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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#95, May 1955] (Consolidated Press, 2/-, 128pp+, digest)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · The Moment of Decision · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1955
23 · The Girl in Electric Blue [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Apr 4 1923, as “The Mystery of the Plymouth Express”
35 · The Gamblers’ Club [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week Jan 7 1951
41 · Rehearsal for Murder · Ben Hecht · ss 1951, as “Guilty!”
51 · The Man Who Utterly Vanished [Charley Luke; Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1954
56 · Ambitious Cop · William Fay · ss 1949
70 · Candid Witness · Frank Gruber · vi Black Mask Jul 1937
73 · Two of a Kind · Laurence Kirk · ss Mushrooms on Toast, Heinemann 1938
85 · Glitter of Diamonds · Elisabeth Sanxay Holding · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1955
97 · Raffles and the Princess Amen [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1955
114 · Father Was Always Right · Hugh A. Mulligan · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1955
128 · Fatal Formula · Don Morse · pm Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1955

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#96, June 1955] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, digest)
Partial reprint of the April 1955 (US) issue. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Tiger in the Night · Eleazar Lipsky · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1955
17 · Rift in the Loot [Hildegarde Withers; John J. Malone] · Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1955
41 · An Ingenue of the Sierras · Bret Harte · ss The Idler May 1893
55 · Alike Under the Skin · Hugh B. Cave · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1955
70 · By a Single Hair [Nick Carter] · Nick Carter · ss New York Weekly Oct 13 1894
84 · Nick Carter · Newman Levy · pm Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1955
86 · The Diminishing Circle · William Holder · ss 1948
99 · The Walk-Away Kid · Sylvia Farnham Bachrach · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1955
111 · A Matter of Scholarship · Anthony Boucher · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1955
113 · The Man in the White Mask · Alan E. Nourse · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1955

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#97, July 1955] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, digest, cover by George Salter)
Partial reprint of the May 1955 (US) issue. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Beware the King of Clubs [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Mar 21 1923, as “The Adventure of the King of Clubs”
14 · Dead Duck · Arthur Gordon · ss Esquire Mar 1952
25 · When a Man Murders [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine May 1954
70 · The Blonde Who Looked Like Trouble · Richard F. Barrett · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1955
83 · The Gentleman Caller · Veronica Parker Johns · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1955
98 · Jury of One · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss The American Magazine Jan 1951, as “Tip-Off”
111 · The Seeds of Murder · John F. Suter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1955
120 · (Untitled) · Fred Levon · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1955

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#98, August 1955] (Consolidated Press, 2/-, 128pp+, digest)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Ransom · Pearl S. Buck · nv Cosmopolitan Oct 1938
25 · Mom Makes a Wish [Mom] · James Yaffe · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1955
37 · The Case of Mr. Pelham · Anthony Armstrong · ss Esquire Nov 1940
53 · The Perfect Crime · Fredric Brown · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1955
54 · If You Want to Get Killed [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee] · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1955
65 · That’s the Man! · Mary Brinker Post · ss Today’s Woman Feb 1947
81 · Raffles and the Death Date [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1955
97 · The Fog on Pemble Green · Shirley Barker · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1955
118 · The Night Calhoun Was Off Duty · Thomas Walsh · ss 1938

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#99, September 1955] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter)
Partial reprint of the July 1955 (US) issue, plus a single story each from the October 1947 and April 1955 (US) issues. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · What Would You Have Done? · Charlotte Armstrong · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1955
23 · Give a Man Rope · Stuart Cloete · ss Collier’s May 19 1951
37 · Life Begins at 2:15 · Willard Marsh · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1955
44 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Broken Shaft: Unwin’s Annual for 1886, ed. Sir Henry Norman, T. Fisher Unwin 1885
60 · The Letter · Fredric Brown · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1955
62 · Make Westing · Jack London · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Apr 1908
70 · The Man Without an Enemy · John & Ward Hawkins · ss This Week Oct 26 1952, as “Girl in Trouble”
79 · Blue Murder [Don Free] · Raoul Whitfield · nv Black Mask Sep 1932; not the same as the story of the same name in the July 1928 issue.
103 · Invitation to an Accident · Wade Miller · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1955
116 · Midnight at Grand Babylon Hotel · Arnold Bennett · ss The Loot of Cities, Thomas Nelson 1917

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#100, October 1955] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, digest)
Partial reprint of the August 1955 (US) issue, plus a single story from the February 1947 (US) issue. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Sing a Song of Sixpence · Agatha Christie · ss The Listerdale Mystery, Collins 1934
16 · Callahan in Buttons · Thomas Walsh · ss Collier’s Aug 8 1936, as “Callahan’s Revenge”
31 · London Night’s Entertainment · Margery Sharp · ss The Graphic Nov 28 1932
36 · La Spécialité de M. Duclos · Oliver La Farge · ss The New Yorker Apr 29 1950
44 · No Cry of Murder [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week Jun 25 1952
53 · The Mysterious Mansion · Honoré de Balzac; translated by Ellen Marriage & Clara Bell · ss Shorter Stories from Balzac, Walter Scott 1890, as “An Accursed House”; translated from the French (“La Grande Bretèche”, Contes Brun, 1831).
71 · The Incongruous Action [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss (r)
82 · Stay Away from My Mother · Joseph Whitehill · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1955
99 · A Ghost of the Sierras · Bret Harte · ss The Sun Mar 3 1878
106 · The Man Who Got Away with Murder · Armando Perretta · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1955
118 · Stay on the Sidewalks, Kid · Saul Levinson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1955

