Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Series List

Lantz, Tony
• Clarence Mullen:
  • Bullets for Ballots (na) Crack Detective Stories Mar 1949 [Eddie Wright]

Lanyard, Michael (The Lone Wolf)
• Louis Joseph Vance:
  • The Lone Wolf (n.) Munsey’s Magazine Mar 1914
  • Old Man Menace (ss) The Saturday Evening Post 1927
  • The White Terror (na) The Saint Mystery Magazine Aug 1965

Larigan, Jeff
• Hugh Pentecost:
  • The Cassandra Club (na) The American Magazine Oct 1947; also as “The Trail of the Crescent Moons”. [Alan Quist]
  • An Element of Risk (na) The American Magazine May 1948; also as “The Girl Who Lived Dangerously”. [Alan Quist]

Lark, Tony
• Peter Paige:
  • Meet Me in Death Alley (ss) Detective Tales May 1947
  • Softly Creep and Softly Kill! (na) Detective Tales Aug 1947
  • The Sweetest Corpse in Town! (na) Detective Tales Apr 1948

Larkin, Bob
• Erle Stanley Gardner:
  • Accommodatin’ a Lady (ss) The Black Mask Sep 1924
  • Without No Reindeer (ss) The Black Mask Dec 1924
  • Painless Extraction (ss) The Black Mask May 1925
  • Ham, Eggs an’ Coffee (nv) The Black Mask Aug 1925
  • Goin’ Into Action (nv) The Black Mask Feb 1926
  • Scum of the Border (ss) Black Mask Jun 1929
  • All the Way (nv) Black Mask Jul 1929
  • Spawn of the Night (nv) Black Mask Aug 1929
  • Hanging Friday (ss) Black Mask Sep 1929
  • On Two Feet (ss) Black Mask Oct 1932

Larry
• Isaac Asimov:
  • The Thirteenth Day of Christmas (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1977

Larsen, Chris
• Robert H. Leitfred:
  • Too Dead to Die (nv) Black Book Detective Magazine Jun 1936
  • Bring Him in Alive—or Cold! (nv) Black Book Detective Magazine Oct 1936

Larsen, Inspector
• Frederick Nebel:
  • The Mystery at Pier 7 (nv) Detective Action Stories Sep 1931 [Sergeant Brinkhaus]
  • The Crooked Spot (ss) Detective Action Stories Oct 1931 [Sergeant Brinkhaus]
  • Whispers of Death (nv) Detective Action Stories Dec 1931 [Sergeant Brinkhaus]
  • The X Circle (nv) Detective Action Stories Jan 1932 [Sergeant Brinkhaus]
  • The Crimson Fist (nv) Detective Action Stories Mar 1932 [Sergeant Brinkhaus]

Lash, Lynn
• Lester Dent:
  • The Sinister Ray (na) Detective-Dragnet Magazine Mar 1932
  • The Mummy Murders (na) Detective-Dragnet Magazine Dec 1932

Laskin, South Dakota
• Eve Fisher:
  • Grownups Are All Alike (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1997
  • The Four Roasters (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1999
  • Nude with Snow Geese (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 2002
  • Houdini (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 2003
  • Drifts (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2006
  • Sophistication (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 2007
  • Public Immunity (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 2007
  • The Lagoon (vi) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 2008
  • The Porcupine Tree (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2009
  • The Mound Builders (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Oct 2009
  • Death of a Good Man (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 2009
  • Certified (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2010
  • A Time to Mourn (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2011
  • No Fences (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 2011
  • Wind Power (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 2012
  • The Headless Horseman (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2015
  • Iron Chef (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 2016

Lassiter, Jake (about)
• Paul Levine:
  • Bum Rap (ex) Thomas & Mercer 2015 [Steve Solomon; Victoria Lord]

