Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Contents Lists

Best Detective Magazine [v2 #1, May 1930] (20¢, 160pp, pulp) The Golden Doll [Daniel “Red” Kerry] · Sax Rohmer · nv Detective Story Magazine Apr 8 1922, as “Kerry’s Kid” Kissed by the Dead · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 19 1924 Forty Winks · Leslie W. Quirk · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 20 1917 Cell 13 · Will Gage Carey · ss The New Magazine (US) Dec 1910 Thubway Tham’s Act of Mercy [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 30 1918 Held for Ransom · Katharine Metcalf Roof · ss Detective Story Magazine May 21 1918 The Butler’s Ruby [Part 3 of 3] · Armstrong Livingston · sl Detective Story Magazine Apr 15 1922 (+3) Full of Tricks [Simon Trapp] · Roy W. Hinds · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 8 1921 Big Mike’s Reward · Harold Streeter Swain · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 20 1917 A Bit of Magic [Tales of the Chemists’ Club] · Howard Fielding · ss Ainslee’s Magazine Apr 1900, as “A Bit of White Magic” Dimple Baits the Hook · James W. Egan · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 16 1917 Mr. Alias, Burglar [Robert Leroy Mitchel; John Barnes] · Rodrigues Ottolengui · ss Ainslee’s Magazine May 1901 The Dog Killer · Hugh Kahler · ss His Mother’s Gratitude · Howard Ellis Davis · ss Detective Story Magazine May 28 1921 The Initialed Face · Oscar Schisgall · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 14 1922

Best Detective Magazine [v2 #2, June 1930] (20¢, 160pp, pulp) Rogue for a Day [Black Star] · John Mack Stone · nv Detective Story Magazine Mar 5 1916 Bread Upon the Waters [Bryson Brace] · Ellis Parker Butler · ss Detective Story Magazine Sep 25 1917 The Grand-Stander · Leslie W. Quirk · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 9 1917 With Hands Tied · Hugh Kahler · ss Detective Story Magazine May 28 1918 Thubway Tham’s Inthane Moment [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Nov 19 1918 The Milburn Mystery · Adele Luehrmann · na Detective Story Magazine Jul 23 1921 Every Man Has His Price [Tales of the Chemists’ Club] · Howard Fielding · ss Ainslee’s Magazine May 1900 Only Three Months More · Anon. · ss A Problem in Smuggling [Robert Leroy Mitchel; John Barnes] · Rodrigues Ottolengui · ss Ainslee’s Magazine Jun 1901 The Walking Stick · W. Douglas Newton · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 1 1919 Buried in Type · Victor Lauriston & A. L. McCready · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 8 1919 Fairweather’s Friend · F. A. Goodridge · ss Detective Story Magazine Sep 20 1916 An Egyptian Coin · Bozeman Bulger · ss The New Magazine (US) Dec 1910

Best Detective Magazine [v2 #3, July 1930] (20¢, 160pp, pulp) The White Rook’s Pawn [Enfield Bray (The White Rook)] · Hugh Kahler · na Detective Story Magazine Oct 1 1918 The Meanest Crime · Herbert Asbury & Richard Watkins · ss Red Beads · C. S. Montanye · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 22 1919 Behind the Red-Rimmed Door · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Trusted Thieves · Oscar Schisgall · ss The Indelible Stain [Tales of the Chemists’ Club] · Howard Fielding · ss Ainslee’s Magazine Jun 1900 The Mark of Cain · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 13 1918 Thubway Tham’s Double [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 3 1918 The Empty Room · Christopher B. Booth · ss The Black Pearl · Arthur William Beer · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 5 1916 Practice vs. Theory · Alvin Bucklin · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 20 1916 The Snitch · Mert E. Smith · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 5 1917

