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anonymous by Edith György (1906-1945) Adam and Two Eves (Macaulay, 1924, c/u) 1/2 of double Royal Books 17 1953 unknown translation The Harem of Hsi Men (16th century Chinese novel) Royal Books 26 anonymous anthologies Adventures of the Great Crimebusters ([ed by Clyde Evans], anth, New Power, 1943, [abr]) Eerie Series 10 n.d. Avon Western Reader # 1 (anth, original) Avon Western Reader 1 1947 # 2 (anth, original) Avon Western Reader 2 1947 # 3 (anth, original) Avon Western Reader 3 1947 # 4 ([ed by Herbert Williams, q.v.], anth, original) Avon Western Reader 4 1947 18 Great Modern Stories (anth, original) Avon Annual un 1945 11 Great Modern Stories (anth, original) Avon Annual un 1947 15 Great Stories of Today ([ed. By Gloria B. Weissman], anth, original) Avon Annual un 1946 48 Current Short Stories (anth, original) [Edwards] un n.d. 14 Great Stories by 14 Great Authors (Samples, ed by LiIlie Ryttenberg & Beatrice Lang, anth, Boni & Liveright, 1927, rev) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 7 1943 Highlights from YANK ([ed. By Bernard Williams], anth, original) Royal Books 15 1953 (The) Hollywood Love Clinic (anth, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 42 1948 New Anthology of Modern Stories (forecast as both Avon Modern Short Story Monthly #s 37 & 38 but never published) A New Collection of Great Stories (anth, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 33 1946 Ten Great Stories ([ed. By Maurice P. Diamond], anth, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 25 1945 Thirteen Great (Modern) Stories ([ed. By Whit Burnett, q.v.], anth, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 15 1944 Tropical Passions (anth, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 44 1949 [same] Avon Book Dividend 7 (1952) Twelve Great Modern Stories ([ed. By Whit Burnett, q.v.], anth, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 20 1944 Twelve Great Stories (anth, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 28 1946 Twelve Great Stories ([ed. By Maurice P. Diamond], anth, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 31 1946 Aarons, Edward S[idney] (1916-1975) US, see also ps Edward Ronns Nightmare (McKay, 1948, c/u) Mercury Mystery 143 [1950] Abbott, Anthony ps of [Charles] Fulton Oursler (1893-1952) US series: Thatcher Colt About the Murder of a Startled Lady [Colt] (Farrar & Rinehart, 1935) Murder Mystery Monthly 25 1944 About the Murder of the Night Club Lady [Colt] (Covici-Friede, 1931, c/u) Green Dragon 27 n.d. Abrahams, Robert D[avid] (1905-1998) US series: Pete T a y l o r Death in 1-2-3 [T a y l o r ] (Phoenix, 1942, c/u) Hangman's House 19 n.d. Abram, Arthur Badge of Shame (original) Uni-Book 24 1952 Acre, Stephen pseudonym, see Frank Gruber Adams, Cleve F[ranklin] (1895-1949) US, see also pss Franklin Charles, John Spain series: Rex McBride And Sudden Death [McBride] (Dutton, 1940) Mystery Novel of the Month 36 {1942} [same], abridged Prize Mystery Novel 5 1943 Death before Breakfast [McBride] (Sabotage, Dutton, 1940) Mystery Novel of the Month 31 {1942} What Price Murder (Dutton, 1942) Mystery Novel Classic 43 [ ] Adams, Eustace L[ane] (1891-1963) US Death Charter (Coward-McCann, 1943) Adventure Novel Classic 31 n.d. Adams, Frank R[amsay] (1883-1963) US Gunsight Ranch (Doubleday, Doran, 1939) Western Novel Classic 73 n.d. Adams, Stewart Guns at Lazy River (Godwin, 1935) Western Novel of the Month 3 n.d.
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Adler, Lulla, [mariée Rosenfeld] (1914-1999) US see pss Jean Calvert, Richard Hall, Kate Nickerson Ahern, Helen Confessions of a Party Wife (Love Must be Gay, Macaulay, 1935, c/u) [Astro] 11 1948 Albert, Andrew I [saac] (1885-1970) Russian/US series: Paul Decker The Maori Murder Case [Decker] (original) Vulcan Mystery un 1944 Murder for a Hollow Shell [Decker] (original) Vulcan Mystery 4 1945 Albert, Sim ps of Al Simmons, q.v. Confessions of a B-Girl (original) Croydon 44 1953 [same] Croydon 93 1954 Confessions of a Pick-Up Girl (original) Croydon 56 1954 French Sinner (original) Croydon 77 1954 Rooming-House Girl (original) Croydon 81 1954 Wild Bride (original) Croydon 87 1954 Woman-Crazy Doctor (original) Croydon 73 1954 Albert, Simms ps of Al Simmons, q.v. Pound of Flesh (original) Intimate Novel 45 1953 Allan, Dennis ps of Elinore Denniston, q.v. The Case of the Headless Corpse ([Brandon Is Missing], Mill, 1940) Detective Novel Classic 19 [1943] Allen, Jane with Mae Livingston Without Reservations (original) Century 103 {1946} Allen, Leslie ps of Horace Brown (1908- ) Murder in the Rough (original) Five Star Mystery 45 1946 Allingham, Margery [Louise] (1904-1966) UK series: Albert Campion Black Plumes (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Bestseller Mystery B33 [1942] The Case Book of Mr. Campion [Campion] (coll, original) Mercury Mystery 112 1947 Dancers in Mourning [Campion] (Doubleday, Doran, 1937, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J32 [1948] complete, as Who Killed Chloe? Murder Mystery Monthly 17 1943 Flowers for the Judge [Campion] (Doubleday, Doran, 1936) Murder Mystery Monthly 35 1946 abridged, as Legacy in Blood Mercury Mystery 132 [1949] Kingdom of Death [Campion] (Doubleday, Doran, 1933) Bonded Mystery 12 n.d. [same], abridged Bestseller Mystery B56 [1944] Legacy in Blood see Flowers for the Judge Mystery Mile [Campion] (Doubleday, Doran, 1930) Mercury Mystery 49 [1942] Police at the Funeral [Campion] (Doubleday, Doran, 1931, abr) Bestseller Mystery B51 [1944] Who Killed Chloe? see Dancers in Mourning A m o s , A l a n ps of Kathleen Moore Knight, q.v. Jungle Murder (Pray for a Miracle, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941, abr) Adventure Novel Classic 24 n.d. Anderson, Edward [Euell] (1905-1969) US Thieves like Us (Stokes, 1937) Mercury Book 5 [1937] Anderson, W[alter] W[adsley] (1904-1991) US Kill One, Kill Two (Morrow, 1940, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Anthony, Jed ps of Theodore D. Irwin (1907-1997) US Divorce Racket Girls ([Collusion by Theodore D. Irwin], Godwin, 1932, [abr]) Intimate Novel 6 1951 Anton, Cal The Private Life of a Strip-Tease Girl (original) Fiesta Novel 1 1952 Appel, H[erman] M[ilton] (1892- ) Brutal Kisses see Illicit Desires Illicit Desires (The Farmer's Daughter, Godwin, 1936, rev) Quarter Book 54 1949 abridged, as Brutal Kisses Uni-Book 29 (1952) Tainted Passions (Flesh and Blood, Godwin, 1935, rev) Uni-Book 22 n.d. Archer, Jules see ps R. R. McCollum Armstrong, Charlotte, [mariée Lewi] (1905-1969) US series: MacDougal Duff The Case of the Weird Sisters [Duff] (Coward-McCann, 1943, abr) Mercury Mystery 85 [1945] Armstrong, Margaret [Neilson] (1867-1944) US The Blue Santo Murder Mystery (Random, 1941, c/u) Detective Novel Classic 12 n.d. The Man with No Face (Random, 1940, abr) Bestseller Mystery B30 [1942] Murder in Stained Glass (Random, 1939) Bestseller Library 16 (1941)
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Arnold, William ps of Arnold Sroog, q.v. The Big Tease (original) Cameo Book 314 1952 Harlem Woman (original) Original Novel 719 1952 The Naked Canvas (original) Venus Book 139 1952 revised, as Professional Model Venus Book 197 1957 Night of Ecstasy (original) Cameo Book 302 1951 Professional Model see The Naked Canvas Runaway Girl (original) Original Novel 724 1952 [same] Original Novel 734 (1953) [same], (revised) Cameo Book 355 1956 Sheila's Daughter (original) Original Novel 717 1952 revised, as Blonde Hellcat by Arthur Marin Cameo Book 368 1957 Torch Singer (original) Venus Book 136 1951 Arthur, Burt ps of Herbert [Arthur] Shappiro, q.v., adopted legally series: Mustang Marshall Action at Spanish Flat (original) Star Book 34 1952 The Black Rider see under Herbert Shappiro Duel on the Range (original) Star Book 19 1951 [same] Star Book 43 [1953] Flaming Guns [Marshall] (Chenango Pass, Arcadia, 1942) Star Book 6 1950 Gun-Law on the Range (original) Star Book 38 1952 Gunsmoke in Paradise by Bert Arthur [Marshall] ([Mustang Marshall by Herbert Shappiro], Phoenix, 1943, abr) Black Cat Western 33 1948 Killer's Moon (original) Star Book 11 1950 [same] Star Book 26 1951 Outlaw Fury (original) Star Book 33 1952 Two-Gun Outlaw (original) Star Book 36 1952 The Valley of Death [Marshall] (by Herbert Shappiro, Arcadia, 1941, abr) Prize Western Novel 37 n.d. Arthur, William ps of William Arthur Neubauer, q.v. Convention Girl (Phoenix, 1945) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Love Business (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) Century 79 n.d. Love Cheat ({Naughty Mary}, Phoenix, 1950, rev) Uni-Book 18 1951 Made for Loving ({Men to Burn}, Phoenix, 1949) [Novels, Inc.] un n.d. Marriage Later (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Ashbrook, H[arriette] [Cora] (1898-1946) US series: Spike Tracy A Most Immoral Murder [Tracy] (Coward-McCann, 1935, abr) Green Dragon (un) n.d. Murder Comes Back [Tracy] (Coward-McCann, 1940, abr) Green Dragon 18 n.d. Murder on Friday [Tracy] ([The Purple Onion Mystery], Coward-McCann, 1941, [abr]) Arrow 6 n.d. Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992) US Pebble in the Sky (Doubleday, 1950, [abr]) Galaxy SF Novel 14 1953 Avery, Robert [J.], [Jr.] (1911-1983) US series: Joe Kelly The Corpse in Company K [Kelly] (Swift, 1942) Mystery Novel of the Month 37 {1942} A Murder a Day! [Kelly] (Mystery House, 1940) Green Dragon 4 n.d. Murder on the Downbeat (Mystery House, 1943, c/u) Death House Mystery 3 1944 Ayres, Ruby M[ildred], [mariée Pocock] (1883-1955) UK The Little Sinner (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, rev) Avon Romance Novel Monthly 1 1949 (as by Ayers on cover) Babcock, Dwight V[incent] (1909-1979) US series: Hannah Van Doren Hannah Says Foul Play! [Hannah] (original) Murder Mystery Monthly 38 1946 (A) Homicide for Hannah [Hannah] (Knopf, 1941) Murder Mystery Monthly 10 1943 Bachmann, Lawrence [Paul] (1911-2004) US with Hannah Lees Death in the Doll's House (Random, 1943) Bestseller Mystery B46 [1943] Bacon, Peggy
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Bagby, George ps of Aaron Marc Stein, q.v. series: Inspector Schmidt The Bloody Wig Murders [Schmidt] (The Corpse Wore a Wig, Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Best Detective Selection 4 1942 A Body for the Bride [Schmidt] (The Original Carcase, Doubleday, 1946, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J71 [1954] The Corpse with the Purple Thighs [Schmidt] (Doubleday, Doran, 1939, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B87 [1947] Dead Drunk [Schmidt] (Doubleday, 1953, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J73 [1954] Death Ain't Commercial [Schmidt] (Doubleday, 1951, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J87 [1956] A Dirty Way to Die [Schmidt] (Doubleday, 1955, abr) Bestseller Mystery B200 [1956] Drop Dead [Schmidt] (Doubleday, 1949, c/u) Mercury Mystery 156 [1951] Here Comes the Corpse [Schmidt] (Doubleday, Doran, 1941) Century 13 n.d. In Cold Blood [Schmidt] (Doubleday, 1948, abr) Bestseller Mystery B113 [1949] Scared to Death [Schmidt] (Doubleday, 1952, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J67 [1953] Bailey, H[enry] C[hristopher] (1878-1961) UK series: Joshua Clunk This is Mr. Fortune (forecast as a Bonded Mystery but did not appear) [The] Twittering Bird Mystery [Clunk] (Doubleday, Doran, 1937, abr) Bonded Mystery 8 n.d. Baker, Asa ps of Davis Dresser, q.v. series: Jerry Burke The Kissed Corpse [Burke] (Carlyle House, 1939) Arrow 8 n.d. Baker, Carlotta ps of Leona Slottman, q.v. The Fallen Woman (Phoenix, 1947, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Wayward Girl ([Wayward Susan], Phoenix, 1946, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Balch, Glenn (1902-1989) US Indian Paint (Crowell, 1942) Comet Book 31 1949 Ballard, W[illis] T[odhunter] (1903-1980) US, see also ps Harrison Hunt series: Bill Lennox Say Yes to Murder [Lennox] (Putnam, 1942) Best Detective Selection 9 1943 Balmer, Jon ps of J[ohannes] L. Bouma (1914-1978) Fever Hot (original) Exotic Novel 19 1951 Moment of Rapture (original) Rainbow 104 1951 Bardon, Minna [Feibleman] (1900-1974) US The Case of the Advertised Murders (…Advertised Murder, Hillman-Curl, 1939) Mystery Novel Classic 42 [ ] The Case of the Blood(-)stained Dime (Murder Does Light Housekeeping, Phoenix, 1941) Bleak House 14 n.d. ( a s b y MInna Barton on cover) Murder for Real (The Case of the Dead Grandmother, Phoenix, 1937) Black Knight Mystery 24 n.d. Bardwell, Denver ps of James Denson Sayers, q.v. Coyote Hunter (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Fighting Western Novel 5 n.d. Gun Smoke in Sunset Valley (Godwin, 1935) Western Novel of the Month un n.d. Prairie Fire (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 10 n.d. Barlay, Bennett ps of Kendell Foster Crossen, q.v. Satan Comes Across (mag, 1940) Eerie Series 4 1945 Barns, Glenn (M)[iller] (1915-1997) US series: Jonathan Marks Lawyers Don't Hang (Arcadia, 1953, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B175 [1954] Murder Is a Gamble [Marks] (Phoenix, 1952, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B162 [1953] Murder Is Insane [Marks] (Lippincott, 1956, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J94 [1957] Baroni, Nick pseudonym The Lady Was a Tramp ( ? [see scans], Curtis Warren [UK]) Fiesta Novel 4 n.d. Barr, Cecil ps of Jack Kahane (1887-1939) UK Any Man's Woman (It's Hard to Sin, Greenberg, 1935) Universal Romance un n.d. (as Anybodies Woman inside) French Model (Daffodil, Obelisk [France], 1931, rev) Intimate Novel 2 1950 Barrett, Monte
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Barry, Jerome [Benedict] (1894-1975) US series: Chick Varney The Cat's Cradle Murders [ Varney] (Leopard Cat's Cradle, Doubleday, Doran, 1942) Mystery Novel Classic 83 n.d. Lady of Night [ Varney] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 86 n.d. Barry, Joe ps of Joe Barry Lake, q.v. series: Donn O’Mara, Rush Henry Homicide Hotel [O’Mara] (original) Phantom Book 500 1951 The Third Degree [Henry] (Mystery House, 1943) Prize Mystery Novel 12 1944 Barry, Winchell ps of Leo Rifkin, q.v. Scarlet City (original) Intimate Novel 33 1953 Barton, Minna error, see Minna Bardon Bax, Roger ps of Paul Winterton (1908-2001) UK series: Chief Inspector James A Grave Case of Murder [James] (Harper, 1951, abr) Mercury Mystery 176 [1952] Beam, Maurice [Jerome] (1897-1990) with Allan Elston Murder by Mandate (mag, 1943) Diamond Library un 1945 Bechdolt, Frederick R[itchie] (1874-1950) US Danger on the Border (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Century 52 n.d. Drygulch Canyon (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) Century 81 n.d. Horsethief Trail (Doubleday, Doran, 1932) Western Novel Classic 75 (1948) (as Horse Thief ... on cover) Hot Gold (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, c/u) Century 102 n.d. Murder at Two Rivers (The Tree of Death, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, abr) Western Novel Classic 49 n.d. Riot at Red Water (Doubleday, Doran, 1941) Adventure Novel Classic 28 n.d. Beckman, Charles, Jr. (1918- ) Honky Tonk Girl (original) Falcon Book 44 1953 Beeding, Francis joint ps of John [Leslie] Palmer (1885-1944) UK & Hilary [Aidan] St. George Saunders (1898-1951) UK series: Alistair Granby Death in Four Letters (Harper, 1935, [abr]) Thriller Novel Classic 11 [1943] Eleven Were Brave [Granby] (Harper, 1941, abr) Thriller Novel Classic 19 n.d. Bellamy, Harmon ps of Herman Irving Bloom, q.v. Flesh and Females (The Transgressor, Watt, 1933, rev) Quarter Book 66 1950 as Girl-Hungry by William E. Gordon Carnival Book 908 1952 [same] Carnival Book 921 1953 [same] Carnival Book 935 (1954) [same] Carnival Book 946 (1956) Frenchy (Bodies Are Different, Godwin, 1935, rev) Quarter Book 39 1949 as Hell Cat! by Martin Gregor Star Book 4 1950 as Lovers Bewitched by William E. Gordon Carnival Book 903 1952 Hard-Boiled(!) (Struggle, Godwin, 1935, rev) Venus Book 110 1950 as Midnight Sinners by John Caldwall Quarter Book 42 1949 [same] Carnival Book 902 1952 [same] Carnival Book 936 [same] Carnival Book 945 (1956) Lover Boy see Pick-Up Pick-Up (Sacrifice, Godwin, 1936, rev) Quarter Book 41 1949 as Lover Boy Venus Book 109 1950 as A Body to Own by Robert W. Harmon Carnival Book 901 1952 Bellem, Robert Leslie (1902-1968) US see ps Franklin Charles, see also John A. Saxon Benedict, Gerald The Case of the Deadly Drops (Phoenix, 1941, abr) [Edell] un n.d. Benét, James [Walker] (1914- ) US The Knife behind You (Harper, 1950, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B146 [1952] Benjamin, Edla [Frankau], [née Bernstein] (1906-1983) US Murder without Make-up (Random, 1941) Century 12 n.d.
