Old Maids [Dr. Maine] · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Detective Fiction Weekly September 23 1933, as “Corpses Sat in the Car” 65 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar A. Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 81 · Dream Street Rose · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s June 11 1932 92 · The Great Emerald Mystery · Michael Arlen · ss The Red Book Magazine February 1928 103 · No Alibi · Hugh MacNair Kahler · vi Collier’s February 11 1939 106 · The Adventure of the Paradol Chamber [Sherlock Holmes] · John Dickson Carr · pl The Unicorn Mystery Book Club News v2 #3, 1949, as by Dr. John H. Watson play performed at the Mystery Writers of America annual meeting, April 1949. 111 · Conversation in Baker Street [Sherlock Holmes] · Howard Spring · fa 116 · The Procurator of Justice [Sherlock Holmes] · Stephen Barr · vi 128 · The Patchwork Murder [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v15, #76, March 1950] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 2 · $100 Reward! Announcement of Cover Contest · [uncredited] · cn; contest for best 1000-word story to explain the cover for this issue. 3 · Pale Blue Nightgown · Louis Golding · ss The Story-teller October 1936 10 · Blackmail · Stephen McKenna · ss The Story-teller November 1929 22 · A Daylight Adventure [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss 35 · A Twilight Adventure [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss Metropolitan April 1914 45 · 1000-to-1 for Your Money [Sam Cragg] · Frank Gruber · nv Black Mask March 1939, as “The Sad Serbian” 63 · The Best Mysteries of the Month · Anthony Boucher · br 65 · The Dwarfs’ Club · Francisco A. Branco; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss 81 · The Humming Bird Comes Home · Cornell Woolrich · ss Pocket Detective Magazine March 1937 93 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · A. Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 113 · Not for a Chorus Girl · C. S. Montanye · vi Collier’s July 14 1934 116 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Seven · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories ed. Ellery Queen, World, 1948; revised. 123 · The Necklace of Pearls [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Radio Times December 18 1931 131 · The Vampire · Thomas Narcejac; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v15, #77, April 1950] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Fifth Annual Report of EQMM’s Prize Contests · Ellery Queen · ms 9 · The Gentleman from Paris · John Dickson Carr · nv 31 · In Vino Veritas [Dr. Frank Belling] · Lawrence G. Blochman · vi The American Magazine October 1941, as “Perfect Wine” 34 · You Must Ride with the Wind [Dr. Colin Starr] · Rufus King · ss Redbook Magazine April 1941, as “The Case of the Jet Black Sheep” 50 · The Wine of Violence · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1911 65 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 81 · The Lieabout · Margery Allingham · ss The (London) Evening News July 22 1936 86 · Partners in Crime · André-Paul Duchâteau; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss 92 · Small Murder · John Granger · ss 100 · The Best Mysteries of the Month · Anthony Boucher · br 102 · The Third Man · Graham Greene · na The American Magazine March 1949

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v15, #78, May 1950] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 2 · Introductory Notes to “Lester Leith, Impersonator” · Erle Stanley Gardner · is 3 · Lester Leith, Impersonator [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly October 28 1939, as “A Thousand to One” 39 · The Murder in the Fishing Cat · Edna St. Vincent Millay · ss The Century Magazine March 1923 53 · The Rustling Tree [Luce] · J. Cameron Smith · ss 63 · The Best Mysteries of the Month · Anthony Boucher · br 65 · The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby · Stanley Ellin · ss 81 · The Initialed Case · Lawrence G. Blochman · vi 1942 83 · An Infringement of the Decalogue · Donn Byrne · ss Hearst’s Magazine December 1917 97 · The Model Murder · Allen F. Reid · vi; winner of the February 1950 cover contest. 100 · The Absent-Minded Coterie [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905 126 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Part Eight · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories ed. Ellery Queen, World, 1948; revised. 132 · The Mystery of the Personal Ad [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v15, #79, June 1950] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Bullet for One [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine July 1948 38 · A Boy’s Will · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss 51 · Some of My Best Friends · Stuart Palmer · hu 59 · The Shadow · Jeffery Farnol · vi Collier’s April 7 1928 62 · The Rook · Jeffery Farnol · vi Collier’s July 27 1929 65 · Between Eight and Eight · C. S. Forester · ss The Evening Standard June 13 1934 76 · Technical Foul · Dale Burgess · vi; winner of the March 1950 cover contest. 78 · Clerical Error · James Gould Cozzens · vi Redbook Magazine August 1935, as “Foot in It” 81 · The Problem of Cell 13 [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American October 30 1905 - November 5 1905, as “The Mystery of Cell 13” 110 · Recipe for Murder · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss The American Legion Magazine January 1947 114 · Chinese Puzzle: The Rock of Justice [Judge Lu Chi-Shen] · Mark Rondy · ss; given as “The Rock of Justice” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. 118 · The Night I Died · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly August 8 1936, uncredited. 143 · Index to Volume 15—January-June 1950 · [uncredited] · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v16, #80, July 1950] ed. Ellery Queen (The American Mercury, Inc., 35¢, 144pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments · Philip Wylie · na The American Magazine February 1944; abridged. 46 · The Oracle of the Dog [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine December 1923 65 · Invited Witness · George Harmon Coxe · ss Dime Mystery Book Magazine August 1933 71 · The Old Doll’s House · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s May 13 1933 79 · No Errors · F. R. Buckley · vi Collier’s December 26 1931 81 · The Lady-Killer · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss 93 · The Case of Karen Smith · Viola Brothers Shore · ss 108 · It Was a Long Time Ago · A. A. Milne · ss 122 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook: Queen’s Quorum: Conclusion · Ellery Queen · ar Twentieth Century Detective Stories ed. Ellery Queen, World, 1948; revised. 129 · The Knitted Silk Scarf [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv