Originally named Bestseller Mystery |
1937
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1937, ? date No. 1Adventures of Ellery Queen |
1937, ? year No. 2One More Spring by Robert Nathan |
1937, ? year No. 3More Adventures of Ellery Queen |
1937, ? year No. 4Life Begins at Forty by Walter B. Pitkin, Abridged |
1937, ? year No. 5Tobacco Road by Jack Kirkland (Erskine Caldwell) |
1937, ? year No. 624 Hours by Louis Bromfield |
1937, ? year No. 7The Bellamy Trail (abridged) by Frances Noyes Hart |
1938
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1938, No. 8The Devil to Pay by Ellery Queen |
1938, ? year No. 9
 The Mysterious Mr. Quin (Abridged) by Agatha Christie |
1938, ? date No. 10The Case of the Curious Bride (abridged) by Erfe Stanley Gardner |
1938, ? date No. 11The Spanish Cape Mystery (abridged) by Ellery Queen |
1938, ? date No. 12Thank You, Mr. Moto by John P. Marquand |
1938, ? date No. 13Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers |
1938, ? date No. 14The Greek Coffin Mystery by Ellery Queen |
1938, ? date No. 15Inquest by Percival Wilde |
1939
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1939, ? date No. 16
 Murder in Stained Glass (abridged) by Margaret Armstrong |
1939, ? date No. 17The Egyptian Cross Mystery (abridged) by Ellery Queen |
1939, ? date No. 18
 Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie |
1939, ? year No. 19The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece (abridged) by Erle Stanley Gardner |
1939, ? year No. 20
 In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers |
1939, ? year No. 21
 Murder in 3 Acts by Agatha Christie |
1939, No. 22The D.A. Holds the Candle by Erle Stanley Gardner |
1939, No. 23
 Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio March |
1940
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1941
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1941, No. 24
 A Face for a Clue by Georges Simenon |
1941, ? year No. 25Partners in Crime (abridged) by Agatha Christie |
1941, ? year No. 26 |
1941, No. 27
 The Cairo Garter Murders (abridged) by Van Wyck Mason |
1941, ? year No. 28The Tragedy Of Y by Ellery Queen |
1941, ? year No. 29Murder Up My Sleeve by Erle Stanley Gardner |
1941, ? year No. 30The Man With No Face (abridged) by Margaret Armstrong |
1942
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1943
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1943, No. 31
 Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout |
1943, ? year No. 32
 The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie |
1943, ? year No. 33
 Black Plumes by Margery Allingham |
1943, No. 34
 Department of Queer Complaints by Carter Diskson |
1943, ? year No. 35This is Murder by Erle Stanley Gardner |
1943, ? year No. 36
 The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie |
1943, No. 37
 The Whispering Cup by Mabel Seeley |
1943, ? year No. 38
 Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers |
1943, ? year No. 39
 The Boomerang Clue by Agatha Christie |
1943, No. 40
 $106,000 Blood Money - Dashiell Hammett |
1943, ? year No. 41
 The Flemish Shop by Georges Simenon |
1943, No. 42
 The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee |
1943, ? year No. 43Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie |
1943
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1943, No. 44Where There Is a Will by Rex Stout |
1944
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1944, No. 45
 Death In Five Boxes by Carter Dickson |
1944, ? year No. 46Death In The Doll's House by Hannah & Lawrence Bachmann Lees |
1944, No. 47The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr |
1944, ? date No. 48
 The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
1944, ? year No. 49The Dark Garden by Mignon G. Eberhart |
1944, No. 50
 The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories by Dashiell Hammett |
1944, ? year No. 51
