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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v7, #26, January 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · The Mystery of the Sock and the Clock [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss 20 · The Labors of Hercules: The Girdle of Hippolyta, or The Case of the Missing Schoolgirl [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week Sep 10 1939, as “The Disappearance of Winnie King”; given as “The Case of the Missing Schoolgirl” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. 30 · Ultra Violent [Florian Slappey] · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Argosy Jan 1945 42 · Strictly Diplomatic [Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine Dec 1939, as by Carter Dickson 56 · The Priest · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker Apr 7 1945 65 · The Magic Hat [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine Oct 1938, as “The Hat Trick” 80 · The Stolen Christmas Box [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss 97 · The Dream · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan May 1924 104 · The Parrot’s Beak [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine Jun 1936; slightly revised from the story of the same name (The Daily Mail, October 23, 1929) which did not feature the Department of Dead Ends. 111 · Squeeze Play [William S. Gray] · Leonard Thompson · nv

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v7, #27, February 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Puzzle for Poppy [Peter Duluth; Iris Duluth] · Patrick Quentin · ss 16 · The Earring · William Irish · nv Flynn’s Detective Fiction Feb 1943, as “The Death Stone” by Cornell Woolrich 41 · The Labors of Hercules: The Hydra of Lernea, or The Case of the Gossipers [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week Sep 3 1939, as “The Invisible Enemy”; given as “The Case of the Gossipers” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. 54 · The Comic Opera Murders [Paul Dawn] · James Yaffe · ss 66 · Cummings Monk [Cummings King Monk] · M. P. Shiel · ss The Pale Ape and Other Pulses, T. Werner Laurie 1911, as “He Wakes an Echo”; slightly condensed. 79 · Broadway Murder [O’Malley] · William MacHarg · ss Collier’s Oct 8 1938 86 · The Necklace · Jack Moffitt · ss [Guy de Maupassant]; sequel to Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace”. 99 · Speaking of Crime · Howard Haycraft · cl 104 · Like Count Palmieri [Nick Noble] · Anthony Boucher · ss 116 · Mr. Simpson Goes to the Dogs [Mr. Simpson] · Anthony Berkeley · ss The Strand Magazine Jun 1934

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v7, #28, March 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Farewell to the Faulkners · Miriam Allen deFord · ss 21 · The House in Turk Street [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask Apr 15 1924 37 · The Crime Collector · William Lindsay Gresham · ss 42 · The Perfect Plan · James Hilton · ss Britannia and Eve Sep 1933 57 · P. Moran and the Poison Pen [P. Moran] · Percival Wilde · ss 75 · A Death in the Stadium · Robert Nathan · ss Scribner’s Magazine Sep 1927 78 · The Riddle of the Black Museum [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss 92 · The Garden of Smoke [Mr. Traill] · Gilbert K. Chesterton · ss The Story-teller Oct 1919 108 · Mr. Briggs Was Right · Charles G. Norris · ss Collier’s Oct 30 1926 111 · The Man Who Was Murdered by a Bed [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v7, #29, April 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · A Star for a Warrior [David Return] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss 21 · The Labors of Hercules: The Cretan Bull, or The Case of the Family Taint [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv This Week Sep 24 1939, as “Midnight Madness”; given as “The Case of the Family Taint” on the cover and in the Table of Contents. 33 · Conscience · Elmer Rice · vi Collier’s Feb 11 1928 36 · Perkins’ Second “First Case” [Willis Perkins] · Philip Wylie · ss Collier’s Apr 25 1931, as “Perkins Takes the Case” 47 · Speaking of Crime · Howard Haycraft · cl 51 · Dead Date [Donny Donahue] · Frederick Nebel · nv Black Mask Aug 1932, as “Shake-Up” 72 · Watson Was a Woman · Rex Stout · hu Saturday Review of Literature Mar 1 1941 78 · The Truth About Watson · Kurt Steel · hu 84 · Waiting for the Police · J. Jefferson Farjeon · ss Waiting for the Police and other stories, Polybooks 1943 90 · The Hunting of Hemingway [Nick & Dave Glennan] · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 21 1934 108 · P. Moran, Diamond-Hunter [P. Moran] · Percival Wilde · nv

