The FictionMags Index

Series List

Roberts, Benson (The Masked Avenger)
• Tom Johnson:
  • Crime’s Last Stand (nv) Double Danger Tales #24 1999
  • The Death Plague (na) Double Danger Tales #39 2000
  • Dark Streets of Doom (na) Triple Detective #3 2009
• Lamont Wentworth:
  • Peril of the Prophet (nv) Double Danger Tales #11 1997

Roberts, Dana
• Joe R. Lansdale:
  • The Case of the Stalking Shadow (ss) The Cases of Dana Roberts, Subterranean Press 2011

Roberts, George
• Ray Cummings:
  • The Case of the Frozen Corpses (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine Jan 1939
  • The Case of the Skinless Corpses (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine Feb 1939
  • The Case of the Tortured Corpses (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine Mar 1939

Roberts, George Marion
• Bernard Breslauer:
  • The Last Safari (na) Complete Stories Jul #1 1930

Roberts, Insp.
• Ken Bruen:
  • Taming the Alien (ex) Do-Not Press 1999 [Sgt. Brant]

Robideau, Chief
• Jas. R. Petrin:
  • The Sailing (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1987
  • Second Sight (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1999
  • Missing Persons (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 1999
  • Death by Numbers (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 2002
  • Fine Business (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 2002
  • The House on Back Street (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 2004
  • The Palace Roxy (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2007
  • Gang of Three (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 2008

Robin Family, The
• Anonymous:
  • The Mystery Firework (vi) Woman’s Weekly Nov 8 2011

Robins family
• Bill Adler & Thomas Chastain:
  • The Return of the Robins Family (ss) Redbook Dec 1984

Robinson, Stubby
• Harry Starkey Aldrich:
  • “Stubby” Noses Down (ss) St. Nicholas Mar 1921
  • The Last Laugh (ss) St. Nicholas Jul 1922

Robots
• Isaac Asimov:
  • Reason (ss) Astounding Apr 1941; also as “Robot Reason”. [Mike Donovan]
  • Liar! (ss) Astounding May 1941 [Susan Calvin]
  • Runaround (nv) Astounding Mar 1942; also as “Robot Runaround”. [Mike Donovan]
  • Victory Unintentional (ss) Super Science Stories Aug 1942
  • Catch That Rabbit (ss) Astounding Feb 1944 [Mike Donovan]
  • Paradoxical Escape (ss) Astounding Aug 1945 [Susan Calvin; Mike Donovan]
  • Evidence (nv) Astounding Sep 1946 [Susan Calvin]
  • Little Lost Robot (nv) Astounding Mar 1947 [Susan Calvin]
  • The Evitable Conflict (nv) Astounding Jun 1950 [Susan Calvin]
  • Satisfaction Guaranteed (ss) Amazing Stories Apr 1951 [Susan Calvin]
  • The Caves of Steel (n.) Galaxy Science Fiction Oct 1953, etc. [Elijah (Lije) Baley]
  • Risk (nv) Astounding May 1955 [Susan Calvin]
  • First Law (ss) Fantastic Universe Oct 1956 [Mike Donovan]
  • The Naked Sun (n.) Astounding Oct 1956, etc. [Elijah (Lije) Baley]
  • Let’s Get Together (ss) Infinity Science Fiction Feb 1957
  • Galley Slave (nv) Galaxy Science Fiction Dec 1957 [Susan Calvin]
  • Lenny (ss) Infinity Science Fiction Jan 1958 [Susan Calvin]
  • Segregationist (ss) Abbottempo Apr 1967
  • Feminine Intuition (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct 1969 [Susan Calvin]
  • Mirror Image (ss) Analog May 1972 [Elijah (Lije) Baley]
  • Light Verse (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep/Oct 1973
  • The Tercentenary Incident (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1976
  • The Robots of Dawn (ex) Doubleday 1983 [Elijah (Lije) Baley]
  • Robot Dreams (ss) Robot Dreams, Berkley 1986 [Susan Calvin]
  • Robot Visions (ss) Robot Visions, NAL/Roc 1990
• Harlan Ellison:
  • I, Robot: The Movie (pl) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Nov 1987, etc. [Susan Calvin]

Robur the Conqueror (about)
• Jules Verne:
  • Robur the Conqueror, or The Clipper of the Clouds (n.) 1887; translated from the French (“Robur le conquerant”, Journal des Debats Politiques et Litteraires 29 June to 18 August 1886).
  • The Master of the World (n.) The Boy’s Own Paper Nov 1913, etc.

