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Spenser (about)
• Robert B. Parker:
  • The Godwulf Manuscript (nv) Argosy Jan 1974; adapted from the forthcoming novel (Houghton Mifflin).
  • Surrogate (ss) Lord John Press 1982

Spheres
• Daniel F. Galouye:
  • The City of Force (na) Galaxy Science Fiction Apr 1959
  • O Kind Master (nv) If Jan 1970

Sphereworld
• Michael J. Bell:
  • Nothing Gained but Honor (ss) Space and Time May 1973
  • Quest of the Blade (ss) Space and Time Jul 1974
  • Nothing Gained but Friendship (nv) The Diversifier Oct 1974
  • Nothing Gained but Faith (ss) Space and Time Nov 1974
  • Advice of a Friend (ss) Astral Dimensions #4 1976

Sphinx Emerald
• H. Bedford-Jones:
  • The Sphinx Emerald (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jun 1946
  • Red Sky Over Thebes (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jul 1946
  • The Last Pharaoh (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Aug 1946
  • Master of the World (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Sep 1946
  • The Son of Julius Caesar (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Oct 1946
  • The Eye of the Sun (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Nov 1946
  • Assassination at Christmas (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Dec 1946
  • The Justice of Amru (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jan 1947
  • Swordsmen of Saladin (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Feb 1947
  • Leopards Are for England (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Mar 1947
  • The King’s Jewel (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Apr 1947
  • A Task for Leonardo (ss) The Blue Book Magazine May 1947
  • The Reward of Nostradamus (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jun 1947
  • Richelieu Raids a Tomb (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jul 1947
  • Jewels Have a Long Life (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Aug 1947
  • Lady in Chain Mail (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Sep 1947
  • The Bride of the Sphinx (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Oct 1947
  • The Passing of the Sphinx Emerald (nv) The Blue Book Magazine Nov 1947

Spider, The
• Johnston McCulley:
  • The Spider’s Den (ss) Detective Story Magazine Apr 16 1918
  • The Spider’s Sign (ss) Detective Story Magazine May 21 1918
  • Into the Spider’s Jaws (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jul 2 1918
  • The Shekel of Shame (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jul 23 1918
  • The Turquoise Elephant (ss) Detective Story Magazine Aug 13 1918
  • The Spider’s Venom (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 10 1918
  • The Spider’s Debt (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 24 1918
  • The Spider’s Wrath (ss) Detective Story Magazine Oct 22 1918
  • The House of Horror (nv) Detective Story Magazine Nov 12 1918
  • The Spider’s Command (ss) Detective Story Magazine Dec 17 1918
  • The Spider Strain (na) Detective Story Magazine Apr 8 1919
  • The Spider’s Reward (ss) Detective Story Magazine Apr 29 1919

Spider, The see under Wentworth, Richard

Spiff & Big Ben
• John Ascott:
  • The Tenderfoot Kids of the Dougle-O (sl) The Triumph Sep 19 1925

Spiller, Lefty
• Edmund Snell:
  • Crook v Crook (na) The Thriller Apr 8 1933 [Doc Morand]

Spink, Captain Harry
• Morley Roberts:
  • The Overcrowded Iceberg (ss) The Strand Magazine Feb 1905
  • The Ingenuity of Captain Spink (ss) The Story-teller Mar 1910
  • Spink and the Submarine (ss) The Strand Magazine May 1915

Spink, Muley
• Joe Archibald:
  • Francs and Sauerkraut (ss) American Eagles Spr 1943 [Ambrose Hooley]
  • Uneasy Aces (ss) Sky Fighters Fll 1944 [Ambrose Hooley]
  • At ’Em, Bums (ss) Sky Fighters Sum 1946 [Ambrose Hooley]
  • Spy Crust (ss) Sky Fighters Win 1947; not the same as the story of the same name in the September 1934 issue of Sky Birds. [Ambrose Hooley]
  • Operation Hooley (ss) Sky Fighters Win 1948 [Ambrose Hooley]

Spink, Septimus
• Joe Archibald:
  • Septimus Spink, Circa 2021 (ss) Fantastic Universe Jan 1955
  • Flight from New Mu (ss) Fantastic Universe May 1955
  • Operation Earthworm (ss) Fantastic Universe Sep 1955

Spinner, The see under Canfield, Arlen

Spiral
• Michael Scott Rohan:
  • The Gates of Noon (ex) Gollancz 1992
  • Cloud Castles (ex) Gollancz 1993

