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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#34, November 1955] (1/6d, digest)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

5 · De Mortuis · John Collier · ss The New Yorker July 18 1942

11 · Dream No More · Philip MacDonald · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1955

28 · Near the Back of Beyond [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1955

39 · A Message to Herr Dietrich [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1955

42 · The Way Up to Heaven · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker February 27 1954

51 · Tom, Dick and Harry [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss The Evening Standard August 6 1955

55 · Crazy Like a Fox [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1955

58 · It Might Be George · Charlotte Morris · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1955

70 · The Cockroaches of Baghdad [Chafik J. Chafik] · Charles B. Child · ss Collier’s November 29 1952, as “The Web Caught the Spider”

81 · Murder Was Their Business · Anthony Boucher · ss Shadow Mystery February/March 1947, as “The Retired Hangman”

92 · Only the Guilty Run · Vin Packer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1955

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#36, January 1956] (1/6d, digest)

· Striding Folly [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy Sayers · ss The Strand Magazine July 1935

· The Queer Fish · Kem Bennett · ss Argosy (UK) September 1955

· A Hansom in the Night [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss John Bull June 26 1954, as “Hansom for Raffles”

· The Heel of Achilles O’Shay · Clayton Fox · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1956

· Weak Spot · W. C. King · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1956

· Roll Out the Barrel · Geoffrey Household · ss 1952

· First Time Machine · Fredric Brown · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1955

· Santa Claus Beat · Rex Stout · ss What’s New December 1953, as “Tough Cop’s Gift”

· The Other Arrow · F. M. Barratt & Jack Finney · ss Collier’s October 18 1952, as “Diagnosis Completed”

· Cold Money [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week March 30 1952

· Will You Always Be Helping Me? · Thomas Walsh · ss Woman’s Home Companion September 1940, as “Boy from Home”

· Get Off My Back! · Saul Levinson · ss Man’s Life 1953, as “Hick Law”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#37, February 1956] (1/6d, digest)

· The Letter · Thomas Kyd · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1956

· Johnny Cinderella · Joseph Petracca · ss Collier’s October 25 1952

· Strictly from Hollywood · Steve April · vi Collier’s January 24 1953

· The Lion’s Tooth [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard August 10 1955

· It Could Happen to Anyone · Marc Brandel · ss 1955, as “The Hasty Act”

· The Gentlest of the Brothers · David Alexander · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1956

· A Dog in the Daytime [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine December 1954, as “The Body in the Hall”

· A Woman of Principle [Insp. Peter Curwen] · Roy Vickers · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1956

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#38, March 1956] (1/6d, digest)

· The Dusty Drawer · Harry Muheim · ss Collier’s May 3 1952

· The Compleat Murderess · Virginia Jones · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1956

· Jack of Diamonds [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1956

· The Man Who Explained Miracles [Sir Henry Merrivale] · Carter Dickson · na The Housewife January 1956 (+2), as “Ministry of Miracles”

· Of More Value than Sparrows [Colonel Braxton] · Melville Davisson Post · ss 1929

· Banks Are Never Wrong · John D. Hess · ss Esquire September 1952, as “The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks”

· Lucky Cop · Steve Fisher · ss 1939
possibly a reprint of Fisher’s “Lucky” (Detective Fiction Weekly, June 3, 1939).

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#39, April 1956] (1/6d, digest)

· The Black Kitten · A. H. Z. Carr · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1956

· A Matter of Justice · Hugh Pentecost · na Collier’s May 2 1953 (+1), as “The Case of the Killer Dogs”

· Mr. Brisher’s Treasure · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine April 1899

· The Watcher · Emilee Berger · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1956

· You Don’t Argue with the Captain · Donald McNutt Douglass · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1956

· The Steinpilz Method · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955, as “Earth to Earth”

· Sing a Song of Sixpence [Edward Leithen; The Runagates Club] · John Buchan · nv Pall Mall Magazine February 1928

· Chance Is Sometimes an Enemy · Frederick Nebel · ss Collier’s March 11 1939

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#40, May 1956] (Mellifont Press Ltd., 1/6d, digest)
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5 · Rogues’ Gallery · MacKinlay Kantor · vi Collier’s August 24 1935

8 · Business Trip · Elliot West · ss Collier’s May 2 1953, as “The Assassin”

22 · Crime of the Century · St. John Ervine · ss (r)

33 · Gifts to My People · Michael Forrestier · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1956

42 · One of the Family · James Yaffe · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1956