 Police At The Funeral by Margery Allingham |
1944, No. 52
 The Man in the Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie |
1944, ? year No. 53
 Thirty days Hath September by Dorthy Cameron Disney & George Sessions Perry |
1944, ? year No. 54
 Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie |
1944, ? year No. 55The Pattern by Mignon G. Eberhart |
1944, ? year No. 56Kingdom of Death by Margery Allingham |
1944, ? year No. 57Washington Legation Murders by Van Wyck Mason |
1944
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1944, ? year No. 58
 APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH by Agatha Christie |
1944, ? year No. 59The Case Book Of Ellery Queen by Ellery Queen |
1944, ? year No. 60
 The Hangman's Whip by Mignon G. Eberhart |
1944, ? year No. 61
 Murder at Hazelmoor by Agatha Christe |
1945
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1945, No. 62
 The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett |
1945, ? year No. 63The Budapest Parade Murders by F. Van Wyck Mason |
1945, ? year No. 64
 Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh |
1945, ? year No. 65A Compound For Death by Doris M. Disney |
1945, ? year No. 66
 The Alarm of the Black Cat by D.B. Olson |
1945, ? year No. 67
 Dagger Of The Mind by Kenneth Fearing |
1945, ? year No. 68
 Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh |
1945, ? year No. 69
 The Patience of Maigret by Georges Simenon |
1945, ? year No. 70Deadly Nightshade by Elizabeth Daly |
1945, ? year No. 71
 The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace |
1945, ? year No. 72Parchment Key by Stanley Hopkins |
1945, ? year No. 73
 The Affair of the Crimson Gull by Clifford Knight |
1945, ? year No. 74 |
1945
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1945, ? year No. 75Miss Silver Deals With Death by Patricia Wentworth |
1945, No. 76
 The Pricking Thumb by H.C. Branson |
1945, ? year No. 77
 While She Sleeps by Ethel Lina White |
1945, No. 78Death Watch by John Dickson Carr |
1945, ? year No. 79
 Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective by Agatha Christie |
1945, ? year No. 80The Chuckling Fingers by Mabel Seeley |
1946
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1946, No. 81
 Hammett Homicides by Dashiell Hammett |
1946, No. 82
 Quoth The Raven by Bruno Fischer |
1946, No. 83She Fell Among Actors by James Warren |
1946, ? year No. 84Sinners Never Die by A.E. Martin |
1946, ? year No. 85The Black Honeymoon by Constance & Gwenyth Little (abridged) |
1946, ? year No. 86Murder in the Calais Coach by Agatha Christie |
1946, ? year No. 87The Corpse With The Purple Thighs by George Bagby |
1946, No. 88
 Whisper Murder by Vera Kelsey |
1946, ? year No. 89The Blonde Died First by Dana Chambers |
1946, ? date No. 90
 Deadline at Dawn by William Irish |
1947
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1947, No. 91
 The Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers |
1947, ? year No. 92 |
1947, No. 93The Book Of The Dead by Elizabeth Daly |
1947, ? year No. 94Cops And Robbers by O. Henry |
1947, ? year No. 95The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart |
1947, No. 96
 Dead at the take-off by Lester Dent |
1947, No. 97The Man Who Slept All Day by Michael Yenning |
1947, No. 98Stranger At Home by George Sanders (Leigh Brackett) |
1947, ? date No. 99Cats Don't Need Coffins by D.B.Olsen |
1947, ? year No. 100
 The Hawk by Roy Vickers |
1947, ? year No. 101
 Lady To Kill Cover by Lester Dent |
1948
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1948, No. 102Kiss The Blonde Goodbye by Finlay McDermid |
1948, No. 103Rope For An Ape by Dana Chambers |
1948, No. 104Fear No More by Leslie Edgley |
1948, No. 105So Deadly Fair by Gertrude Walker |
1948, No. 106The Bleeding Scissors by Bruno Fischer |
1948, ? year No. 107Make My Bed Soon by John Stephen Strange |
1948, ? year No. 108Murder Picks The Jury by Harrison Hunt |