Spitfire, Señorita
• Bob Obets:
  • Señorita Spitfire Runs Her Guns! (nv) Star Western May 1949
  • Senorita Kiss-and-Kill! (na) Star Western Apr 1951
  • Señorita Spitfire’s Kisses Won’t Keep! (nv) Star Western Aug 1951

Splice, Oakum
• H. W. Millett:
  • The Yarn of Oakum Splice, Boatswain (sl) The Union Jack Mar 23 1882, etc.
  • Another Yarn of Oakum Splice, Boatswain - Keel Up! (ss) The Union Jack Jun 15 1882

Split Earth
• Stephen G. Hale:
  • The Laughing Death (nv) Amazing Stories Apr 1931
  • Worlds Adrift (na) Amazing Stories May 1932

Spoggs, Silas
• Keene Thompson:
  • Silas Spoggs, Crook (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 18 1917
  • Silas Spoggs’ Clean-Up (ss) Detective Story Magazine Oct 2 1917

Spoken Mage, The
• Melanie Cellier:
  • Voice of Power (ex) Luminant Publications Dec 2018

Spork
• Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr.:
  • Spork of the Ayor (nv) If Apr 1969
  • Spork and the Beast (nv) If May 1969
  • Spork Conquers Civilization (nv) If Jul 1969

Sportsman’s Club
• Sydney Horler:
  • The Man Who Took a Chance (ss) The Blue Magazine Jan 1921
  • “With You, Old Man...!” (ss) The Blue Magazine Feb 1922
  • “Sportsman!” (ss) The Blue Magazine Nov 1923
  • The Splendid Fool (ss) The Blue Magazine Mar 1924
  • The Man’s Game (ss) The Blue Magazine Jan 1925
  • The Sportsman’s Salute (ss) The Blue Magazine Apr 1926

Spot
• Homer Eon Flint & Austin Hall:
  • The Blind Spot (n.) Argosy All-Story Weekly May 14 1921, etc.
• Austin Hall:
  • The Spot of Life (n.) Argosy Aug 13 1932, etc.

Spot Dirk
• George Allan Moffatt:
  • Call a Taxi (nv) Gangster Stories Jan 1931
  • Spot Dirk and “The Hawk” (na) Gangland Stories Mar 1931
  • Death Rides Home (nv) Gangland Stories Sep/Oct 1931
  • Double Frame (na) Gangland Stories Nov/Dec 1931

Spotsem & Getsem
• Anonymous:
  • Spotsem and Getsem, the Rollicking Roamers (cs) The Boys’ Friend Apr 9 1927, etc.

Spotted Shield
• Oliver La Farge:
  • Woman Hunt No Good (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1951

SPQR
• John Maddox Roberts:
  • Mightier than the Sword (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1993
  • Venus in Pearls (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2001

Sprague, Calvin
• Francis Lynde:
  • The Wire Devil (ss) The Popular Magazine Jul 1 1912
  • High Finance in Cromarty Gulch (ss) The Popular Magazine Jul 15 1912
  • The Electrocution of Tunnel No. 3 (nv) The Popular Magazine Aug 1 1912
  • The Mystery of the Black Blight (nv) The Popular Magazine Aug 15 1912
  • The Cloud-Bursters (nv) The Popular Magazine Sep 1 1912, etc.
  • The High Kibosh (nv) The Popular Magazine Oct 1 1912, etc.
  • Very Crude Oil (nv) The Popular Magazine May 15 1913
  • The Girl and the Ground Wire (nv) The Popular Magazine Nov 15 1913
  • Pigskin Hydraulic (nv) The Popular Magazine Apr 15 1914
  • Dead Man’s Chance (na) The Popular Magazine Feb 23 1915

Spratt, Jack (about)
• Jasper Fforde:
  • The Locked Room Mystery Mystery (ss) The Guardian Dec 24 2007

Sprickett, Elsie
• Arnold Bennett:
  • Elsie and the Child (nv) The Story-teller Sep 1924

Springer, Jimmy
• Will Rand:
  • Albacore (ss) Three Star Magazine Dec #1 1928 [Kamoto]