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Bennett, Alan ps of Arnold Sroog, q.v. Cellar Club Girl (original) Croydon 40 1953 as Tenement Girl Croydon 94 1955 Tenement Girl see Cellar Club Girl Bennett, Dorothy (1906- ) series: Dennis Devore Come and Be Killed [Devore] (original) Best Detective Novel of the Month 1 1942 Bennett, Edwin w i t h S y l v ia G. L. Dannett Defy the Tempest (Messner, 1944) Thriller Novel Classic 36 n.d. Bennett, Hall ps of Bennie Caroline Hall, q.v. Blonde Peril (Phoenix, 1947, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Confessions of a Part-Time Bride (Make the Man Pay, Phoenix, 1945, c/u) [Hanro] 4 n.d. Mail-Order Passion (original) Intimate Novel 19 1952 Benton, John L. house pseudonym Talent for Murder (Gateway, 1942, abr) Green Dragon 14 n.d. Billany, Dan (1913-1945) UK It Takes a Thief (Harper, 1940) Black Cat Detective 9 1944 Black, Thomas B. (1910- ) US series: Al Delaney The Pinball Murders [Delaney] (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J37 [1948] [same] Mercury Mystery 187 [1953] The 3-13 Murders [Delaney] (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946) Jonathan Press Mystery J41 [1949] [same, c/u] Bestseller Mystery B151 [1952] The Whitebird Murders [Delaney] (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946, abr) Mercury Mystery 123 [1948] [same] Bestseller Mystery B138 [1951] Blair, Raymond ps of Albert L. Quandt, q.v. Big City Hellcat see Girl of the Slums by Albert L. Quandt Girl of the Slums see by Albert L. Quandt Blake, Nicholas ps of Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) UK series: Nigel Strangeways The Beast Must Die [Strangeways] (Harper, 1938, [abr]) Black Cat Detective 7 1943 [same, c/u) Mercury Mystery 147 [1950] Catch and Kill [Strangeways] (The Whisper in the Gloom, Harper, 1954, abr) Bestseller Mystery B193 [1956] Blankfort, Michael [Seymour] (1907-1982) US The Widow-Makers (Simon & Schuster, 1946, abr) Mercury Mystery 185 [1953] Bligh, Norman ps of William Arthur Neubauer, q.v. Artist's Model see Intimate Confessions of an Artist's Model Bad Sue (original) Quarter Book 79 1950 Bed-Time Angel (original) Ecstasy Novel Mar 1951 Born to Be Bad (original) Quarter Book 84 1951 as Affairs of a Ward Nurse by Mitchell Coleman Carnival Book 911 1952 revised, as Ward Nurse by Mitchell Coleman Original Novel 739 1954 [same] Star Novel 768 1957 Conquest of Margie (original) Cameo Book 303 1951 Fast, Loose and Lovely (original) Quarter Book 81 1950 revised, as Affairs of a Career Girl by Mitchell Coleman Carnival Book 913 1953 as Man-Hungry by Mitchell Coleman Carnival Book 954 1957 Harlot in Her Heart (original) Ecstasy Novel Mag Mar 1950 revised, as Overnight Venus Book 106 1950 (as Over Night on cover) Intimate Confessions of an Artist's Model (original) Ecstasy Novel Jul 1950 revised, as Artist's Model Quarter Book 94 1951 The Lady Is Taboo (original) Quarter Book 89 1951 The Men She Knew (original) Venus Book 130 1951 Motel Mistress see Remembered Moment The Naked Night (original) Venus Book 120 1951 Once There Was a Virgin (original) Exotic Novel Apr 1950 revised, as Play-Girl Venus Book 107 1950 Overnight see Harlot in Her Heart Play-Girl see Once There was a Virgin.
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Remembered Moment (original) Venus Book 148 1952 as Motel Mistress Original Novel 741 1954 [same] Star Novel 763 1956 River Boat Girl see Strictly for Pleasure Sin Child (original) Quarter Book 47 1949 Soft Shoulders (original) Cameo Book 316 1952 as Wayward Nurse Venus Book 162 1953 [same] Venus Book 186 (1956) Strictly for Pleasure (original) Original Novel 702 1951 as River Boat Girl Original Novel 740 (1954) [same, ("revised”)] Star Novel 765 1957 Three-Time Sinner (original) Cameo Book 313 1952 as Woman of Passion Cameo Book 344 n.d. [same] Cameo Book 357 (1956) Visiting Nurse (original) Original Novel 27 1953 Waterfront Hotel (original) Quarter Book 78 1950 Wayward Nurse see Soft Shoulders Woman of Passion see Three-Time Sinner Young Wife (original) Venus Book 151 1952 [same] Venus Book 177 (1954) [same] Venus Book 188 (1956) Blish, James [Benjamin] (1921-1975) US Jack of Eagles (Greenberg, 1952, [abr]) Galaxy SF Novel 19 1953 The Warriors of Day (mag, 1951) Galaxy SF Novel 16 1953 Blizard, Marie (1901-1991) series: Eve MacWilliams The Late Lamented Lady [MacWilliams] (Mystery House, 1946) Green Dragon 29 n.d. The Men in Her Death [MacWilliams] (Mystery House, 1947, c/u) Green Dragon 32 n.d. Bloch, Blanche [Bloch] (1890-1980) US The Bach Festival Murders (Harper, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 90 [1945] Bloch, Robert [Albert] (1917-1994) US The Scarf of Passion (The Scarf, Dial, 1947, c/u) Avon Monthly Novel 9 1948 [same] Avon Special un [ ] Blochman, Lawrence G[oldtree] (1900-1975) US Rather Cool for Mayhem (Lippincott, 1951, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B140 [1951] Bloom, Herman Irving (1908-1992) US see pss Harmon Bellamy, John Caldwall, William E. Gordon, Martin Gregor, Robert W. Harmon Bloomfield, Robert ps of Leslie Edgley, q.v. Lust for Vengeance (Vengeance Street, Doubleday, 1952,c/u) Bestseller Mystery B163 [1953] Bodenheim, Maxwell, [né Bodenheimer] (1893-1954) US Naked on Roller Skates (Liveright, 1930, rev) Diversey Popular Novel 2 1949 New York Madness (Macaulay, 1933, c/u) Avon Book Dividend 3 1951 Bogar, Jeff house pseudonym, authors unknown Confessions of a Chinatown Moll ( ? [see scans], Hamilton [UK]) Uni-Book 69 n.d. Hill Billy in High Heels (Hill-Billy…, Hamilton [UK], 1951) Uni-Book 65 n.d. [same] Stallion Book 201 n.d. (as Hillbilly... inside) Bogart, William (G.) (1903-1977) US series: Johnny Saxon Murder Is Forgetful [Saxon] (Mystery House, 1944, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 20 1946 Murder Man [Saxon] (Hell on Friday, Swift, 1941) Tech Mystery un n.d. Singapore (original, movie) Century 37 1947 Boltin, Bill ps of Murray Boltinoff (1911-1994) US Witch on Wheels (Arco, 1952) Uni-Book 66 (as by Bill Bolton inside) Bonnamy, Francis ps of Audrey Boyers Walz (1906-1983) US series: Peter Shane Dead Reckoning [Shane] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943, abr) Death House Mystery 5 1945 The Man in the Mist [Shane] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1951, abr) Bestseller Mystery B147 [1952]
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Bonney, Joseph L. series: Simon Rolfe Death by Dynamite [Rolfe] (Carrick & Evans, 1940, abr) Black Knight Mystery 19 n.d. Murder without Clues [Rolfe] (Carrick & Evans, 1940, abr) Green Dragon 16 n.d. Booth, Charles G[ordon] (1896-1949) UK/Canadian/US Murder Strikes Thrice (coll, original) Bonded Mystery 4 n.d. Booth, Ray error, see Roy Booth Booth, Roy ps of James Noble Gifford, q.v. Girl Stowaway (Women Are Freight, Godwin, 1936, rev) Intimate Novel 53 [1954] as Naughty Virgin by Luther Gordon [different revision] Quarter Book 33 1949 [same] Quarter Book 70 1950 Red Hot by Ray Booth (Godwin, 1937) Universal Romance un n.d. Bordages, Asa see ps Mike Teagle Borgenicht, Miriam (1915-1992) US Don't Look Back (Doubleday, 1956, abr) Bestseller Mystery B205 (1957) Boswell, Charles [Meigs], [Jr.] (1909-1982) US with Lewis Thompson More Deadly than the Male (coll, non-fiction, original) Merit Book B-12 1951 Bosworth, Allan R[ucker] (1901-1986) US Bury Me Not (Doubleday, 1948) Western Novel Classic 92 n.d. Full Crash Dive (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942) Death House Mystery 6 1945 abridged, as The Submarine Signaled...Murder! Crime Novel Selection 3 1942 Steel to the Sunset (by Alamo Boyd, Arcadia, 1941) Golden Willow 54 1946 The Submarine Signaled...Murder! see Full Crash Dive Bottari, George [L.] Mabel and Men (original) Falcon Book 23 1952 Off Limits! (original) Rainbow 130 1953 Boucher, Anthony ps of William Anthony Parker White (1911-1968) US series: Fergus O’Breen Blood on Baker Street (The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars, Simon & Schuster, 1940, abr) Mercury Mystery 179 [1953] The Case of the Crumpled Knave [O’Breen] (Simon & Schuster, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1940 Bouma, J[ohannes] L. see ps Jon Balmer Boutell, Anita [Day] [Kearney] (1895-1972) US Cradled in Fear (Putnam, 1942) Thriller Novel Classic 22 n.d. Bowen, Joseph pseudonym of Harry Block US The Man without a Head (Covici-Friede, 1936) Fingerprint Mystery un n.d. Bowen, Robert Sidney (1900-1977) US series: Gerry Barnes Make Mine Murder [Barnes] (Crown, 1946, c/u) Black Knight Mystery 30 n.d. Bower, B[ertha] [née] M[uzzy], [mariée Sinclair] (1871-1940) US The Quirt (Little, Brown, 1920, c/u) Thrilling Novel 15 n.d. Boyd, Alamo pseudonym, see Allan R. Bosworth Boylston, Helen Dore (1895-1984) US series: Sue Barton Sue Barton, Student Nurse [Barton] (Little, Brown, 1936, c/u) Comet Book 9 1947 [same] (new edition) Comet Book 9 1948 Brace, Timothy pseudonym, see Theodore Pratt Brackett, Leigh see George Sanders Bragg, W(illiam) F(rederick) (1892-1967) US Smokey Joe (Phoenix, 1949) Readers-Choice Library 9 {1950} Bramson, Karen [Adler] (1875-1936) Danish unknown translation Sins of a Paris Doctor (Dr. Morel, Greenberg, 1927, rev) Uni-Book 5 1950 Branch, Florenz ps of Florence Stonebraker, q.v. Dr. Breyton's Wife (original) Intimate Novel 39 1953 (The) Love Siren (The Love Artist, Phoenix, 1939, c/u) Griffin Book un n.d. Male for Sale (Phoenix, 1950) Uni-Book 7 n.d. (The) Pick-Up Girl ([She Had What They Wanted], Phoenix, 1946, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Pleasure After Hours (Phoenix, 1947, c/u) [Knickerbocker] 25 n.d. Scandalous Affair ({The Marriage Exchange}, Phoenix, 1946, rev) Uni-Book 17 1951
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Unfaithful (This Year's Sin, Phoenix, 1945, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Unwilling Virgin (unknown retitle [see scans], Phoenix, 1945, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. The Whipping Room (original) Intimate Novel 24 1952 Branch, Houston (1905-1966) US with Frank Waters Secret Affair (Diamond Head, Farrar, Straus, 1948, abr) Readers-Choice Library 32 Brand, Max ps of Frederick Schiller Faust, q.v. Brothers on the Trail (Dodd, Mead, 1934) Western Novel Classic 23 (1943) The Gun Tamer (Dodd, Mead, 1929) Western Novel of the Month 5 n.d. Hunted Riders (Dodd, Mead, 1935) Western Novel Classic 31 (1943) The Outlaw Trail (The Jackson Trail, Dodd, Mead, 1932) Western Novel of the Month 13 n.d. Rustler's Range (The Blue Jay, Dodd, Mead, 1927) Western Novel of the Month 9 n.d. The Seven of Diamonds (Dodd, Mead, 1935) Western Novel of the Month 18 n.d. Branson, H[enry] C[lay] (1905-1981) US series: John Bent Case of the Giant Killer [Bent] (Simon & Schuster, 1944) Mercury Mystery 117 [1947] I'll Eat You Last [Bent] (Simon & Schuster, 1941, abr) Bonded Mystery 5 n.d. as I'll Kill You Last Mystery Novel of the Month 34 {1942} I'll Kill You Last see I'll Eat You Last The Leaden Bubble [Bent] (Simon & Schuster, 1949, abr) Mercury Mystery 153 [1950] The Pricking Thumb [Bent] (Simon & Schuster, 1942) Bestseller Mystery B76 1946 Brenning, L. H. ps of Alfred John Hunter (1891-1961) Woman of Paris (Cabaret, Greenberg, 1934, rev) Uni-Book 48 1953 Brewer, Gil see Day Keene Brewster, Eliot ps of James Noble Gifford, q.v. Office Play-Girl (Hard, by James Noble Gifford, Phoenix, 1936, c/u) Griffin Book un n.d. Plenty of Love (Phoenix, 1945, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Sisters in Sin (Phoenix, 1937, c/u) Prize Love Novel 26 n.d. Skin-Deep (Smooth, Phoenix, 1938, c/u) Prize Love Novel 27 n.d. Temptress by Elliot Brewster ({Too Dangerous}, Phoenix, 1948) Intimate Novel 9 (1951) Brier, Howard M[axwell] (1903-1969) US series: Barry Martin Skycruiser [Martin] (Random, 1939, c/u) Comet Book 11 1948 Briffault, Robert [Stephen] (1876-1948) French/NZ/UK Carlotta (Fandango, Scribner, 1940, rev) Avon Monthly Novel 13 1949 Brock, Lilyan Queer Patterns (Greenberg, 1935, c/u) Avon Bedside Novel 3 [ ] Brock, Stuart ps of Louis Trimble, q.v. Death Is My Lover (Mill, 1948, abr) Readers-Choice Library 38 [1951] Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956) US Five Long Short Stories (from It Takes All Kinds, coll, Harper, 1939, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 24 1945 Great Stories (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 34 1946 Three Short Novels (from Here Today and Gone Tomorrow, coll, Harper, 1934, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 13 1944 Twenty-Four Hours (Stokes, 1930) Bestseller Library 6 (1940) Bronson, F[rancis] W[oolsey] (1901-1966) US The Bulldog Has the Key (Farrar, Straus, 1949, c/u) Mercury Mystery 148 [1950] Broocks, Schuyler ps of Benjamin Hawkins Dean, q.v. Murder Makes a Marriage (Mystery House, 1946, abr) Dagger House Mystery 28 1947 Brooks, Cyrus [Harry] (1890- ) translator The Missing Miniature by Erich Kästner (Knopf, 1936) Mercury Book 21 [1939] Brooks, William Allan ps of Maurice P. Fryefield (1894- ) The Playboy's Handbook (anth, Knickerbocker, 1942, rev) [Knickerbocker] un 1946 Brown, Beth (d.) US For Men Only (Kendall, 1930, abr) Candid Love Novel 26 n.d. complete, as The Loves of a Harlot Romantic Novel un n.d. revised, as Lily of New Orleans Intimate Novel 38 [1953] Lily of New Orleans see For Men Only Love Racket (Man and Wife, Kendall, 1933, abr) Prize Love Novel 28 n.d. The Loves of a Harlot see For Men Only