Rocambole (about)
• Reginald Wray:
  • Rocambole, the Terror of Paris: No. 1-The Knave of Hearts Club (nv) Pluck Jun 6 1914; adapted from the movie.

Roche, Peggy
• Victor Rousseau:
  • The Adventure of the Three Georges (ss) Photoplay Mar 1917

Rock, Dean Wardlow (The Dean)
• Merle Constiner:
  • Strangler’s Kill (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Aug 1940
  • You’re in My Way (na) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1940
  • One Corpse Too Many (na) Dime Detective Magazine Mar 1941
  • The Puzzle of the Terrified Dummy (na) Dime Detective Magazine Aug 1941
  • They’ll Kill Again (na) Dime Detective Magazine Nov 1941
  • The Riddle of the Phantom Mummy (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Feb 1942
  • The Riddle of the Bashful Ghost (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jun 1942
  • Killer Take All (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Aug 1942
  • Mr. Bettleman’s Blisters (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Nov 1942
  • The Riddle of the Shackled Butler (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Mar 1943
  • The Nervous Doorbell (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jun 1943
  • The Riddle of the Monster Bat (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Sep 1943
  • Parade of the Empty Shoes (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1943
  • The Affair of the Pharmacist’s Fudge (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jan 1944
  • The Arm of Mother Manzoli (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Apr 1944
  • The Puzzle of the Padlocked Furnace (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jul 1944
  • The Affair of the Four Skeletons (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Sep 1944
  • The Affair of the Bedridden Pickpocket (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Apr 1945
  • The Kitchen of Master Lefevre (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1945

Rock, Eddie “Eddy”
• John Hawkins:
  • We Die Tonight! (nv) Detective Tales Feb 1941
  • A Hundred Dollars Worth of Hell (nv) Detective Tales Dec 1941 [Daniel “Pop” Egan]
  • You’ll Be the Next to Die! (nv) Detective Tales May 1942 [Daniel “Pop” Egan]
  • Death on Wheels (nv) Detective Tales Aug 1942 [Daniel “Pop” Egan]
  • Siren in the Night (ss) Detective Tales Jan 1951

Rock, Jimmy
• Michael Stuart:
  • Rock of Roxburgh! (sl) The Modern Boy Aug 11 1934
  • Fighting Jimmy Rock! (sl) The Modern Boy Aug 18 1934
  • Jimmy Rock’s Freaks! (ss) The Modern Boy Aug 25 1934
  • The Sports Master Detective! (ss) The Modern Boy Sep 1 1934
  • The Roxburgh Run! (ss) The Modern Boy Sep 8 1934
  • Jimmy Rock’s Ruse! (ss) The Modern Boy Sep 15 1934
  • Frantic Footer! (ss) The Modern Boy Sep 22 1934

Rock, Johnny
• Mel Colton:
  • Dreamer with a Gun (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1949
  • Corpse-Gathering Cutie (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Aug 1950

Rockcliffe
• Basil Storey:
  • Bat’s Belfry the K.O. Kid (ss) School Cap Aug 8 1953
  • Bats Belfry’s Pop-gun Gran’pop (ss) School Cap Aug 22 1953
  • The Boy Who Sold the School (ss) School Cap Sep 3 1953
  • The Man from Atlantis (ss) School Cap Sep 19 1953
  • Kick Me Out-I’m Crackers (ss) School Cap Oct 3 1953
  • The Sportsmater’s Secret (ss) School Cap Oct 17 1953
  • The Haunted Lighthouse (ss) School Cap Oct 31 1953
  • Bats Belfry the Film Star (ss) School Cap Nov 14 1953
  • Branded a Coward (ss) School Cap Nov 28 1953
  • Mystery of the Demon King (nv) School Cap Dec 12 1953