Springfield
• George Alec Effinger:
  • The Royal Annie (ss) Amazing Stories Sep 1982
• O. Niemand:
  • The Wooing of Slowboat Sadie (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Sep 1982
  • The Man Outside (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Apr 1983
  • Afternoon Under Glass (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov 1983
  • Two Bits (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Jun 1984
  • The Artist Passes It By (pm) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Aug 1984
  • The Day the Invaders Came (ss) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine mid-Dec 1984
  • The Wisdom of Having Money (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Jul 1986
  • Put Your Hands Together (ss) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Feb 1988

Springheeled Jack
• Kevin Noel Olson:
  • The Theatre of the Deranged (sl) ThrillerUK #7 2001
  • A Prayer for the Dying (ss) ThrillerUK

Springs, Laurie
• Louis L’Amour:
  • One for the Pot (ss) Giant Western Oct 1953

Sprokly
• Joe Murphy:
  • The Horned Toad in the Hubcap (ss) Realms of Fantasy Oct 2008

Sprood, Jane, Detective
• Ellis Parker Butler:
  • A Career of Crime (ss) The Green Book Magazine Aug 1919
  • The Avalanche (ss) The Green Book Magazine Sep 1919
  • Toluardorol (ss) The Green Book Magazine Oct 1919
  • On Suspicion (ss) The Green Book Magazine Nov 1919
  • The Psychic Hunch (ss) The Green Book Magazine Dec 1919
  • Without a Clue (ss) The Green Book Magazine Jan 1920

