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Ellery Queen’s Anthology [#6, 1964] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis, $1.00, 319pp, digest) 9 · The Affair of the Twisted Scarf [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · nv The American Magazine Sep 1950, as “The Twisted Scarf” 50 · The Body in the Pool · Rufus King · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1955 58 · An Arabian Night in Park Lane [Tom Hebblethwaite] · J. B. Priestley · ss The Strand Magazine Sep 1932 70 · The Riddle of the Black Museum [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1946 84 · After-Dinner Story [Hardecker] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask Jan 1938 105 · The White Rabbit Caper · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Nov 19 1949 111 · Loveday’s Secret · L. J. Beeston · ss The Strand Magazine Oct 1922 121 · The Leak [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · ss Associated Sunday Magazine Jun 9 1907, as “The Silver Box” 133 · Callahan in Buttons · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s Aug 8 1936, as “Callahan’s Revenge” 147 · The Tower of Treason [Father Stephen] · G. K. Chesterton · nv The Popular Magazine Feb 7 1920 168 · Cemetery Bait · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s Dec 12 1936 182 · Professional Début [Máximo Roldán] · Antonio Helú; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1946; translated from the Spanish (La Obligacion de Asesinar, 1946). 196 · The Trap · Howard Bloomfield · ss Collier’s Apr 19 1947 208 · The Repeater [Capt. (Col.) Hugh North] · Van Wyck Mason · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 8 1934, as “The Crime of the Legion” 233 · The Unstoppable Man [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull Nov 19 1949, as “Amateur in Violence” 241 · Something like Salmon [Sergeant Thomas Aquinas Cormaney] · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 19 1933 253 · No Place to Live [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week Jun 10 1956, as “The Man They All Hated” 261 · The Chobham Affair · Edgar Wallace · ss The Strand Magazine Dec 1930 272 · Shock Tactics [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · ss This Week May 15 1955, as “Thy Brother Death” 281 · A Gun Is a Nervous Thing · Charlotte Armstrong · nv The American Magazine Aug 1955, as “Ride with the Executioner”

Ellery Queen’s Anthology [#7, Mid-Year 1964] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis, $1.00, 318pp, digest) 9 · Through a Dead Man’s Eye · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask Dec 1939 33 · The Wrong Problem [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Evening Standard Aug 14 1936 46 · Snap Shot [Commander Elfe] · Michael Gilbert · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1957 57 · Crime Must Have a Stop [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1951 73 · The Cop and the Anthem · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World Dec 4 1904 79 · The Riddle of the Tired Bullet [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1948 115 · Waiting for the Police · J. Jefferson Farjeon · ss Waiting for the Police and other stories, Polybooks 1943 121 · The Flying Death · Samuel Hopkins Adams · ss McClure’s Jan 1903 (+1) 137 · Letter of the Law · Selwyn Jepson · ss The Evening Standard; The Evening Standard Detective Book, 2nd Series, ed. Anon., Gollancz 1951 144 · The Darkest Closet [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv 1936 179 · A Quatrain of Ling Tai Fu’s · Donn Byrne · ss The Red Book Magazine Aug 1917 192 · A Broadsheet Ballad · A. E. Coppard · ss The Dial Mar 1922 198 · Room Number Twenty-Three · Hugh Pentecost · ss Flynn’s Jun 20 1925, as by Judson P. Philips 213 · Dream No More · Philip MacDonald · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1955 231 · No Parking [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week Mar 18 1956, as “Terror in a Penthouse” 239 · The Great Emerald Mystery · Michael Arlen · ss The Red Book Magazine Feb 1928 251 · Danger in the Shadows · Thomas Walsh · ss Woman’s Home Companion Sep 1941 264 · The Man Who Married Too Often [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine Feb 1936, as “Molly the Marchioness” 278 · When a Man Murders [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine May 1954