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Brown, Gerald series: Duke McCale Murder in Plain Sight [McCale] (Phoenix, 1945, abr) Black Cat Detective 20 1946 Murder on Beacon Hill [McCale] (Phoenix, 1941, abr) Hangman's House 7 n.d. Brown, Wenzell (1911-1981) US series: Peter Aswell Murder Seeks an Agent [Aswell] (original) Five Star Mystery 6 1945 Brucker, Margaretta (1883-1958) US Murder at Lover's Lake (Phoenix, 1943) Dagger House Mystery 20 {1946} Brush, Katharine, [née Ingham] (1902-1952) US Little Sins (Minton, Balch, 1927, rev) Avon Monthly Novel 12 1949 Night Club (coll, Minton, Balch, 1929, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 48 1949 Buchan, John (1875-1940) UK series: Dickson McCunn The Blanket of the Dark (Houghton Mifflin, 1931) Adventure Novel Classic 1 n.d. The House of the Four Winds [McCunn] (Houghton Mifflin, 1935, [abr]) Adventure Novel Classic 4 n.d. Buck, Pearl S[ydenstricken] (1892-1973) US East Wind: West Wind (Day, 1930) Mercury Book 19 (1939) The First Wife and other stories (coll, Stories of China, Day, 194-, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 23 1945 Bugbee, Emma (1888-1981) US series: Peggy Foster Peggy Covers the News [Foster] (Dodd, Mead, 1936, c/u) Comet Book 6 1948 Bull, Lois (1900-1971) Broadway Virgin (Macaulay, 1931, c/u) Diversey Popular Novel 1 1949 Hard-Boiled Mistress (Mating Woman, Macaulay, 1933, rev) [Magazine Village] 7 1948 (as by E. T. Keating on cover) Illicit Honeymoon (Seven Make a Honeymoon, Macaulay, 1935, rev) [Magazine Village] 6 1948 Burke, Richard (1886-1962) US series: Quinny Hite The Dead Take No Bows [Hite] (Houghton Mifflin, 1941) Croydon Mystery 9 {1946} Murder on High Heels (Gateway, 1940) Arrow 5 n.d. Burks, Arthur J. see ps Jon Hartt Burleson, Terry O. K. The Madam Who Blushed! (original) Rainbow 122 1952 Burnett, W[illiam] R[iley] (1899-1982) US High Sierra (Knopf, 1940) Murder Mystery Monthly 40 1946 Nobody Lives Forever (Knopf, 1943) Murder Mystery Monthly 33 1945 Burnett, Whit[ney] [Ewing] (1899-1973) US, see also anonymous anthologies editor 18 Great Stories of Today (anth, original) Avon Annual un 1944 Burton, Miles ps of Cecil John Charles Street, q.v. series: Inspector Arnold Who Killed the Doctor? [Arnold] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943) Mystery Novel Classic 85 n.d. Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) UK The Way of All Flesh ([UK], 1903) R o y a l Books 29 Cain, James M[allahan] (1892-1977) US Career in C Major and other stories (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 22 1945 Double Indemnity (from Three of a Kind, Knopf, 1943) Murder Mystery Monthly 16 1943 The Embezzler (from Three of a Kind, Knopf, 1943) Murder Mystery Monthly 20 1944 Jealous Woman (original) Avon Monthly Novel 17 1950 Love's Lovely Counterfeit (Knopf, 1942) Murder Mystery Monthly 44 1947 The Postman Always Rings Twice (Knopf, 1934) American Mercury Book 1 [1937] [same, (c/u)] Murder Mystery Monthly 6 1942 Sinful Woman (original) Avon Monthly Novel 1 1947 Cain, Paul ps of George Carrol Sims (1902-1966) US Fast One ([coll], Doubleday, Doran, 1932, c/u) Bonded 10 [1945] Seven Slayers (coll, original) Chartered 21 1946 Cairns, Cecily Murder Goes to Press (Macmillan, 1951, c/u) Mercury Mystery 170 [1952]
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Caldwall, John ps of Herman Irving Bloom, q.v. Midnight Sinners see Hard-Bolied by Harmon Bellamy Night of Passion (Bedmates by Harmon Bellamy, Godwin, 1934, rev) Quarter Book 40 1949 Caldwell, Erskine [Preston] (1903-1987) US, see also Jack Kirkland Georgia Boy and other stories (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 30 1946 22 Great Modern Stories (from Jackpot, coll, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 14 1944 Calin, Hal
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Carter, Nicholas, cont. by Richard [Edward] Wormser (1908-1977) US Death Has Green Eyes! [Carter] (mag, 1934) Vital Book (3) 1946 Empire of Crime(!) [Carter] (mag, 1933) Vital Book (1) 1945 Murder Unlimited(!) [Carter] (mag, 1934) Vital Book (2) 1945 Park Avenue Murder! [Carter] (mag, 1934) Vital Book (4) 1946 Carter, Ralph ps of William Arthur Neubauer, q.v. Blonde Venus (Phoenix, 1945, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. A Little Sin (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Night Club Angel (Night Club Lady, Phoenix, 1947, abr) Prize Love Novel 23 1949 Passion's Folly (original) Merit Book B-9 [1950] as Sin Island Croydon 105 1953 Pleasure Alley (original) Intimate Novel 20 1952 Shadows of Lust (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) Croydon 14 1949 She Lived in Sin see The Sins of Donna Kenyon Sin Island see Passion's Folly The Sins of Donna Kenyon (original) Stork 6 1950 as She Lived in Sin Gem Book 101 1952 [same] Croydon 101R 1954 Torrid Love (Strictly a Wolf, Phoenix, 1944, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Cartmill, Cleve see George Sanders Casanova [de Seingalt, Jacques] (1725-1798) Italian unknown translation The Memoirs of Casanova (NF, 18th century, 3 vols in one, "modernized") Universal Giant 10 Case, Robert Ormond (1895-1964) US/Canadian Big Timber (Macrae-Smith, 1937) Adventure Novel Classic 6 n.d. Casey, Robert J[oseph] (1890-1962) US series: Jim Sands Hot Ice [Sands] (Bobbs-Merrill, 1933, [abr]) Prize Mystery Novel 4 1943 The Third Owl [Sands] (Bobbs-Merrill, 1934) Prize Mystery Novel 9 1944 Caspary, Vera (1899-1987) US Laura (Houghton Mifflin, 1942, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B74 [1946] Stranger Than Truth (Random, 1946, abr) Readers-Choice Library 11 {1950} Cavanna, Betty
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Chambers, Whittaker, [né Jay Vivian Chambers] (1901-1961) US translator Class Reunion by Franz Werfel (Simon & Schuster, 1929) Mercury Book 29 (1940) Chambliss, John A. L. see house ps Nicholas Carter Chandler, Raymond [Thornton] (1888-1959) US/(UK) series: Philip Marlowe The Big Sleep [Marlowe] (Knopf, 1939, c/u) Murder Mystery Monthly 7 1942 (The) Finger Man and other stories (coll, original) Murder Mystery Monthly 43 1946 Five Murderers (coll, original) Murder Mystery Monthly 19 1944 Five Sinister Characters (coll, original) Murder Mystery Monthly 28 1945 Charles, Franklin joint ps of Cleve F. Adams, q.v. & Robert Leslie Bellem, q.v. The Vice Czar Murders (Funk, 1941) Mystery Novel of the Month 38 [ ] [same] [R.W.] un n.d. Charlson, David ps of David Charles Holmes (1919-2004) US Frenchie (original) Venus Book 145 1952 [same, revised] Carnival Book 917 1953 [same] Carnival Book 928 1954 [same] Carnival Book 944 (1956) Night Nurse (original) Venus Book 135 1951 [same] Venus Book 155 (1953) [same] Venus Book 174 (1954) [same] Venus Book 192 (1956) No Time for Marriage (original) Venus Book 119 1951 Private Nurse (original) Venus Book 163 1953 Charteris, Leslie, [né Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin] (1907-1993) UK/US series: Simon Templar, the Saint The Ace of Knaves [Saint] (coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1937) Murder Mystery Monthly 22 1944 Alias the Saint [Saint] (coll, from Wanted for Murder, Doubleday, Doran, 1931) Bonded 5 1945 The Brighter Buccaneer [Saint] (coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1933, [abr]) Chartered 26 [1946] Call for the Saint [Saint] (coll, Doubleday, 1948, c/u) Mercury Mystery 141 [1949] Featuring the Saint [Saint] (coll, from Wanted for Murder, Doubleday, Doran, 1931) Bonded 2 Lady on a Train (original, from movie) Bonded un 1945 The Last Hero (advertised as a Bonded Book but is not known to have been published) Paging the Saint [Saint] (coll, from Wanted for Murder, Doubleday, Doran, 1931) Bonded 7 1945 The Saint in Miami [Saint] (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, [abr]) Thriller Novel Classic 16 n.d. The Saint Meets His Match [Saint] (Sun Dial, 1941) Bonded 14 The Saint Meets the Tiger [Saint] (Meet--the Tiger!, Doubleday, Doran, 1929) Bonded 1 [1945] The Saint vs. Scotland Yard [Saint] (coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1932) Murder Mystery Monthly 32 1945 The Saint's Getaway [Saint] (Sun Dial, 1943) Bonded 3 editor The Saint's Choice of Hollywood Crime (anth, original) Chartered 17 1946 The Saint's Choice of Humorous Crime (anth, original) Bonded 9 1945 The Saint's Choice of Impossible Crime (anth, original) Bonded 11 1945 The Saint's Choice of Radio Thrillers (anth, original) Chartered 27 1946 The Saint's Choice of True Crime Stories (anth, original) Bonded 8 1945 The Saint's Choice Volume One: English Crime (anth, original) Bonded 4 1945 The Saint's Choice Volume Two: American Crime (anth, original) Bonded 6 1945 Chase, Borden ps of Frank G. Fowler (1900-1971) US Diamonds of Death (mag, 1937) Hart Book K-2 n.d. Chase, James Hadley ps of René [Brabazon] Raymond (1906-1985) UK series: Dave Fenner I'll Get You for This (Jarrolds [UK], 1946, c/u) Avon Monthly Novel 18 1951 12 Chinks and a Woman [Fenner] (Howell, Soskin, 1941, rev) Avon Monthly Novel 7 1948 The Villain and the Virgin [Fenner] (No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Howell, Soskin, 1942, rev) Avon Monthly Novel 4 1948 Cheyney, [Reginald] Evelyn] Peter [Southouse] (1896-1951) UK series: Slim Callaghan, Ernie Guelvada The Counter Spy Murders [Guelvada] (Dark Duet, coll, Dodd, Mead, 1943) Murder Mystery Monthly 21 1944 Farewell to the Admiral [Callaghan] (Dodd, Mead, 1943) Murder Mystery Monthly 30 1945 Premeditated Murder (A Trap for Bellamy, Dodd, Mead, 1941) Murder Mystery Monthly 15 1943 They Never Say When(!) [Callaghan] (Dodd, Mead, 1945) Murder Mystery Monthly 36 1946
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Chidsey, Donald Barr (1902-1981) US Weeping Is for Women (Knopf, 1936) Mercury Book 6 [1938] Childerness, George series: Chet Phelps Murder in False Face [Phelps] (Phoenix, 1943, abr) Hangman's House 3 n.d. Too Many Murderers [Phelps] (Phoenix, 1944, abr) Green Dragon 11 n.d. Christian, Kit joint ps of Delos Russell Thorson (1906- 1982) & Sarah Winfree Thorson (1906-1992) Death and Bitters (Dutton, 1943) Detective Novel Classic 36 n.d. Christie, Agatha [Mary] [Clarissa], [née Miller], [mariée Mallowan] (1890-1976) UK series: Supt. Battle, Tommy & Tuppence Beresford, Jane Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker P y n e , Harley Quin Appointment with Death [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1938) Bestseller Mystery B58 [1944] The Boomerang Clue (Dodd, Mead, 1935, abr) Bestseller Mystery B39 [1943] Cards on the Table [Battle, Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1937) Mercury Mystery 53 [1942] Dead Man's Mirror [Poirot] (from [same], Dodd, Mead, 1937) Bestseller Mystery 18 [1941] Death in the Air [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1935, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J10 [1944] Death on the Nile [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1938, abr) Mercury Mystery 66 1943 The Incredible Theft [Poirot] (coll, from Dead Man's Mirror, Dodd, Mead, 1937, abr) Mercury Mystery 46 [1941] The Man in the Brown Suit (Dodd, Mead, 1924, abr) Bestseller Mystery B52 [1944] Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective [P y n e ] (coll, Dodd, Mead, 1934, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B79 [1946] The Moving Finger [Marple] (Dodd, Mead, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 84 [1945] Murder at Hazelmoor (Dodd, Mead, 1931) Bestseller Mystery B61 [1945] The Murder at the Vicarage [Marple] (Dodd, Mead, 1930) Mercury Mystery 43 [1941] Murder for Christmas [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1939, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J7 (1943) Murder in Mesopotamia [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1936, abr) Mercury Mystery 50 [1942] Murder in Retrospect [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1942, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J16 [1945] Murder in the Calais Coach [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1934, abr) Bestseller Mystery B86 [1947] Murder in 3 Acts [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1934, abr) Bestseller Mystery B21 [1941] Murder on the Links [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1923, abr) Mercury Mystery 100 [1946] The Mysterious Affair at Styles [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1927) Murder Mystery Monthly 26 1944 The Mysterious Mr. Quin [Quin] (coll, Dodd, Mead, 1930, abr) Bestseller Library 9 [1940] N or M? [Beresford] (Dodd, Mead, 1941, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J13 [1944] Partners in Crime [Beresford] (coll, Dodd, Mead, 1929, abr) Bestseller Mystery B25 [1942] Poirot Investigates [Poirot] (coll, Dodd, Mead, 1925, abr) Bestseller Mystery B43 (1943) Poirot Loses a Client [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1937) Mercury Mystery 41 [1941] The Regatta Mystery (coll, Dodd, Mead, 1939, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B36 [1943] Sad Cypress [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1940, abr) Bestseller Mystery B54 [1944] The Secret Adversary [Beresford] (Dodd, Mead, 1922, abr) Bestseller Mystery B48 [1944] The Secret of Chimneys [Battle] (Dodd, Mead, 1925, abr) Mercury M y s t e r y 69 (1943) The Seven Dials Mystery [Battle] (Dodd, Mead, 1929, abr) Bestseller Mystery B32 [1942] Thirteen at Dinner [Poirot] (Dodd, Mead, 1933, abr) Mercury Mystery 59 [1942] Church, Granville ps of Granville Church People US Wings over Panama (Bombs Burst Once, Mill, 1941) Adventure Novel Classic 8 [1943] Clark, Dale ps of Ronal Kayser (1905-1988) US The Blonde, the Gangster and the Private Eye (The Red Rods, Messner, 1946, c/u) Murder Mystery Monthly 47 1949 Clark, Dorine B. Bachelor Girl (original) Intimate Novel 54 1954 Gutter Star (original) Intimate Novel 52 1954 [same] Stallion Book 210 n.d. Clark, Philip (1907- ) US The Dark River (Simon & Schuster, 1949, abr) Bestseller Mystery B119 [1950] Clarke, Arthur C[harles] (1917-2008) UK Prelude to Space (original) Galaxy SF Novel 3 1951 Clarke, Donald Henderson (1887-1958) US series: Millie Maitland A Lady Named Lou (Vanguard, 1941, c/u) Avon Special un [ ] Millie [Maitland] (Vanguard, 1930, c/u) Avon Bedside Novel 7 [ ] Millie's Daughter [Maitland] (Vanguard, 1939, rev) Avon Monthly Novel 16 1950 The Regenerate Lover (Young and Healthy, Vanguard, 1931) Avon Monthly Novel 3 1948
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Clason, Clyde B[urt] (1903-1987) US series: Theocritus Westborough The Purple Parrot [Westborough] (Doubleday, Doran, 1937) Pennant Mystery 4 n.d. Clay, Manning ps of Morton Cooper Feinberg, q.v. Wild Body (original) Uni-Book 53 1953 Clay, Matthew ps of Morton Cooper Feinberg, q.v. French Alley (original) Original Novel 746 1954 [same] Star Novel 752 1956 Slum Doctor (original) Cameo Book 343 1954 [same] Cameo Book 352 n.d. Clay, Weston ps of T. W. Ford, q.v. The Horseshoe Kid (Phoenix, 1948) Gunfire Western Novel 29 n.d. Clayford, James house pseudonym by Norman A. Daniels, q.v. Wanton by Night (original) Ecstasy Novel 15 1951 by Davis Dresser, q.v. Tonight for Sure (Strange Bedmates by Elliot Storm, Godwin, 1935, rev) Exotic Novel 14 1951 by Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q.v. Careless! (The Earth His Mistress by Joan Sherman, Godwin, 1935, rev) Quarter Book 32 1949 Careless Virgin (Harlot's Return by Joan Sherman, Godwin, 1937, c/u) [Astro] 17 1948 [same] Quarter Book 61 1950 Divorce Bait! see Take My Love! by Peggy Gaddis Illicit Wife (Respectable? by Joan Sherman, Godwin, 1936, c/u) [Astro] 15 1948 [same] Quarter Book 69 1950 Lure for Love (Nine O'Clock Parade by Peggy Gaddis, Hillman-Curl, 1937, rev) Quarter Book 28 1949 Marriage Can Wait (Eve in the Garden by Peggy Gaddis, Godwin, 1935) Quarter Book 30 1949 [same] Quarter Book 68 1950 Part-Time Virgin see Girl with No Past by Peggy Gaddis Respectable Harlot (Unfaithful? by Peggy Gaddis, Godwin, 1934, rev) Quarter Book 26 1949 [same] Quarter Book 72 1950 Sinful! (Love Runs Away by Peggy Gaddis, Hillman-Curl, 1937, rev) Quarter Book 27 1949 Wedding Night Confession (Wedding Night by Peggy Gaddis, Godwin, 1934, rev) [Astro] 16 1948 [same] Quarter Book 55 1950 Week-End Girl (Lovers No More b y J oan Sherman, Godwin, 1934, rev) [Astro] 2 1948 as Beach Party by Peggy Gaddis Venus Book 104 1950 by James Noble Gifford, q.v. Bed-Time Girl (Torch Song by Gerald Foster, Swift, 1942, rev) Quarter Book 19 1948 [same] Quarter Book 64 1950 Strange Mistress (Ordinary Girl by Gerald Foster, Godwin, 1936, rev) [Astro] 18 1948 by William Arthur Neubauer. q.v. Reckless! (original) Venus Book 113 1951 by Albert L. Quandt, q.v. The Private Life of a Street Girl (original) Ecstasy Novel May 1950 revised, as Street Girl by Albert L. Quandt Quarter Book 91 1951 by Arthur Wallace, unidentified pseudonym Man Crazy (Passion Pulls the Trigger by Arthur Wallace, Valhalla Press, 1936, rev) Exotic Novel 15 1951 Clemens, Nancy ps of Nancy Nance with Vance Randolph The Camp-Meeting Murders (Vanguard, 1936, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 15 1945 Clement, Hal ps of Harry Clement Stubbs (1922-2003) US series: Barlennan Mission of Gravity [Barlennan] (Doubleday, 1954, [abr]) Galaxy SF Novel 33 1958 Needle (forecast as Galaxy SF Novel # 3 but not published, see Arthur C. Clarke) Clift, Denison [Halley] (1885-1961) US The Spy in the Room (Mystery House, 1944) [Metro] 8 n.d. Clifton, Mark [Irvin] (1906-1963) US with Frank Riley series: Joe Carter The Forever Machine [Carter] (They'd Rather Be Right, Gnome, 1957) Galaxy SF Novel 35 1958 Cobb, Humphrey (1899-1944) US Paths of Glory (Viking, 1935, c/u) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 11 1953
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Coburn, Walt[er] [John] (1889-1971) US The Way of a Texan (original) Star Book 41 1953 Coffin, Carlyn [G.] (1905-1994) Dogwatch (Farrar & Rinehart, 1944, abr) Croydon Mystery 10 1946 Cohen, Octavus Roy (1891-1959) US series: Jim Hanvey The Backstage Mystery [Hanvey] (Appleton, 1930, [abr]) [Green] 14 n.d. Colahan, Charles E[dward] [Elliot] (1906- ) Overnight Blonde by Charles E. Colohan (Big Blonde, Godwin, 1935, rev) Quarter Book 50 1949 Virgin No More by Charles E. Colohan (Accidental Husband , Godwin, 1934) Quarter Book 53 1949 Cole, Jerry ps of Harold S. Kahm US Secrets of a Society Doctor ([Passion Expert by Harold S. Kahm], Greenberg, 1935) Intimate Novel 5 Coleman, Mitchell ps of William Arthur Neubauer, q.v. Affairs of a Career Girl see Fast, Loose and Lovely by Norman Bligh Affairs of a Ward Nurse see Born to be Bad by Norman Bligh Male Ward (original) Venus Book 170 1954 Man-Hungry see Fast, Loose and Lovely by Norman Bligh Ward Nurse see Born to Be Bad by Norman Bligh Coles, Manning joint ps of A[delaide] F[rances] O[ke] Manning (1891-1959) UK & Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965) UK series: Tommy Hambledon All That Glitters [Hambledon] (Doubleday, 1954, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J74 [1955] (as by Frank Kane on spine) The Basle Express [Hambledon] (Doubleday, 1956, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J93 (1957) Dangerous by Nature [Hambledon] (Doubleday, 1950, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J57 [1952] Let the Tiger Die [Hambledon] (Doubleday, 1947, abr) Mercury Mystery 126 [1948] The Man in the Green Hat [Hambledon] (Doubleday, 1955, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J90 [1956] Not Negotiable [Hambledon] (Doubleday, 1949, c/u) Mercury Mystery 144 [1950] Now or Never [Hambledon] (Doubleday, 1951, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J62 [1953] Operation Manhunt [Hambledon] (Alias Uncle Hugo, Doubleday, 1952, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J68 [1954] A Toast to Tomorrow [Hambledon] (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 63 [1943] With Intent to Deceive [Hambledon] (Doubleday, 1947, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J39 [1949] Collins, A[ndrew] J. The Tin Ear (original) Merit Book B-16 1952 Collison, Wilson (1893-1941) US Blonde Baby (McBride, 1931, c/u) Broadway Novel Monthly 8 1949 One Night with Nancy (Macaulay, 1933, c/u) Love Book Monthly 2 1948 [same] Avon Monthly Novel 19 [ ] Colohan, Charles E. error, see Charles E. Colahan Colt, Clem ps of Nelson Nye, q.v. series: P o n y George Coyote Song (Curl, 1947) Fighting Western Novel 9 n.d. Gun-Smoke [George] (Greenberg, 1938) Readers-Choice Library 29 Colter, Eli[zabeth] (1911- ) US series: Patrick Campbell The Gull Cove Murders [Campbell] (Mill, 1944, abr) Detective Novel Classic 41 n.d. Poison Springs (Curl, 1947) Western Novel Classic 107 n.d. Colton, Mel ps of Hal Braham (1910-1993) The Big Woman (original) Rainbow 127 1953 Considine, Bob
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Ranger Two-Rifles (Dutton, 1937) Western Novel of the Month 12 n.d. The Trail of Gold (Dutton, 1937) Century 24 n.d. Wolf's Candle (Dutton, 1935) Prize Western Novel 23 1947 Cooper, Morton ps of Morton Cooper Feinberg, q.v. French Maid (original) Cameo Book 339 1954 [same] Cameo Book 351 Coppel, Alec (1907-1972) Australian Over the Line (Doubleday, 1947) Mystery Novel Classic 95 n.d. Corcoran, William [B.] (1901- ) US Blow, Desert Winds (Appleton-Century, 1935) Western Novel Classic 109 (1951) Corne, M[olly] E. (1907-1954) US series: Mac MacIntyre Death Hides a Mask [MacIntyre] (Death at the Manor, Mill, 1938, [abr]) Arrow 10 n.d. Death Is No Lady [MacIntyre] (Death at a Masquerade, Mill, 1938, c/u) Black Knight Mystery 26 n.d. Jealousy Pulls the Trigger [MacIntyre] (A Magnet for Murder, Mill, 1939) Double Action Detective 3 1943 Coward, Noel [Pierce] (1899-1973) UK To Step Aside (coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1939, c/u) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 3 1943 Coxe, George Harmon (1901-1984) US series: Flash Casey, Kent Murdoch Flash Casey - Detective [Casey] (coll, original) Murder Mystery Monthly 39 1946 The Glass Triangle [Murdoch] (Knopf, 1940, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J30 [1947] Craig, Georgiana Ann Randolph (1908-1957) US see pss Craig Rice, Michael Venning; see also George Sanders Craig, Jonathan ps of Frank E. Smith (1919-1984) US “Junkie!” (original) Falcon Book 36 1952 Red-Headed Sinners (original) Croydon 47 1953 Craig, William J. The Outlaw Brand (Gateway, 1940) Western Novel Classic 87 n.d. Crampton, Gertrude (1909- ) Your Own Joke Book (coll, original) Comet Book 8 1948 Your Own Party Book (NF,original) Comet Book 23 1949 Crane, Robert ps of Frank Chester Robertson, q.v. Stormy Range (Godwin, 1936) Western Novel of the Month 20 n.d. Wild Blood (Godwin, 1935) Western Novel Classic 25 [1943] Creasey, John (1908-1973) UK, see pss William K. Reilly, Tex Riley Creed, Will ps of William Long, q.v. Death Comes Grinning (original) Five Star Mystery 47 1946 Death Wears a Green Hat (original) Five Star Mystery 42 1946 Crispin, Edmund ps of Robert Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) UK series: Gervase Fen Buried for Pleasure [Fen] (Lippincott, 1949, abr) Bestseller Mystery B187 [1955] A Noose for Her [Fen] (The Long Divorce, Dodd, Mead, 1951, abr) Mercury M y s t e r y 174 [1952] Sudden Vengeance [Fen] (Dodd, Mead, 1950, abr) Mercury Mystery 159 [1951] Crombie, Michael ps of James Ronald, q.v. The Frightened Girl (Mystery House, 1941) Prize Mystery Novel 11 1944 Crosby, Lee ps of Ware Torrey Budlong (1905-1967) series: Eric Hazard Doors to Death [Hazard] (Too Many Doors, Dutton, 1941, abr) Thriller Novel Classic 25 n.d. Midsummer Night's Murder (Dutton, 1942, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1945 Night Attack (Dutton, 1943) Thriller Novel Classic 20 n.d. Terror by Night [Hazard] (Dutton, 1938) Thriller Novel Classic 15 n.d. Crossen, Ken[dell] [Foster] (1910-1981) US see also pss Bennett Barlay, M. E. Chaber, Richard Foster series: Necessary Smith The Case of the Curious Heel [Smith ] (mag, 1943) Eerie Series 1 1944 (as by Crosson on title page) The Case of the Phantom Fingerprints [Smith ] (original) Vulcan Mystery 5 1945 Murder out of Mind (original) Five Star Mystery 2 1945
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Crowell, Will Murder in Mocking Valley (mag, 1943) Eerie Series 2 1945 Csida, Joe