1948, ? year No. 109The Angry Heart by Leslie Edgley |
1949
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1949, No. 110
 Bullets for a Blonde by Will Oursler |
1949, No. 111Death For My Beloved by Doris Miles Disney |
1949, No. 112The Book of the Lion by Elizabeth Daly |
1949, No. 113In Cold Blood by George Bagby |
1949, ? year No. 114The Blue Horse Of Taxco by Kathleen Moore Knight |
1949, No. 115Lady Afraid by Lester Dent |
1949, ? year No. 116Fountain Of Death by Hugh Lawrence Nelson |
1949, ? year No. 117Death Has Four Hands by Hilda Lawrence |
1949, ? year No. 118Short Shrift by Manning Long |
1949, ? year No. 119The Dark River by Philip Clark |
1949, ? year No. 120Devious Design by D.B. Olsen |
1949, ? date No. 121
 Nightfall by David Goodis |
1949, ? date No. 122The Bleeding House by Hilda Lawrence |
1949
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1949, ? year No. 123Bait For Murder by Kathleen Moore Knight |
1949, ? year No. 124Think Fast Mr. Moto by John Marquand |
1949, No. 126
 For the Love of Murder by Maragret Scherf |
1949, No. 127The Dark Light by Bart Spicer |
1950
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1950, No. 125Shark River by Richard Powell |
1950, No. 128The Monkey Murder and other Hildegarde Withers stories by Stuart Palmer |
1950, ? year No. 129
 Place for a Poisoner by E. C. R. Lorac |
1950, ? year No. 130Kill to Fit by Bruno Fischer |
1950, ? year No. 131Kill 'Em With Kindness by Fred Dickenson |
1950, ? year No. 132Days of Misfortune by Aaron Marc Stein |
1950, ? year No. 133Too Like The Dead by Dana Chambers |
1950, ? year No. 134A Lonely Way To Die by Hal Debrett |
1950, ? year No. 135
 Murder For Millions (Emily Will Know) by Nancy Rutledge |
1950, ? year No. 136Blood On My Shoe by Jean Leslie |
1950, ? year No. 137He Didn't Mind Danger by Michael Gilbert |
1950, ? year No. 138The Whitebird Murders by Thomas B. Black |
1950, ? year No. 139Death Of A Big Shot by Clifford Knight |
1950
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1950, No. 140
 Rather Cool For Mayhem by Lawrence G. Blochman |
1950, ? year No. 141Sinister Shelter by Charles L. Leonard |
1950, ? year No. 142 |
1950, ? year No. 143Murder Makes a Deadline by Samuel Michael Fuller |
1951
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1951, No. 144Mr. Blessington's Imperialist Plot by John Sherwood |
1951, ? date No. 145
 Half Past Mortem by John A. Saxon |
1951, ? year No. 146The Knife Behind You by James Benet |
1951, No. 147The Man in the Mist by Francis Bonnamy |
1951, ? year No. 148
 "Smallbone Deceased" by Michael Gilbert |
1951, No. 149These Arrows Point To Death by William O'Farrell |
1951, ? year No. 150The Kahuna Killer by Juanita Sheridan |
1951, ? year No. 151The 3-13 Murders by Thomas Black |
1951, No. 152Alias Basil Willing by Helen McCloy |
1951, ? year No. 153 |
1951, ? date No. 154"Fatal Lover (The Last Resort)" by Van Stiller |
1952
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1952, No. 155The Mamo Murders by Juanita Sheridan |
1952, ? year No. 156Don't Kill My Love by Rae Foley |
1952, ? year No. 157"F" As in Flight by Lawrence Treat |
1952, ? year No. 158Mask for Murder by Aaron Stein |
1952, ? year No. 159Divine And Deadly by Margaret Scherf |
1952, ? year No. 160Dead Ringer by Ferguson Findley |
1952, ? year No. 161The Fair And The Dead by John Stephen Strange |
1952, No. 162Murder Is a Gamble by Glenn M. Barns |
1952, ? year No. 163Lust For Vengeance by Robert Bloomfield |
1952, ? year No. 164Death, My Darling Daughters by Jonathan Stagge |
1952, ? year No. 165Vice Squad by Leslie T. White |
1952, ? year No. 166Dance Of Death by Helen McCloy |
1952, ? year No. 167The Virgin Huntress by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding |
1952
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1952, ? year No. 168Dead Yesterday by Ruth Fenisong |
1952, No. 169
 One Murder Too Many by Edwin Lanham |
1953
