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Masque Noir [November 2000] ed. Rod Marsden ($6.00, 64pp, A4, cover by Jeff Ward)

7 · Letters Unmasqued · The Readers · lc

9 · Reviews Unmasqued · Various · br

14 · An Interview with the Enigmatic GAK · Rod Marsden · iv [Ref. GAK]

17 · Marsomatosis · Don Boyd · ss

21 · Exploding Oldies · Keith Rex · ss

24 · Super-Strings · Bill West · pm

25 · The Book-Keeper · Robert Scott · ss

28 · The Renaissance of Ego · Neil K. Henderson · pm Beyond the Boundaries #12, Summer 1997

29 · The Publican’s Republican’s · Austin J. Ford · ss

32 · Horoscope · Neil K. Henderson · pm

33 · The Burial · Julia Andrejeva · vi

34 · Roses for Elaine · Barbara A. Custer · ss

39 · Enter the Thirs Hole of Madness · Rod Marsden · ss

43 · Snowman · Richard Reeve · vi Weird Stories #18, March 1998

45 · Diplomatic Impunity [Alexander Nichols (The Midnight Sentinel)] · Jens H. Altmann · ss

49 · And One by Sea · Rod Marsden · ss Detective Mystery Stories #15, 2000

52 · A Rat Must Chew [Vic Powers] · Gary Lovisi · ss Hardboiled #23, 1997

53 · Unutterable Cave · T. Anders Carson · pm

54 · When You Lack Warmth · Julia Andrejeva · ss

55 · Creed · Drummond Henderson · pm

56 · Rabbits · Geoff Jackson · ss

60 · Memory Loss · Robert Steven Rhine · ss

63 · Chandra · Bill West · pm

Masque Noir [#6, October 2001] ed. Rod Marsden ($6.00, 80pp, A4, cover by GAK)

6 · Letters Unmasqued · The Readers · lc

7 · Reviews Unmasqued · Various · br

13 · The Doll World · Julia Andrejeva · ss

14 · Bloodeaters of the Nile · Don Boyd · ss

20 · When the Lion Roars No More · Richard Reeve · pm

21 · Perhaps to Dream [Eddie Dart] · Rod Marsden · ss Double Danger Tales #42, 2001

25 · The Second Coming of the Dead · Joseph V. Danoski · pm The Ultimate Unknown #16, Summer 1999

26 · Fools and Burning Houses [Alexander Nichols (The Midnight Sentinel)] · Jens H. & Akiko Altmann · ss Double Danger Tales #45, 2001, as by Jens Altmann & Akiko Ando

29 · Mr. Scary · Joseph V. Danoski · pm

30 · Big Bob · Lisa Tate · ss

34 · Bill and Tim’s Excellent Adventure · Andy Darlington · ar

40 · I Need Your Packaging Plant · Neil K. Henderson · pm

41 · The Shed Painter · Geoff Jackson · ss

43 · The Gatekeeper · Barbara A. Custer · ss

48 · Click-Click · Robert Steven Rhine · ss Delirium #4, 2001

53 · Titanic Distress · Michael Hailstone · ss

58 · A Few Fishie Stories · Austin J. Ford · ss

61 · Deceptions, Delusions and Desire · Mark Hodgetts · ss

65 · Unutterable Cave · Anders Carson · pm

66 · Cure Overdose · Shane Griffin · ss

70 · Son of Sam · Keith Rex · ss

73 · Upon Lighting My Gas Oven · Jim Dewitt · pm

74 · Jindan · Robert Scott · ss

Masque Noir [#7, 2003?]
Issue not indexed.

The Master Thriller Series (about)
A series of anthologies in magazine format; each issue featured a different genre. For convenience, all issues have been indexed even though only a small number are mystery/detective.

Publishers:

The World’s Work (1913) Ltd.; Kingswood, Surrey: The Master Thriller Series.

The Master Thriller Series [#1, Tales of the Foreign Legion (July 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)

· Soldiers of France · [uncredited] · ms; brief piece about the foreign legion.

· Gentlemen of the Legion · J. D. Newsom · nv Frontier Stories July 1927

· The Quest · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917

· The Dead Fight Hard · Bob du Soe · ss Short Stories May 25 1929

· Strength of the Legion · [uncredited] · ms

· His Own People · J. D. Newsom · nv The Frontier November 1926

· Send No Flowers · Georges Surdez · ss Short Stories October 25 1929

· Kismet in Picardy · Don McGrew · ss Short Stories December 10 1928

· Six Feet Under · Robert Carse · ss Short Stories December 10 1929

The Master Thriller Series [#2, Tales of the North-West Mounted Police (September 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)