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Daly, Hamlin ps of E[dgar] Hoffmann [Trooper] Price (1898-1988) US series: John Carmody The Case of the Cancelled Redhead [Carmody] (original) Falcon Book 25 1952 Daniels, Norman A., [né Danberg] (1906-1995) US see also pss Norma Dann, Mark Reed, David Wade; hps James Clayford Bedroom in Hell! (original) Rainbow 117 1952 The Mausoleum Key (Gateway, 1942) Green Dragon 2 n.d. Mistress on a Deathbed! (original) Falcon Book 29 1952 Sweet Savage (original) Falcon Book 38 1952 Dann, Norma ps of Norman A. Daniels, q.v. Lida Lynn (original) Falcon Book 27 1952 Shack Girl (original) Falcon Book 34 1952 The Twist! (original) Rainbow 128 1953 Dannett, Sylvia G[wendolyn] [née] L[iebowitz] (1909-1995) US with Edwin Bennett Defy the Tempest (Messner, 1944) Thriller Novel Classic 36 n.d. Darby, J. N. ps of Christine Noble Govan, q.v. Murder in the House with the Blue Eyes (Bobbs-Merrill, 1939, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 David, William ps of Arnold Sroog, q.v. Army Mistress (original) Croydon 31 1953 as The Lonely Soldiers Croydon 80 1954 The Lonely Soldiers see Army Mistress Davids, William ps of Arnold Sroog, q.v. Bad Girls' Club see Dead End Gal Dead-End Gal (original) Croydon 29 1953 as Bad Girls' Club Croydon 71 1954 Davis, Frederick C[lyde] (1902-1977) US, see also ps Stephen Ransome series: Cyrus Hatch, Luke Speare Another Morgue Heard From [Speare] (Doubleday, 1954, abr) Bestseller Mystery B192 [1956] Deep Lay the Dead (Doubleday, Doran, 1942, abr) Thriller Novel Classic 26 n.d Let the Skeletons Rattle [Hatch] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 78 n.d. Davis, Julia (1900-1993) US No Other White Men (Dutton, 1937, c/u) Comet Book 30 1949 Davis, Lavinia [née] R[iker] (1909-1961) US Hobby Horse Hill (Doubleday, Doran, 1939, c/u) Comet Book 22 1949 Davis, Mildred [B.] (1923- ) US They Buried a Man (Simon & Schuster, 1953) Mercury Mystery 204 [1955] Davis, Norbert see ps Harrison Hunt de Camp, L[ y o n ] Sprague (1907-2000) US Lest Darkness Fall (Holt, 1941, [abr]) Galaxy Novel 24 [1955] de Forest, Barry ps of Albert L. Quandt, q.v. Seventh Wife (Odds on Passion, Phoenix, 1950, c/u) Intimate Novel 12 n.d. de Lange, Anneke ps of Esther Chase Farm Girl (Anna Luhanna, Greenberg, 1946, abr) Readers-Choice Library 31 n.d. De Mexico, N. R. ps of Robert Campbell Bragg (1918-1955) Madman on a Drum (original) Cavalcade un 1944 as Strange Pursuit Suspense Novel 1 1951 Marijuana Girl (original) Uni-Book 19 1951 [same] Stallion Book 204 n.d. Private Chauffeur (original) Intimate Novel 15 Strange Pursuit see Madman on a Drum De Rosso, H[erbert] A[ndrew] (1917-1960) US Tracks in the Sand (original) Readers-Choice Library 40 1951 Dean, Amber (1902-1985) US series: Abbie Harris The Blonde Is Dead [Harris] (Call me Pandora, Doubleday, 1946) Mystery Novel Classic 89 n.d. Dead Man's Float [Harris] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944) Mystery Novel Classic 81 n.d. Dean, Benjamin Hawkins (1892-1955) US See pss Schuyler Broocks, Dean Hawkins Dean, Elsie ps of E. D. McCormick Concubine (original) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 7 1953
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Dean, Gregory ps of Jacob D. Posner (1883- ) series: Benjamin Simon Murder on Stilts [Simon] (Hillman-Curl, 1939) Detective Novel Classic 17 n.d. Dean, Spencer ps of Prentiss Winchell, q.v. series: Don Cadee The Smell of Fear [Cadee] (The Scent of Fear, Washburn, 1954, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J88 [1956] Deane, Elizabeth Doris - Broadway Virgin (Easily Persuaded, Liveright, 1929, rev) Ecstasy Novel 14 1951 Debrett, Hal ps of Davis Dresser, q.v. & Kathleen Rollins A Lonely Way to Die (Dodd, Mead, 1950, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B134 [1951] Defoe, Daniel, [né Foe] ( -1731) UK Roxana ([UK], 1724, c&u) Royal Books 24 (1953) Dekobra, Maurice ps of Ernst Maurice Tessier (1885-1973) French translator unknown Venus on Wheels (Macaulay, 1930, c/u) Broadway Novel Monthly 2 1949 translated by Maverick Terrell Bedroom Eyes (Macaulay, 1935, c/u) Love Book Monthly 1 1948 [same] Avon Bedside Novel 4 [ ] Dell, Amen ps of Irving Mendell (1904-1979) US Johnny on the Spot (Mystery House, 1943, abr) Green Dragon 3 n.d. Dell, Floyd (1887-1969) US Love in Greenwich Village (coll, Doran, 1926, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 47 1949 Demarest, Ann[e] ps of Florence Demarest [Foos] Bond Murder on Every Floor (Hillman-Curl, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month 39 [ ] Deming, Kirk ps of Harry Sinclair Drago, q.v. Colt Lightnin' (Macaulay, 1938) Western Novel Classic 102 n.d. Grass Means Fight (Macaulay, 1938, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 38 n.d. Deming, Richard (1915-1983) US, see also ps Max Franklin series: Manny Moon Give the Girl a Gun [Moon] (Whistle Past the Graveyard, Rinehart, 1954, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J83 [1955] Hand-Picked to Die [Moon] (Tweak the Devil's Nose, Rinehart, 1953, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J91 [1956] Denniston, Elinore (1900-1978) US see pss Dennis Allan, Rae Foley Dent, Lester (1904-1959) US series: Chance Molloy Dead at the Take-Off [Molloy] (Doubleday, 1946, abr) Bestseller Mystery B96 [1948] Lady Afraid (Doubleday, 1948, abr) Bestseller Mystery B115 [1949] Lady to Kill [Molloy] (Doubleday, 1946, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B101 [1948] . Dern, Erolie Pearl [née] Gaddis (1895-1966) US see pss Peggy Dern, Sylvia Erskine, Peggy Gaddis, Gail Jordan, Perry Lindsay, Joan Sherman, Joan Tucker, John Tucker; hpss James Clayford, Luther Gordon; see also Gerald Foster. Dern, Peggy ps of Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q.v. Help Yourself to Love (Arcadia, 1941) Avon Romance Novel Monthly 3 {1950} DeWitt, Jack (1900-1981) Murder on Shark Island (Liveright, 1941) [Spotlight] 3 n.d. Diamond, Maurice P. see anonymous anthologies Dickenson, Fred (1909-1986) Kill 'Em with Kindness (Bell, 1950) Bestseller Mystery B131 [1951] Dickson, Carr pseudonym, see Carter Dickson Dickson, Carter ps of John Dickson Carr, q.v. series: Henry Merrivale The Bowstring Murders (as by Carr Dickson, Morrow, 1933, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J4 [1943] Death in Five Boxes [Merrivale] Morrow, 1938, abr) Bestseller Mystery B45 [1943] The Department of Queer Complaints (coll, Morrow, 1940, [abr]) Bestseller Mystery B34 [1942] The Plague Court Murders [Merrivale] (Morrow, 1934, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J19 [1945] The Red Widow Murders [Merrivale] (Morrow, 1935, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J11 [1944] The Unicorn Murders [Merrivale] (Morrow, 1935) Mercury M y s t e r y 52 [1942] The White Priory Murders [Merrivale] (Morrow, 1934, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J14 [1945] Dinneen, Joseph F[rancis] (1897-1964) US The Merry-Go-Round of Murder (mag, 1935) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1939
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Disney, Doris [née] Miles (1907-1976) US series: Jeff DiMarco A Compound for Death (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Bestseller Mystery B65 [1945] Dark Road [DiMarco] (Doubleday, 1946, abr) Mercury Mystery 114 [1947] Death for My Beloved (Enduring Old Charms, Doubleday, 1947, abr) Bestseller Mystery B111 [1949] Family Skeleton [DiMarco] (Doubleday, 1949) Mystery Novel Classic 98 n.d. Disney, Dorothy Cameron (1903-1992) US Death in the Back Seat (Random, 1936, abr) Mercury Mystery 71 [1943] The Golden Swan Murder (Random, 1939, abr) Mercury Mystery 54 [1942] Strawstack (Random, 1939) American Mercury Book 34 (1940) with Perry, George Sessions Thirty Days Hath September (Random, 1942, abr) Bestseller Mystery B53 [1944] Dittler, Edgar Leon see ps Edward Reltid Dixon, Lewis ps of Day Keene, q.v. Wild Girl (original) Cameo Book 323 1952 [same] Cameo Book 335 (1953) [same] Cameo Book 369 (1957) Dodge, David [Francis] (1910- 1974) US series: Al Colby The Long Escape [Colby] (Random, 1948, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J95 [1957] Dolph, Jack (1894-1962) US series: Doc Connor Hot Tip [Connor] (Doubleday, 1951, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B142 [1952] Donavan, John ps of Nigel Morland, q.v. series: Johnny Lamb The Case of the Beckoning Dead [Lamb] (Hillman-Curl, 1938) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1939 The Case of the Rusted Room [Lamb] (Hillman-Curl, 1937, c/u) Detective Novel Classic 7 n.d. Douglas, Dayle ps of Ewart Adamson (1882-1945) UK Haunted Harbor (Mystery House, 1943) Eerie Series 9 1945 Douglas, Ralph ps of Doug Duperrault, q.v. Beach Party (original) Cameo Book 319 1952 revised, as Boy Madness Carnival Book 932 [1954] [same] Carnival Book 941 Boy Madness see Beach Party Drago, Harry Sinclair (1888-1979) US see also pss Kirk Deming, Will Ermine, Bliss Lomax Buckskin Empire (Doubleday, Doran, 1942) Century 57 n.d. Desert Water (by Sinclair Drago, Macaulay, 1933) Gunfire Western Novel 32 n.d. Guardians of the Sage (by Sinclair Drago, Macaulay, 1932, c/u) Thrilling Novel 31 n.d. Smoke of the .45 (Macaulay, 1923, abr) Prize Western Novel 30 1949 Stagecoach Kingdom (Doubleday, Doran, 1943) Adventure Novel Classic 33 n.d. Trigger Gospel (by Sinclair Drago, Macaulay, 1935, c/u) Thrilling Novel 21 n.d. Drake, H[enry] B[urgess] (1894-1963) UK Slave Ship (The Captain of the Jehovah, Greenberg, 1936) Uni-Book 35 Drennan, Raymond (1900-1967) You'll Die Now! (original) [Toby Press] un 1953 Dresser, Davis (1904-1977) US see pss Asa Baker, Kathryn Culver, Hal Debrett, Brett Halliday, Anthony Scott; hpss James Clayford, Luther Gordon Du Bois, Theodora [McCormick] (1890-1986) US series: Jeffrey & Anne McNeill Death Dines Out [McNeill] (Houghton Mifflin, 1939, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 26 1947 Murder Strikes an Atomic Unit [McNeill] (Doubleday, 1946) Mystery Novel Classic 96 n.d. Rogue's Coat (Doubleday, 1949) Mercury Mystery 146 [1950] Du Bois, William (1903-1997) series: Jack Jordan The Case of the Haunted Brides [Jordan] (Little, Brown, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 75 [1944] du Maurier, Daphne (1907-1989) UK Jamaica Inn (Doubleday, Doran, 1936, [abr]) Mercury Book 28 (1940) The Loving Spirit (Doubleday, Doran, 1931, [abr]) Mercury Book 18 (1939) Duncan, David (1913-1999) US Sweet and Deadly (The Bramble Bush, Macmillan, 1948, abr) Mercury Mystery 134 [1949]
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Duperrault, [R.] Doug[las] (1928-2005) US, see also ps Ralph Douglas Confessions of a Dime-a-Dance Queen (original) Ecstasy Novel Nov 1950 [same, [rev]) Quarter Book 96 1951 Gang Mistress (original) Croydon 34 1953 as Wayward Girl Croydon 84 1954 Passionate Pick-Up by Doug Dupperault (original) Quarter Book 65 1950 Red-Light Babe (original) Quarter Book 77 1950 Sins of an Aspiring Actress see Spotlight on Sin Soldier's Sinner (original) Croydon 50 1953 Spotlight on Sin (original) Croydon 25 1952 as Sins of an Aspiring Actress Croydon 108 1954 Trailer-Camp Girl (original) Intimate Novel 46 1953 [same] Stallion Book 211 n.d. Wayward Girl see Gang Mistress Eagan, Alberta Stedman They Call It Sin (Macaulay, 1932, abr) Readers-Choice Library 37 East, Fred (1895- ) see pss Roy Manning, Tom West Eberhard, Florence (1898- ) [abridged by Madge Bindemin] It's Love I'm After (Dodge, 1937, abr) Golden Willow 56 1946 Eberhardt, Walter F. ( -1935) A Dagger in the Dark (Morrow, 1932) [Green] 11 n.d. Eberhart, Mignon G[ood] (1899-1996) US The Dark Garden (Doubleday, Doran, 1933, abr) Bestseller Mystery B49 [1944] Fair Warning (Doubleday, Doran, 1935) Century 19 n.d. [same, [abr] ] Mystery Novel Classic 47 1943 The Glass Slipper (Doubleday, Doran, 1938) Century 35 n.d. [same, [abr] ] Mystery Novel Classic 56 n.d. The Hangman's Whp (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Bestseller Mystery B60 [1945] Hasty Wedding (Doubleday, Doran, 1938, abr) Mercury Mystery 51 [1942] The Pattern (Doubleday, Doran, 1937, abr) Bestseller Mystery B55 [1944] The White Cockatoo (Doubleday, Doran, 1933, abr) Mercury Mystery 88 [1945] Eby, Lois [Christine] (1908-1998) US with John C. Fleming The Case of the Wicked Twin (The Case of the Malevolent Twin, Dutton, 1946, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 88 n.d. Echols, Allan K[rech] Barb Wire Showdown (Keep off My Ranch, Foulsham [UK], 1949, c/u) Readers-Choice Library 10 1950 The Stranger from Texas (Foulsham [UK], 1949, c/u) Readers-Choice Library 5 1950 Edgley, Leslie (1912-2002) US see also ps Robert Bloomfield The Angry Heart (Doubleday, 1947, abr) Bestseller Mystery B109 [1949] Fear No More (Simon & Schuster, 1946, abr) Bestseller Mystery B104 [1948] One Blonde Died (The Runaway Pigeon, Doubleday, 1953, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B171 [1954] Eichler, Alfred (1908-1995) US series: Martin Ames Murder in the Radio Department [Ames] (Gold Label, 1943) Eerie Series 5 1944 Eisinger, Jo[seph] (1909-1991) The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Coward-McCann, 1943, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 24 [ ] Elliott, Bruce [Walter] [Gardner] [Lively] [Stacy] (1914-1973) US You'll Die Laughing (original) Five Star Mystery 3 1945 Elston, Allan (Vaughan) (1887-1976) US Come Out and Fight (Doubleday, Doran, 1941) Western Novel Classic 78 n.d. with Maurice Beam Murder by Mandate (mag, 1943) Diamond Library un 1945 Ermine, Will ps of Harry Sinclair Drago, q.v. Barbed-Wire Empire (Green Circle, 1937, abr) Western Novel Classic 100 n.d. The Drifting Kid (Doubleday, 1947, abr) Fighting Western Novel 25 n.d. Lawless Legion (Macaulay, 1938, abr) Western Novel Classic 106 n.d. Prairie Smoke (Green Circle, 1936) Fighting Western Novel 21 n.d. Trail Trouble (Green Circle, 1938) Black Cat Western 36 1949 Wind River Outlaw (Green Circle, 1936, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 40 n.d.