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#101, November 1955] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, digest)
Partial reprint of the September 1955 (US) issue, plus a single story from the November 1954 (US) issue. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · For Men Only [Insp. Kyle] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1955
42 · Murder at the Poe Shrine · Nedra Tyre · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1955
54 · How Does Your Garden Grow? [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss Ladies’ Home Journal Jun 1935
69 · Star Witness · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss Dime Detective Magazine Aug 1 1934
80 · The Devil and Mr. Wooller · R. J. Tilley · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1955
88 · What Did Poor Brown Do? [from Following the Equator] · Mark Twain · ex American Pub. Co. 1897
95 · A Very Odd Case Indeed [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1955; probably first published in The (London) Evening Standard.
99 · The Man Who Made People Mad · Mark Van Doren · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1955
112 · First Time Machine · Fredric Brown · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1955
113 · The Splinter · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1955

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#102, December 1955] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, 128pp+, digest)
Partial reprint of the October 1955 (US) issue, plus a single story each from the April 1955 and July 1955 (US) issues. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · The Little Doctor and the Slipper Fiend [Dr. Jean Dollent] · Georges Simenon; translated by Frances Frenaye · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1955; translated from the French (“L’Amoureux aus Pantoufles”, Le Petit Docteur, Gallimard, 1943).
24 · Only the Guilty Run · Vin Packer · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1955
33 · The Six China Figures [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch Mar 7 1923, as “The Affair at the Victory Ball”
46 · The Stone on Abdul’s Head · D. MacClure · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1955
54 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine Sep 1953
63 · The Wagstaff Pearls [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week Sep 21 1952
72 · Tabloid News · Louis Bromfield · ss Random House 1930
85 · Looking for a Diamond [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1955; probably first in The (London) Evening Standard.
90 · The Perfectionist · Donald McNutt Douglass · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1955
114 · Storm Warnings · Stewart Beach · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1955

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#103, January 1956] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, digest)
Partial reprint of the November 1955 (US) issue. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · De Mortuis · John Collier · ss The New Yorker Jul 18 1942
9 · Dream No More · Philip MacDonald · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1955
32 · Near the Back of Beyond [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1955
46 · A Message to Herr Dietrich [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1955
50 · The Way Up to Heaven · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker Feb 27 1954
62 · Crazy Like a Fox [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1955
66 · Tom, Dick and Harry [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss The Evening Standard Aug 6 1955
71 · You Can’t Crack a Modern Safe · Frank Gruber · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 28 1938, as “Innocent Bystander”
89 · The Story of See Yup · Bret Harte · ss Cassell’s Magazine Jan 1898, as “See Yup”
100 · It Might Be George · Charlotte Morris · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1955
116 · Murder Was Their Business · Anthony Boucher · ss Shadow Mystery Feb/Mar 1947, as “The Retired Hangman”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#105, March 1956] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, digest)
Partial reprint of the January 1956 (US) issue, plus a single story from the August 1953 (US) issue. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Striding Folly [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Strand Magazine Jul 1935
13 · Santa Claus Beat · Rex Stout · ss What’s New Dec 1953, as “Tough Cop’s Gift”
18 · The Queer Fish · Kem Bennett · ss Argosy (UK) Sep 1955
29 · The Other Arrow · F. M. Barratt & Jack Finney · ss Collier’s Oct 18 1952, as “Diagnosis Completed”
40 · The 24-Caret Heel · Cyril Hare · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1956
48 · Cold Money [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week Mar 20 1952
54 · A Hansom in the Night [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1956
70 · The Heel of Achilles O’Shay · Clayton Fox · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1956
80 · Roll Out the Barrel · Geoffrey Household · ss 1952
89 · Will You Always Be Helping Me? · Thomas Walsh · ss Woman’s Home Companion Sep 1940, as “Boy from Home”
101 · The Deadly Cycle · Arthur Gordon · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1956
106 · The Hedge Between · Charlotte Armstrong · nv Conflict—Stories of Suspense Fll 1953, as “Meredith’s Murder”

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#106, April 1956] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, digest, cover by George Salter)
Partial reprint of the February 1956 (US) issue, plus a single story each from the September 1955 and January 1956 (US) issues. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Johnny Cinderella · Joseph Petracca · ss Collier’s Oct 25 1952
14 · The Lion’s Tooth [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard Aug 10 1955
19 · Not a Drum Was Heard · Ben Ames Williams · ss Collier’s Jun 12 1920
28 · The Big Kiss-Off · Ben Benson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1956
43 · Strictly from Hollywood · Steve April · vi Collier’s Jan 24 1953
47 · Turtle Race · Paul W. Fairman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1955
57 · Get Off My Back! · Saul Levinson · ss Man’s Life 1953, as “Hick Law”
67 · A Dog in the Daytime [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine Dec 1954, as “The Body in the Hall”
109 · A Woman of Principle [Insp. Peter Curwen] · Roy Vickers · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1956

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia) [#107, May 1956] (Consolidated Press Ltd., 2/-, digest)
Partial reprint of the March 1956 (US) issue. Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · The Man Who Explained Miracles [Sir Henry Merrivale] · Carter Dickson · na The Housewife Jan 1956 (+2), as “Ministry of Miracles”
42 · The Dusty Drawer · Harry Muheim · ss Collier’s May 3 1952
56 · The Compleat Murderess · Virginia Jones · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1956
61 · Jack of Diamonds [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1956
80 · Lucky Cop · Steve Fisher · ss 1939; possibly a reprint of Fisher’s “Lucky” (Detective Fiction Weekly, June 3, 1939).
89 · Of More Value than Sparrows [Colonel Braxton] · Melville Davisson Post · ss 1929
100 · Banks Are Never Wrong · John D. Hess · ss Esquire Sep 1952, as “The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks”
112 · Murder on the Waterfront · Budd Schulberg · ss Collier’s Oct 1 1954

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