· A Free Rein · William Byron Mowery · nv Short Stories July 10 1925

· Prestige of the Scarlet · Harwood Steele · ss Short Stories January 10 1927

· The Galloping Hours · William Byron Mowery · ss Short Stories November 10 1925

· Blind Man’s Bluff · Walter W. Liggett · ss The Frontier August 1925

· On Patrol · James B. Hendryx · ss Short Stories February 10 1925

· The Last Potlatch · J. Allan Dunn · ss Short Stories January 25 1924

· Men Who Pay in Blood · T. Von Ziekursch · ss Short Stories October 25 1924

· Misadventure · Robert Ray · ss

The Master Thriller Series [#3, Tales of the Seven Seas (December 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

6 · The Pearl Raiders · R. de S. Horn · na Short Stories November 25 1925

9 · Sea Thirst · C. Wiles Hallock · pm Short Stories June 10 1931

60 · Mutiny at Five Bells · [uncredited] · ms (r)

61 · Yellow Piracy · E. Keble Chatterton · ss

67 · Discontent · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm Short Stories June 25 1932

68 · The Pirate Hunter · Capt. Frederick Moore · ss Short Stories July 10 1927

85 · Revise Your Maps! · [uncredited] · ms (r)

86 · Weeds · Ralph R. Perry · ss Short Stories October 25 1926

105 · Singing Johnny · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm Short Stories June 25 1931

106 · Twenty Fathoms Under · T. T. Flynn · ss Short Stories April 25 1927

116 · Terrors of the Deep · [uncredited] · ms (r)

117 · The Skipper Knows Best · Murray Leinster · ss Short Stories December 10 1928

126 · A Veteran Sealer · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· The Editor’s Log · The Editor · ed (r)

The Master Thriller Series [#4, Tales of Mystery and Detection (March 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)

· The Image in the Mirror [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Hangman’s Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1933

· The Kidnapped Prime Minister [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv The Sketch April 25 1923

· Out of Paradise [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Collier’s Weekly December 10 1904

· An Ethical Dilemma [Major Forester] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss The London Magazine June 1928

· The Case of Oscar Brodski [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine December 1910

· The Cat Burglar [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly November 6 1926

· The Cliff Path Ghost [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · ss A Lesson in Crime by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1933

· The Sexton’s Wife · Margery Allingham · ss

· The Blue Cross [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 23 1910, as “Valentin Follows a Curious Trail”

The Master Thriller Series [#5, Tales of the Foreign Legion #2 (June 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

4 · Stepsons of France · [uncredited] · ms

6 · The Ambush at Soueida · Ex-Legionnaire Francis A. Waterhouse · nv

40 · Sermons in Stones [Foreign Legion: John Bull] · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917

46 · The River Pirates of Indo-China · Ex-Legionnaire Reginald R. Forbes · nv

68 · My Moroccan Baptism · Ex-Legionnaire 1384 & W. J. Blackledge · ss

78 · Fighting the Berbers · Prince Aage of Denmark · ex from My Life in the Foreign Legion, Eveleigh Nash, 1928

110 · Strictly Private · J. D. Newsom · ss Short Stories September 10 1930

The Master Thriller Series [#6, Tales of the Uncanny (September 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Youngman Conors)

3 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907

32 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost”

40 · Honolulu · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Everybody’s October 1921

54 · The Wind in the Portico [The Runagates Club] · John Buchan · nv Pall Mall Magazine March 1928

68 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q

76 · Mrs. Lunt · Hugh Walpole · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926

85 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony”

97 · Old Man’s Beard · H. Russell Wakefield · ss Old Man’s Beard by H. Russell Wakefield, Bles, 1929

108 · Mine · Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes · ss The Royal Magazine February 1924

119 · Rooum · Oliver Onions · ss The Fortnightly Review December 1910

The Master Thriller Series [#7, Tales of African Adventure (December 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)
Details supplied by Steve Holland.

· Thorns and Iron · Victor Rousseau · nv Frontier Stories September 1927

· Ivory [Keynes] · H. Bedford-Jones · nv Short Stories March 10 1930

· Cannibal Teeth · William Doughty · ss Short Stories April 25 1930

· Treasure of the Pharaohs · Charles Saxby & H. A. Noureddin Addis · nv Short Stories August 25 1930

· Dust · J. D. Newsom · nv Frontier Stories January 1927

· Lion Hunting in the Liuwa · J. P. Kay Robinson · ss

The Master Thriller Series [#8, Tales of the Orient (March 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

7 · The Road of Adventure · Albert Richard Wetjen · ss Short Stories October 10 1924

27 · The Malay Kris · Frederick Moore · ss Short Stories April 10 1925

44 · Three Gates Pagoda · H. Bedford-Jones · nv Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine November 1925

