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    Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine   (about)
    A short-lived reprint digest magazine, featuring an introduction by Rex Stout, a Nero Wolfe novella, ten reputable short stories, and a crossword in each issue.

    • Publishers:
      • Hillman Periodicals, Inc.; 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, IL: Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine.

    • Editors:
      • Rex Stout - Supervising Editor: Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine.

    Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine [v1 #1, January 1954] (35¢, 144pp, digest)
    Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky.
    • 1 · Memo to: You; From: Rex Stout · Rex Stout · ed
    • 4 · The Lipstick · Mary Roberts Rinehart · nv Cosmopolitan July 1942
    • 20 · The Little Wheel · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss
    • 32 · Riddle of the Wily Wife · Agnes Rogers Allen · pz How Come? A Book Of Riddles by Agnes Rogers, Doubleday, 1953
    • 33 · Murder Without Clues [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week January 29 1950
    • 37 · The Veiled Lady [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch October 3 1923, as “The Case of the Veiled Lady”
    • 44 · Riddle of the Careless Killer · Agnes Rogers Allen · pz How Come? A Book Of Riddles by Agnes Rogers, Doubleday, 1953
    • 45 · No Bigger Than a Pencil · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard February 24 1953, as “The Pencil”
    • 48 · The Man with Copper Fingers [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers”
    • 66 · Foot in It · James Gould Cozzens · vi Redbook Magazine August 1935
    • 68 · Riddle of the 2000 Witnesses · Agnes Rogers Allen · pz How Come? A Book Of Riddles by Agnes Rogers, Doubleday, 1953
    • 69 · Most Audacious Crime · Elisabeth Sanxay Holding · ss
    • 82 · Riddle of the Surprised Lawyer · Agnes Rogers Allen · pz How Come? A Book Of Riddles by Agnes Rogers, Doubleday, 1953
    • 83 · Footnote to De Quincey: Mr. Smith · Edmund Pearson · ts Murder at Smutty Nose by Edmund Pearson, Doubleday, 1926
    • 91 · Honeymoon Homicide · [uncredited] · ms
    • 92 · The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 15 1930
    • 97 · Who-Is-It · [uncredited] · ms
    • 100 · Before I Die [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout, Viking Press, 1949
      revised from The American Magazine, April 1947.

    New All-Action Stories   (about)
    A loosely-connected series of thin pulps that were (mainly) numbered sequentially but varied between detective, romance and westerns, at least, and each of which had a different title. The series “title” was never listed in the table of contents, but was mentioned in advertisements for “other titles in the series”.

    • Publishers:
      • T.V. Boardman & Co., Ltd.; 14 Cockspur Street, London SW1: New All-Action Stories.

    New All-Action Stories [#1, New Western Stories, 1949] (T.V. Boardman & Co. Ltd., 1/-, 96pp, pulp)
    Issue not indexed.

    New All-Action Stories [#3, 3 Star Western Stories, 1949] (T.V. Boardman & Co. Ltd., 1/-, 96pp, pulp)
    This issue is entitled 3 Star Western Stories on the cover and Table of Contents, and New Western Stories on the title page, and is a partial reprint of the May 1946 issue of 15 Western Tales.
    • 4 · Ghost Gun Hombre · William Heuman · na Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 26 · You Can’t Stop a Gold Rush! · Michael Oblinger · ss Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 36 · This Badge for Hire · James Shaffer · nv Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 51 · Killer in the Sun · John H. Latham · ss Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 56 · A Wagon for Broken Bow · Lance Kermit · nv Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 73 · Spawn of the Wolf Pack · Thomas Thompson · ss Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 80 · Gun-Shot Medicine · Rod Patterson · ss Fifteen Western Tales May 1946

    New All-Action Stories [#5, Double Action Western Stories, 1949] (T.V. Boardman & Co. Ltd., 1/-, 96pp, pulp)
    • 4 · That Gun-Lucky Brannigan! [Big Sam Brannigan] · Joseph Chadwick · na New Western Magazine June 1947
    • 29 · Too Dumb to Die! · Norman A. Fox · ss New Western Magazine June 1947
    • 38 · Guns of Hell’s Half Acre · Ray P. Shotwell · ss Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 50 · Trigger-Quick · H. A. DeRosso · ss New Western Magazine June 1947
    • 60 · Fighting Partners of the Long Loop · Giff Cheshire · nv Big-Book Western Magazine July 1947
    • 78 · Doom for the Cheyenne Kid · Thomas Calvert · nv Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 90 · Dead Man’s Harvest · Barnie Stacy · vi Fifteen Western Tales May 1946
    • 93 · Water Hole Wake · Barry Cord · ss Dime Western Magazine March 1949

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