The FictionMags Index

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Mystery [v10 #2, August 1934] (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 9" x 12") Terrible Vengeance · Guy Endore · ss Murders That Couldn’t Happen · Ferrin Fraser · ss The Woman in Scarlet Stockings · Norman Matson · ss The Evening Standard Jun 12 1934 The Sinister Beard [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Before Dawn · William Corcoran · ss Killer After 10 P.M. · Frederick Nebel · ss Stained Rubies [Riley Dillon] · Rodney Blake · ss Matinee Murder · Celia Keegan · ss The House of Sleep · Frank King · na

Mystery [v10 #3, September 1934] ed. Durbin Lee Horner (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 9" x 12") 6 · Profile · Anon. · ts 8 · I Go Sleuthing · Anon. · cl 9 · Detective’s Guess · Anon. · ts 10 · Murder in Paris · Anon. · ts 14 · Fall Styles for Kitchens · Anon. · ms 15 · Too Much Silver · Anon. · ts 16 · The Winning Desserts · Anon. · ms 17 · Late One Night · Anon. · ts 20 · Thirty Hours with a Corpse · Maurice Level · ss 23 · Off the Record · John Alexander · cl 24 · Four Men Loved a Woman [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss 27 · Little Book of Strange Crimes · Anon. · cl 28 · The Riddle of the Hanging Men [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss 32 · Don’t Let Them Rob You · D. E. Wheeler · cl 34 · A Rare Room for Murder · Ferrin Fraser · ss 37 · Not What It Seemed · Anon. · ts 38 · The Line-Up · [The Readers] · lc 40 · The Man Who Hated Rats · Henry LaCossitt · ss 44 · The Strange Affair at the Middlebrooks’ · Hulbert Footner · ss 48 · Out of the Dark · William Corcoran · ss 52 · Among Friends · Anon. · ts 53 · Figures Aren’t What They Used to Be · Anon. · ms 54 · The Blue Watch · Anon. · ts 55 · A Plan That Has Worked · Anon. · cl 70 · The Make-Up Box · Anon. · cl 107 · The Two Who Smiled · Frank King · na

Mystery [v10 #4, October 1934] ed. Durbin Lee Horner (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 9" x 12", cover by Harold Woolridge) Details supplied by Martin Wooster. Fiction and major features only indexed. 19 · What Your Favorite Authors Are Like · Anon. · ms 20 · Blood on the Water · Ferrin Fraser · ss 23 · Off the Record · John Alexander · cl 24 · Seven Meant Death [Part 1 of 4] · Walter F. Ripperger · sl 28 · The Riddle of the Black Spade [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss 32 · Ghosts, Shadows and Death · Henry LaCossitt · ss 36 · Don’t Let Them Rob You · D. E. Wheeler · cl 38 · He Gave a Chump a Break · James Edward Grant · ss 40 · The Black Cats Vanished [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv 100 · Murder in the Garden · Roger East · na

Mystery [v10 #5, November 1934] (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 9" x 12", cover by Harold Woolridge) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky from Table of Contents. 6 · I Go Sleuthing · Anon. · cl 7 · Dust on the Floor · Anon. · ts 8 · By a Hair · Anon. · ts 10 · What Goes Into the Stuffing · Anon. · ms 11 · A Talkative Man · Anon. · ts 12 · Home Builders’ Question Box · Anon. · cl 13 · Murder on Horseback · Anon. · ts 14 · The Line-Up · [The Readers] · lc 16 · Christmas Gifts to Make · Anon. · ms 17 · Not a Professional · Anon. · ts 19 · What Your Favorite Authors Are Like · Anon. · ms 20 · The Riddle of the Marble Blade [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · nv 23 · Off the Record · John Alexander · cl 24 · The Lisping Man [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · nv 28 · At the End of the Alley Was a Door · Frederick Nebel · ss 32 · Her Husband’s Friend · Henry LaCossitt · ss 35 · Little Book of Strange Crimes · Anon. · cl 36 · The Terrible Williamsons · D. E. Wheeler · ar 38 · The Well-Known Works · James Edward Grant · ss 40 · Seven Meant Death [Part 2 of 4] · Walter F. Ripperger · sl 44 · What’s Next in Hair Styles · Anon. · ms 66 · The Make-Up Box · Anon. · cl 100 · The Mad Murder Party · Colver Harris · na