74 · Smoke of Dreams · Elmer Brown Mason · ss Short Stories January 25 1926

83 · The Ghost of Intelligence · S. B. H. Hurst · ss Short Stories August 25 1925

93 · Once Beyond Khyber · Jack Smalley · ss Short Stories March 10 1927

106 · Empire’s Edge · Nels Leroy Jorgensen · nv Frontier Stories July 1927

The Master Thriller Series [#9, Tales of the Jungle (July 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

4 · By Rule of Drum [Aubrey St. John Major] · L. Patrick Greene · nv Short Stories September 10 1934

31 · The Smartest Elephant · Edward T. Turner · ss Short Stories September 25 1934

42 · Whole Hog or None · Edmond Du Perrier · ss Short Stories March 25 1935

52 · Thirteen Heads · Herman Petersen · ss Short Stories February 25 1935

71 · Voodoo Moon · Edward T. Turner · ss Short Stories October 25 1934

81 · Borneo Diamonds · Frank J. Leahy · ss Short Stories November 25 1934

92 · “Well, I’ll Be—” · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories February 25 1935

101 · Siamese Twinge · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories December 10 1934

113 · Jungle Loot · Carl N. Taylor · ss Short Stories March 10 1935

The Master Thriller Series [#10, Tales of the Foreign Legion #3 (October 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)
Details supplied by Steve Holland.

· All You Do Is Fight! · J. D. Newsom · na Adventure January 1 1935

· Grenades for the Colonel · J. D. Newsom · nv Argosy February 16 1935

· Soldiers of Misfortune · J. D. Newsom · na Argosy June 1 1935

· The Good Shepherds · J. D. Newsom · ss Frontier Stories November 1928

The Master Thriller Series [#11, Tales of the Sea (January 1936)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

· The Silver Chain · William Chamberlain · nv Short Stories September 10 1935

· Devil’s Sunset · Edgar Piper · ss Short Stories December 25 1934

· Blind Man’s Bluff · R. V. Gery · ss Short Stories October 10 1934

· John Brown’s Son · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories September 25 1934

· The Terrible Mr. Terry [Mr. Riorden] · Frank J. Leahy · ss Short Stories November 10 1934

· Heritage · Denis Trent · ss Short Stories November 10 1934

· Cargo Awash · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories January 10 1935

· He Was a Coward · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories November 25 1934

The Master Thriller Series [#12, Tales of Valour (April 1936)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp)
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

· The Coward of the Legion [Foreign Legion: John Bull] · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917

· Hell’s Half Mile · Sam Kemp · ss

· The Sahib with the Strong Liver · Scott Yorke · ss

· Pioneering by Motor-Car · T. C. Bridges & Hessell Tiltman · ss

· True Tales of the Jungle · George Hogan Knowles · ss

· Open Boats · Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C. · ss

· How Stanley Found Livingstone · Henry M. Stanley · ts (r); possibly the retelling by Orison Swett Marden (Stories from Life, American Book Company, 1904) or by Edward King (Scribner’s Monthly, January 1873).

· Twentieth-Century Sailor-Men · E. Keble Chatterton · ss

· McKecknie’s Lion · Juba Kennerley · ss

· Scott · Capt. Robert Scott, R.N. · ex (r); extracts from Scott’s diary.

The Master Thriller Series [#13, Tales of the Levant (July 1936)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Nick)
Details supplied by Steve Holland.

· The Human Element · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan December 1930

· Fires of Baal · Sax Rohmer · ss Collier’s November 9 1929

· The Chronometer · A. E. W. Mason · ss Dilemmas by A. E. W. Mason, Hodder, 1934

· Tales of Old Constantinople: The Death Mother · Chalmers Roberts · ss

· Tales of Old Constantinople: The Sad Case of Princess Esme · Chalmers Roberts · ss

· Tales of Old Constantinople: The Millions of Arakelian · Chalmers Roberts · ss

· Tales of Old Constantinople: The Marrying of Murad Bey · Chalmers Roberts · ss

· Tales of the Balkans: Mrs. Proctor · David Footman · ss Half-Way East by David Footman, Heinemann, 1935

· Tales of the Balkans: Dr. Mavro · David Footman · ss Half-Way East by David Footman, Heinemann, 1935

· Laughs from the Levant: The Killing of Julius Caesar · Mark Twain · ss The Californian November 12 1864

· Laughs from the Levant: The Turkish Bath · Mark Twain · ss Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, Hartford American Publishing Company, 1869

· Laughs from the Levant: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers · Mark Twain · ss Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, Hartford American Publishing Company, 1869

· Laughs from the Levant: The Grave of Adam · Mark Twain · ss Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, Hartford American Publishing Company, 1869

· The Unhappy Holy Land · Vincent Streean · ss

· Safe Money · Ray Millholland · ss Short Stories June 25 1936

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