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v7, #30, May 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Handcuffs Don’t Hold Ghosts [Tommy Hambledon] · Manning Coles · nv 26 · Night Shots [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask Feb 1 1924 40 · The Consolable Widow · Christopher Morley · ts 54 · Roses Round the Door · Thomas Burke · ss Britannia and Eve Jan 1941 62 · Matter for a May Morning [Squeakie Meadows] · Margaret Manners · ss 80 · Not on the Program · Ben Wilson · vi This Week 1942 82 · Close Shave [William S. Gray] · Leonard Thompson · ss 100 · Tea for Two · Laurie York Erskine · ss Collier’s Feb 15 1936 105 · Free and Easy [Jim Hanvey] · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss The Red Book Magazine Apr 1926

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v7, #31, June 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · An Error in Chemistry [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss 20 · Four and Twenty Blackbirds [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss Collier’s Nov 9 1940 30 · Goodbye, Goodbye! [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv 48 · They Never Get Caught · Margery Allingham · ss Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Nov 1934 64 · The Yellow Jumper [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss 79 · Speaking of Crime · Howard Haycraft · cl 83 · The Rival Dummy · Ben Hecht · ss Liberty Aug 18 1928 91 · The Old Lady Who Changed Her Mind [Oliver Rater] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Sep 1927 100 · Guess Who? · Talbot C. Hatch · qz 102 · Find the Woman [Joe Rogers] · Kenneth Millar · nv 120 · Round Trip · Whitfield Cook · ss The American Mercury 1940 128 · Index to Volume 7—1946 · Anon. · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v8, #32, July 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Chinoiserie · Helen McCloy · nv 25 · The Mystery of the Paper Wad [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss 42 · If the Dead Could Talk · Cornell Woolrich · ss Black Mask Feb 1943 54 · The Man Who Shot the Fox · G. K. Chesterton · ss Hearst’s Magazine Mar 1921 68 · The Case of the Three Bicyclists [Monsieur Froget] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from the French (Les 13 Coupables, 1932). 74 · Dead Heat · Lillian Day & Norbert Lederer · ss 80 · Footprints [Jasper Shrig] · Jeffery Farnol · ss Britannia and Eve May 1929 92 · No Clues [O’Malley] · William MacHarg · ss Collier’s Jun 20 1936 99 · Witness for the Prosecution · Q. Patrick · ss 104 · Guess Who?: Dr. Gideon Fell · Talbot C. Hatch · qz 113 · The Case of the Honest Murderer [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v8, #33, August 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · I Can Find My Way Out [Insp. (Supt.) Roderick Alleyn] · Ngaio Marsh · nv 25 · Snob’s Murder [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss 42 · The Murder · John Steinbeck · ss North American Review Apr 1934 53 · The Doctor’s Double [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss 1937, as “The Riddle of the Doctor’s Double” 64 · The Flying Highwayman [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss 78 · The Green Goods Man [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News Nov 21 1932, as “The Very Green Goods Man” 93 · Tip-Off · Richard Connell · vi Collier’s Dec 3 1932 96 · The Watchers and the Watched [Inspector Magruder] · Jerome & Harold Prince · nv 116 · Something like Salmon [Sergeant Thomas Aquinas Cormaney] · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 19 1933 128 · Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Announces a $6,000 Short Story Contest · Anon. · cn

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v8, #34, September 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · The Main Death [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss Black Mask Jun 1927 21 · Strange Jest [Jane Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week Nov 2 1941 30 · The Blue Hat [Pat & Jean Abbott] · Frances Crane · ss 44 · The Adventure of the Three R’s [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss 60 · The Devil in the Summer-House · John Dickson Carr · pl; first broadcast by the BBC on October 14, 1940. This is the shorter version without Dr. Fell which was broadcast on the CBS Suspense program, November 3, 1942. 73 · The Cat’s Eye · John van Druten · ss The Atlantic Monthly Mar 1945 90 · The Unlocked Room [Mr. Riddle (The Fix-It Man)] · Hazel Hills · ss 100 · Human Interest Stuff · Brett Halliday · ss Adventure Sep 1938, as by Davis Dresser 110 · Count Jalacki Goes Fishing [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · nv