Best Detective Magazine [v2 #4, August 1930] (20¢, 160pp, pulp) Signed by the Green Pansy · Ernest Pascal · na Detective Story Magazine Apr 15 1922 Not a Chance in the World · Herbert Asbury · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 22 1922 H.H. Manners, Walk In · Milo Ray Phelps · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 17 1919 Two Who Starved · Eva Pittaro · ss Detective Story Magazine Feb 10 1923 Chapel Bunk · Bryan Irvine · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 20 1923 The Innocent Ghost · Arthur Mallory · nv Detective Story Magazine Apr 22 1922 Thubway Tham’s Understudy [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 31 1918 Punctual Confession · Frank H. Williams · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 13 1920 The Other Pistol [Garnett Bell] · Cecil H. Bullivant · ss Yes or No, as “The Strange Fate of Marcus Hannaford” One Year’s Wages · Roy W. Hinds · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 15 1922 By Long Distance · Harriet Lummis Smith · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 9 1918 In a Costume Part · H. Grahame Richards · ss Detective Story Magazine Feb 5 1918

Best Detective Magazine [v2 #5, September 1930] (20¢, 160pp, pulp) The Mark of a Match · Edward Leonard · na Detective Story Magazine Nov 25 1922 Primitive Methods · Hugh Kahler · ss; possibly “Punitive Methods”. Should He Have Told? · Adele Luehrmann · ss Detective Story Magazine May 13 1922 Thubway Tham and Elevated Elmer [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Mar 4 1919 On the Giant’s Head · Roy Vickers · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 28 1919 Planted Peril · George Allan England · nv Detective Story Magazine Aug 26 1922 The Profession of Being Innocent · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 5 1922 A Fool for Luck · Harriet Lummis Smith · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 28 1919 The Stolen Secret [Garnett Bell] · Cecil H. Bullivant · ss Yes or No, as “The Green-Painted Door” A Disciple of Success · John Baer · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 22 1919 The Private Bird Reformed · Anna Alice Chapin · pm (r)

Best Detective Magazine [v2 #6, October 1930] (20¢, 160pp, pulp) The Rook’s Defense · Hugh Kahler · nv Detective Story Magazine Nov 5 1918 In the Room of the Flying Fame · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 8 1923 Thubway Tham’s Baggage Check [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Mar 25 1919 Near Cedar Hollow · Carolyn Wells · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 18 1920 Balbane, Conjurer Detective [Balbane, Man of Mystery] · Lewen Hewitt · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 22 1921 His Chance · Richard Marsh · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 1 1919 The Man with the Patch · Paul Annixter · ss Detective Story Magazine May 21 1921 The Guilty Urge · Oscar Schisgall · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 29 1923 Hidden Treasure · Arthur William Beer · ss Detective Story Magazine Sep 5 1916 The Maze [Garnett Bell] · Cecil H. Bullivant · ss Yes or No Aug 21 1915 The Slip · Louis W. Hammett · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 5 1917 Worthless Loot · G. Villiers Stuart · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 13 1920 Mrs. Hunter’s Pearls · Harper Hind · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 5 1917

Best Detective Magazine [v3 #1, November 1930] (20¢, 160pp, pulp) The Elusive Third · John J. Chichester · na Detective Story Magazine Nov 11 1922 Beat Number Nine · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 16 1918, as “Number Nine” The Lead Slug Clew · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 15 1923 Thubway Tham’s Inthuranthe [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 15 1919 Blind Justice · Frederick Ames Coates · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 18 1920 Whom the Law Forgot · William S. Dutton · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 5 1922 Through the Reading Glass [Garnett Bell] · Cecil H. Bullivant · ss Yes or No Aug 26 1916, as “Delgray’s Alibi” All on Edge · Carl Clausen · ss Detective Story Magazine Nov 13 1917 Twin Rooms · Robert Winton · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 15 1919 In the Social Whirligig · Roy W. Hinds · ss Detective Story Magazine May 6 1922 Odd Dodd · Carolyn Wells · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 5 1916 On the Level · Edward Rutledge · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 9 1917

