Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Stories, Listed by Author

VILLIERS, GERALD (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Cobra at Evensong, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #27 1955
• * The Hand, (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine Jun 1958
  • John Creasey Mystery Magazine (US) Feb 1959
• * The Ring, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #28 1956

VILLIERS-STUART, GERALD (1869-1951); (about) (chron.)
• * The Death Gamble, (ss) The Grand Magazine Mar 1911
  • Detective Story Magazine Mar 11 1919
• * The Man Who Caught Mice, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Aug 3 1920
• * The Vanished Hand, (ss) The Grand Magazine Mar 1912
  • Detective Story Magazine Apr 15 1919
• * The Web of Circumstance, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine May 1924
• * Worthless Loot, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jul 13 1920
  • Best Detective Magazine Oct 1930

VILLINES, SHARON (fl. 1990s) (chron.)
• * Finales & Encores:
  * ___ Funerals & Cemeteries, (cl) Murderous Intent Win 1996
• * Funerals & Cemeteries, (ar) Murderous Intent Win 1996

VIMPANY, GWEN (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Cut Throat Lane, (ss) London Mystery Selection #40 1959

VINCENT, ADRIAN (fl. 1940s-1970s) (chron.)
• * The Snowman, (ss) The Saint Mystery Magazine Feb 1960
  • The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) Apr 1960

VINCENT, BEV (1961- ) (chron.)
• * Pain-Man, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2017
• * Wake Me Up for Meals, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 2009
_____, [ref.]
• * “Bev Vincent Talks Writing and Stephen King” by Robin Lindzer, (iv) Suspense Magazine Feb 2016

VINCENT, HARL; pseudonym of Harold Vincent Schoepflin, (1893-1968); (about) (chron.)
• * Alibi Mike, (ss) Detective Novels Magazine Jun 1940
• * Condenser Pit Murder, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 23 1939
• * Crime by Chart, (ss) Exciting Detective Mar 1941
  • Fiction Quarterly (Canada) Spr 1942
• * Life Inside a Wall, (ss) Science Fiction Quarterly Sum 1940
  • Yankee Shorts #3 1940
• * The Stool at the Bar, (ss) Thrilling Detective Mar 1940

VINCENT, JOHN (fl. 1950s)
_____, ed.
• * Editor:
  ___ Private Eye, Dec 1953.

VINCENT, M. (fl. 1920s) (chron.)
• * The Midnight Capture, (ts) Midnight Mystery Stories Jan 6 1923

VINCENT, MICHAEL (fl. 1960s) (chron.)
• * The Last Train, (ss) London Mystery Selection #61 1964

VINCENT, OSMAN (fl. 1970s) (chron.)
• * The Silver City, (ss) London Mystery Selection #108 1976

VINCENT, STEVE P. (fl. 2010s); (about) (chron.)
_____, reviews:
• * International Thriller Writers: Reader’s Corner, (br) Suspense Magazine Jun 2015

VINDOR, ROBERT (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Mist on Barrow Hill, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #22 1954
• * No Sale, (ss) The Creasey Mystery Magazine Aug 1957

VINE, BARBARA; pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, (1930-2015) (chron.)
• * In the Time of His Prosperity, (ss) Penguin 1995
  • Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 2005

VINEHAM, HEATHER (fl. 1950s-1970s) (chron.)
• * Annabelle, (ss) London Mystery Selection #64 1965
• * The Auburn Dummy, (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine Sep 1964
• * Blind Date, (ss) London Mystery Selection #123 1979
• * Death in a Quiet Place, (ss) London Mystery Selection #39 1958
• * Fragments from the Past, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #23 1955
• * Monsieur Meduse, (ss) London Mystery Selection #63 1964
• * Nursery Crimes, (pm) London Mystery Selection #123 1979
• * Simple Simon, (pm) London Mystery Selection #122 1979
• * Sitting Tenant, (pm) London Mystery Selection #115 1977