Ellery Queen’s Anthology [#8, 1965] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis Publications, Inc., $1.00, 318pp, digest) Details supplied by Tom Daniels. 5 · Editor’s Note · Ellery Queen · pr 9 · 5 - 4 = Murderer [Capt. Duncan Maclain] · Baynard Kendrick · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1953 21 · The Motive · Ellery Queen · nv Argosy Aug 1956, as “Terror Town” 45 · The Trail of the Crescent Moons [Jeff Larigan; Alan Quist] · Hugh Pentecost · na The American Magazine Oct 1947, as “The Cassandra Club” 81 · Catfish Story [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Collier’s May 15 1948, as “Sleepwalker” 96 · The Proverbial Murder [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1943 111 · The Singing Diamonds [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1949 130 · Like Count Palmieri [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1946 143 · Circumstantial Evidence [Dr. Paul Standish] · George Harmon Coxe · ss Liberty Sep 1949 155 · The Phonograph Murder [Insp. Christopher McKee] · Helen Reilly · ss Collier’s Jan 25 1947 167 · Fingerprints Don’t Lie [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1947 181 · The Slipper Fiend [Dr. Jean Dollent] · Georges Simenon; translated by Frances Frenaye · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1955, as “The Little Doctor and the Slipper Fiend”; translated from the French (“L’Amoureux aus Pantoufles”, Le Petit Docteur, Gallimard, 1943). 202 · Born Killer · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1953 214 · The Couple Next Door [Inspector Sands] · Margaret Millar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1954 226 · A Dog in the Daytime [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine Dec 1954, as “The Body in the Hall” 264 · I’ll Be Waiting [Tony Reseck] · Raymond Chandler · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 14 1939 278 · The Searching Cats [Captain M.L. Heimrich] · Frances & Richard Lockridge · ss This Week Dec 2 1956, as “Cat and the Killer” 285 · Crazy Like a Fox [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1955 288 · Hit and Run [Walter Post] · John D. MacDonald · ss Good Housekeeping Aug 1952 299 · The Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Detective-Crime-Mystery Fiction · Howard Haycraft & Ellery Queen · bi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1951; enlarged from “A Reader’s list of Detective Story ‘Cornerstones’” (Murder for Pleasure by Howard Haycraft, 1941). 310 · The Mystery of Mary Rogers · Edward D. Radin · ar 1946 [Edgar Allan Poe] 314 · The Adventure of the Paradol Chamber [Sherlock Holmes] · John Dickson Carr · pl The Unicorn Mystery Book Club News v2 #3 1949, as by Dr. John H. Watson; play performed at the Mystery Writers of America annual meeting, April 1949.

Ellery Queen’s Anthology [#9, Mid-Year 1965] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis, $1.25, 320pp, digest) 5 · Editor’s Note · Ellery Queen · pr 9 · When a Wife Is Murdered · George Harmon Coxe · na Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1958 48 · It Was a Long Time Ago · A. A. Milne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1950 62 · Not—Tonight—Danger [Mike Shayne] · Brett Halliday (ghost written by Helen McCloy) · ss This Week Nov 28 1954, as “Dead Man’s Code” 71 · The Man Who Dreamed Too Much [Baron von Genthner] · Quentin Reynolds · ss The Strand Magazine Sep 1936 86 · The Night I Died · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 8 1936, uncredited 113 · Case of the Overheated Flat [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch Jul 24 1940, as “The Case of the Overheated Service Flat” 119 · An Ounce of Curiosity [Scattergood Baines] · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss The American Magazine Aug 1931 131 · The Ring in the Fish · Charlotte Armstrong · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1959 136 · A Bottle of Perrier · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post Mar 27 1926, as “A Bottle of Evian” 156 · Mr. Bearstowe Says [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss The Saturday Book #3 1943 172 · Payment in Full · Dion Henderson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1954 182 · The Pedlar’s Revenge · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Collier’s Jul 25 1953 194 · 1000-to-1 for Your Money [Sam Cragg] · Frank Gruber · nv Black Mask Mar 1939, as “The Sad Serbian” 214 · The Cosy Room · Arthur Machen · ss Shudders, ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson 1929 219 · The Hand on the Latch · Mary Cholmondeley · ss The Lowest Rung, Murray 1908 229 · Perkins Finds $3,400,000 [Willis Perkins] · Philip Wylie · ss Collier’s Jul 11 1931, as “In a Hole” 240 · Nothing Is Impossible [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1958 261 · The Seven Deadly Virtues · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1960 268 · The Witch of Times Square [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week Nov 5 1950 274 · Too Many Detectives [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na Collier’s Sep 14 1956

Ellery Queen’s Anthology [#10, 1966] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis, $1.25, 320pp, digest) 5 · Editor’s Note · Ellery Queen · pr 9 · Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine Jul 1939 33 · The Man Who Lost His Taste [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1958 46 · Anniversary Gift · John Collier · ss 1958 58 · The Murder of Santa Claus · Tage la Cour; translated by Paul Ib Liebe · ss 1954 [Agatha Christie]; translated from the Swedish (Mord til Jul, 1952, as by Donald McGuire).; parody of Agatha Christie featuring “Hercules Poire”. 64 · The Silent Informer [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · ss This Week Jan 27 1957, as “Murder Stops the Music” 75 · Between Eight and Eight · C. S. Forester · ss Short Story Magazine (Australia) #32 1947 87 · The Man Who Swallowed a Horse [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · ss Verdict Aug 1953, as “The Dead Mr. Duck” 89 · Find the Innocent [Insp. Peter Curwen] · Roy Vickers · na Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1954 144 · La Spécialité de M. Duclos · Oliver La Farge · ss The New Yorker Apr 29 1950 151 · Asphodel · Edwin Lanham · ss Collier’s Jun 10 1944 160 · The Footsteps That Ran [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body, Gollancz 1928, as “The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran” 173 · Is Betsy Blake Still Alive? · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1958 187 · The Man Who Shot the Fox · G. K. Chesterton · ss Hearst’s Magazine Mar 1921 202 · Tropical Disturbance [Oscar Sail] · Lester Dent · nv Black Mask Dec 1936, as “Angelfish” 226 · All Legal and Proper · Steve Frazee · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1960 242 · Casanova’s Alibi [Giacomo Casanova] · Rafael Sabatini · ss The Premier Magazine Sep 1914 256 · The Footprint in the Sky [Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine Jan 1940, as “Clue in the Snow” by Carter Dickson 270 · The Accused [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Today’s Family Feb 1953, as “The Robber of Wrightsville” 284 · Murder on New Year’s Eve [Carole Thorne; Miles Shenton] · Patrick Quentin · na The American Magazine Oct 1937, as “Exit Before Midnight” by Q. Patrick