Best Detective Magazine [v3 #2, December 1930] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 1 · The Silver Fork · Ernest Pascal · nv Detective Story Magazine Aug 12 1922 26 · Thubway Tham’s Bank Account [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine May 27 1919 36 · Off the Course · Kenneth Duane Whipple · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 1 1922 42 · His Stupid Stenographer · Hugh Kahler · ss Detective Story Magazine Sep 17 1921 50 · Trimmed to the Quick · Christopher B. Booth · na Detective Story Magazine Feb 17 1923 96 · The Great Sylvester · Dahlia Graham · ss Detective Story Magazine May 6 1922 101 · Hidden Death · Ellis Parker Butler · ss Detective Story Magazine Nov 27 1917 109 · With Ouija’s Aid [Balbane, Man of Mystery] · Lewen Hewitt · ss Detective Story Magazine Feb 5 1921 119 · Bad Blood [Doctor Bentiron] · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 3 1919 131 · The Man in the Brown Rain Coat · George Barton · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 20 1916 139 · Surgery’s Masterpiece · Eva Pittaro · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 29 1922 145 · In Cherry Street · J. R. Ward · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 4 1921 151 · A Prism Song · Anna Alice Chapin · pm (r) 152 · Voices · H. M. Hamilton · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 12 1922 157 · The Jury Box · [The Readers] · lc

Best Detective Magazine [v3 #3, January 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · False Faces · Hugh Kahler · nv Detective Story Magazine Aug 6 1918 45 · Human Aural Screens · Anon. · ms Detective Story Magazine Jan 8 1921 46 · Thubway Tham’s Vacation [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 10 1919 54 · Hanging in “The Good Old Days” · Anon. · ms 55 · The Flick of Ash · Oscar Schisgall · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 5 1924 71 · Bromidic · John Baer · ss Detective Story Magazine May 6 1922 78 · A Champion of Poverty · Roy Vickers · ss Detective Story Magazine Dec 25 1917 86 · The Punishment for Certain Crimes · Anon. · ms 87 · The House of Whispers · Christopher B. Booth · nv Detective Story Magazine Sep 2 1922 128 · The First Prison Matron · Anon. · ms 129 · Beneath the Brand [Balbane, Man of Mystery] · Lewen Hewitt · ss Detective Story Magazine Sep 3 1921 138 · Facts About the Child Delinquent · Anon. · ms 139 · Something for Nothing · Paul Williams · ss Detective Story Magazine Sep 9 1919 142 · Women as Drug Smugglers · Anon. · ms Detective Story Magazine Jul 23 1921 143 · A Matter of Senses · Charles C. Jones · ss Detective Story Magazine Nov 13 1917 147 · A Police Duty in 1825 · Anon. · ms 148 · Through the Open Window · Harold de Polo · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 5 1919 151 · Savings · Victor Lauriston · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 17 1920 156 · Origin of Bertillon Method · Anon. · ms 157 · The Jury Box · [The Readers] · lc

Best Detective Magazine [v3 #4, February 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · The Phantom Dagger · Christopher B. Booth · na Detective Story Magazine Dec 22 1923 49 · Laws of 3000 B.C. · Anon. · ms Detective Story Magazine Aug 17 1920 50 · Thubway Tham’s Flivver [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 15 1919 58 · Strange Tales of “Klondike” Farm · Anon. · ms 59 · Among the Mourners · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine Mar 29 1924 69 · John Howard’s First Great Reform · Anon. · ms 70 · The Dove · Lucas Mortimer · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 5 1917 85 · The Posse Long Ago · Anon. · ms 85 · Origin of the Patrol System · Anon. · ms 86 · The Cotton Stopper [Doctor Bentiron] · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 8 1919 100 · A Chinese Stool Pigeon’s Misadventure · Anon. · ms 101 · One Chance in a Thousand · C. S. Montanye · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 1 1919 105 · Public Lamp-posts · Anon. · ms 106 · Fate Snaps the Shutter · Charles W. Tyler · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 15 1922 115 · Doubly Trapped · Louis W. Hammett · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 8 1918 122 · The Theories of Early Criminologists · Anon. · ms 123 · A Dicker in Art · Roy Vickers · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 15 1918 131 · The Sands of Life · Douglas Dold · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 9 1917 142 · Between Friends · Alden Myles · ss Detective Story Magazine Feb 20 1917 152 · Every Penny · J. R. Ward · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 8 1922 157 · The Jury Box · [The Readers] · lc

