Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Series List

Collins, Silky
• Joe Mackey:
  • Silky Collins Finds an Angle on Some Squares (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1959
  • Silky Stoops to Conquer (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1959
  • Silky Collins Meets Dan Cupidity (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1959

Colm
• Mike Culpepper:
  • The Icicle Judgment (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2009
  • The Necklace of Glass (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 2009
  • The Trollfarm Killing (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 2009
  • The Silver Pennies (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2010
  • The Berserk Feud (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2011
  • The Witch-Couple (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 2011

Colt, Brian
• Anonymous:
  • Received Payment (ss) The Illustrated Detective Magazine Sep 1931

Colt, Captain Lansing
• Frederick C. Painton:
  • Death’s Front Man (nv) All Detective Magazine Aug 1934
  • Salesman for Death (na) All Detective Magazine Oct 1934
  • Framed for Hanging (nv) All Detective Magazine Nov 1934
  • The Father of Death (nv) All Detective Magazine Dec 1934

Colt, Thatcher
• Anthony Abbot:
  • About the Murder of Geraldine Foster (n.) Covici-Friede 1930
  • About the Perfect Crime of Mr. Digberry (nv) Cosmopolitan Oct 1940

Colvin, Captain Jim
• Warren Hastings Miller:
  • The Racketeer Rajah (ss) All Detective Magazine Nov 1933

Condor
• James Grady:
  • condor.net (nv) Crime Time #50 2006

Cone, Melvin
• Ray Cummings:
  • The Tick of Terror (ss) Detective Tales Jul 1938
  • Judy and the Strangler (ss) Detective Tales Nov 1938
  • The Dead Girl Screamed (vi) Detective Tales Dec 1938
  • The Picture Death Took (ss) Detective Tales Jan 1939
  • Murder in Silhouette (ss) Detective Yarns Mar 1940
  • The Last Move (ss) Thrilling Mystery Novel Magazine Mar 1947
• Gabriel Wilson:
  • Needle in Death’s Haystack (ss) Detective Tales May 1938

Connel, Johnny
• Steve Fisher:
  • Murder Melody (ss) Detective Tales Jun 1941
  • Blues for a Dead Lady (ss) Detective Tales Mar 1951

Connell, Dan (about)
• Bill Pronzini:
  • The Jade Figurine (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1971

Connell, Shean (about)
• Roger Torrey:
  • Hillbilly Stuff (nv) Black Mask Jun 1937
  • Just a Nice Girl (nv) Black Mask Aug 1937
  • One Good Turn (ss) Black Mask Nov 1937
  • Relative Trouble (nv) Black Mask Jan 1938

Conners, LeDroit
• Samuel M. Gardenhire:
  • The Adventure of the Counterfeiters (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 5 1905

Connolly, Betty (The Red Rose)
• Margery Allingham:
  • Darings of the Red Rose: Episode 1 (ss) Weekly Welcome Feb 15 1930, uncredited.
  • The Lady at the Crossroads (ss) Weekly Welcome Mar 8 1930, uncredited.
  • Her Day of Reckoning (ss) Weekly Welcome Apr 5 1930, uncredited.

Conquest, Norman (about)
• Edwy Searles Brooks:
  • Mr. Mortimer Gets the Jitters (na) The Thriller Jan 30 1937
• Berkeley Gray:
  • The Room Upstairs (na) The Thriller Library Mar 13 1937
  • Sabotage (na) The Thriller Library Jun 5 1937
  • Vultures Ltd. (na) The Thriller Library Oct 2 1937
  • The Dictator (na) The Thriller Library Nov 13 1937
  • The Dictator’s Victim (na) The Thriller Library Jan 15 1938
  • The Case of the Curious Cop (na) The Thriller Library Mar 12 1938
  • Miss Dynamite (na) The Thriller Library Apr 16 1938
  • Conquest Takes the Count (na) The Thriller Library May 21 1938
  • Leave It to Conquest (na) The Thriller Library Jun 25 1938
  • The Fatal Circle (na) The Thriller Library Jul 30 1938
  • No Flowers by Request (na) The Thriller Library Sep 17 1938
  • The Phantom Train (na) The Thriller Library Oct 29 1938
  • The Man Who Glowed in the Dark (na) The Thriller Library Dec 3 1938
  • The House of a Thousand Lights (na) The Thriller Library Dec 31 1938
  • Find the Lady (na) The Thriller Library Jan 7 1939
  • Crime Castle (na) The Thriller Library Feb 4 1939
  • A Crook in Armour (na) The Thriller Library Feb 25 1939
  • Crime Marches On! (na) The Thriller Library Mar 11 1939
  • A Present from Conquest (na) The Thriller Library Apr 1 1939
  • The Trap (na) The Thriller Library Apr 22 1939
  • Rubber Face (na) The Thriller Library May 13 1939
  • Rough-House (na) The Thriller Library May 27 1939
  • Zero Hour (na) The Thriller Library Jul 15 1939
  • Convict 1066 (na) The Thriller Library Aug 19 1939
  • With Conquest’s Compliments (na) The Thriller Library Sep 2 1939
  • Arrest Conquest (na) The Thriller Library Sep 16 1939
  • Thank You, Mr. Conquest (na) The Thriller Library Dec 16 1939
  • Happy Xmas, Crooks (na) The Thriller Library Dec 30 1939
  • Black Ring of Doom (nv) Thrilling Detective Nov 1943