VINES, BERT (fl. 1930s) (chron.)
• * Bloody Ace, (ss) Variety Detective Magazine Oct 1939

VINES, JIMMY (fl. 1990s) (chron.)
• * Between a Cat and a Hard Place, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1993
• * Goliath, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1994
• * The Hot Seat, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1992
  • Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (India) Mar 1993

VINEYARD, DAVID L. (fl. 1990s) (chron.)
• * The Half-Smart Aleck Kid, (ss) Hardboiled Detective #12 1991

VINEYARD, JOHN (fl. 1970s) (chron.)
• * Avalanche Alley, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1977
• * Two Turkeys in a Snowdrift, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1977

VIRDEN, KATHARINE; pseudonym of Katharine Virden Southerland, (1892-1955) (chron.)
• * The Crooked Eye, (n.) Doubleday 1930
  • Detective Book Magazine Oct 1930
• * The Thing in the Night, (n.) Doubleday 1930
  • Detective Book Magazine Dec 1930

VITTI, JAMES A(lan) (1961- ); see pseudonym Jim Allyn (chron.)

VIVELO, JACQUELINE (Jones) (1943-2008); (about) (chron.)
• * Appalachian Blackmail, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1994

VIVIAN, E(velyn) CHARLES (Henry); pseudonym of Charles Cannell, (1882-1947); (about) ; other pseudonyms Barrie Lynd, Galbraith Nicholson & A. K. Walton (chron.)
• * The Abnormal Power, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Apr 1924
• * Ancient Evil, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Nov 1923
• * A Builder of Mind, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Nov 1924
• * City of Wonder, (n.) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec 1922
• * A Clean Sweep, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Feb 1924
• * A Comedy of Lies, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Dec 1923
• * Fields of Sleep [Victor Marshall], (n.) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine May, Jun, Jul, Aug 1923
• * The Fighter, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Dec 1924
• * Flat No. 6—Northam House, (nv) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Oct 1923
• * His Own Petard, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Jan 1924
• * The House in Morton Square, (nv) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Sep 1923
• * In the Garden of Bhuldoo, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Sep 1924
• * The Little Brown Man from Tarua, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Aug 1924
• * Man Alone, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Aug 1926
• * The Passenger, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Oct 1923
• * People of the Darkness [Victor Marshall], (n.) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Feb, Mar, Apr, May 1924
• * The Saving of Jack McLaren, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Jan 1925
• * The Squire of Brakenell, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Oct 1924
• * The Terraced Valley, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Jun 1924
• * The Visitant, (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Jul 1924

VIVIAN, FRANCIS; pseudonym of Arthur Ernest Ashley, (1906-1979); (about) (chron.)
• * Light from the East, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #8 1951

VIVIANO, FRANK (fl. 2000s) (chron.)
• * Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun, (ar) Crime Time #24 2001

VLASTO, JOHN ALEXANDER (1877-1958); see pseudonym John Alexander (chron.)

VOBER, JOHN J. (fl. 1990s) (chron.)
• * All Wet, (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1990
• * The Hanging Judge, (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1990

VOELKER, JOHN DONALDSON (1903-1991); see pseudonym Robert Traver (chron.)

VOGDES, MARGARET; [née Strong] (fl. 1920s-1940s); married name of Margaret Bixby Strong; see pseudonyms Richmond Dale & Harrison Moreland; (about) (chron.)

