Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v2, Winter 1942] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Sunningdale Mystery [Tuppence & Tommy Beresford] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Oct 29 1924, as “The Sunninghall Mystery” 15 · Taboo · Geoffrey Household · ss The Salvation of Pisco Gabar, Chatto 1938 34 · Green Ice [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss The Chicago Tribune Apr 13 1941, as “The Riddle of the Green Ice” 50 · The Phantom Guest [Deputy Parr; Oliver Armiston] · Frederick Irving Anderson · nv 74 · The Important Point [O’Malley] · William MacHarg · ss Collier’s Feb 5 1938 81 · The Case of the Two Flutes [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · nv Mystery Apr 1934, as “The Phantom Flute Player” 103 · The Man Who Knew How [Pender] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Harper’s Bazaar Feb 1932 115 · Goodbye Hannah · Steve Fisher · ss Double Detective Dec 1938

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v3, Spring 1942] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Queen’s introductory note apologizes for the pulp paper of issue no. 2, and blames “the present industrial crisis.” Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Thank You · Ellery Queen · ed 5 · Percival Bland’s Proxy [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine Dec 1913 25 · Dumb Yank · Karl Detzer · ss The American Legion Magazine 1935 44 · Crime Without Passion · Ben Hecht · nv The Grand Magazine Sep 1933 64 · Code No. 2 · Edgar Wallace · ss The Strand Magazine Apr 1916 78 · Mrs. Macbeth · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Street & Smith’s Complete Magazine Dec 1935 88 · The Stolen Rubens [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · ss Associated Sunday Magazine Feb 17 1907, as “Problem of the Stolen Rubens” 98 · The Good Friend [Chief-Inspector Parbold] · Michael Arlen · ss The Strand Magazine Mar 1938 112 · The Adventure of the Frightened Star [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v3 #2, May 1942] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Mystery of Mrs. Dickinson [Nick Carter] · Nick Carter · ss New York Weekly Nov 10 1894 17 · Murder! · Arnold Bennett · nv Cassell’s Magazine Oct 1927 32 · The Key in Michael [Dexter Drake] · Elsa Barker · nv The Red Book Magazine Jan 1927 54 · The Blue Fingerprint [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss New York Sunday News 1942, as “A Fingerprint in Cobalt” 66 · Dilemma at Shanghai · Vincent Starrett · ss 80 · Cabbages and Kings · Irvin S. Cobb · ss Good Housekeeping Jul 1930 99 · Tell It to the Judge · Viola Brothers Shore · ss 103 · The Bloomsbury Wonder · Thomas Burke · nv Mandrake Press 1929

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v3 #3, July 1942] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Fly Paper [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv Black Mask Aug 1929 34 · A Collector of Curiosities [Rowland Hern] · Nicholas Olde · ss The Incredible Adventures of Rowland Hern, Heinemann 1928 43 · The Third Floor Flat [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine Jan 1929 59 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Murdered Writer [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 60 · Seesaw · Laurence Dwight Smith · ss 75 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Three Amateurs [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 76 · The Fortune Teller [Sir Henry Marquis] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Red Book Magazine Aug 1918 87 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Death Car [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 88 · The Unknown Man [Mr. White] · Frederick Irving Anderson · ss Adventure Aug 1911; in EQMM’s “League of Forgotten Men”. 99 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Miser’s Hoard [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 100 · The Wrong Problem [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Evening Standard Aug 14 1936 113 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Last Survivor [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 114 · The Meanest Man in the World [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl; given as “The Adventure of the Meanest Man in the World” in the Table of Contents.