Conrad & Kirowan
• Robert E. Howard:
  • The Haunter of the Ring (nv) Weird Tales Jun 1934

Contacts, Inc.
• Carl Clausen:
  • Pete Views the Etchings (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Mar 1939
  • The Trap with Golden Teeth (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine May 1939
  • The Revealing Ribbon (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Oct 1939
  • Crime Cruise (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Dec 1939
  • Pete Does a Slalom (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Feb 1940
  • The Lady from Kentucky (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Apr 1940
  • Pete Makes the Fur Fly (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Jun 1940
  • The Missing Mortician (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Aug 1940
  • Matter Over Mind (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Nov 1940
  • Burglary by Request (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Dec 1940
  • Hairsbreadth (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine (UK) Jan 1941

Continental Op, The (about)
• Peter Collinson:
  • Arson Plus (ss) The Black Mask Oct 1 1923; see also under Dashiell Hammett.
  • Slippery Fingers (ss) The Black Mask Oct 15 1923; see also under Dashiell Hammett.
• Dashiell Hammett:
  • Arson Plus (ss) The Black Mask Oct 1 1923, as by Peter Collinson.
  • Crooked Souls (ss) The Black Mask Oct 15 1923; also as “The Gatewood Caper”.
  • Slippery Fingers (ss) The Black Mask Oct 15 1923, as by Peter Collinson.
  • It (ss) The Black Mask Nov 1 1923; also as “The Black Hat That Wasn’t There”.
  • Bodies Piled Up (ss) The Black Mask Dec 1 1923; also as “House Dick”.
  • The Tenth Clew (nv) The Black Mask Jan 1 1924
  • Night Shots (ss) The Black Mask Feb 1 1924
  • Zigzags of Treachery (nv) The Black Mask Mar 1 1924
  • One Hour (ss) The Black Mask Apr 1 1924
  • The House in Turk Street (ss) The Black Mask Apr 15 1924
  • The Girl with the Silver Eyes (nv) The Black Mask Jun 1924
  • Women, Politics & Murder (nv) The Black Mask Sep 1924; also as “Death on Pine Street”.
  • The Golden Horseshoe (nv) The Black Mask Nov 1924
  • Who Killed Bob Teal? (ss) True Detective Nov 1924
  • Mike or Alec or Rufus (ss) The Black Mask Jan 1925
  • The Whosis Kid (nv) The Black Mask Mar 1925
  • The Scorched Face (nv) The Black Mask May 1925
  • Corkscrew (na) The Black Mask Sep 1925
  • Dead Yellow Women (nv) The Black Mask Nov 1925
  • The Gutting of Couffignal (nv) The Black Mask Dec 1925
  • The Creeping Siamese (ss) The Black Mask Mar 1926
  • The Big Knock-Over (na) The Black Mask Feb 1927; also as “The Great Knockover”.
  • $106,000 Blood Money (na) Black Mask May 1927
  • The Main Death (ss) Black Mask Jun 1927
  • The Cleansing of Poisonville (nv) Black Mask Nov 1927
  • Crime Wanted—Male or Female (nv) Black Mask Dec 1927
  • Dynamite (ss) Black Mask Jan 1928
  • This King Business (nv) Mystery Stories Jan 1928
  • The 19th Murder (nv) Black Mask Feb 1928
  • Black Lives (nv) Black Mask Nov 1928
  • The Hollow Temple (nv) Black Mask Dec 1928
  • Black Honeymoon (nv) Black Mask Jan 1929
  • Black Riddle (nv) Black Mask Feb 1929
  • Fly Paper (nv) Black Mask Aug 1929
  • The Farewell Murder (na) Black Mask Feb 1930
  • Death and Company (ss) Black Mask Nov 1930

Cook, Barney (about)
• Harvey J. O’Higgins:
  • The Blackmailers (nv) The Adventures of Detective Barney, Century 1915

Cool, Bertha & Donald Lam
• A. A. Fair:
  • Give ’Em the Ax (n.) Morrow 1944

Copperhead Jack
• Stuart R. Ball:
  • Copperhead Jack Meets the Gangsters (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1995
  • Copperhead Jack Meets Bigfoot (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1996
  • Copperhead Jack Meets the Witness (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Oct 2002

