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The (John) Creasey Mystery Magazine was a high-quality mystery and detective digest that ran for 90 issues between 1956 and 1965, mainly on a monthly basis. It was initially titled The Creasey Mystery Magazine and mainly featured reprint stories selected by Creasey, but was renamed to John Creasey Mystery Magazine when Creasey took over publication in October 1957, and thereafter featured a sprinkling of new stories both by old favourites and new authors.

— The Creasey Mystery Magazine

Publishers: Dalrow Publishing Company; Dalrow House, Church Bank, Bolton, Lancashire, Aug 1956 – Aug 1957; John Creasey; Granville House, Arundel Street, Strand, London WC2, Sep 1957.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1956

v1 #1
Aug
v1 #2
Sep
v1 #3
Oct

v1 #4
Dec

1957
v1 #5
Jan
v1 #6
Feb
v1 #7
Mar
v1 #8
Apr
v1 #9
May
v1 #10
Jun
v1 #11
Jul
v1 #12
Aug
v1 #13
Sep

— John Creasey Mystery Magazine

Title changed from The Creasey Mystery Magazine.

Publishers: John Creasey; Granville House, Arundel Street, Strand, London W.C.2; later from Mowbray House, Norfolk Street, London W.C.1; later from 7 John Street, London W.C.1; later from New Hall, Bodenhan, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1957

v1 #14
Oct
v1 #15
Nov
v1 #16
Dec

1958
v1 #17
Jan
v1 #18
Feb
v1 #19
Mar v1 #20
Apr
v1 #21
May v1 #22
Jun v1 #23
Jul v1 #24
Aug v2 #1
Sep v2 #2
Oct
v2 #3
Nov
v2 #4
Dec

1959 v2 #5
Jan
v2 #6
Feb v2 #7
Mar
v2 #8
Apr
v2 #9
May v2 #10
Jun
v2 #11
Jul

v3 #1
Oct v3 #2
Nov
v3 #3
Dec

1960 v3 #4
Jan
v3 #5
Feb v3 #6
Mar
v3 #7
Apr v3 #8
May
v3 #9
Jun
v3 #10
Jul v3 #11
Aug v3 #12
Sep
v4 #1
Oct v4 #2
Nov v4 #3
Dec

1961 v4 #4
Jan v4 #5
Feb v4 #6
Mar v4 #7
Apr v4 #8
May v4 #9
Jun v4 #10
Jul v4 #11
Aug v4 #12
Sep v5 #1
Oct v5 #2
Nov
v5 #3
Dec

1962
v5 #4
Jan v5 #5
Feb v5 #6
Mar v5 #7
Apr v5 #8
May v5 #9
Jun v5 #10
Jul v5 #11
Aug v5 #12
Sep v6 #1
Oct v6 #2
Nov
v6 #3
Dec

1963

v7 #1
Spring

v7 #2
Jun

v7 #3
Sep

v7 #4
Dec

1964

v8 #1
Mar v8 #2
Apr v8 #3
May v8 #4
Jun v8 #5
Jul v8 #6
Aug v8 #7
Sep v8 #8
Oct v8 #9
Nov
v8 #10
Dec

1965
v8 #11
Jan

v8 #12
Apr

John Creasey Mystery Magazine (Australia) (about)

Five issues of John Creasey Mystery Magazine have been located which have identical contents and issue numbers to the main sequence, but are dated four months later. Although there is nothing on the issues to indicate their source, this was a common pattern for Australian Reprint Editions of crime digests at that time, so it is assumed this is an Australian edition of the magazine.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1958

v1 #14
Feb
v1 #15
Mar
v1 #16
Apr
v1 #17
May
v1 #18
Jun

John Creasey Mystery Magazine (US) (about)

Several issues of John Creasey Mystery Magazine have been located which have identical contents and issue numbers to the main sequence, but have stickers on the cover identifying them as a “Special US Edition”, with a price of 35 cents. Although only the month name is specified, these are known to have appeared 4-8 months after the equivalent UK issue.

Justice (about)

A pulp magazine in all but format, Justice carried the subtitle “Amazing Detective Mysteries”, but focused on crime-adventure rather than detective puzzle plots.

Publishers: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.; 655 Madison Avenue, New York 21, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1955

v1 #1
May

v1 #2
Jul

v1 #3
Oct

1956
v2 #1
Jan

Kelly’s Magazine (about)

Reprint magazine rebinding unsold copies of Complete Detective Novel Magazine and Wild West Stories and Complete Novel Magazine.

Publishers: Teck Publications, Inc.; 222 West 39th Street, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1932
v 1 #1
v 1 #2

1933 v 1 #3 v 1 #4

Keyhole Detective Casebook (about)

--- see under Detective Casebook.

Keyhole Mystery Magazine:

Initially Keyhole Mystery Magazine presented a good array of the more standard mystery and detective short stories by many of the better-known mystery fiction authors, but was unable to sustain sales and folded after only three issues. It was relaunched over a year later, by a different publisher, under the title Keyhole Detective Story Magazine, with an emphasis on a more violent, fast-action, clip, heavily laced with tough and coarse characters and, above all, sex.

— Keyhole Mystery Magazine

Publishers: Winston Publications, Inc.; 157 West 57th Street, New York 19, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1960

v1 #1
Apr

v1 #2
Jun

v1 #3
Aug

— Keyhole Detective Story Magazine

Title changed from Keyhole Mystery Magazine.

Publishers: Pontiac Publishing Corporation; 1546 Broadway, New York 36, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1962
v2 #1
Jan

v2 #2
Apr

v2 #3
Jun

v2 #4
Sep

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