LaStanza, Dino Francis (about)
• O’Neil De Noux:
  • Why (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1993
  • Airline Highway (ss) Hardboiled #16 1993
  • Lower Than Black (ss) Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Constable 1993
  • Old Foister, A Folk Tale: The Man with Moon Hands (ss) New Mystery v1 #3 1993
  • An Auld Lang Syne to Forget (ss) Shots Sum 1998
  • Murder at Suicide Oak (ss) Crime Time v2 #3 1999
  • The Nimble Burglar (ss) LaStanza, Pontalba 1999
  • Love and Murder (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 2001 [John Raven Beau]

Latin, Max (about)
• Norbert Davis:
  • Watch Me Kill You! (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jul 1941
  • Don’t Give Your Right Name (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1941
  • Give the Devil His Due (nv) Dime Detective Magazine May 1942
  • You Can Die Any Day (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1942
  • Charity Begins at Homicide (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Oct 1943

Laughing Death
• Raoul F. Whitfield:
  • On the Spot (ss) Black Mask Feb 1929
  • Out of the Sky (nv) Black Mask Mar 1929
  • The Pay-Off (ss) Black Mask Apr 1929
  • High Odds (nv) Black Mask May 1929
  • Within the Circle (ss) Black Mask Jun 1929
  • The Carnival Kill (ss) Black Mask Jul 1929
  • River Street Death (ss) Black Mask Aug 1929
  • The Squeeze (ss) Black Mask Sep 1929
  • Sal the Dude (ss) Black Mask Oct 1929

Lavender, Jimmie
• Vincent Starrett:
  • The Wellington Binoculars (ss) Detective Tales Oct 1 1922
  • Footsteps in the Dark (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Mar 1929
  • The Lame Duck (nv) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Nov 1930
  • The Raven’s Claw (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Feb 1931
  • The Clue of the Trembling Puppy (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Mar 1931
  • The Phony Money Trail (nv) Amazing Detective Stories Apr 1931
  • The Phantom Flute Player (nv) Mystery Apr 1934; also as “The Case of the Two Flutes”.
  • The Body in the Ostrich Cage (ss) Mystery May 1934
  • The Lisping Man (nv) Mystery Nov 1934
  • The House That Vanished (ss) Mystery Jan 1935
  • Tragic Rhythm (ss) Mystery Feb 1935
  • Crazy Like a Fox (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1955
  • The Day of the Cripples (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Oct 1956
  • A Corpse Named Miles (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1964

Lavery, Michael
• Edmund Snell:
  • The Sign of the Red Arab (na) The Thriller Sep 29 1934

Lawrence, Ariel
• Andrea Smith:
  • Elected to Die (ss) Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Fll 1998

Lawrence, Hon. Gerry
• Maurice B. Dix:
  • In League with Murder (na) The Thriller Feb 22 1936

Lawson, Bill
• Louis Lacy Stevenson:
  • High Polish (ss) Flynn’s Sep 27 1924
  • Two Bullets (ss) Flynn’s Oct 11 1924
  • Bare Hands (ss) Flynn’s Oct 25 1924
  • Gold Front (ss) Flynn’s Nov 15 1924
  • Cold Storage (ss) Flynn’s Jan 24 1925
  • Button, Button (ss) Flynn’s Feb 28 1925
  • Beating the Clock (nv) Flynn’s May 16 1925
  • Three Times and— (ss) Flynn’s Jun 13 1925
  • One or the Other (ss) Flynn’s Dec 19 1925
  • Lawson’s Tip Off (ss) Flynn’s Feb 27 1926
  • Aces Down (ss) Flynn’s Apr 24 1926
  • Nora (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Jun 5 1926
  • Blond Hair (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Aug 14 1926
  • The Square Emerald (nv) Flynn’s Weekly Mar 5 1927
  • The Hell Cat (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Aug 27 1927
  • Green Eyes (sl) Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Dec 17 1927, etc.
  • Cupid-Hard Boiled (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 5 1929
  • The Golden Web (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 9 1929
  • A Girl in Red (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 16 1929
  • The Riddle of the Locked House (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 6 1929
  • Before-Midnight (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 14 1929

Lazarus, Rina
• Faye Kellerman:
  • A Woman of Mystery (ss) Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Sum 1999 [Peter Decker]