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Ernenwein, Leslie [Charles] (1900-1961) US Gunsmoke Galoot (Phoenix, 1941) Western Novel Classic 90 n.d. Kincaid of Red Butte (Phoenix, 1942) Fighting Western Novel 15 n.d. Erskine, Margaret ps of Margaret Wetherby Williams (1901-1984) UK series: Septimus Finch Give up the Ghost [Finch] (Doubleday, 1949, abr) Mercury Mystery 163 [1951] Erskine, Sylvia ps of Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q.v. Farm Hussy see Men Call Her "Tramp" by Joan Sherman A Lover for Anne see Men Call Her "Tramp" by Joan Sherman Nurses' Quarters (original) Cameo Book 332 1953 [same] Cameo Book 347 [same] Cameo Book 356 (1956) Young Nurse (original) Cameo Book 324 1952 [same] Cameo Book 340 (1954) [same] Cameo Book 358 (1956) Ervin, Mari If I Die - It's Murder (Death in the Yew Alley, Phoenix, 1937) Green Dragon 24 n.d. Eshleman, John M[orton], [Jr.] (1914-1999) US series: Larry Koharik The Deadly Chase [Koharik] (The Long Chase, Washburn, 1954, c/u) Mercury Mystery 201 [1954] Death of a Cheat [Koharik] (The Long Window, Washburn, 1953, c/u) Mercury Mystery 206 [1955] Estes, Carroll Cox (1908-1995) Embrace of Death (The Moon Gate, Doubleday, 1954, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B183 [1955] Evans, Clyde see anonymous anthologies Evans, Evan ps of Frederick Schiller Faust, q.v. series: The Montana Kid Montana Rides! [Montana] (Harper, 1933) Adventure Novel Classic 26 n.d. Montana Rides Again [Montana] (Harper, 1934) Adventure Novel Classic 32 n.d. Song of the Whip [Montana] (Harper, 1936, abr) Adventure Novel Classic 36 n.d. Evens, Hodge ps of Dudley Dean McGaughy (1909-1986) US Her Candle Burns Hot! (original) Rainbow 109 1951 Three for Passion (original) Falcon Book 24 1952 Whip-Hand! (original) Falcon Book 40 1952 Yellow Head (original) Falcon Book 33 1952 (as Yellow-Head! on cover) Fairlie, [Francis] Gerard [Luis] (1899-1983) UK series: Bulldog Drummond Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor [Drummond] Hillman-Curl, 1939, c/u) Thriller Novel Classic 2 n.d. (based on a story by Sapper, ps of H[erman] C[yril] McNeile, q.v.) Farjeon, J. Jefferson Death in the Inkwell (forecast as an Atlas Mystery but not published) Farr, John ps of Jack
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Murder Needs a Name [Nelson] (Doubleday, Doran, 1942, abr) Bonded Mystery 9 n.d. Too Lovely to Live [Nelson] (Miscast for Murder, Doubleday, 1954, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B185 [1955] Fenwick, E[lizabeth] P. (1920- ) Murder in Haste (Farrar & Rinehart, 1944, abr) Black Cat Detective 26 1947 Two Names for Death (Farrar & Rinehart, 1945, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 28 1947 Ferber, Edna (1885-1968) US They Brought Their Women (coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1933, c/u) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 19 1944 Fergusson, Harvey (1890-1971) US Hot Saturday (Knopf, 1920) Mercury Book 8 (1938) Ferrars, E. X. ps of Morna Doris [née] MacTaggart Brown (1907-1995) UK series: Toby D y k e Neck in a Noose [D y k e ] (Doubleday, Doran, 1942, abr) Detective Novel Classic 54 n.d. Feuchtwanger, Lion (1884-1958) German/US Marianne in India and other stories (coll, Stories from Far and Near, Viking, 1945, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 40 1947 Field, Peter house pseudonym, this book by Francis Thayer Hobson (1897-1967) US series: Powder Valley Outlaws Three [Powder] (Morrow, 1933) Century 11 [1945] Field, Rudolph Ike, Man of the Hour (NF,original) Uni-Book 40 1952 Findley, Ferguson ps of Charles Weiser Frey (1910-1963) US Dead Ringer (The Man in the Middle, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1952, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B160 [1953] Finnegan, Robert ps of Paul William Ryan (1906-1947) US series: Dan Banion The Bandaged Nude [Banion] (Simon & Schuster, 1946, abr) Mercury Mystery 121 [1948] Fischer, Bruno (1908-1992) German/US series: Rick Train The Bleeding Scissors (Ziff-Davis, 1948) Bestseller Mystery B106 [1949] Kill to Fit [Train] (original) Five Star Mystery 46 1946 [same] Bestseller Mystery B130 [1951] The PIgskin Bag (Ziff-Davis, 1946) Mercury Mystery 127 [1948] Quoth the Raven (Doubleday, Doran, 1944, abr) Bestseller Mystery B82 [1947] So Much Blood (Greystone, 1939) Pennant Mystery 3 n.d. [same] Golden Willow 52 1946 The Spider Lily (McKay, 1946, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery 45 [1950] Fisher, Philip M[elanchthon], [Jr.] (1891-1973) US Vanishing Ships (Mill, 1943, abr) Adventure Novel Classic 42 n.d. Fisher, Steve
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Fleming, Rudd (1908-1991) Cradled in Murder(!) (Simon & Schuster, 1938, [abr]) Mystery Novel of the Month 19 1941 Fleming-Roberts, G. T. see Frank Rawlings Fletcher, J[oseph] S[mith] (1863-1935) UK The Mystery of the Hushing Pool (Hillman-Curl, 1938) Mystery Novel Classic 45 {1943} The Pedigreed Murder Case (And Sudden Death, Hillman-Curl, 1938, c/u) Detective Novel Classic 2 n.d. Floren, Lee
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Foster, Richard ps of Kendell Foster Crossen, q.v. series: Chin Kham The Invisible Man Murders [Kham] (original) Five Star Mystery 5 1945 The Laughing Buddha Murders [Kham] (mag, 1943) Vulcan Mystery 3 1944 Fowler, [Eu]Gene [Devlan] (1890-1960) US Shoe the Wild Mare (Liveright, 1931, [abr]) Readers-Choice Library 7 1950 Trumpet in the Dust (Liveright, 1930, abr) Readers-Choice Library 20 n.d. Fowler, Sydney ps of S[ydney] Fowler Wright, q.v. series: Mr. Jellipot The Jordans Murder [Jellipot] (Hillman-Curl, 1939) Mystery Novel Classic 46 {1943} Fox, James M. ps of James
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Farmer's Wife (original) Venus Book 160 1953 [same, revised] Carnival Book 934 1954 [same] Carnival Book 940 Farmer's Woman (original) Venus Book 172 1954 [same] Venus Book 190 (1956) Girl with No Past (Two Women, Godwin, 1936, rev) Venus Book 101 1950 as Part-Time Virgin by James Clayford [Astro] 1 1948 Hideaway (original) Uni-Book 21 1952 Honey: Broadway Playgirl (original) Venus Book 118 1951 House of Sinners (original) Croydon 67 1954 Illicit Pleasure (original) Quarter Book 82 1950 Lost to Desire (original) Venus Book 137 1952 [same, revised] Carnival Book 915 1953 [same] Carnival Book 952 Love-Hungry Boss (original) Croydon 43 1953 Love-Starved Woman (original) Croydon 51 1953 Man-Crazy Nurse (original) Croydon 90 1954 Man-Hungry Widow (original) Croydon 45 1953 [same] Croydon 97 {1955} Mountain Bride (original) Cameo Book 325 1952 [same] Cameo Book 337 1953 [same] Cameo Book 362 (1956) One Wild Night! (original) Venus Book 116 1951 Painted Lips (original) Venus Book 127 1951 Passion's Harvest see Woman of Fire Pleasure at Midnight (original) Venus Book 122 1951 Runaway Lovers (original) Venus Book 149 1952 Scandalous Nurse (original) Croydon 69 1954 Shameless Virgin (One More Woman by Joan Sherman, Godwin, 1935, c/u) [Astro] 14 1948 as Bachelor Bait Star Book 2 1950 Strangers in the Dark see Pushover by Joan Sherman Take My Love! (Shameless, Godwin, 1934, rev) Venus Book 105 1950 as Divorce Bait! by James Clayford Exotic Novel Mag Aug 1949 Temptation (original) Venus Book 112 1950 Thrill-Hungry Girl (original) Croydon 82 1954 Tough Doll (original) Venus Book 131 1951 Unfaithful (original) Venus Book 142 1952 as Cabin Hostess Venus Book 196 (1957) Unfaithful Wives (Wives In Scarlet by Gail Jordan, Authors Publications, 1934) Uni-Book 3 1950 Virgin or Harlot? (original) Ecstasy Novel Jan 1951 Woman of Fire (original) Cameo Book 317 1952 revised, as Passion's Harvest Carnival Book 916 1953 [same] Cameo Book 363 1956 Women of the Night (original) Original Novel 700 1951 Gaillard, Paul Wayward Bride (One Unfaithful Year, Greenberg, 1934, rev) Intimate Novel 1 1950 Gaines, Audrey series: Chauncey O’Day The Voodoo Goat [O’Day] (Crowell, 1942, abr) Black Cat Detective 21 {1946} Gardner, Erle Stanley (1889-1970) US series: Terry Clane, P e r r y Mason, Doug Selby The Case of the Curious Bride [Mason] (Morrow, 1934, abr) Bestseller Library 10 (1941) The Case of the Dangerous Dowager [Mason] (Morrow, 1937, abr) Mercury Mystery 58 [1942] The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece [Mason] (Morrow, 1936, abr) Bestseller Mystery B19 [1941] The Clew of the Forgotten Murder (by Carleton Kendrake, Morrow, 1935, abr) Mercury Mystery 62 [1943] The D.A. Calls it Murder [Selby] (Morrow, 1937) Mercury Mystery 40 [1941] The D.A. Draws a Circle [Selby] (Morrow, 1939, abr) Mercury M y s t e r y 56 [1942] The D.A. Holds a Candle [Selby] (Morrow, 1938) Bestseller Mystery B22 [1942] Murder up My Sleeve [Clane] (Morrow, 1937) Bestseller Mystery B29 [1942] This Is Murder (by Charles J. Kenny, Morrow, 1935, abr) Bestseller Mystery B35 [1943]
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Garland, [ M a r y ] Isabel (1903-1988) US, see also ps Garland Lord Death Comes Courting (Abandon Hope, Mystery House, 1941) Mystery Novel of the Month 24 {1941} Garreau, Garth (1928- ) Bat Boy of the Giants (NF, Westminster, 1948, c/u) Comet Books 17 1949 Gates, Eleanor error, see H. L. Gates Gates, H[enry] L[eyford] (1880-1937) US Born to Sin (Macaulay, 1934, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Wicked by Eleanor Gates (Irresponsible, Godwin, 1938, [abr]) Uni-Book 4 1950 Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872) French unknown translation Mademoiselle De Maupin (1835, abr) 1/2 of double Royal Books 25 (1953) Gay, Carmen ps of Brownie Greaton Cole (1875- ) Illicit Passion (Strange Bed, Phoenix, 1946, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. George, David Robinson Death Meets the Deadline (original) Vulcan Mystery un 1944 Gibson, Walter B[rown] (1897-1985) US, see also Howard Thurston, hps Nicholas Carter A Blonde for Murder (original) Atlas Mystery 2 1948 Looks That Kill! (original) Atlas Mystery 5 1948 Gifford, James Noble ( -1957)(59) see pss Roy Booth, Eliot Brewster, Gerald Foster, Griffith James, John Saxon, Ross Sloane; hpss James Clayford, Luther Gordon; see also Joan Sherman Gilbert, Anthony ps of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973) UK series: Arthur Crook Death Takes a Redhead [Crook] (Dear Dead Woman, Mystery House, 1942) Arrow 7 n.d. Murder Comes Home [Crook] (Random, 1951, c/u) Mercury Mystery 168 [1952] Mystery in the Woodshed [Crook] (Smith & Durrell, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 67 (1943) 30 Days to Live [Crook] (Smith & Durrell, 1944, abr) Mercury Mystery 108 [1947] The Woman in Red [Crook] (Smith & Durrell, 1943, abr) Mercury Mystery 91 [1945] The Wrong Body [Crook] (Random, 1950, abr) Mercury Mystery 193 [1954] Gilbert, Michael [Francis] (1912-2006) UK series: Hazelrigg He Didn't Mind Danger [Hazelrigg] (Harper, 1948, abr) Bestseller Mystery B137 [1951] Smallbone Deceased [Hazelrigg] (Harper, 1950, abr) Bestseller Mystery B148 [1952] Giles, Guy Elwyn (1904- ) series: Brice Kent Target for Murder [Kent] (Morrow, 1943, c/u) Big Green Detective 5 n.d. 3 Died Variously [Kent] (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941) Black Cat Detective 1 1943 Gill, Elisabeth ps of Elisabeth [May] Ogilvie (1917-2006) US Wayward Nymph (original) Original Novel 715 1952 Young Sinner (original) Cameo Book 333 1953 Gill, Tom