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1953, ? year No. 170
 Make Haste to Live by The Gordons |
1953, ? year No. 171One Blonde Died by Leslie Edgley |
1953, ? year No. 172Killer Loose! by Genevieve Holden |
1953, No. 173
 The Corpse Who Had Too Many Friends by Hampron Stone |
1953, ? year No. 174
 This Year's Death by John Godey |
1953, No. 175
 Lawyers Don't Hang by Glenn M. Barns |
1954
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1954, ? year No. 176The Passionate Victims by Lange Lewis |
1954, ? year No. 177Terror Lurks In Darkness by Delores Hitchens |
1954, ? year No. 178V as in Victim by Lawrence Treat |
1954, ? year No. 179Lovely In Death by William O'Farrell |
1955
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1955, ? year No. 180Killer at His Back (abridged) by John Godey |
1955, ? date No. 181You'll Fry Tomorrow by M.v. Heberden |
1955, ? year No. 182The Case of the Missing Corpse by Edwin Lanham |
1955, ? year No. 183Embrace of Death by Carroll Cox Estes |
1955, ? year No. 184 |
1955, ? year No. 185Too Lovely To Live by Ruth Fenisong |
1955, ? year No. 186They All Bleed Red by Richard Sted |
1956
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1956, ? year No. 187Buried for Pleasure (Abridged) by Edwin Crispin |
1956, ? date No. 188The Blonde Betrayer by John Godey |
1956, ? date No. 189Trap for a Redhead by Stuart Palmer |
1956, ? year No. 190Trial And Terror by Lawrence Treat |
1956, ? year No. 191Shroud for a Lady by Elizabeth Daly |
1956, ? year No. 192Another Morgue Heard From by Frederick Davis |
1956, ? year No. 193Catch and Kill by Nicholas Blake |
1956, ? year No. 194Network of Fear by Alvin Yudkoff |
1956, ? year No. 195No Time for Terror by Philip MacDonald |
1956, ? year No. 196
 Murder Muscles In (abridged) by Max Franklin |
1955, No. 197Murder Makes an Entrance by Clarence Bidington Keeland |
1956, ? date No. 198Black Alibi (abridged) by Cornell Woolrich |
1957
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1957, ? year No. 199The Book of the Crime by Elizabeth Daly |
1957, ? year No. 200A Dirty Way To Die by George Bagby |
1957, ? year No. 201Tell Her It's Murder, Helen Reilly |
1957, ? year No. 202Take One For Murder by M.E. Chaber |
1957, ? year No. 203The Long Body by Helen Mccloy |
1957, ? year No. 204
 I Wake Up Screaming by Steve Fisher |
1957, ? year No. 205Don't Look Back (abridged) by Miram Borgenicht |
1957, ? year No. 206
 The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich |
1957, ? year No. 207Hang The Man High by Geoggrey Household |
1958
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Jan 1958,
 THE ALMOST DEAD by William Herber |
Mar 1958, ? date No. 208The Deadly Truth (abridged) by Helen McCloy |
May 1958, ? date No. 209Bridge to Vengence (abridged from The Little Walls) by Winston Graham |
Name changed to Bestseller Mystery Magazine |
1958
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Jul 1958, v1#1 No. 210
 Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich |
Sep 1958, v1#2 No. 211
 Project: Murder by James M. Fox |
Nov 1958, v1#3 No. 212
 Wish you were Dead |
1959
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Jan 1959, v1#4 No. 213
 The Almost Dead by William Herber |
Mar 1959, v1#5 No. 214
 Wings of Death by Brandon Bird |
May 1959, v1#6 No. 215
 The Man on the Cliff by Andrew Garve |
Jul 1959, v1#7 No. 216
 The Dying Fall by Henry Wade |
Sep 1959, v1#8 No. 217
 First Class Murder by Doris Miles Disney |
Nov 1959, v1#9 No. 218 |
1960
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Jan 1960, v2#1 No. 219
 The Man Who Didn't Fly by Margot Bennett |
Mar 1960, v2#2 No. 220 |
May 1960, v2#3 No. 221Man in Ambush by Maurice Procter |
Jul 1960, v2#4 No. 222
 Sting of Death by Shelly Smith |
Sep 1960, v2#5 No. 223 |
Nov 1960, v2#6 No. 224 |
1961
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Feb 1961, v3#1 No. 225 |
Apr 1961, v3#2 No. 226
 Murder In Eden Arthur W. Upfield |