Best Detective Magazine [v3 #5, March 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · The Wiremaster · Hugh MacNair Kahler · nv Detective Story Magazine Apr 9 1918 47 · The “Molly Maguires” · Anon. · ms 48 · Floor, Please · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Detective Story Magazine Mar 8 1924 55 · Haunted Walls · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine Aug 9 1924 63 · Some Important Facts · Anon. · ms 64 · Instinct vs. Logic · Roy Vickers · ss Detective Story Magazine Jan 1 1918 72 · The United States Secret Service · Anon. · ms 73 · The Tick in the Clock · Herbert Asbury · nv Detective Story Magazine Jan 6 1923 92 · The African Bowl Cult · Anon. · ms 93 · Water Shy · Kenneth Duane Whipple · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 13 1923 102 · Dual Duty of Post-Office Inspectors · Anon. · ms 103 · Was Beatrice Guilty? · Carolyn Wells · ss Detective Story Magazine Nov 27 1917 112 · A Cobra Accomplice · Anon. · ms 113 · Crime Museum of Vienna Police · Joseph Gollomb · ar 118 · The Spell of Murder · Anon. · ms 119 · The Grim House · Richard Connell · nv Detective Story Magazine May 28 1921 131 · Handwriting As Evidence · Anon. · ms 132 · At the End of the Sentence · Carl Clausen · ss Detective Story Magazine Nov 3 1923 148 · Use X Ray to Locate Stolen Diamonds · Anon. · ms 148 · Appertaining to Thugs · Anon. · ms 149 · Hungry Waters · William Dutton · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 24 1922 156 · A Chaplain versus a Connecticut Prison · Anon. · ms 156 · Not the Alligators’ Fault · Anon. · ms 157 · The Jury Box · [The Readers] · lc

Best Detective Magazine [v3 #6, April 1931] (Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 20¢, 160pp, pulp) Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · By Candlelight · Edward Leonard · nv Detective Story Magazine Nov 19 1921 38 · Oriental Justice · Anon. · ms 39 · Told on Her Beads · John Baer · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 7 1924 47 · A Watchful Waiting Policy · Anon. · ms 48 · Under the Tiger’s Paws · Charlotte Dockstader · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 7 1924 56 · Occult Detective Methods · Anon. · ms 57 · The Crime Protector [Doctor Bentiron] · Ernest M. Poate · ss Detective Story Magazine Oct 20 1923 75 · Hours of Evil · Anon. · ms 76 · Craig Kennedy’s Greatest Mystery [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · ss Detective Story Magazine Jul 12 1924 89 · Is Electrocution Painless? · Anon. · ms Detective Story Magazine Jul 23 1921 90 · Was Lillian Right? · Ernest Pascal · nv Detective Story Magazine Jan 28 1922 114 · A Buyer from Michigan · Anon. · ms 115 · Thubway Tham’s Fishing Trip [Thubway Tham] · Johnston McCulley · ss Detective Story Magazine May 28 1921 127 · Pearl Fraud Discovered in London · Anon. · ms Detective Story Magazine Jul 23 1921 128 · Women in Crime · Edward H. Smith · cl 136 · A Prison De Luxe · Anon. · ms 137 · Her Stupid Lie · Ethel Watts Mumford · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 12 1924 148 · Modern Times—Modern Methods · Anon. · ms 149 · Double Liability · Victor Lauriston · ss Detective Story Magazine Apr 12 1924 154 · A Late Model in Burglar Traps · Anon. · ms 155 · A Double-Edged Disguise · Keene Thompson · ss Detective Story Magazine Jun 5 1916 157 · The Jury Box · [The Readers] · lc