Mystery [v10 #6, December 1934] (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 9" x 12") The Riddle of the Three Owls · Katherine Wolffe · na When a Cop’s a Good Cop · George Harmon Coxe · ss What Can a Dead Man Want? · Guy Endore · ss The Corpse Was the Best Man · Hulbert Footner · ss And So the Matter Ended · Harold Dearden · ss Too Many Ladies and a Burglar · Thomas Topham · ss Seven Meant Death [Part 3 of 4] · Walter F. Ripperger · sl

Mystery [v11 #1, January 1935] (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 88pp+, 11.5" x 13.5", cover by John Atherton) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky. 2 · Mystery Highlights for Next Month · [The Editor] · ed 4 · World-Wide Search for a Mystery Character · Anon. · cn 5 · A Little Learning · Anon. · ts 5 · All for Love · Anon. · ts 6 · The Fantastic Swindlers · Anon. · ms 7 · The Lady Vanished · Anon. · ts 7 · The Work of a Crank · Anon. · ts 9 · Screams! · Maurice Renard · ss 10 · The Riddle of the Whirling Lights [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · nv 13 · A Dead Man Came Back · Edmund Pearson · ts 14 · The House That Vanished [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · ss 17 · Which Is Your Type? · Anon. · ms 18 · Forty-Eight Hours to Pay · Ferrin Fraser · ss 21 · Seven Meant Death [Part 4 of 4] · Walter F. Ripperger · sl 24 · Little Book of Strange Crimes · Henry LaCossitt · cl 25 · The Woman Who Lived Too Long · Marion Scott · na 73 · Things for the Baby · Frances Cowles · ms 75 · I Go Sleuthing · Frank L. Beals · ts 76 · The Line-Up · [The Readers] · lc 82 · France Gives Us Duckling Titania · Anon. · ms 83 · The Make-Up Box · Anon. · cl 84 · New Scents for Beauty · Anon. · ms 85 · Home Builders’ Question Box · Anon. · cl 86 · Ask the Doctor · Dr. Henry Katz · cl

Mystery [v11 #2, February 1935] ed. Durbin Lee Horner (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 90pp+, 11.5" x 13.5", cover by John Atherton) Pages 25 - 40 are printed on pulp paper, the rest of the magazine is on slick paper. Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 4 · Health Swindlers · D. E. Wheeler · ar 6 · The Baby Got His Man · Charles J. Dutton · ss 9 · I Find the Real American Tragedy [Part 1 of 5] · Theodore Dreiser · ar 12 · Tragic Rhythm [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · ss 14 · Invisible Terror [Trevis Tarrant] · C. Daly King · ss 19 · The Man in the Black Coat · Henry LaCossitt · ss 21 · The Terrible Truth About Mrs. Robinson · Edmund Pearson · ar 22 · Death by Appointment · Hulbert Footner · ss 25 · Murder Madness · John Esteven · na 41 · Your Favorite Authors: Henry LaCossitt · Henry LaCossitt · bg 42 · Little Book of Strange Crimes · Henry LaCossitt · cl 45 · World-Wide Search for a Mystery Character · Anon. · cn 51 · Off the Record · John Alexander · cl 62 · The Line-Up · [The Readers] · lc 68 · I Go Sleuthing · Grace Mogge · cl

Mystery [v11 #3, March 1935] (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 11.5" x 13.5") The Whispering Terror · Hugh Baker · na What You Don’t Know · Ken Engles · ss The Lady and the Madman · Whitman Chambers · ss Lily Was Dynamite · Belden Duff · ss The Affair on the Roof [Trevis Tarrant] · C. Daly King · nv The Weirdest Story Ever Told · Norman Matson · ss The Laugh at Midnight · Mary Plum · ss I Find the Real American Tragedy [Part 2 of 5] · Theodore Dreiser · ar

