Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Stories, Listed by Author

LEROUX, GASTON (1868-1927); (about) (chron.)
• * Chéri-Bibi, Mystery Man [Chéri-Bibi], (n.) J. Long 1924
  • Hutchinson’s Adventure & Mystery Story Magazine Jan, Feb, Mar 1928
• * The Floating Prison, (n.) Laurie 1922; translated from the French (Les Cages Flottantes, Paris, 1921).
  • Detective Story Magazine Jan 13, Jan 20, Jan 27, Feb 3, Feb 10, Feb 17 1923; translated by Hannaford Bennett
  • The Thriller Library Jan 21, Jan 28, Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 18, Feb 25, Mar 4, Mar 11 1939; translated by Hannaford Bennett
• * The Inn of Terror [Capt. Michel], (nv) Weird Tales Aug 1929
  • Startling Mystery Stories Win 1966/’67; translated by Mildred Gleason Prochet
• * The Machine to Kill, (sl) Flynn’s Weekly Jun 12, Jun 19, Jun 26, Jul 3 1926
• * The Puppet, (sl) Flynn’s May 15, May 22 1926
• * The Puppet, (sl) Flynn’s Weekly May 29, Jun 5 1926
• * The Woman with the Velvet Collar [Capt. Michel], (ss)
  • Startling Mystery Stories Spr 1969

LeROY, BEN(jamin M.) (fl. 2000s-2010s); (about) (chron.)
• * CH CH CH Changes, (ar) Crimespree Magazine Jan/Feb 2006
• * Editorials (with Ruth Jordan), (ed) Crimespree Magazine May/Jun 2006
• * Shawn Ryan of the Shield—Interviewed, (iv) Crimespree Magazine Mar/Apr 2007
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• * “Ben LeRoy and Alison Dasho Interview” by Steve Weddle, (iv) Crimespree Magazine Apr 2014
• * “Interview with Ben Leroy”, uncredited, (iv) Crimespree Magazine Mar/Apr 2008

LES TINA, DOROTHY (1917-2003); see pseudonym Sanford Vaid (chron.)
• * Nice Corpses Like Flowers, (ss) Crack Detective Mar 1943
  • Private Detective (Canada) Mar 1944

LESCROART, JOHN T. (1948- ) (chron.)
• * The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra by John H. Watson, M.D., (ss) Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Sum/Fll 1997
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• * “America’s Favorite Suspense Authors on the Rules of Fiction: John Lescroart and the Matrix” by Anthony J. Franze, (ar) Suspense Magazine Nov 2012
• * “America’s Favorite Suspense Authors on the Rules of Fiction: On the Use of Prologues” by Anthony J. Franze, (cl) Suspense Magazine Jan 2014
• * “Interview: John Lescroart” by Andrew F. Gulli, (iv) The Strand Magazine #30 2010
• * “John Lescroart” by Barry Forshaw, (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• * “Standing the Test of Time”, uncredited, (iv) Suspense Magazine Dec 2011

LESLIE, A.; pseudonym of A. Leslie Scott, (1893-1974); other pseudonym Bradford Scott (chron.)
• * Blood Madness [Dexter Hollis], (ss) G-Men Jan 1936
• * The Breaks, (ss) The Phantom Detective Sep 1935
• * Fanged Death [Dexter Hollis], (ss) G-Men Oct 1935
• * The Living Dead, (ss) Thrilling Mystery Oct 1936
• * The Murder Fan, (nv) Popular Detective Apr 1936
• * The Rocking Chair Feud, (ss)
  • Triangle Quarterly Fll 1945

LESLIE, ARTHUR (fl. 1980s) (chron.)
• * Not Quite Dead, (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1988

LESLIE, DAVID (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Mr. Foster’s Diary, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #17 1953