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v3 #4, September 1942] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Mallet · James Hilton · ss Hutchinson’s Story-Magazine Jul 1929 19 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Impossible Marriage [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 20 · Suspect Unknown [Inspector Jessup] · Courtney Ryley Cooper · ss Collier’s Sep 23 1939 33 · According to the Evidence [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Adventure Mar 1913; in EQMM’s “League of Forgotten Men”. 50 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Eternal Triangle [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 51 · The Unreckonable Factor · Samuel Hopkins Adams · vi Liberty Jun 25 1938 54 · The Adventure of the Mouse’s Blood [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl; given as “The Mouse’s Blood” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. 68 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the 6 Corridors [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 69 · The Man Next Door [Oliver Rater] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Feb 1928 81 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the 3 Suspects [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 82 · Screwball Division [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss 97 · The Compliments of the Chief · Lincoln Steffens · ss Ainslee’s Magazine Jul 1900 105 · The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown [Rupert Grant; Basil Grant] · G. K. Chesterton · ss Harper’s Weekly Dec 19 1903 126 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Direct Angle [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 126 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Young Detective [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v3 #5, November 1942] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 5 · The Case of Arnold Schuttringer [Monsieur Froget] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from the French (Les 13 Coupables, 1932). 12 · The Definite Article [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine Oct 1937 29 · Too Young to Die [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick Nebel · nv Black Mask Feb 1934 58 · A Point of Testimony [Bert Bayliss] · Carolyn Wells · ss Adventure Oct 1911; in EQMM’s “League of Forgotten Men”. 73 · The Adventure of the Good Samaritan [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl 87 · The Bow-Street Runner · Samuel Duff · ss 99 · The Real Thing · Karl Detzer · ss The American Legion Magazine Aug 1939 110 · Blue Murder · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine Oct 1925 128 · Index to Volumes 1, 2, 3 · Anon. · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v4 #1, January 1943] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Mystery for Christmas · Anthony Boucher · ss 19 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Egyptian Vase [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 20 · Greedy Night, A Parody · E. C. Bentley · ss Parody Party, ed. Leonard Russell, Hutchinson 1936 [Dorothy L. Sayers]; parody of Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey. 30 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Crated Corpse [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 31 · The Obscure Move [Morgan] · Wadsworth Camp · ss Adventure May 1915 47 · Simple · P. C. Wren · ss Odd—But Even So, Murray 1941 53 · A Frosty Morning [Robert Leroy Mitchel; John Barnes] · Rodrigues Ottolengui · ss The Black Cat Aug 1898; in EQMM’s “League of Forgotten Men”. 66 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Laundry Ticket [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 67 · Accused · Ruth Chessman · vi 70 · The Diary of Death [Loreto Santos] · Marten Cumberland · nv The Strand Magazine Jan 1928 90 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Severed Ear [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 91 · Opals Are Bad Luck · Viola Brothers Shore · ss 104 · The Hammerpond Park Burglary · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget Jul 5 1894 111 · The Leopard Lady · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Illustrated Detective Magazine Sep 1932, as “Murder—By Appointment” 128 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Trifling Detail [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 128 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Missing Knife [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v4 #2, March 1943] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Sunday Dispatch Sep 22 1929, as “The Uncrossed Path” 13 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Globe-Trotter [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 14 · The Marionettes · O. Henry · ss The Black Cat Apr 1902 26 · His Heart Could Break [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv 45 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Book Thieves [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 46 · Thirteen Lead Soldiers [Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond] · H. C. McNeile · ss The Strand Magazine Dec 1937, as by Sapper 62 · The Lady with the Hatchet [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · ss Metropolitan Magazine May 1922 81 · The Adventure of the Fire-Bug [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl; given as “The Fire-Bug” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. 95 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Stolen Formula [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 96 · Philo Gubb’s Greatest Case [Philo Gubb] · Ellis Parker Butler · ss The Red Book Magazine Apr 1915 111 · They Can Only Hang You Once [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · ss Collier’s Nov 19 1932 123 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Libyan Manhunt [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 124 · The Mycroft Magic Square [Sherlock Holmes] · Christopher Morley · pz