Rockford, Tommy
• Hal Dunning & Walker A. Tompkins:
  • Gun-Mad Masquerade (sl) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Mar 15 1941, etc. [Jim-Twin Allen (The White Wolf)] [ghost written by Walker A. Tompkins]
• Walker A. Tompkins:
  • Plunder of El Horado (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Sep 12 1931
  • Skulls in Wrist Canyon (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jun 1 1935
  • Guns and Gold (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Aug 17 1935
  • Gunman’s Ghost (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Nov 9 1935
  • Tommy Rockford’s Bullet Ballot (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Feb 8 1936
  • Tommy Rockford’s Stolen Handcuffs (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Mar 14 1936
  • Tommy Rockford at Mystery Ranch (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Apr 25 1936
  • Tommy Rockford’s Coffin Clew (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jul 18 1936
  • Trail of the Lizard (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Aug 8 1936
  • Gold-Plated Six-Guns (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Oct 24 1936
  • Wanted for Murder—Tommy Rockford (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Dec 26 1936
  • The Canyon of No Return (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jan 30 1937
  • Tommy Rockford’s Suicide Stagecoach (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Mar 6 1937
  • Tommy Rockford Ropes a Rattlesnake (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Mar 27 1937
  • Tommy Rockford Trails a Ghost (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly May 22 1937
  • Bait for a Man Trap (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Aug 14 1937
  • Tommy Rockford Dodges the Gallows (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Aug 28 1937
  • The Haunted Bunkhouse (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Oct 23 1937
  • The Ghost of Tommy Rockford (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Nov 20 1937
  • Tommy Rockford Bucks the Nevada Wolves (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jan 8 1938
  • Tommy Rockford’s Owl-Hoot Sign (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Mar 5 1938
  • Murder Mountain (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Mar 26 1938
  • The Branded Skull (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly May 7 1938
  • Murder on Rainbow Butte (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jul 2 1938
  • Guns from the Grave (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Aug 6 1938
  • Phantom Rustlers (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Sep 17 1938
  • Dead Man’s Handcuffs (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Oct 8 1938
  • The Spider’s Hang-Rope Web (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Oct 22 1938
  • Tombstone Calaboose (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Dec 17 1938
  • The Hoodoo Herd of Mystery River (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Dec 31 1938
  • Skull Ranch (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jan 28 1939
  • Bullion of Death (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jun 3 1939
  • Golden Handcuffs Mean Death (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jul 15 1939
  • Badge of Death (na) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jul 6 1940
  • Longhorn Desperado (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Sep 21 1940
  • Boothill on the Border (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Aug 2 1941
  • Gunpowder Passport (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Sep 13 1941
  • Golden Guns (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Nov 1 1941
  • Renegades of Red Rim (na) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Dec 13 1941
  • Phantom Pueblo (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jan 17 1942
  • Salty Six-Guns (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Feb 21 1942
  • Hang-Rope Hostage (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Apr 25 1942
  • Boothill’s for Bad Actors (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jun 6 1942
  • Lone Star Loot (na) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Aug 8 1942
  • Border Buzzard (na) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Sep 26 1942
  • Hoodoo Hacienda (na) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Nov 7 1942
  • Salt-Water Waddy (na) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jan 2 1943
  • The Flaming Phantom (na) Street & Smith’s Wild West Apr 10 1943
  • Death Wears Golden Handcuffs (na) Street & Smith’s Wild West Jun 5 1943
• Walker A. & Walker A. Tompkins:
  • Tommy Rockford Arrests the Border Eagle (nv) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Jan 22 1938, as by Philip F. Deere & Walker A. Tompkins. [The Border Eagle]
  • Gun-Mad Masquerade (sl) Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly Mar 15 1941, etc. [Jim-Twin Allen (The White Wolf)]

Rockhurst, Viscount
• Agnes & Egerton Castle:
  • The Debt of Honor (ss) Appleton’s Magazine Feb 1907
  • The Enigma of the Locket (ss) Appleton’s Magazine Mar 1907
  • The Peacock Walk (ss) Appleton’s Magazine Apr 1907
  • Lady Chillingburgh’s Last Card Party (ss) Appleton’s Magazine May 1907
  • The Broken Sanctuary (ss) Appleton’s Magazine Jun 1907
  • The Red Desolation (ss) Appleton’s Magazine Jul 1907