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v8, #35, October 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Malice Domestic · Philip MacDonald · ss 20 · The Hairy One · Dashiell Hammett · ss Sunset: The Pacific Monthly Mar 1925, as “Ber-Bulu” 30 · The Crimson Letters [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine Aug 1938, as “The Longer View” 45 · The Safe of the S.S.S. [Joseph Leborgne] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from the French (Les 13 Mystères, 1932). 50 · The Affair at the Circle T [Prof. Huntoon Rogers] · Clifford Knight · ss 62 · Miss Hinch · Henry Sydnor Harrison · nv McClure’s Sep 1911 78 · The Man Who Played the Market [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · ss 94 · Speaking of Crime · Howard Haycraft · cl 98 · The Adventure of the Dead Cat [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss 112 · A Note to Count Jalacki [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v8, #36, November 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · Lesson in Anatomy [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · nv 22 · Brush Fire · James M. Cain · ss Liberty Dec 5 1936 29 · The Face from Beyond · Anthony Abbot · ts 32 · The Flowering Face [Susan Dare] · Mignon G. Eberhart · nv The Delineator May 1935 54 · The Adventure of the Telltale Bottle [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss 69 · The Old School Type · P. Youngman-Carter · ss Gen 19?? 72 · The Kid and the Shade · William D. Trausch · ss The Guidon 19?? 81 · The Oleander · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Every Week 1930 87 · Charlemagne and the Whisperer [Charlemagne] · Daniel Roselle · ss 92 · The Wrists on the Door · Horace Fish · nv Everybody’s Magazine May 1919 109 · You Can’t Hang Twice [Arthur Crook] · Anthony Gilbert · nv

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v8, #37, December 1946] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · The Clue of the Tattooed Man [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · ss; contest story, lacking the final half page—solution in March 1947 issue. 8 · The Love Detectives [Harley Quin] · Agatha Christie · ss Flynn’s Weekly Oct 30 1926, as “At the Crossroads” 25 · Angel Face [Nick Burns] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Black Mask Oct 1937, as “Face Work” 46 · The Episode of the Sinister Inventor [Trevis Tarrant] · C. Daly King · ss 61 · Professional Début [Máximo Roldán] · Antonio Helú; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss; translated from the Spanish (La Obligacion de Asesinar, 1946). 75 · Murder in Triplicate [Deputy Parr; Oliver Armiston] · Frederick Irving Anderson · ss 88 · The Smell That Killed [Barnabas Hildreth] · Vincent Cornier · nv Pearson’s Magazine Feb 1935, as “The Catastrophe in Clay” 105 · Speaking of Crime · Howard Haycraft · cl 109 · One on the House · Corey Ford · vi Collier’s Jun 15 1929 111 · The Fantastic Clue [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv 128 · Index to Volume 8—July-December 1946 · Anon. · ix

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v8, #38, January 1947] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · The Clue of the Broken Legs [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · ss; contest story, lacking the final half page—solution in April 1947 issue. 8 · The Golden Horseshoe [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The Black Mask Nov 1924 36 · The Eight Pieces of Tortoiseshell [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv 53 · The Adventure of the Inner Circle [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv 67 · The Monkey Murder [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · ss 80 · The Assyrian Rejuvenator [Romney Pringle] · Clifford Ashdown · ss Cassell’s Magazine Jun 1902 92 · Goldfish [Carney] · Hugh MacNair Kahler · vi Collier’s Jul 8 1933; previously in EQMM “Overseas Edition” January 1946. 94 · Hand of Glory [Peter Trevor] · Frank King · ss 110 · Hunted Down · Charles Dickens · nv The New York Ledger Aug 20 1859 (+2)

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v9, #39, February 1947] ed. Ellery Queen (American Mercury, 25¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter) Details supplied by Douglas Greene. 4 · The Clue of the Missing Motive [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · ss; contest story, lacking the final half page. Solution in May 1947 issue. 9 · You Take Ballistics · Cornell Woolrich · ss Double Detective Jan 1938 24 · The Repeater [Capt. (Col.) Hugh North] · Van Wyck Mason · nv Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 8 1934, as “The Crime of the Legion” 49 · Nor the Jury · Selwyn Jepson · ss The Evening Standard Jun 17 1933 54 · The Case of the Ninety-Two Candles [Sherlock Holmes] · Ted Malone · fa; first broadcast on ABC radio, January 7, 1946. 58 · The Camberwell Poisoner [Sherlock Holmes] · Ruth Douglass · fa 64 · The Last Detective Story in the World · Maurice Richardson · ss Lilliput May 1946 70 · Sing a Song of Sixpence · Agatha Christie · ss The Listerdale Mystery, Collins 1934 84 · A Knife Between Brothers [David Return] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss 96 · Speaking of Crime · Howard Haycraft · cl 100 · The Lady Holding a Green Apple · Stanley Hopkins, Jr. · ss 109 · According to Customs · Octavus Roy Cohen · vi Collier’s Jan 23 1932 112 · The Adventure of the President’s Half Disme [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv