Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Series List

Cote, Peyton
• John R. Corrigan:
  • Autumn’s Crossing (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2013

Cotton, Gun
• Rupert Grayson:
  • Gun Cotton and the Running Killer (ss) Mystery Stories #14 1939

Cotton, Neal
• Sam S. Taylor:
  • The General Slept Here (nv) Manhunt Apr 1955

Counihan, Mickey
• David Edgerley Gates:
  • Smoke Follows a Liar (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 2003
  • Step on a Crack (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jun 2007
  • Skin and Bones (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Oct 2008
  • Stone Soup (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 2016

Counterclockwise
• H. Bedford-Jones:
  • Princess of Egypt (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jan 1944

Courts Day by Day, The
• J. A. J.:
  • After the Battle of Savile-Row (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • All Was Clear...But Not for Grace (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • All-Sorts Day at Bow Street (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Angel in Pink Trousers (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Anybody Missed £100 Lately? (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Bank Clerk Behind Bars (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Battle Against Crime Goes On (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • But George Is Not Saying (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • But Leonard Gets Justice at Last (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Caravan Man Moves by Inches (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Case of the Respectable Lady (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Commander Who Lost His Bearings (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Course of True Love as Usual (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Day Our Thomas Went to London (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Different Points of View (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Everlasting Penitent Gets a Warning (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Face That Launched a Thousand...Asterisks (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Fish and Chips on the Wing (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • For John All Is Silence... (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • George, the Greek Had a Word for It (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Goodbye, Seaside... (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Great Sausage Mystery (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Halt on the Road to Paradise (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Hardboiled Rose (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • His Wife Was Waiting in the Hall—at 4AM (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Holiday at Home (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • How Not to Hail a Bus (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Life Isn’t Always Fair (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Looking for Fairy Gold (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Maharajah of Mumble-Mumble (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Man Who Was Tied Up at Work (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Minus 2½d. and Two Shillings Change (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Modern Youth on Trial (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Moon Madness Hits Charles... (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Mystery of an Old School Tie (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Night That Roger Came to Town (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • No Christmas Angel (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • No Rent to Pay in Jail (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Oblivion in the Morning (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Old Man of the Sea (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • One-Man Strike Cost £20 (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Poor Man in Park Lane (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Rebel with an Unknown Cause (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Repentant Romeo Goes to Jail (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Respect Can Be Taken Too Far! (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Romeo Wears Out His Welcome (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Sad Note for the Maestros (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Sad Story of Miss Goldilocks (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Ship’s Cook Stirs It Up (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Standing on the Corner... (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • The Story of a Naive Cockney (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Such a Jolly Evening (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Talking of the Weather (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • They Didn’t Hear a Single Word (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • They Saw a Gnome in the Strand (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • They Were Wounded and They Fell (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • This Wife’s Home Is Her Castle (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Thomas Likes to Live Rent-Free (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • A Top Scottish Secret (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Ze Truth, Ze ’Ole Truth...in Engleesh (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Two Shy Babes (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • William the Vague Makes His Bow (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??
  • Young Romeo Was Crossed in Love (ts) The (London) Evening News 19??

Coville, Tom
• Lee E. Wells:
  • Murder Makes a Claim (nv) Popular Detective Apr 1946

Cox, Xenophon
• Frederick C. Davis:
  • The Trail of the Thirteenth Brain (na) Detective Tales Apr 1937
  • Satan in Manhattan (nv) Detective Tales May 1937

Coya, Dr. Juan
• William Hallatt:
  • A Song of Passion (ss) The Detective Magazine May 23 1924

Coyle, “Slugs”
• Seaburn Brown:
  • Thirteen Steps (ss) Detective-Dragnet Magazine Nov 1931 [“Butch” Laano]
• John Gregory:
  • Fatal Feud (ss) Variety Detective Magazine Aug 1939; probably a reprint of “Thirteen Steps” by Seaburn Brown (Detective-Dragnet Magazine, November 1931). [“Butch” Laano]

Coyle, Danny
• Judson Philips:
  • Seven Heroes—One Dead (ss) Baffling Detective Mysteries May 1943

Coyne, Brady (about)
• William G. Tapply:
  • Mac’s Gambit (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1994

Craddock
• Walter Archer Frost:
  • Jungle Vengeance (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 14 1930

Cragg, Sam (about)
• Frank Gruber:
  • The Sad Serbian (nv) Black Mask Mar 1939; also as “1000-to-1 for Your Money”.
  • The Talking Clock (sl) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 12 1940, etc. [Johnny Fletcher]
  • Murder at the Race Track (nv) The Saint Detective Magazine Sep 1955 [Johnny Fletcher]

Craggs, Mrs.
• H. R. F. Keating:
  • The Five Senses of Mrs. Craggs (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1973
  • Mrs. Craggs’s Sixth Sense (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1978
  • Mrs. Craggs in the House of Lords (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1979
  • The Locked Bathroom (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 2 1980
  • Mrs. Craggs and a Certain Lady’s Townhouse (ss) Mystery Magazine Jul 1981
  • A Sad Case of Simony (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1984
  • Mrs. Craggs Hears the Nightingale (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1985
  • The Case of Seven Santas (ss) Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1990