Leach, Stormy
• Zella Mackintosh:
  • Stormy Digs In (ss) Clues Jun #1 1930
  • Stormy Plays the Fish (ss) Clues Jul #1 1930
  • Stormy Cleans Up (ss) Clues Aug #1 1930
  • Stormy’s Negative Clue (ss) Clues Sep #2 1930
  • Stormy Rocks the Boat (ss) Clues Oct #1 1930
  • Stormy’s Special Brew (ss) Clues Dec #1 1930

Leadflinger
• Stewart Sterling:
  • Dead Men Make Lousy Witnesses (nv) Gangland Detective Stories Nov 1939

Leather, Harry
• Gillian Linscott:
  • Poisoned with Politeness (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 1997 [Thomas Ludlow]

Leborgne, Joseph
• Georges Simenon:
  • The Three Rembrandts (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1943; translated from the French (Les 13 Mystères, 1932).; translated by Anthony Boucher.
  • The Safe of the S.S.S. (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1946; translated from the French (Les 13 Mystères, 1932).; translated by Anthony Boucher.
  • The Little House at Croix-Rousse (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1947; translated from the French (“Le Pavillon de la Croix-Rousse”, as by Georges Sim, Détective, May 2, 1929 & May 16, 1929).; translated by Anthony Boucher.

Lecter, Dr. Hannibal
• Thomas Harris:
  • Red Dragon (ex) Putnam 1981

Lee, Gypsy Rose (about)
• Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig:
  • Mother Finds a Body (n.) Simon & Schuster 1942, as by Gypsy Rose Lee.
• Gypsy Rose Lee:
  • Mother Finds a Body (n.) Simon & Schuster 1942 [ghost written by Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig]

Lee, Judith
• Richard Marsh:
  • The Man Who Cut Off My Hair (ss) The Strand Magazine Aug 1911

Lee, P.C.
• Edgar Wallace:
  • The Sentimental Burglar (ss) Ideas Mar 10 1909
  • Change (ss) Ideas Mar 17 1909

Leen, Jax
• Erle Stanley Gardner:
  • Sleeping Dogs (nv) Double Detective Feb 1940

Leffing, Lucius
• Joseph Payne Brennan:
  • The Strange Case of Peddler Phelps (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1965
  • Death Mask (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1965
  • Were You Searched? (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1965
  • The Mystery of Myrrh Lane (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1965
  • Whirlwind of Blood (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1966
  • The Intangible Threat (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1966
  • The Ransacked Room (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1966
  • Death at Draleman’s Pond (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1967
  • Death of a Derelict (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1967
  • The Walford Case (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1967
  • The Enemy Unknown (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1968
  • The Dismal Flats Murder (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1968
  • Fingers of Steel (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1970
  • The Case of the Hertzell Inheritance (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1974
  • The Dead of Winter Apparition (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1975
  • The Apple Orchard Murder Case (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1975
  • The Murder of Mr. Matthews (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1975
  • Observations on Lorimer Street (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1984

Legrand, Vivian (The Lady from Hell)
• Eugene Thomas:
  • The Lady from Hell (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 19 1935; not the same as the story of the same name in the May 2, 1936 issue.
  • Bait for Men (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 26 1935
  • The Episode of the Secret Service Blackmail (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 9 1935
  • The Episode of the Forty Murderers (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 16 1935
  • The Episode of the Grave Robbers (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 2 1935
  • The Episode of the Levantine Monster (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 9 1935
  • The Episode of the League of Death (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 16 1935
  • The Episode of the Sensational Orient Express Robbery (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 20 1935
  • The Strange Episode of the House of Secrets (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 4 1935
  • The Episode of the Pounce of Death (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 11 1935
  • The Adventure of the King of Diamonds (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 21 1935
  • The Adventure of the Maharaja’s Wife (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 28 1935
  • The Episode of the London Queen of Crime (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 12 1935
  • The Adventure of the Dragon Claws (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 19 1935
  • The Adventure of the Headless Statue (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 25 1936
  • The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 1 1936
  • The Adventure of the Cayenne Fugitives (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 15 1936
  • The Adventure of the Dying Dictator (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 22 1936
  • The Lady from Hell (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 2 1936; not the same as the story of the same name in the January 19, 1935 issue.
  • A Fortune in Flight (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 20 1936
  • The Money-Bed and the Money-Belt (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 11 1936
  • The Spanish Prisoner (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 22 1936
  • The Treasure of the Bandit Village (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 29 1936
  • The Cross Killer and the Golden Bier (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 5 1936
  • The Lady from Hell Returns (nv) Popular Detective Apr 1938