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Goldman, Lawrence [Louis] (1907- ) series: Johnny Saturday Fall Guy for Murder [Saturday] (Dutton, 1943) Prize Mystery Novel 6 1943 Goldman, R[aymond] L[eslie] (1895- ) US series: Asaph Clume Death Plays Solitaire [Clume] (Coward-McCann, 1939, abr) Green Dragon 10 n.d. Judge Robinson Murdered! (Coward-McCann, 1936, abr) Black Cat Detective 23 1946 Murder Behind the Mike [Clume] (Coward-McCann, 1942, abr) Black Knight Mystery 18 n.d. Murder without Motive [Clume] (Coward-McCann, 1938, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 16 1945 Out on Bail (Coward-McCann, 1937, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 18 1945 The Snatch [Clume] (Coward-McCann, 1940) Green Dragon 6 n.d. Goldsmith, Gene Layout for a Corpse (Mill, 1949, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery 75 [1955] Goldthwaite, Eaton K[enneth] (1907-1994) US series: Joe Dickerson The Case of the Nameless Corpse (Don't Mention My Name, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942, c/u) Death House Mystery 4 1944 Death Springs the Trap [Dickerson] (You Did It, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943, c/u) Death House Mystery un 1944 Gollomb, Joseph (1881-1950) Russian/US Eleven True Crimes (NF, [Crimes of the Year], Liveright, 1931, [abr]) [Green] 7 n.d. Gooden, Arthur Henry (1879- ) US, see also ps Brett Rider Donovan Rides (Macaulay, 1937) Western Action Novel 4 n.d. Roaring River Range (Houghton Mifflin, 1942) Western Novel Classic 44 n.d. Smoke Tree Range (Kinsey, 1936) Gunfire Western Novel 16 [1948] Goodis, David [Loeb] (1917-1967) US Nightfall (Messner, 1947, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B121 [1950] Gordon, Luther house pseudonym by Davis Dresser, q.v. Free and Easy (After Passion by Jerome Shard, Godwin, 1936, rev) Ecstasy Novel 11 1951 Never Say "No!" (Satan Rules the Night by Anthony S cott, Godwin, 1938, rev) Ecstasy Novel 10 1951 by Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q .v. Any Man's Girl (Wife or Mistress? by Joan Sherman, Godwin, 1936) Exotic Novel Mag Jun 1949 as Mazie: Any Man's Girl by Gerald Foster Venus Book 103 1950 by James Noble Gifford, q.v. Ecstasy! (Love Laughs Gaily by James Noble Gifford, Godwin, 1933) Quarter Book 35 1949 Immoral! (The Naked Escape by Gerald Foster, Godwin, 1935, rev) Quarter Book 29 1949 Naughty Virgin see Girl Stowaway by Roy Booth Passion's Mistress (Pure Girl by James Noble Gifford, Godwin, 1933, rev) Quarter Book 24 1949 [same] Quarter Book 71 1950 Pay for My Kiss! (Flame in the Wind by James Noble Gifford, Godwin, 1932) Exotic Novel Mag Apr 1949 as She Wanted Love! by Joan Sherman Venus Book 102 1950 Pleasure Girl (Tiger Lil by Roy Booth, Godwin, 1935, rev) Quarter Book 34 1949 Shamed! (Made for Love by James Noble Gifford, Godwin, 1932, rev) Quarter Book 21 1948 [same] Quarter Book 67 1950 Tempted! (unknown retitle [see scans], rev) Quarter Book 36 1949 Unfaithful! (Great Lover by Ross Sloane, Godwin, 1934, rev) Quarter Book 22 1948 Wicked! (Sin Suits Me by Roy Booth, Godwin, 1935, rev) Quarter Book 31 1949 by Albert L. Quandt, q.v. Love Cheat (Love Is No Sin by Russell Higgins, Godwin, 1934, rev) Quarter Book 37 1949 Wolf Trap Blonde (Marriage Agency by Russell Higgins, Godwin, 1935) Quarter Book 38 1949 Gordon, Russell ps of Russell Gordon Shapiro US Dead Level (Morrow, 1948, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 44 [1950] Gordon, William E. ps of Herman Irving Bloom, q.v. Girl-Hungry see Flesh and Females by Harmon Bellamy Lovers Bewitched see Frenchy by Harmon Bellamy Gordons, The
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Gould, Stephen ps of Steve Fisher, q.v. Homicide Johnny (Mystery House, 1940) [Metro] 7 n.d. Govan, [Mary] Christine [née] Noble (1898-1985) US, see also ps J. N. Darby Murder on the Mountain (Houghton Mifflin, 1937, abr) Croydon Mystery 8 1946 Grafton, C[ornelius] W[arren] (1909-1982) US series: Gil Henry The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope [Henry] (Farrar & Rinehart, 1943, abr) Mercury Mystery 97 [1946] Graham, Carroll with Garrett Graham Fleshpots of Malibu (Queer People, Vanguard, 1930, [abr]) Broadway Novel Monthly 7 1949 Graham, Garrett see Carroll Graham Graham, Winston [Mawdsley] (1908-2003) UK Bridge to Vengeance (The Little Walls, Doubleday, 1955, abr) Bestseller Mystery B209 [1958] Grainger, Boine
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(The) Hungry Dog Murders [Fletcher] (The Hungry Dog, Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, c/u) Murder Mystery Monthly 12 1943 as Die like a Dog (c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 66 [1953] Kiss the Boss Goodbye see The Last Doorbell The Last Doorbell (by John K. Vedder, Holt, 1941) Chartered 25 1946 as Kiss the Boss Good-Bye (c/u) Mercury Mystery 191 [1954] The Lock and the Key (Rinehart, 1948, c/u) Readers-Choice Library 15 n.d. complete, as Too Tough to Die Jonathan Press Mystery 72 [1954] The Long Arm of Murder see Murder '97 Murder '97 [Lash] (Rinehart, 1948, c/u) Readers-Choice Library 16 n.d. as The Long Arm of Murder (c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 85 [1955] Once Over Deadly see The French Key Mystery Outlaw (Farrar & Rinehart, 1941) Century 64 [1947] [same] (Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, [c/u]) Readers-Choice Library 13 Peace Marshal (Morrow, 1939) Century 60 n.d. Simon Lash - Private Detective [Lash] (Farrar & Rinehart, 1941) Murder Mystery Monthly 23 1944 Smoky Road (Rinehart, 1949, c/u) Readers-Choice Library 2 [1950] Too Tough to Die see The Lock and the Key Guild, Leo (1911- ) Seduction (original) Avon Special un 1951 Gunn, James [Edward] (1920-1966) US Deadlier than the Male (Duell, Sloan & Pearce 1942) Chartered 18 {1946} Gunn, Tom ps of Syl MacDowell (1892- ) series: Blue Steele Painted Post Law [Steele] (Messner, 1936) Gunfire Western Novel 27 [1948] Painted Post Range [Steele] (Messner, 1937, abr) Black Cat Western 37 1949 Painted Post Roundup [Steele] (Messner, 1939, abr) Fighting Western Novel 24 n.d. Painted Post Rustlers [Steele] (Messner, 1938) Western Novel Classic 101 n.d. György, Edith see anonymous novels Hagen, Miriam-A n n (1903-1984) series: Hortense Clinton Dig Me Later [Clinton] (Doubleday, 1949, c/u) Mercury Mystery 157 [1951] Haggard, H[enry] Rider (1856-1925) UK series: Allan Quatermain Allan Quatermain [Quatermain] (Harper, 1887, abr) 1/2 of double Royal Books 18 (1953) King Solomon's Mines [Quatermain] (Harper, 1887, abr) 1/2 of double Royal Books 18 (1953) Haggard, Paul ps of Stephen Longstreet, q.v. series: Mike W arlock Poison from a Wealthy Widow [Warlock] (Hillman-Curl, 1938) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1940 Haig-Brown, Roderick L[angmere] (1908-1976) UK series: Don Morgan Starbuck Valley Winter [Morgan] (Morrow, 1943, c/u) Comet Books 21 1949 (advertised as # 5 in first format - not published as such) Haines, Donal Hamilton (1886-1951) US The Southpaw (Rinehart, 1931, c/u) Comet Books 16 1949 (advertised as # 2 in first format - not published as such) Hale, Christopher ps of Frances Moyer Ross Stevens (1895-1948) US series: Bill French Dead of Winter [French] (Doubleday, Doran, 1941) Detective Novel Classic 39 n.d. Exit Screaming [French] (Doubleday, Doran, 1942, abr) Detective Novel Classic 34 n.d. Rumor Hath It [French] (Doubleday, Doran, 1945, abr) Detective Novel Classic 51 n.d. Hale, Laura ps of Lorenz
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Hall, Richard ps of Lulla Adler, q.v. Hollywood Starlet see Passion Is a Woman by Kate Nickerson Halleran, E[ugene] E[dward] (1905-1994) US Death over Moccasin Valley (No Range Is Free, Macrae-Smith, 1944, abr) Adventure Novel Classic 38 n.d. Outlaw Guns (Macrae-Smith, 1947, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 28 n.d. Prairie Guns (Macrae-Smith, 1944) Readers-Choice Library 33 n.d. Halliday, Brett ps of Davis Dresser, q.v. series: Michael S h a y n e Bodies Are Where You Find Them [S h a y n e ] (Holt, 1941) Detective Novel Classic 31 n.d. Tickets for Death [S h a y n e ] (Holt, 1941) Detective Novel Classic 21 (1943) The Uncomplaining Corpses [S h a y n e ] (Holt, 1940) Detective Novel Classic 26 [1943] Hamilton, Edmond [Moore] (1904-1977) US City at World's End (Fell, 1951, [abr]) Galaxy SF Novel 18 1953 Hamilton, Trudy (1921- ) A Body to Own ([For Promised Joy], Phoenix, 1947) Ecstasy Novel Mag Nov 1949 Hammett, [Samuel] Dashiell (1894-1961) US series: Continental Op The Adventures of Sam Spade (coll, original) Bestseller Mystery B50 1944 as They Can Only Hang You Once Mercury Mystery 131 (1949) The Big Knockover see $106,000 Blood Money The Continental Op [Op] (coll, original) Bestseller Mystery B62 1945 [same] Jonathan Press Mystery 40 [1949] The Creeping Siamese (coll, original) Jonathan Press Mystery 48 1950 (forecast as The Golden Horseshoe) Dead Yellow Women (coll, original) Jonathan Press Mystery 29 1947 Hammett Homicides (coll, original) Bestseller Mystery B81 1946 A Man Named Thin (coll, original) Mercury Mystery 233 1962 Nightmare Town (coll, original) Mercury Mystery 120 1948 $106,000 Blood Money [Op] ([coll], original) Bestseller Mystery B40 1943 as The Big Knockover Jonathan Press Mystery 36 (1948) The Return of the Continental Op [Op] (coll, original) Jonathan Press Mystery 17 1945 They Can Only Hang You Once see The Adventures of Sam Spade Woman in the Dark (coll, original) Jonathan Press Mystery 59 1951 Hanley, Jack see also pss Gene Harvey, John Hunter, Lee Jackquin, Lee Jacquin, Tom Manning Hot Lips (original) Intimate Novel 18 1952 New York Model (original) Intimate Novel 37 1953 Star Lust (Godwin, 1934, c/u) Avon Book Dividend 2 1951 Tent-Show Bride (original) Intimate Novel 30 1953 Tomcat in Tights (Godwin, 1936, c/u) Avon Monthly Novel 21 [ ] Very Private Secretary (original) Intimate Novel 26 1952 Hanline, M[aurice] A[lexander] (1895-1964) US The Man Who Drove Girls Wild (Years of Indiscretion, Macaulay, 1934, rev) Avon Monthly Novel 14 1949 Hanson, V[ictor] J[oseph] (1920-2001) UK Yellow Dust (Scion [UK], 1949) Prize Western Novel 38 1950 Hard y, J[ o c e l y n ] L[ee] (1894-1958) UK Everything Is Thunder (Doubleday, Doran, 1935, [abr]) American Mercury Book 2 [1937] Never in Vain (Doubleday, Doran, 1936) Mercury Book 26 (1940) Hardy, Stuart ps of Oscar Schisgall (1901-1984) Belgian/US The Man from Nowhere (Macaulay, 1935, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 37 n.d. The Miracle at Gopher Creek (Green Circle, 1938) Gunfire Western Novel 30 n.d. Trouble from Texas (Macaulay, 1938) Prize Western Novel 26 [ ] Hare, Cyril ps of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (1900-1958) UK The Christmas Murder (An English Murder, Little, Brown, 1951, c/u) Mercury Mystery 190 [1953] Harkins, Philip (1912-1997) US Lightning on Ice (Morrow, 1946, c/u) Comet Books 29 1949 Harlow, James Notorious Woman (Tonight Is Ours, Phoenix, 1948, abr) Candid Love Novel 22 1949 Harmon, Robert W. ps of Herman Irving Bloom, q.v. A Body to Own see Pick-Up by Harmon Bellamy
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Harragan, Steve ps of William Maconachie series: Steve Harragan The Bigamy Kiss [Harragan] ([Hedy - Like Wine by Bart Carson [see scans], Hamilton (UK), 1951, rev]) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 4 n.d. Carney's Burlesque [Harragan] ({by Ray Stahl? [see scans], Hamilton (UK), rev}) Uni-Book 54 (1953) Cuban Heel [Harragan] ([by Bart Carson [see scans], Hamilton (UK), 1953, rev]) Uni-Book 64 (1953) Dope Doll [Harragan] ( ?, [see scans], {Hamilton (UK), rev}) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 4 n.d Kiss of the Damned [Harragan] ([Dames Scare Easy by Bart Carson [see scans], Hamilton (UK), 1952, rev]) Uni-Book 47 (1953) The Queer Sisters [Harragan] ([by Bart Carson] [see scans], {Hamilton (UK), rev}) Uni-Book 43 n.d. [same] Stallion Book 206 n.d. The Shayne Dame ( ?, [see scans]) Uni-Book 52 {1953} Side-Show Girl [Harragan] ( ?, [see scans] , {Hamilton (UK), rev}) Uni-Book 42 1952 [same] Stallion Book 212 n.d. Sin Is a Redhead [Harragan] ([Red Head Rhapsody by Bart Carson [see scans], Hamilton, (UK) 1951,rev]) Uni-Book 44 n.d. Smuggled Sin [Harragan] ({Phone for a Hearse by Bart Carson [see scans], Hamilton UK), 1951, rev}) Uni-Book 46 1953 [same] Stallion Book 215 n.d. Three Bad Girls [Harragan] ( ?, [see scans], {Hamilton (UK), rev}) Uni-Book 57 (1953) [same] Stallion Book 203 n.d. Harris, [Polly] [Anne] [née] Colver (1908-1991) US series: Timothy Fowler Murder by Proxy [Fowler] (Murder in Amber, Hillman-Curl, 1938) My s t e r y Novel of the Month un 1938 Harris, Kathleen ps of Adelaide M. Humphries, q.v. The Loves of Young Dr. Bob (Young Dr. Bob, Arcadia, 1945) Prize Love Novel 21 Harrison, Whit ps of Harry Whittington, q.v. Army Girl (original) Venus Book 161 1953 [same] Venus Book 194 [1957] Body and Passion (original) Original Novel 714 1952 Girl on Parole (original) Venus Book 158 1953 Native Girl see Savage Love Rapture Alley (original) Carnival Book 918 1953 [same] Carnival Book 950 (1956) Sailor"s Weekend (original) Venus Book 153 1952 [same] Venus Book 166 Savage Love (original) Original Novel 718 1952 as Native Girl Original Novel 745 (1954) [same, rev] Star Novel 761 1956 Shanty Road (original) Original Novel 742 1954 [same, rev] Star Novel 756 1956 Swamp Kill (original) Phantom Book 508 1952 Violent Night (original) Phantom Book 511 1952 Hart, Frances [Newbold] Noyes (1890-1943) US The Bellamy Trial (Doubleday, Doran, 1927) Bestseller Library 7 [1940] Hartt, Jon ps of Arthur J. Burks (1898-1974) US Savage Mistress (original) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 7 1953 Harvey, Gene ps of Jack Hanley, q.v. A Girl Called Joy (original) Cameo Book 309 1951 as Doctor's Nurse Cameo Book 336 (1953) [same] Cameo Book 353 City Streets see Passion's Slave Confessions of a Carnival Dancer (original) Venus Book 114 1951 Cutie see Passion's Slave Desire Is a Woman (original) Venus Book 117 1951 Doctor's Nurse see A Girl Called Joy Hotel Waitress see Pick-Up at Midnight “Leg-Art" Virgin (original) Quarter Book 74 1950