Cragin, Cliff
• E. Hoffmann Price:
  • Imposter’s Rendezvous (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Feb 1935
  • Diamonds of Death (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Apr 1935
  • Spirit Murder (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Dec 1935
  • Posed for Murder (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Jan 1936; also as “Lethal Legacy”, by Hamlin Daly.
  • Queen of Heaven (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Sep 1936
  • Sealed Death (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Jan 1937
  • Headless Corpse (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Apr 1937
  • Shot in the Dark (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Jun 1937
  • Death’s Black Roses (na) Private Detective Stories Sep 1937
  • Death Takes the Wheel (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Feb 1938
  • Stalking Horse (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Feb 1939
  • Counterfeit Murder (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Jul 1942
  • Queens—Upside Down (nv) Private Detective Stories Nov 1942
  • Death’s Backyard (na) Private Detective Stories Feb 1944

Craig, Alan
• Malcolm Gray:
  • The Balnay Report (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1990

Craig, Bryan
• Walter C. Brown:
  • The Corpse Came Back (na) Detective Tales Feb 1937
  • King of the Frightened Killers (na) Detective Tales Sep 1937

Craig, Dan
• Victor Shaw:
  • Hard Rock (nv) Black Mask Dec 1927
  • The Tommy-Knocker (ss) Black Mask Feb 1928

Craig, Daniel (The Bystander)
• Ralph Oppenheim:
  • Beauty Treatments for Corpses (na) Dime Mystery Magazine Jul 1940
  • Thieves Without Faces (na) Dime Mystery Magazine Sep 1940
  • Death Stalks in Purple (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine Feb 1941

Craig, Emory (K-67)
• Franklin H. Martin:
  • G-Men Die but Once (na) Federal Agent Mar 1937
  • Shadow of the Wolf (na) Federal Agent May 1937
  • Sledge Hammer Kill (na) Federal Agent Jul 1937
  • The Billion Dollar Murders (na) Federal Agent Sep 1937
  • Murder for Pennies (nv) Federal Agent Nov 1937

Craleigh, Phil
• Earl W. & Marion Scott:
  • Brewed at Benetti’s (ss) Black Mask Feb 1929
  • Craleigh Comes to Life (nv) Black Mask Dec 1929
  • Bitter Business (ss) Black Mask Mar 1930
  • Bullets for Murder (ss) Black Mask Sep 1930
  • Lights out at Benetti’s (ss) Black Mask Jun 1931
  • Red Rendezvous (ss) Black Mask Feb 1932

Crane, Bill (about)
• Jonathan Latimer:
  • Murder in the Madhouse (n.) Doubleday 1935
  • The Lady in the Morgue (n.) Doubleday 1936
  • The Dead Don’t Care (n.) Doubleday 1938

Crane, Oliver
• Wyatt Blassingame:
  • Death Without Notice (nv) Mystery Novels Magazine May 1935
  • Death Comes Unannounced (ss) Detective Yarns Aug 1939

Cranwell, Arthur
• Antony Bowl:
  • Blackmail Out of Hand (ss) London Mystery Selection #129 1981
  • Dead Drunk (ss) London Mystery Selection #130 1981
  • Appointment with Cyanide (ss) London Mystery Selection #131 1981

Crapster, Bowie
• Richard Helms:
  • Second Sight Unseen (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 2014 [Amboy Boatright]
  • Shooting Stars (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2015 [Amboy Boatright]

Cray, Joseph P.
• E. Phillips Oppenheim:
  • Satan and the Spirit (ss) The Strand Magazine Apr 1921

Cribb, Sergeant
• Peter Lovesey:
  • Razor Bill (ss) Sherlock #60 2004

Crime Breeders, The
• Raoul F. Whitfield:
  • Outside (ss) Black Mask Dec 1929
  • Red Smoke (ss) Black Mask Jan 1930
  • Green Ice (nv) Black Mask Feb 1930
  • Oval Face (ss) Black Mask Mar 1930
  • Killers’ Show (nv) Black Mask Apr 1930

Crime Efficiency Engineer, The
• George Allan England:
  • One Thothmes (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly May 6 1933
  • The Rat Trap (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 3 1933

Crime Magnet, The see under De Treville, Major Bernard

Crime Spectacularist, The see under Fade, Foster

Crime, Doctor
• Kirby Wright:
  • Death Deals (na) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 8 1935
  • The Scarlet Letters (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 7 1937
  • Dr. Crime Plays Nemesis (na) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 7 1940

Crimes of the Year 2000
• Ray Cummings:
  • Crimes of the Year 2000 (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 6 1935
  • Studio Crime (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 20 1935
  • Death in the Fog Tower (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 3 1935
  • The Bandits of Pontoon 9 (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 17 1935
  • Wreck of the Sub-Sea Freighter (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 14 1935
  • The Man Who Died Twice (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 28 1935
  • The Metal Murderer (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 26 1935
  • Death in the Fire Pit (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 30 1935
  • The Case of the Frightened Death (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 24 1937