Leidl, Constance & Charlie Meiklejohn
• Kate Wilhelm:
  • Christ’s Tears (na) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1996
  • An Imperfect Gift (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1999
  • His Deadliest Enemy (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2004

Leith, Lester (about)
• Erle Stanley Gardner:
  • The Painted Decoy (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 23 1929
  • A Tip from Scuttle (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 2 1929
  • The Dummy Murder (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 23 1929
  • The Case of the Fugitive Corpse (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 6 1929
  • The Pay Off (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 27 1929
  • A Hot Tip (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 11 1929
  • A Peach of a Scheme (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 20 1929
  • Even Money (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 3 1929
  • It’s a Pipe! (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 10 1929
  • Faster than Forty (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 31 1929
  • Double Shadows (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 21 1929
  • The Artistic Touch (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 26 1929
  • Lester Takes the Cake (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 23 1929
  • The Doubtful Egg (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 11 1930
  • Vanishing Shadows (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 8 1930
  • Both Ends Against the Middle (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly May 3 1930
  • Put It in Writing (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 7 1930
  • Hot Dollars! (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 26 1930
  • In Round Figures (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 23 1930
  • The Man on the End (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 27 1930
  • Lester Frames a Fence (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 13 1930
  • Cold Clews (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 24 1931
  • The Candy Kid (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 14 1931
  • Big Money (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 18 1931
  • Hot Cash (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly May 23 1931; not the same as the story of the same name in the November 1934 issue of Black Mask.
  • Not So Dumb (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 27 1931
  • The Girl with the Diamond Legs (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 11 1931
  • The Gold Magnet (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 26 1931
  • The Crimson Mask (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 7 1931
  • Rolling Stones (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 21 1931
  • Red Herring (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 26 1931
  • The Play’s the Thing (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 27 1932
  • The Bird in the Hand (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 9 1932
  • Thieves’ Kitchen (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 4 1932
  • Closer Than a Brother (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 9 1932
  • A Deal in Cement (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 30 1932
  • False Alarm (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 5 1932
  • Juggled Gems (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 24 1932
  • One Jump Ahead (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 4 1933
  • The Radio Ruse (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 1 1933
  • Thin Ice (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 10 1933
  • Crook’s Vacation (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 8 1933
  • The Burden of Proof (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 2 1933
  • Lost, Strayed and Stolen (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 24 1934
  • Dead to Rights (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 2 1934
  • Crocodile Tears (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 30 1934
  • Queens Wild (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 26 1935
  • Screaming Sirens (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 2 1935
  • The Bald-Headed Row (na) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 21 1936
  • Planted Planets (ss) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Dec 1938
  • The Monkey Murder (ss) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Jan 1939
  • The Seven Sinister Sombreros (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Feb 1939
  • The Fourth Musketeer (na) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Mar 1939
  • With Rhyme and Reason (na) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Apr 1939
  • The Queen of Shanghai Night (na) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine May 1939
  • The Ring of Fiery Eyes (ss) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Aug 1939
  • Lester Leith, Magician (na) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 16 1939; also as “The Hand Is Quicker than the Eye”.
  • A Thousand to One (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 28 1939; also as “Lester Leith, Impersonator”.
  • Fair Exchange (na) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 18 1939
  • Sugar (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 20 1940
  • Monkeyshine (na) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 16 1940
  • The Exact Opposite (na) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 29 1941
  • A Sugar Coating (na) Detective Fiction Nov 29 1941
  • Something Like a Pelican (na) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Jan 1943; also as “Lester Leith, Financier”.
  • The Black Feather (na) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Jul 1943