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v4 #3, May 1943] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 5 · The Thistle Down [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · ss The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross, Hodder & Stroughton 1939 16 · QL 696.C9 [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss 29 · The Leopard Man’s Story · Jack London · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly Aug 1903 33 · Dark Journey · Francis Iles · ss The Sunday News 1934 49 · Murder at the Opera [Sally Cardiff] · Vincent Starrett · nv Real Detective Oct 1934, as “The Bloody Crescendo” 78 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Dead Detective [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 79 · The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl; given as “The Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds” on the cover and in the Table of Contents.; first broadcast May 5, 1940. 92 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Careless Visitor [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 93 · The Hunt Ball [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss Holly Leaves Nov 21 1937 104 · The Picture Collector · Franklin P. Adams · vi Liberty Dec 18 1937 106 · A Minute Mystery: The Case of the Death Car [Professor Joseph Fordney] · Roy Post & Austin Ripley · pz 107 · Squeakie’s First Case [Squeakie Meadows] · Margaret Manners · nv 127 · Guess Who?: Sir Henry Merrivale · Talbot C. Hatch · qz

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v4 #4, July 1943] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 3 · The Proverbial Murder [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · nv 22 · The Stolen White Elephant · Mark Twain · nv The Stolen White Elephant, Webster 1882 38 · His Brother’s Keeper · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Magazine Dec 1922 48 · D.I.C. (Department of Impossible Crimes) [Paul Dawn] · James Yaffe · ss; given as “Department of Impossible Crimes” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. 63 · The Blast of the Book [Father Brown] · Gilbert K. Chesterton · ss Liberty Aug 26 1933, as “The Five Fugitives” 76 · Letter from Another World [Eigil Holst] · Baron Palle Rosenkrantz; translated by Grace Isabel Colbron · ss; translated from the Danish (Schjulte Kraefter, 1909). 86 · The Dirty Dogs’ Club [Dirty Dogs’ Club] · P. C. Wren · ss; abridged from “A Franc’s Worth of Gas” (Rough Shooting, Murray, 1938). 93 · Guess Who?: J.G. Reeder · Talbot C. Hatch · qz 95 · The Aldine Folio Murders · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss The Dolphin 1940 115 · The Adventure of the Murdered Ship [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v4, #12, September 1943] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 5 · The Ministering Angel [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine Nov 1938, as “Trent and the Ministering Angel” 19 · After-Dinner Story [Hardecker] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask Jan 1938 42 · The Three Rembrandts [Joseph Leborgne] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from the French (Les 13 Mystères, 1932). 48 · The Verdict · Frank Swinnerton · ss London Calling 1943 54 · P. Moran, Shadow [P. Moran] · Percival Wilde · ss 68 · Bottleneck · Hugh MacNair Kahler · vi Collier’s Feb 27 1937 72 · The Gold Goose Scientist · Harry Irving Greene · ss The Black Cat Jun 1903 80 · Black Murder [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss 93 · The Bunch of Violets [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Strand Magazine Jul 1924 114 · The Adventure of the Blind Bullet [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl; given as “The Blind Bullet” on the cover and in the Table of Contents.

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v4, #13, November 1943] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 5 · The Locked Room [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine Jul 1940 19 · A Point in Morals · Ellen Glasgow · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine May 1899 30 · The Rubber Trumpet [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Pearson’s Magazine Sep 1934 46 · Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · nv 65 · The Secret of Fort Bayard [G.7] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from the French (“Le Secret du Fort Bayard”, Détective, November 21, 1929 & December 5, 1929). 71 · The Killer · Cyril Plunkett · ss 78 · The Signed Masterpiece [Deputy Parr; Oliver Armiston; Sophie Lang] · Frederick Irving Anderson · nv McClure’s Jun/Jul 1921 99 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 107 · The Topaz Cuff-Button · Anon. · ss The New York Detective Library Feb 18 1888, as by A New York Detective 113 · The Adventure of the One-Legged Man [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · pl 127 · Index to Volume 4 · Anon. · ix