55 · The Six Golden Nymphs [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1956

69 · To Strike a Match · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss This Week November 6 1938, as “The House of Three Candles”

75 · What’s His Line? [Gervase Fen; Insp. Humbleby] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard July 11 1955

79 · Not a Drum Was Heard · Ben Ames Williams · ss Collier’s June 12 1920

87 · The Disappearance of Captain Harwell [Harley Quin] · Agatha Christie · ss The Grand Magazine November 1925, as “A Man of Magic”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [No. 41, June 1956] (Mellifont Press Ltd., 1/6d, 98pp, digest)

5 · The Blessington Method · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956

15 · A Telegram for Miss Phipps [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956

35 · Murder in the Rain [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week June 7 1953, as “The Rain Dripped Death”

43 · Try It My Way · Frederick Nebel · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956

55 · What Did Poor Brown Do? · Mark Twain · ex from Following the Equator, American Pub. Co., 1897

61 · Journey Into Time [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956
translated from the French (“Les Larmes de Bougie”, Paris-Soir-Dimanche, November 22, 1936).

69 · Introduction to “The Boy and the Book” · Anthony Boucher · is Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956

69 · The Boy and the Book [Danny Nathan] · Daniel Nathan · ex from The Golden Summer, Little, Brown, 1953; subtitled “The Adventures of Danny”.

81 · A Victim Must Be Found · Henry Slesar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956

86 · “I Killed John Harrington” · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s June 12 1937, as “Light in Darkness”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#42, July 1956] (1/6d, digest)

· The Destructors · Graham Greene · ss Picture Post July 24 1954 (+1)

· The Customs of the Country [Major Tennente] · Thomas Flanagan · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1956

· The Double Clue [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch December 5 1923

· Dapper Johnny Brown · Ruth McKenney · ss Collier’s May 17 1952

· To Break the Weave · Walt Sheldon · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956

· The Cream of the Jest · Fredric Brown · ss New Detective Magazine July 1949, as “Last Curtain”

· The Man of the Knife · Alexandre Dumas · ss (r)
translated from the French.

· The Flaw in the System · Jim Thompson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1956

· One Hundred Thousand Dollars a Pint · Paul E. Walsh · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1956

· From the Mouse to the Hawk · Dion Henderson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1956

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#43, August 1956] (1/6d, digest)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

5 · You Are Going to Die · Bethel Laurence · ss Today’s Woman March 1951, as “The Call”

15 · The Hills Cried Murder · Paul W. Fairman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1956

25 · The Tired Horse · Ben Hecht · ss Esquire September 1954

28 · The Tools of Magic · Lyle G. Boyd · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1956

39 · Date to Die [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week October 17 1954

47 · King of the Meat Cleavers · Ron Stevens · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1956

50 · The Boy and the Money Box [Danny Nathan] · Daniel Nathan · ex from The Golden Summer, Little, Brown, 1953

67 · The Cellini Saltcellar [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1956

70 · A Toy for Jiffy [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1956

83 · Don’t Believe a Word She Says · William Lindsay Gresham · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1956

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#44, September 1956] (1/6d, digest)
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5 · A Bad Time of Day · Wade Miller · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1956

15 · The Waiting Thing Inside · Theodore Sturgeon & Don Ward · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1956

27 · Hanging the Hangman · B. M. Atkinson, Jr. · ss Collier’s August 25 1951

30 · Only on Rainy Nights [unnamed inspector] · Mark Van Doren · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1956

41 · Code of the Underworld · Robert Carson · vi Collier’s November 8 1952

44 · Cut, Cut, Cut! [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week December 28 1952, as “The Myna Bird Mystery”

49 · An Ingenious Defence · [uncredited] · ss The Leisure Hour April 28 1877

53 · Girl in Trouble · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1956, as “?”

88 · The Folding Knife · Cecil E. Parson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1956

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#45, October 1956] (1/6d, digest)

· One-Tenth Man · Michael Gilbert · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1956

· Mr. Hyde-de-Ho · Veronica Parker Johns · na Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1956

· A Hanging Matter · Verne Athanas · ss Esquire July 1952

· A Trip to Florida · Henry Slesar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1956

· The Boy and the Law [Danny Nathan] · Daniel Nathan · ex from The Golden Summer, Little, Brown, 1953

· Miami Papers Please Copy · Rufus King · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1956

· You Can Take So Much · Frederick Nebel · ss Woman’s Home Companion December 1940, as “If You Can Take It”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [No. 46, November 1956] (1/6d, digest)
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5 · Women—Pests or Poison · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s March 19 1938, as “Hot Money”