Sproul, Cap’n Aaron
• Holman F. Day:
  • Cap’n Sproul of Scotaze (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1906
  • A Tarfinger Cupid (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1906
  • The “Shanghai-ers” of Scotaze (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1906
  • The Foreman of the Scotaze “Ancients” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1906
  • The Go-Uppers (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1907
  • A Balky Cincinnatus (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1907
  • In the Matter of Imogene (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1907
  • The “Sportin’ Blood” of Scotaze (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1907 [Hiram Look]
  • The Triumvirs of the “Razoo” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1907 [Hiram Look]
  • For the Glory of Hecla One (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1907 [Hiram Look]
  • The Terror That Traveled by Night (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1907 [Hiram Look]
  • The Bedevilment of “Cheerful Charles” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1907 [Hiram Look]
  • For Sale: Shares in E. Bodge (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1907
  • The Cruise of the Hoss Marines (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1907
  • The Crusoes of Cod Lead (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1907
  • Crymble’s Fourth Resurrection (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1908
  • A Job for Herod (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1908
  • The “Double-Yer T. Double-Yers” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1908 [Hiram Look]
  • The “Daminiter” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1908
  • Per Consetena Tate (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1908
  • Mr. Gammon’s Bower of Elysium (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1908
  • On the Punkin Circuit (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1908 [Hiram Look]
  • A. Sproul: Knight Errant (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1908
  • The Bringing out of Beatham (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1908
  • A Moloch and a Manager (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1908 [Hiram Look]
  • Old Tantrybogus (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1908
  • Gentlemen, the Court! (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1908
  • One of His Ilk (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1909
  • Mr. Phipp’s “Shef Doover” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1909
  • The Minstrelsy of Meetin’ House Mobbs (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1909
  • As Confessed by Issicah Babb (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1909
  • The Trimming of Old Ossian (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1909
  • Dr. Dynamo (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1909 [Hiram Look]
  • ’Board “The Buzzard” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1909 [Hiram Look]
  • The Seven Skippers of the “London Lass” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1909
  • A Deal in Pig-Tails (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1909
  • Hoofing It with the Heathen (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1909
  • When Tophet Broke Loose (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1909
  • The Meeting House That Went a-Rampaging (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1909
  • The Affair of the Caterwouser (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1910
  • A New Trick for Old Cats (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1910
  • When the S. and Q. Went Broke (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1910
  • Prince Wujoud and the “Et Cetrys” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1910 [Hiram Look]
  • A Starry Night for a Ramble (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1910 [Hiram Look]
  • In the Sanctum of the Rome Bee (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1910
  • Old Velvet Mitt (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1910
  • The Other Way of Choking a Cat (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1910
  • H. Look, Purveyor of Sports (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1910 [Hiram Look]
  • Shanghaied by the Saints (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1910
  • A Rebellious Noah (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1910
  • The Limboes of Lumbo (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1910
  • On the Quarter-Deck of the Dicker-Doodle (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1911
  • The Case of Tiberius Kipp (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1911 [Tiberius Kipp]
  • The Zum-Zum Spook (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1911 [Tiberius Kipp]
  • Bargains in “Horned Hoodackers” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1911
  • When Freedom Shrieked (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1911
  • Through Wallagrass “Incog” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1911
  • The Tinned Mr. Tozier (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1911
  • A Faint Scent for Amateur Sleuths (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1911
  • A Match That Struck Fire (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1911 [Capt. Albannah Newt]
  • Fixing It for Cap’n Newt (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1911 [Capt. Albannah Newt]
  • A Deal in “Thrill-of-Life” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1911 [Hiram Look]
  • Z. Tute: Exhibit A (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1911 [Hiram Look]
  • Shuffling Tute Into the Pack (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1912 [Hiram Look]
  • Between Vespasian and “The Deacon’s Devil” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1912
  • Backing Sprott for a Winner (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1912 [Hiram Look]
  • On Cupid’s Homestretch (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1912 [Hiram Look]
  • Veal for a Prodigal (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1912 [Hiram Look]
  • The Idyl of “Gunlow Peter’s” Girl (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1912 [Cap’n Peter Fritt]
  • The Wooing of First Mate Dove (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1912 [Cap’n Peter Fritt]
  • And All from an Old Brass Horn (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1912
  • In Lemon-Peel Peeble’s Tent (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1912
  • Useless Myannic (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1912
  • The Cruise of Narrow Margins (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1912
  • The Frying Pans of the Sea (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1912
  • “Plug” Koose, of Christmas Cove (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1913
  • A Full Line of Spinsters (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1913
  • Running Without Halters (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1913
  • Tinker and the Bibbs (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1913
  • Bravity Budd, Originator (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1913
  • A Corner in Wild Men (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1913
  • Warming Over the Milish (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1913
  • Standing Behind Cap’n Kidd (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1913
  • A Professor of “Wo Haw” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1913
  • Cap’n Kidd, Accumulator (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1913 [Cap’n Kidd]
  • The Manners and Morals of Cap’n Kidd (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1913 [Cap’n Kidd]
  • As Trained by Professor Lallyberty (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1913 [Cap’n Kidd]
  • Santa Marlinspike (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1914
  • The Shell of Carpenter Lyte (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1914
  • Abetted by John Squair (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1914
  • Here Come the Heirs (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1914
  • The Garden Sass Ghoul (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1914
  • Husbands Warranted Housebroken (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1914
  • The “Ess Essers” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1914
  • Per Citizen Cure ’Em (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1914
  • With All the Trimmings (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1914
  • Todd from the Tall Timbers (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1914
  • The Lothario of the “Little May” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1914
  • A Worm Named Vittum (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1914
  • Santa with a Sheriff’s Writ (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1915
  • Mr. Copp on the Job (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1915
  • The Moojack (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1915 [Hiram Look]
  • Anything on Four Legs (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1915 [Hiram Look]
  • Along Came a Poet (ss) Smith’s Magazine May 1915
  • Gingering It Up (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1915
  • The Case of Old “I’ll—I’ll Ye” (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1915
  • One Nute, Landlocked Buccaneer (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1915
  • Unmasking One Orum (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1915
  • Justice Incog (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1915
  • Nothing Like Having Friends (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1915
  • The Activities of Henshaw Hook (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1915
  • Between Master Mariners (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1916
  • Putting the Colonel in Right (ss) Smith’s Magazine Feb 1916 [Hiram Look]
  • Going After It (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1916 [Hiram Look]
  • The Matter of the Tytes (ss) Smith’s Magazine Aug 1916
  • Cupid’s Steering Oar (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1916
  • Breaking in Whiz Whaz (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1916
  • Grabbing It Off (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1916
  • Making It Merry (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jan 1917
  • The Titrivator (ss) Smith’s Magazine Mar 1917
  • Mr. Foster Horns in (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1917
  • Progress of Pilgrim Pidge (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1917
  • Bringing Round Arbutus (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jul 1917
  • As Spiced by Tully Nodden (ss) Smith’s Magazine Sep 1917
  • The Pervasive Vespasian (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1917
  • The Unmaking of Pacifist Taber (ss) Smith’s Magazine Nov 1917
  • The Folly of Billy Baird (ss) Smith’s Magazine Dec 1917
  • Horses, Husbands, and a Hummer (ss) Smith’s Magazine Apr 1918
  • The Playful Bill Alf (ss) Smith’s Magazine Jun 1918