VOGEL, ALVIN (fl. 2000s) (chron.)
• * Spaceman, (vi) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

VOGELE, KATHERINE (fl. 2000s) (chron.)
_____, reviews:
• * Booksellers’ Best Bets, (br) Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Sum 2000

VOGL, A. J. (fl. 1980s) (chron.)
• * The Paranoid Club, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1983

VOGT, M(artha) DIANE (1952- ); (about) (chron.)
• * Thrilled to Death, (ar) Crimespree Magazine May/Jun 2007

VOIGHT, ANASTASIA (fl. 2000s) (chron.)
• * Charley Chan, Inc, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #44 2004

VOJTKO, BOB (fl. 1970s-2010s) (chron.)
• * [cartoon], (ct) Pulp Modern Win 2017

VOLK, STEPHEN (1954- ) (chron.)
• * Bless, (nv) Crimewave #12 2013
• * Indicator, (ss) Crimewave #7 2003
• * Time Capsule, (ss) Crimewave #8 2005

VOLNEY, DEX; pseudonym of Volney G. Mathison, (1897-1965) (chron.)
• * The Harbor Mob, (ss) All Star Detective Stories Nov 1931
• * His Celestial Brothers [Zig Jones], (ss) Sea Stories Nov 1927
  • Hutchinson’s Adventure & Mystery Story Magazine Jan 1928
• * Killers’ Pass, (ss) All Star Detective Stories Dec 1930

VOLPENTESTA, LOU (fl. 1990s) (chron.)
• * Eddie Malinowski’s Second Chance, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1995

VOLSKY, PAULA (fl. 1980s-2010s) (chron.)
• * The Giant Rat of Sumatra [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996; Holmes pastiche written as if by H.P. Lovecraft.
  • Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine Spr 2011

VOLTAIRE; pseudonym of François Marie Arouet, (1694-1778); (about) (chron.)
• * The Dog and the Horse [from Zadig], (ex); translated from the French (“Zadig ou la Destinée”, 1747).
  • Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1954; translated, uncredited
  • Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (UK) Oct 1954; translated, uncredited
  • Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) Dec 1954; translated, uncredited

VON BORRIES, PHILIP (fl. 2010s) (chron.)
• * Focus on True Crime: The Forgotten Story: The Strange Saga of Rider John E. Hathaway, (ar) Suspense Magazine Jan 2013

von BRAUN, [Dr.] WERNHER (Magnus Maximilian Freiherr) (1912-1977); (about) (chron.)
• * Life on Mars, (nv) This Week Apr 24 1960 (+2)
  • Suspense (UK) Aug 1960

von der LIN, FRANCES (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Pride and Poison, (ss) Malcolm’s Jan 1954

von ELDER, GENESIS RAZ (c1990- ); (about)
_____, [ref.]
• * “Beating the Odds”, uncredited, (iv) Suspense Magazine Sep 2014

von ELSNER, DON (Byron) (1909-1997) (chron.)
• * Murder on the Freeway [David Danning], (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1964
• * Turnabout [David Danning], (ss) The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) Feb 1965
  • The Saint Mystery Magazine Mar 1965

von HURTER, FRANCOIS (fl. 2000s) (chron.)
• * Noir from Abroad: Bitter Lemon Press, (ar) Crime Time #37 2004

von KREBS, MARIA (fl. 1950s) (chron.)
• * Agatha Is Her Name, (ar) The Saint Mystery Magazine Aug 1959

VON LAWRENCE, EDDY (fl. 1990s) (chron.)
• * Acid Casual, (ar) Crime Time #9 1997
• * Sean Hughes, (iv) Crime Time #10 1997
• * Seventh Heaven, (iv) Crime Time #4 1996 [Morgan Freeman]

VON LINDEN, HAROLD (fl. 1920s) (chron.)
• * The Lost Payroll, (ss) The Dragnet Magazine Jun 1929

von RABE, ANNE CRAWFORD; see under Crawford, Anne (1846-1912) (chron.)

von REESE, WILLIAM (fl. 1970s) (chron.)
• * Double Your Treasure, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1970
• * A Man of Confidence, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1970

von RIEHL, W. H. (fl. 1960s) (chron.)
• * Bring on My Gallows, (ss) Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine Mar 1966

von ROSENKRANZ, PALLE; see under Rosenkrantz, Palle (1867-1941) (chron.)