17 · The Pedlar’s Revenge · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Collier’s July 25 1953

28 · Deputy Sheriff · James M. Ullman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1956

36 · Tiger in the Glass · Robert Sherman Townes · ss Esquire August 1952, as “Nothing Too Much”

48 · The Thousand Mile Shot · John F. Suter · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1956

67 · The Incautious Burglar [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine October 1940, as “A Guest in the House”

79 · The Man Who Went to Taltavul’s · David Alexander · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1956

91 · The World’s Second Detective · Jacques Barzun · ar Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1956 [Ref. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais]

94 · The Clementine Caper · Larry Van Benthuysen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1956; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”.

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [No. 47, December 1956] (1/6d, digest)
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5 · Diplomatic Crisis; or, Fifi and the Chilean Truffle [Did It Happen?] · Orson Welles · ss The Evening Standard March 18 1955, as “Fifi and the Chilean Truffle”

9 · Before It Is Too Late [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv This Week February 2 1936, as “Triangle at Rhodes”

26 · Danger—Women at Work · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956

33 · Square-O-Rooney · Joseph Whitehill · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956

46 · The Ikon of Elijah · Avram Davidson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956

57 · The Iron Box · John Savage · ss Collier’s February 7 1953

71 · The Man Who Knew · Frederick Nebel · ss Liberty March 9 1940, as “Bet Your Life”

78 · Nothing Is Black and White · Harry Kelly · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”.

87 · The Road to Tyburn · J. Treloar Martin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”.

94 · The Murder of Santa Claus · Tage la Cour; translated by Paul Ib Liebe · ss 1954 [Ref. Agatha Christie]
translated from the Swedish (Mord til Jul, 1952, as by Donald McGuire). parody of Agatha Christie featuring “Hercules Poire”.

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [#48, January 1957] (1/6d, digest)

· Ten Clues for Mr. Polkinghorn · Charlotte Armstrong · ss 1956

· The Magic Painting [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1957

· Ride with a Killer · Verne Athanas · ss Collier’s March 8 1952, as “Pursuit”

· Dangerous Widows [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week January 18 1953

· It Could Happen to Anyone · Charles Mergendahl · ss Collier’s August 20 1954

· The Catch Dog · Vinnie Williams · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1957

· Bedtime Story · J. M. Stern · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1956

· Joy Ride · C. B. Gilford · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1957

· £5000 for a Confession · L. J. Beeston · ss Pearson’s Magazine April 1924

· Soho Night’s Entertainment [Inspector Calloway] · Frank Swinnerton · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1957

· Like a Plum Ripening · C. E. Parker · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1957

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [No. 49, February 1957] ed. Ellery Queen (Mellifont Press, 1/6d, 98pp, digest)
This omits two stories from the US issue of the same date.

5 · Always Open and Shut [Tim Ferguson; Willie Klein] · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s December 2 1939, as “Stick-Up”

17 · Her Last Bow; or, An Adventure of Stately Homes [Stately Homes] · Arthur Porges · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957

21 · The Withered Heart · Jean Potts · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957

31 · The Perfect Model · Margery Sharp · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957

42 · The Three D’s · Ogden Nash · ss Harper’s Bazaar April 1948, as “Victoria”

45 · Immune to Murder [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · nv The American Magazine November 1955

77 · The Forbidden Dollar · C. Y. Lee · ss Writer’s Digest 1954

81 · The Apartment Hunter · Jack & Mary McDonald · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”.

86 · Sherlock Holmes and the F.B.I. · Thomas M. McDade · ar Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957

93 · Letter Writing as a Fine Art · Martin Dardis · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) [No. 50, March 1957] (1/6d, digest)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

5 · The Adventure of the Inner Circle [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #38, January 1947

19 · The Speech · Lord Dunsany · ss Collier’s November 25 1950

23 · Payment in Kind · A. H. Z. Carr · ss 1934

36 · The Perfect Alibi · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1957

49 · Murder on St. Valentine’s Day [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week April 4 1954, as “The Valentine Murder”

56 · Cause for Suspicion [Dr. Paul Standish] · George Harmon Coxe · ss Liberty February 1 1947

67 · The Holy Man · Avram Davidson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1957

74 · The Pearly Gates Are Open · Gladys Cluff · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1955; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”.

77 · Light in Darkness · Roland F. Lee · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1957; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”.

87 · Daddy-O · Pat Stadley · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1957

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