Mystery [v11 #4, April 1935] ed. Durbin Lee Horner (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 94pp+, 11.5" x 13.5", cover by John Atherton) Pages 27 - 42 are printed on pulp paper, the rest of the magazine is on slick paper. Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 4 · The Line-Up · [The Readers] · lc 6 · She Was No Angel · Edmund Pearson · ar 8 · Little Book of Strange Crimes · Henry LaCossitt · cl 11 · The Lady of Darkness · Leigh Matteson · ss 12 · Her Husband’s Guilt · Belden Duff · ss 14 · The Riddle of the Beautiful Italian Girl [Pinky Kane] · Whitman Chambers · ss 16 · Life in the Raw · Hulbert Footner · ss 18 · The Business of Death · Helgo Walter · ss; given as “The Case of the Rigid Man” in Cook/Miller. 21 · The First Crime of Spring · Norman Matson · ss 24 · I Find the Real American Tragedy [Part 3 of 5] · Theodore Dreiser · ar 27 · Dead Men Can’t Walk · Edward Acheson · na; illustrated by Nicholas F. Riley 43 · World-Wide Search for a Mystery Character · Anon. · cn 44 · The Tragedy of the Bluebloods · Mary Plum · ss 63 · I Go Sleuthing · James E. Quick · cl

Mystery [v11 #5, May 1935] ed. Durbin Lee Horner (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 88pp+, 11.5" x 13.5", cover by John Atherton) Pages 25 - 40 are printed on pulp paper, the rest of the magazine is on slick paper. A number of the pages feature sepia colored illustrations, and the print on those pages is also sepia in tone. Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 4 · Prove the Crime · Charles Rosenberg, Jr. · ar 6 · The Line-Up · [The Readers] · lc 8 · Little Book of Strange Crimes · Henry LaCossitt · cl 9 · She Thought of Everything · Maurice Level · ss 10 · The Tragedy of the Veiled Murderess · Edward Hale Bierstadt · ar 12 · Was the Corpse Dead? · Norman Matson · ss 14 · Are American Homes Threatened by China’s Scourge? · John P. Fredericks · ar; about heroin addiction in the USA. 18 · A Blonde in the News [Pinky Kane] · Whitman Chambers · ss 20 · The Dead Don’t Waken · Belden Duff · ss 22 · I Find the Real American Tragedy [Part 4 of 5] · Theodore Dreiser · ar; a look at the Robert Allen Edwards murder case in Pennsylvania. 25 · Darker Grows the Valley · Q. Patrick · na; illustrated by Nicholas F. Riley 44 · World-Wide Search for a Mystery Character · Anon. · cn 71 · I Go Sleuthing · Iverne Galloway · cl

Mystery [v11 #6, June 1935] (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 11.5" x 13.5") In the Dark of Night · Raymond Leslie Goldman · na Condemned! · Francis Beeding · ss The Phantom had Red Hair · Whitman Chambers · ss Years Go By · Chapin Howard · ss When a Lady’s Involved · George Harmon Coxe · ss Trapped in an Old House · Hulbert Footner · ss I Find the Real American Tragedy [Part 5 of 5] · Theodore Dreiser · ar

Mystery [v12 #1, July 1935] (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 88pp+, 11.5" x 13.5", cover by Harold Woolridge) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky. 2 · The Editors Present · [The Editor] · ed 4 · Guilty by Circumstance · Charles Rosenberg, Jr. · ms 6 · The Line-Up · [The Readers] · lc 9 · Black Cat · Louis Golding · ss 12 · The Clue of the Jumping Bean · William Corcoran · ss 14 · Tower Star Fashions · Anon. · ms 16 · Out on His Feet · Norman Matson · ss 18 · The Doctor and the Lunatic · Richard Connell · ss 20 · Tiger Woman · Emma-Lindsay Squier · ss 22 · The Duchess Spots a Killer [Katie Blayne (The Duchess)] · Whitman Chambers · ss 25 · He Killed a Thousand Men · Harriett Ashbrook · na 41 · Fill the Jam Closet · Mary Martin · ms 42 · Pull These Punches on That Party · Amy Vanderbilt · ms 43 · Sleuthing for Beauty · Pamela Pinkerton · cl 43 · The Make-Up Box · Anon. · cl 44 · World-Wide Search for a Mystery Character · Anon. · cn 44 · Dying to Dye · Anon. · ms 67 · I Go Sleuthing · John L. Bowen · ts