Ellery Queen’s Anthology [#11, Mid-Year 1966] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis, $1.25, 320pp, digest) 5 · Editor’s Note · Ellery Queen · pr 9 · All at Once, No Alice · Cornell Woolrich · nv Argosy Mar 2 1940 44 · How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank · John Steinbeck · ss The Atlantic Monthly Mar 1956 52 · Dead Boys Don’t Remember [Captain M.L. Heimrich] · Frances & Richard Lockridge · ss This Week May 12 1957, as “Boy Kidnaped” 59 · You Can’t Love Two Women · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Forum 1929 70 · The Clue of the Scattered Rubies [Sidney Zoom] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 24 1931, as “The First Stone” 95 · “I Killed John Harrington” · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s Jun 12 1937, as “Light in Darkness” 110 · The Grave Grass Quivers · MacKinlay Kantor · ss The Elks Magazine Jul 1931 125 · Blind Man’s Bluff [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1947 146 · The Crime by the River · Edmund Crispin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1955 150 · £5000 for a Confession · L. J. Beeston · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1955 159 · Karmesin and the Crown Jewels [Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss Argosy Jul 1954, as “The Impossible Robbery” 167 · This Was Willi’s Day · Aaron Marc Stein · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1956 187 · Blackmail · Stephen McKenna · ss The Story-teller Nov 1929 200 · Murder on St. Valentine’s Day [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week Apr 4 1954, as “The Valentine Murder” 208 · A Piece of String [Scattergood Baines] · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss The American Magazine May 1934 223 · The Tragedy of Papa Ponsard · Vincent Starrett · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1959 234 · Taboo · Geoffrey Household · ss The Salvation of Pisco Gabar, Chatto 1938 252 · The Silver Curtain [Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine Aug 1939, as by Carter Dickson 266 · Bride in Danger [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1955 280 · The Girl Who Lived Dangerously [Jeff Larigan; Alan Quist] · Hugh Pentecost · na The American Magazine May 1948, as “An Element of Risk”

Ellery Queen’s Anthology [#12, 1967] ed. Ellery Queen (Davis, $1.25, 320pp, digest) 5 · Editor’s Note · Ellery Queen · pr 9 · Murder Is a Public Matter [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · na The American Magazine Oct 1948, as “The Bearded Lady” by Kenneth Millar 51 · Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! · Paul W. Gallico · ss Everywoman’s Magazine Jan 1957, as “The Faker” 62 · The Man Who Sang in Church [The Just Men] · Edgar Wallace · ss The 20-Story Magazine Sep 1927 73 · The Earring · Cornell Woolrich · nv Flynn’s Detective Fiction Feb 1943, as “The Death Stone” 99 · Dark Journey · Francis Iles · ss The Sunday News 1934 114 · The Patron Saint of the Impossible [Stuff Driscoll] · Rufus King · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1958 128 · Miss Phipps Goes to School [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1957 146 · The Greatest Monster of Them All · Bryce Walton · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1959 158 · Mithridates the King · Morley Roberts · ss King Billy of Ballarat and other stories, Lawrence 1892 166 · The Bluebeard Murderer [Baron von Genthner] · Quentin Reynolds · ss Collier’s Mar 28 1936, as “Berlin Dinner Party” 181 · Eva? Caroline? · Allan Vaughan Elston · nv Woman’s Home Companion Apr 1949 203 · Midnight Adventure [Prince Rudolf] · Michael Arlen · ss The Strand Magazine Nov 1938 216 · Dinner for Two [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1949 231 · The Adventure of the Martian Crown Jewels · Poul Anderson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1958, as “The Martian Crown Jewels” 245 · Open File · Richard Deming · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1953 264 · Soho Night’s Entertainment [Inspector Calloway] · Frank Swinnerton · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1957 279 · Miser’s Gold [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week Jun 18 1950, as “Love Hunts a Hidden Treasure” 284 · Immune to Murder [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · nv The American Magazine Nov 1955