Rockspur
• Gilbert Patten:
  • The Rockspur Athletic Club (nv) Sport Story Magazine May 8 1926
  • The Rockspur Battery (nv) Sport Story Magazine May 22 1926
  • The Rockspur Spirit (nv) Sport Story Magazine Oct 22 1926

Rodd, Aaron
• E. Phillips Oppenheim:
  • The Cunning of Harvey Grimm (ss) Harper’s Bazar Dec 1917
  • Poetry by Compulsion (ss) Harper’s Bazar Jan 1918
  • An Alliance of Thieves (ss) Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine Apr 1918
  • Ulysses of Wapping (ss) Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine May 1918
  • The Mysterious Assistant (ss) Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine Jun 1918
  • Paul Brodie Strikes (ss) Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine Jul 1918
  • The Infidelity of Jack Lovejoy (ss) Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine Aug 1918
  • The Yellow Eye (ss) Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine Sep 1918
  • The Vengeance of Rosa Letchowiski (ss) Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine Oct 1918
  • The End of Jeremiah Sands (ss) Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine Nov 1918

Rodd, Danbury
• Frederick Palmer:
  • Two in a Life Buoy (ss) The Popular Magazine Feb 15 1912
  • On Wings for a Million (ss) The Popular Magazine Mar 1 1912
  • In Pursuit of the “Jolly Boy” (ss) The Popular Magazine Mar 15 1912
  • A Rescue by Aëroplane (ss) The Popular Magazine Apr 1 1912

Roden, Sheriff Jess
• A. B. Cunningham:
  • The Cistern Murder Case (na) Mystery Book Magazine Sep 1945
  • Death Rides a Sorrel Horse (n.) 1946

Roderick
• John Sladek:
  • Roderick Goes to School (ex) Granada 1980

Rodgers, Paul (The Red Wolf of Arabia)
• William J. Makin:
  • A King Goes By (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Nov 1932; also as “The Woman of Antioch”.
  • The Man Who Sold Beds (nv) Pearson’s Magazine Dec 1932; also as “The Desert of the Singing Sands”.
  • The Dhow That Sailed to Nowhere (nv) Pearson’s Magazine Jan 1933
  • Miracle in the Desert (nv) The Blue Book Magazine Feb 1933
  • The Three-Four Flash (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Feb 1933; also as “The Secret of Zogra Island”.
  • Thirteen Men at the Opera (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Mar 1933; also as “Thirteen Men”.
  • Three Dead Camels (nv) Pearson’s Magazine Apr 1933
  • It Happened in Port Said (nv) The Blue Book Magazine Jun 1933
  • The Jerusalem Express (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Dec 1933
  • The Gold Ship (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Feb 1934
  • The Garden of T.N.T. (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Mar 1934
  • The Drums of Omdurman (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Apr 1934
  • Red Sea Pearls (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Aug 1934
  • Death in the Desert (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Sep 1934
  • The Merchant of Mocha (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Nov 1934
  • The Planes That Never Returned (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Mar 1935
  • The Queen of Sheba (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jun 1935
  • The Gorge of Terror (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Sep 1935
  • The Lion of Judah (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Dec 1935
  • The Mines of Sheba’s Queen (nv) The Blue Book Magazine Apr 1936
  • The Return of the Red Wolf (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Aug 1937
  • The Assassins of Angora (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Oct 1937
  • The Blue Oasis (nv) The Blue Book Magazine Nov 1937
  • The Murder Club of Bagdad (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jan 1938
  • The Treasure of Abdul the Damned (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Apr 1938
  • The Dogs of Istanbul (ss) The Blue Book Magazine May 1938
  • Bethlehem—1939 (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Oct 1939
  • The Elusive General (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Dec 1939
  • London Blackout (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Mar 1940
  • Orient Express (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Apr 1940
  • The Thirteenth Man (nv) The Blue Book Magazine Nov 1944