Crimson Clown, The see under Prouse, Delton

Crimson Mask, The see under Clarke, Robert

Crindle, Miss
• Malcolm Gray:
  • Enter Miss Crindle (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1990
  • Miss Crindle and Father Christmas (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid-Dec 1990
• Ian Stuart:
  • Miss Crindle and the Red-Nosed Reindeer (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid-Dec 1992

Crisp, A. B. “Alphabet”
• F. A. M. Webster:
  • Too Simple (ss) The Shadow Detective Monthly Sep 1932
  • The Black Patch (ss) The Shadow Magazine Nov 1 1932
  • The Five Orange Pips (ss) The Shadow Magazine Jun 15 1933

Crocker, Gilbert
• Max Van Derveer:
  • Compulsion (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1964
  • By His Hand (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1965

Crockett, David
• Evan Lewis:
  • Mr. Crockett and the Bear (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 2012

Croker, Danby
• R. Austin Freeman:
  • The Brazen Serpent (ss) The Red Magazine Aug 1 1911

Crombie, Sam (about)
• George Harmon Coxe:
  • The Frightened Fiancee (n.) Knopf 1950

Cromwell, Ironsides
• Victor Gunn:
  • Ironsides of the Yard (na) The Thriller Library Sep 30 1939
  • Zimmler the Wolf (na) The Thriller Library Oct 14 1939
  • Depot Z.I. (na) The Thriller Library Oct 28 1939
  • Freedom Station Calling! (na) The Thriller Library Feb 17 1940

Cronk, Mr.
• W. A. Darlington:
  • The Affair at the Hotel Splendide (ss) Herbert Jenkins 1933

Crook, Arthur (about)
• Anthony Gilbert:
  • You Can’t Hang Twice (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1946
  • Once Is Once Too Many (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1955

Crook, Detective X.
• J. Jefferson Farjeon:
  • Red Eye (ss) Flynn’s Jun 20 1925
  • The Bilton Safe (ss) Flynn’s Jun 27 1925
  • The Way to Death (ss) Flynn’s Jul 4 1925
  • Thomas Doubts No Longer (ss) Flynn’s Jul 11 1925
  • A Fisherman’s Luck (ss) Flynn’s Jul 18 1925
  • Where the Treasure Is (ss) Flynn’s Aug 1 1925
  • The Hidden Death (ss) Flynn’s Aug 8 1925
  • Nine Hours to Live (ss) Flynn’s Aug 22 1925
  • Elsie Cuts Both Ways (ss) Flynn’s Aug 29 1925
  • Crook’s Code (ss) Flynn’s Dec 19 1925
  • Percy the Pickpocket (ss) Flynn’s Dec 26 1925
  • A Race for Life (ss) Flynn’s Jan 2 1926
  • Seeing’s Believing (ss) Flynn’s Jan 9 1926
  • The Deserted Inn (ss) Flynn’s Jan 23 1926
  • Death’s Grim Symbol (ss) Flynn’s Feb 6 1926
  • Crook Goes Back to Prison (ss) Flynn’s Apr 10 1926
  • Who Killed James Fyne? (ss) Flynn’s Apr 17 1926
  • Caleb Comes Back (ss) Flynn’s Apr 24 1926
  • The Vanished Gift (ss) Flynn’s May 1 1926
  • The Death That Beckoned (ss) Flynn’s May 15 1926
  • Footprints in the Snow (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Jul 17 1926
  • The Shadow (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Jul 24 1926
  • Cats Are Evil (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Aug 14 1926
  • The Silent House (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Aug 28 1926
  • The Kleptomaniac (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Sep 18 1926
  • The Knife (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Oct 23 1926
  • The Hotel Hold-Up (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Nov 20 1926
  • The Silent Client (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Nov 27 1926
  • Darkness (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Dec 11 1926
  • It Pays to Be Honest (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Dec 18 1926
  • Kidnaped (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Dec 25 1926
  • Whose Hand? (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Jan 8 1927
  • The Datchett Diamond (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Jan 29 1927
  • Vanishing Gems (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Feb 5 1927
  • The Murder Club (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Feb 26 1927
  • LQ585 (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Mar 5 1927
  • The Stolen Hand Bag (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Mar 19 1927
  • Prescription 93b (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Mar 26 1927
  • The Thing in the Room (ss) Flynn’s Weekly May 7 1927
  • In the Diamond Line (ss) Flynn’s Weekly May 28 1927
  • The New Baronet (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Jun 4 1927
  • The Fourth Attempt (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Jul 9 1927
  • The Absconding Treasurer (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Jul 23 1927
  • The Man Who Forgot (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Sep 3 1927
  • No Motive Apparent (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Sep 24 1927
  • The Cleverness of Crockett (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Oct 29 1927
  • August 13th (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 8 1928
  • The Photograph (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 15 1928
  • Between Calais and Dover (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 22 1928
  • The Bloodstained Handkerchief (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 6 1928
  • Wanted (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 13 1928
  • The Third Act (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 29 1928
  • The Secret of the Snow (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 9 1929
  • Open Warfare (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 16 1929
  • The Photographic Touch (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 9 1929
  • The “Times” Advertisement (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 30 1929
  • The Golden Idol (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 13 1929