Corbett, Ben
• Julius Long:
  • Merely Murder (nv) Black Mask Jul 1944
  • Blind Bogey (nv) Black Mask Nov 1944
  • Leave Your Killing Card (nv) Black Mask Jan 1945
  • Goon My Way (ss) Black Mask Mar 1945
  • Carnie Kill (ss) Black Mask May 1945
  • The Witch of Endor County (nv) Black Mask Jul 1945
  • Over My Dead Booty (nv) Black Mask Sep 1945
  • Never Kid a Killing (ss) Black Mask Nov 1945
  • Date with Dynamite (nv) Black Mask Jan 1946
  • Flowers for Flanagan (nv) Black Mask Feb 1946
  • Forgive Not Our Trespassers (nv) Black Mask Mar 1946
  • Murder by the Carton (nv) Black Mask May 1946
  • Crime Is Bustin’ Out All Over (nv) Black Mask Jul 1946
  • This Is Murder (ss) Black Mask Sep 1946
  • I Remember Murder (nv) Black Mask Jan 1947
  • One Life to a Customer (nv) Black Mask May 1947
  • Call in the Coroner (nv) Black Mask Nov 1947
  • The Machine That Murder Built (ss) Detective Tales Nov 1948

Corbin, Peter & Anne
• Arthur Leo Zagat:
  • The House That Terror Built (ss) Detective Tales Jun 1938
  • Twin Shadows of the Night (nv) Detective Tales Oct 1938

Corby, Cleve
• Eugene Cunningham:
  • House Dick (nv) Black Mask Sep 1933
  • Chalk (ss) Black Mask Dec 1933
  • If Murder Can Be Funny (nv) Black Mask Jul 1934
  • County Loop (nv) Black Mask Aug 1934
  • Room Service (ss) Black Mask Nov 1934

Cordell, Matt (aka Curt Cannon)
• Evan Hunter:
  • Die Hard (ss) Manhunt Jan 1953
  • Dead Men Don’t Dream (ss) Manhunt Mar 1953
  • Now Die in It (nv) Manhunt May 1953; see also under Ed McBain.
  • Good and Dead (ss) Manhunt Jul 1953; see also under Ed McBain.
  • The Death of Me (nv) Manhunt Sep 1953; see also under Ed McBain.
  • Deadlier Than the Mail (ss) Manhunt Feb 1954
  • Return (ss) Manhunt Jul 1954
  • The Beatings (ss) Manhunt Oct 1954
• Ed McBain:
  • Now Die in It (nv) Manhunt May 1953, as by Evan Hunter.
  • Good and Dead (ss) Manhunt Jul 1953, as by Evan Hunter.
  • The Death of Me (nv) Manhunt Sep 1953, as by Evan Hunter.

Corey, John
• Nelson DeMille:
  • Radiant Angel (ex) Grand Central Publishing 2015

Cork, Captain Jeremy
• S. S. Rafferty:
  • Murder by Scalping (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1973
  • Captain Cork’s Second Case (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1974
  • The Margrave of Virginia (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1975
  • The Rhode Island Lights (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1975
  • The Bright Silver of Maryland (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1975
  • The New Jersey Flying Machine (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1975
  • The Georgia Resurrection (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1976
  • The Witch of New Hampshire (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1976
  • The Pennsylvania Thimblerig (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1976
  • The South Carolina Cicisbeos (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1976
  • The Christmas Masque (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1976
  • The North Carolina Corruption (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1977
  • Cork Against the Hulks (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1979

Corliss, Robert
• Paul Adams:
  • Satan’s Hour (vi) Variety Detective Magazine Apr/May 1939; probably a reprint of “The Expert Fixer” by Ralph Andre (Ten Detective Aces, August 1933).
• Ralph André:
  • The Expert Fixer (ss) Ten Detective Aces Aug 1933

Cormaney, Sergeant Thomas Aquinas
• MacKinlay Kantor:
  • Something like Salmon (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 19 1933

Corning, Ken
• Erle Stanley Gardner:
  • Honest Money (nv) Black Mask Nov 1932
  • The Top Comes Off (nv) Black Mask Dec 1932
  • Close Call (nv) Black Mask Jan 1933
  • Making the Breaks (nv) Black Mask Jun 1933
  • Devil’s Fire (nv) Black Mask Jul 1933
  • Blackmail with Lead (nv) Black Mask Aug 1933

Cornwall, Dr. Tudor
• Tim Heald:
  • Doctor Tudor Cornwall & the Disappearance of James Phillimore (ss) The Strand Magazine #3 1999/2000 [Sherlock Holmes]
  • Crime in Store (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 2004

Corpus Delicti see under Mort, Clarence Darrow

Corrigan, Sylvester
• George Bruce:
  • Claim of the Fleshless Corpse (na) Popular Detective Aug 1936
  • Claim of the Double Death (na) Popular Detective Dec 1936
  • Claim of the Little Red Bugs (nv) Thrilling Detective May 1937

Cory, Dr. Patrick
• Curt Siodmak:
  • Donovan’s Brain (n.) Black Mask Sep 1942, etc.

Costa, Nic
• David Hewson:
  • Dead Men’s Socks (ss) Pan Macmillan 2012

Costello
• W. T. Ballard:
  • The Con Man and the Cop (ss) Black Mask Dec 1942