LESLIE, EUGENE (fl. 1930s-1950s) (chron.)
• * Brush with the Law [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective Jan 1950
• * Death at the Party [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective Dec 1949
• * Death Directs [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective Mar 1950
  • Hollywood Detective (UK) #2 195?
• * Death Is the Prize [Ray Hale], (cs) Super-Detective Jul 1950
  • Super-Detective (UK) #7 1951
• * Death on Display [Gail Ford (Girl Friday)], (cs) Super-Detective Mar 1950
• * Death on Tour [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective Apr 1950
• * Death Scene [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective Feb 1950
• * Doubling for a Moll [Gail Ford (Girl Friday)], (cs) Super-Detective Feb 1950
• * Focus for Death [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective Jun 1949
• * Ghostly Killer [Gail Ford (Girl Friday)], (cs) Super-Detective Oct 1949
• * Muscling-In on Doom [Gail Ford (Girl Friday)], (cs) Super-Detective Apr 1950
• * Primeval Passions [Queenie Starr], (cs) Hollywood Detective Oct 1949

LESLIE, H. O. (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Personal Challenge, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler Fll 1959 (var.1)

LESLIE, HAL FIELD (fl. 1920s-1930s) (chron.)
• * The Marsh of Missing Men, (ss) The Feds Dec 1937
• * Murderer’s Needle, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 25 1933
• * Skeleton Cabin, (ss) Clues Detective Stories Jun 1935
• * Strength of the Meek, (ss) The Shadow Magazine Sep 1 1933
• * Thirteenth Floor, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 8 1933
• * Tickets, (ss) Detective-Dragnet Magazine Sep 1930
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• * Flashes from Readers, (lc) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 25 1933

LESLIE, JEAN; [i.e., Jean Leslie Cornett] (1908-1994); (about) (chron.)
• * Dead Man’s Shoes, (ss) Thrilling Detective Fll 1952
  • Thrilling Detective (UK) Feb 1953
• * First Week in September, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1990
• * A Hair of the Dog, (n.) Doubleday 1947
  • Two Complete Detective Books Jul 1949
• * One Cried Murder [Peter Ponsonby], (n.) Doubleday 1945
  • Detective Book Magazine Spr 1946
• * Shoes for My Love, (n.) Doubleday 1948
  • Two Complete Detective Books Nov 1949
• * Two Faced Murder [Peter Ponsonby], (n.) Doubleday 1946
  • Two Complete Detective Books May 1947

LESLIE, JOHN (fl. 1930s) (chron.)
• * Creep Shadow, (ss) Mystery Tales Mar 1938

LESLIE, O. H.; pseudonym of Henry Slesar, (1927-2002); other pseudonyms Sley Harson, Jeff Heller, John Murray & Jay Street (chron.)
• * Alibi on the Steve Allen Show, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1956; see also under Henry Slesar.
  • Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) Jul 1956
• * Behind the Locked Door, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1961
• * Better than Murder, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1958
• * Beware the Unloaded Weapon, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1959
• * A Child Was Lost, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1960
• * Coroner’s Jury, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler Fll 1959 (var.2), Fll 1959 (var.4)
• * Curiosity Killed a—, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1959
• * Dead Give-Away, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1961
• * Faster Than an Honest Man, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1960
• * A Foot in the Door, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1957
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) Oct 1957
• * I Promise to Kill, (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1958
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (UK) Apr 1958
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspense Magazine Jun 1958
• * Ignore All Requests, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1958
• * I’m Dead, Honey, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1957
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (UK) Sep 1957
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) Dec 1957
• * It Started Most Innocently, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler Fll 1959 (var.2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Anthology #22 1986
• * Key to a Skeleton Closet, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1960
• * Kill the Umpire, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1957
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) Aug 1957
• * Last Drink, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1959
• * The Morning After, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1957
  • Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) Feb 1958
• * Pen Pal (with Jay Folb), (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1957
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (UK) Dec 1957
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspense Magazine Sep 1958
• * Something Short of Murder, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1957
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (UK) Nov 1957
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) #11 1958
• * Stray Bullet, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1961
• * Terror Requires Preparation, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1960
• * Thoughts Before Murder, (vi) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1961
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler Fll 1961
• * Tony’s Death, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1964
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler Fll 1965 (var.1), Fll 1965 (var.3), Fll 1965 (var.4)
• * Welcome to Our Bank, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1960
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler Fll 1961
• * Whodunit?, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1958
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (UK) Aug 1958
• * You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1959

LESLIE, RUTH (fl. 1940s) (chron.)
• * Are You Afraid of the Past?, (ar)
  • Pocket Reader Series #127 1950
• * What Every Girl Should Know About Men, (ar) Love Fiction Magazine Feb 1946
  • Pocket Reader Series #130 1950

LESSER, MILTON; former name of Stephen Marlowe, (1928-2008); (about) (chron.)
• * The Earthman, (ss) Saturn, The Magazine of Science Fiction May 1957
• * Return to Terror, (ss) Hunted Detective Story Magazine Apr 1956
• * Trapped, (ss) The Pursuit Detective Story Magazine Nov 1953
  • Verdict (UK) Jun/Jul 1954
  • Pursuit—The Phantom Mystery Magazine Apr 1955

LESSER, TOM (fl. 1990s-2000s) (chron.)
• * Sins of the Preacher, (ss) Hardboiled #23 1997
• * The Victim’s Revenge, (vi) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

LESSIG, HUGH (fl. 1990s-2010s) (chron.)
• * Clean Fill Wanted, (ss) Crime Factory v2 #17 2015
• * The Gift of Wallace Random [Picasso Smith, Sr.], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Jan 1999
• * Millstone [Picasso Smith, Jr.], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2001
• * Miranda’s Corner, (ss) Thuglit Jan/Feb 2015
• * PIN, (ss) Thuglit Jul/Aug 2013
• * Special Delivery [Alamo Barnes], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Apr/May 2000
• * Victor Viral, (ss) Needle Fll/Win 2012
• * Whacking Scrooge [Picasso Smith, Jr.], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Win 2003

LESTER, ELLIOTT (fl. 1920s) (chron.)
• * A Crimson Price, (ss) Mystery Magazine Jan 15 1922

LESTER, FRANK B. (fl. 1960s) (chron.)
• * The Case of the Watery Grave, (ar) John Creasey Mystery Magazine Jun 1961

LESTER, H. P. (fl. 1940s) (chron.)
• * The Strange Case of Mark Boren, (ss) Suspense, the Mystery Magazine Mar 1947; broadcast November 23, 1943 as “The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein”, script by E. Jack Neuman.

LESTER, JACK (fl. 1930s) (chron.)
• * Snaring the Slayer Without a Motive, (ar) Real Detective Dec 1934

LESTER, KAY (fl. 1930s) (chron.)
• * Two Dames and a Comic, (ss) Saucy Movie Tales Apr 1937
  • Pep Tec Tales Nov 1937

LESTER, KENNETH (fl. 1960s-1990s) (chron.)
• * A Boy Names Tzu, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine mid-Dec 1994
• * Dance of the Hours, (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1962
• * Death on the Rocks, (ss) The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) Jul 1961
  • The Saint Mystery Magazine Aug 1962

LESTER, R. DANIEL (fl. 2000s-2010s); (about) (chron.)
• * Magpie and the Goose, (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Fll 2002
• * Nowhere to Go but Dead, (ss) Switchblade Nov 2018

LESTER, RAYMOND; pseudonym of Dahlia Trenchant, (fl. 1910s-1930s) (chron.)
• * Double Six, (ss) Argosy All-Story Weekly Nov 20 1920
  • The Underworld Dec 20 1927
• * For the Love of Pete, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 13 1930
• * In Quest of Vengeance, (ss) All-Story Weekly Dec 27 1919
  • The Underworld Dec 5 1927
• * Saving His Money, (ss) Flynn’s Sep 20 1924

LESTER, WILFRED (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Crime and Insanity, (ar) The London Mystery Magazine #19 1954

LESTER-POND, ROY (fl. 1960s) (chron.)
• * Give a Man Rope, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1969

LETCHFORD, STUART W. (fl. 1960s) (chron.)
• * Over and Out, (ss) Suspense (UK) Mar 1960

LETCHMERE, EDWARD (fl. 1920s-1930s) (chron.)
• * Cell Number Seventeen, (ss) Prison Stories Jan 1931
• * The Crooked Twist, (ss) The Dragnet Magazine Nov 1928
• * Eighty-Seven Cents an Hour, (ss) Prison Stories Mar 1931

LETTEN, PEGGY (fl. 1960s) (chron.)
• * “Our Sympathies Go—”, (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine May 1964

LEUCI, BOB; [i.e., Robert Leuci] (1940-2015) (chron.)
• * All-American Boy, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1995
• * Gray Eyes, (ss) New Mystery v4 #2 1996

LEUCI, ROBERT; see under Leuci, Bob (1940-2015) (chron.)