Mystery [v12 #2, August 1935] ed. Durbin Lee Horner (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 88pp, 11.5" x 13.5", cover by John Atherton) Pages 25 - 40 are printed on pulp paper, the rest of the magazine is on slick paper. A number of the pages feature sepia colored illustrations, and the print on those pages is also sepia in tone. Details supplied by Curt Phillips. 4 · Crime Questionnaire · Edward Hale Bierstadt · ms 6 · I Decline to Answer · Charles Rosenberg, Jr. · ms 8 · Little Book of Strange Crimes · Anon. · cl 9 · The Monster · Norman Matson · ss 10 · Juror Number Seven · Carl Clausen · ss 12 · Nobody Would Listen · Elisabeth Sanxay Holding · ss 16 · Trapped! · Alan Sullivan · ss 17 · Find My Wife · Captain John H. Ayres · ms 18 · They Hang Only Once · Whitman Chambers · ss 20 · Death Spreads a Carpet · Edward Hale Bierstadt · ts 22 · A Reason for Murder · Emma-Lindsay Squier · ss 24 · The Episode of the Ugly House · James Booth · ts 24 · I Go Sleuthing · Anon. · cl 25 · The House That Jack Built · Colver Harris · na 41 · The Episode of the Vanished Woodpile · James Booth · ts 42 · The Tragic Affair at the Inn · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss 48 · World-Wide Search for a Mystery Character · Anon. · cn

Mystery [v12 #3, September 1935] ed. Durbin Lee Horner (Tower Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 80pp+, 11.5" x 13.5", cover by John Atherton) Pages 25 - 40 are printed on pulp paper, the rest of the magazine is on slick paper. Details supplied by Monte Herridge. 4 · Mystery Movies · [The Editor] · mr 5 · The Line-Up · [The Readers] · lc 6 · Freely Confessed · Charles Rosenberg, Jr. · ar 8 · Little Book of Strange Crimes · Henry LaCossitt · cl 9 · Suicide Note · Emma-Lindsay Squier · ss 12 · Manhattan Indian · Ferrin Fraser · ss 16 · Voice of the Dead Man · Norman Matson · ss 17 · The Tragedy of the Sleeping Beauty · Captain John H. Ayres · ar 18 · A Bad Night for Mr. Whitby · Colver Harris · ss 20 · The Girl in Halihafa · Stephen Phillips · ss 22 · Rich Man, Poor Man, “G” Man, Thief! · William Corcoran · ss 25 · The Merry-Go-Round of Murder · Joseph Dineen · na; illustrated by Nicholas F. Riley 62 · I Go Sleuthing · John G. Curtis · cl

The Illustrated Family Novelist    (about) 1d weekly, 6d monthly, 4s 6d per half-yearly volume. Published T. H. Roberts, London. Details supplied by John Eggeling.

The Illustrated Family Novelist [#1, 1878] (1d) Living Forgotten, Loving Forlorn · W. J. E. C. · ss

The Illustrated Family Novelist [#2, 1878] (1d) A Sylvan Courtship · George Manville Fenn · ss

The Illustrated Family Novelist [#3, 1878] (1d) A Wife to Win, a Life to Save · Mark Graeme · ss

The Illustrated Family Novelist [#4, 1878] (1d) Verena’s Birthright · Sara Dunn · ss

The Illustrated Family Novelist [#5, 1878] (1d) What Are the Wild Waves Saying? · E. Owens Blackburne · ss

The Illustrated Family Novelist [#6, 1878] (1d) Betrothed and Betrayed · W. J. E. C. · ss