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The Loves of Alice Brandt (original) Cameo Book 301 1951 as Office Sinner Cameo Book 334 (1953) revised, as Office Hussy by John Hunter Star Novel 767 1957 Miami Widow (original) Intimate Novel 44 1953 [same] Stallion Book 207 n.d. Office Sinner see The Loves of Alice Brandt Passion's Slave (original) Exotic Novel Feb 1950 revised, as Cutie Venus Book 108 1950 revised again, as City Streets Original Novel 744 1954 [same] Star Novel 755 1956 Pick-Up at Midnight (original) Cameo Book 305 1951 revised, as Hotel Waitress Carnival Book 920 1953 same, as Hotel Waitress by Tom Manning Cameo Book 360 She Couldn't Be Good (original) Venus Book 124 1951 Stag Stripper ( ? [see scans]) [Novels, Inc.] 9 n.d. Strip Street (original) Venus Book 141 1952 [same] Venus Book 169 (1954) [same] Venus Book 182 Thrill Girl (original) Exotic Novel Oct 1950 [same] Rainbow 101 1951 Wild Weekend (Pack up Your Sins, Phoenix, 1935, abr) Candid Love Novel 21 1949 Haskell, Frank ps of Haskel Frankel (1926-1999) US Boarding House see House of Lost Women Hotel Doctor (original) Carnival Book 926 1954 [same] Venus Book 179 [same] Venus Book 184 (1956) House of Lost Women (original) Cameo Book 331 1953 as Boarding House Cameo Book 348 [same] Cameo Book 365 Women's Doctor (original) Venus Book 157 1953 [same] Venus Book 176 (1954) [same] Venus Book 189 (1956) Young Doctor (original) Venus Book 173 1954 [same] Venus Book 191 (1956) Hastings, [Douglas] [Edward] MacDonald (1909-1982) UK series: Montague Cork Fish and Kill [Cork] (Cork on the Water, Random, 1951, abr) Mercury Mystery 177 [1952] Hatter, Amos ps of James W. Lumpp, q.v. Backstage Affair (original) Original Novel 701 1951 Big-Town Hellcat see On Borrowed Love Crossroads of Desire (original) Cameo Book 312 1952 Girl of the Midway (original) Cameo Book 320 1952 Hired Girl (original) Venus Book 154 1953 [same] Venus Book 164 [same] Venus Book 181 Hollywood Sinners see Secret Affair Island Ecstasy (original) Cameo Book 318 1952 as Island Girl Cameo Book 350 [same] Cameo Book 364 Island Girl see Island Ecstasy Lady with a Past (original) Venus Book 132 1951 No Time for Sleep (original) Venus Book 126 1951 On Borrowed Love (original) Original Novel 705 1951 revised, as Big-Town Hellcat Carnival Book 956 1957 Secret Affair (original) Cameo Book 308 1951 revised, as Hollywood Sinners Star Novel 766 1957 Untamed Woman (original) Quarter Book 88 1951 revised, as Wild Party by Frederic Spencer Carnival Book 912 1952 Waterfront Girl (original) Original Novel 730 1953 [same, rev] Star Novel 760 (1956)
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Hawkins, Dean ps of Benjamin Hawkins Dean, q.v. Headsman's Holiday (Mystery House, 1946, c/u) Green Dragon 28 n.d. Hawkins, John (1910-1978) with Ward Hawkins (1912-1990) Broken River (Dutton, 1944) Adventure Novel Classic 29 n.d. Devil on his Trail (Dutton, 1944) Adventure Novel Classic 35 n.d. Secret Command (Pilebuck, Dutton, 1943, abr) Adventure Novel Classic 22 n.d. Hawkins, Ward see John Hawkins Hayden, Eric Rhodes ps of Edward Reuben Huffman (1912- ) Lover Boy (Edison, 1948, abr) Readers-Choice Library 39 1951 Head, Matthew ps of John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985) US The Smell of Money (Simon & Schuster, 1943, c/u) Mercury Mystery 96 [1946] Heard, H[enry] F[itzGerald] (1889-1971) UK series: Mr. M y c r o f t A Taste for Honey [M y c r o f t ] (Vanguard, 1941, c/u) Mercury Mystery 70 (1943) Heath, Eric (1896- ) series: Cornelius Clift Death Takes a Dive [Clift] (Hillman-Curl, 1938) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1940 Murder in the Museum [Clift] (Hillman-Curl, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1940 Heberden, M[ary] V[iolet] (1906- 1965) US, see also ps Charles (L.) Leonard series: Desmond Shannon Murder Goes Astray [Shannon] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 80 n.d. Murder Makes a Racket [Shannon] (Doubleday, Doran, 1942, abr) Detective Novel Classic 48 n.d. You'll Fry Tomorrow [Shannon] (Exit This Way, Doubleday, 1950, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B181 [1955] Hecht, Ben (1893-1964) US Concerning a Woman of Sin and other stories (coll, The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht, Crown, 1945, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 37 1947 11 Selected Great Stories (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 11 1943 Stories from A Thousand and One Afternoons in New York (coll, Viking, 1941, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 26 1945 Heckelmann, Charles N[ewman] (1913- ) US Lawless Range (Arcadia, 1945, abr) Prize Western Novel 21 [ ] Henderson, Donald [Landels] (1905-1947) Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper (Random, 1944) Mercury Mystery 101 [1946] Henderson, George C. The Killers (Greenberg, 1935, c/u) Readers-Choice Library 26 n.d. Hendryx, James B[eardsley] (1880-1963) US series: Connie Morgan Connie Morgan Hits the Trail [Morgan] (Doubleday, Doran, 1929) Adventure Novel Classic 10 [1943] Death Heads North (Grubstake Gold, Doubleday, Doran, 1936) Adventure Novel Classic 17 n.d. Hard Rock Man (Carlton, 1940) Adventure Novel Classic 41 n.d. Henry, O. ps of William Sidney Porter (1862-1910) US Cops and Robbers (coll, original) Bestseller Mystery B94 1948 Herzog, Dorothy Shakedown Dame (Undercover Woman, Macaulay, 1937, c/u) [Astro] 12 1948 Hickey, H. B. ps of Herbert Livingston (1916- ) US Saddles West! (original?) Century 73 1947 Higgins, Russell ps of Albert L. Quandt, q.v. Bad Woman (Fallen Woman, Godwin, 1936, rev) Quarter Book 44 1949 The Intimate Affairs of a Burlesque Queen (Burlesque Queen, Godwin, 1935, rev) Quarter Book 49 1949 Hill, Katharine series: Lorna Donahue The Case of the Absent Corpse [Donahue] (Case for Equity, Dutton, 1945) Mystery Novel Classic 74 n.d. Hilton, Francis W. Phantom Rustlers (Kinsey, 1934, abr) Fighting Western Novel 37 n.d. Hilton, James (1900-1954) UK/US Ill Wind (coll, Morrow, 1932, c/u, reissue of Avon Book 4) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 5 1943
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Himmel, Richard [C.] (1920-2000) US Soul of Passion (original) Stork 4 1950 as Strange Desires Croydon 22 1952 [same] Croydon 75 1954 Strange Desires see Soul of Passion Hinckley, Julian (1905- ) Murder by Schedule (mag, 1937) Golden Willow 55 1946 Hinkle, Thomas C[lark] (1876-1949) US Silver (Morrow, 1934, c/u) Comet Books 14 1949 Tawney (Morrow, 1927, c/u) Comet Books 4 1947 [same] (second edition) Comet Books 4 1948 Hirsch, Lee
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Holt, Allison Death for a Hussy (Bier for a Hussy, Phoenix, 1943) Red Dagger Mystery 21 1946 Holt, Tex ps of Archie Joscelyn, q.v. Point West (Phoenix, 1949) Prize Western Novel 33 1949 Thunder of Hoofs (Arcadia, 1947, abr) Prize Western Novel 24 [ ] Trail of Lost Men (Arcadia, 1945) Prize Western Novel 22 [ ] Homes, Geoffrey ps of Daniel [Geoffrey] [Homes] Mainwaring (1902-1977) US series: Robin Bishop Build My Gallows High (Morrow, 1946) Jonathan Press Mystery 35 [1948] The Man Who Murdered Himself [Bishop] (Morrow, 1936) Century 10 [1945] Hopkins, Linton C[ooke], [Sr.] (1872-1943) US The Candle (Green Circle, 1937) Tech Mystery 1 [1946] Hopkins, Stanley, Jr. ps of Blythe Morley (1923-2002) The Parchment Key (Harcourt, Brace, 1944) Bestseller Mystery B72 [1946] Hopkins, Tom J. The Hard Riders (Doubleday, 1949) Western Novel Classic 104 n.d. Open Land Renegades (Slash G Hombre, Phoenix, 1946, abr) Western Thriller 4 1948 Hopson, William (L.) (1907- ) see also ps John Sims Arizona Round-Up (Phoenix, 1948, c/u) Western Novel Monthly 3 1950 Cattle War Buckeroo (The Laughing Vaquero, Phoenix, 1943, c/u) Western Novel Monthly 2 1950 Notched Guns (Phoenix, 1947, c/u) Century 74 n.d. Silver Gulch (Phoenix, 1944, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 50 n.d. Horler, [ H a r r y ] Sydney (1888-1954) UK series: Paul Vivanti A Gentleman for the Gallows (Hillman-Curl, 1938) Mystery Nov el of the Month 18 1941 Lord of Terror [Vivanti] (Hillman-Curl, 1937, c/u) Thriller Novel Classic 5 n.d. Household, Geoffrey [Edward] [West] (1900-1988) UK Hang the Man High (Fellow Passenger, Little, Brown, 1955, abr) Bestseller Mystery B207 [1957] The Spanish Cave (Little Brown, 1936, c/u) Comet Books 12 1948 Howes, Royce [Bucknam] (1901-1973) US series: Ben Lucias The Case of the Copy-Hook Killing [Lucias] (Dutton, 1945) Mystery Novel Classic 73 n.d. Hubbard, L[afayette] Ron[ald] (1911-1986) US Fear (with Typewriter in the Sky, Gnome, 1951, [abr]) Galaxy Novel 29 1957 Hughes, Dorothy B[elle] [Flanagan] (1904-1993) US Johnnie (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1944, abr) Bonded Mystery 11 n.d. Kiss for a Killer (mag, 1946) Jonathan Press Mystery 70 [1954] Hull, Richard ps of Richard Henry Sampson (1896-1973) UK Keep It Quiet (Putnam, 1936, abr) Mercury Mystery 98 [1946] Murder by Invitation (My Own Murderer, Messner, 1940) Mystery Novel of the Month 25 [ ] Hultman, Helen Joan (1891-1985) US Murder in Odd Sizes (Ready for Death, Phoenix, 1939) Hangman's House 10 n.d. Murder Rings Twice (Murder on Route 40, Phoenix, 1940, abr) Fingerprint Mystery un n.d. Humphries, Adelaide [née] M[orris] (1898-1979) US see pss Kathleen Harris, Wayne Way Hunt, Harrison joint ps of W[illis] T[odhunter] Ballard, q.v. & Norbert Davis (1909-1949) Murder Picks the Jury (Mystery House, 1947, abr) Bestseller Mystery B108 [1949] Hunt, Peter joint ps of Charles Hunt Marshall & George Worthing Yates (1900-1975) US series: Alan Miller Murder for Breakfast [Miller] (Vanguard, 1934, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 19 1945 Hunter, Evan, [né Salvatore A. Lombino] (1926-2005) US The Evil Sleep! (original) Falcon Book 41 1952 Hunter, John ps of Jack Hanley, q.v. Office Hussy see The Loves of Alice Brandt by Gene Harvey Hurley, Gene Have You Seen This Man? (Bobbs-Merrill, 1944, abr) Croydon Mystery un 1945 Hurst, Fannie (1889-1968) US 8 Long Short Stories (from We Are Ten, coll, Harper, 1937, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 16 1944 Hutton, J[ o y ] F[erris] (1912-1981) US Too Good to Be True (Simon, & Schuster, 1948, c/u) Mercury Mystery 142 [1949]
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Huxley, Elspeth [Josceline] [Grant] (1907-1997) UK series: Supt. Vachell Murder on Safari [Vachell] (Harper, 1938) Prize Mystery Novel 10 1944 Innes, Hammond ps of Ralph Hammond Innes (1913-1998) UK The Blue Ice (Harper, 1948, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J60 [1952] Irish, William ps of Cornell Woolrich, q.v. And So to Death see I Would't Be in Your Shoes Borrowed Crime (coll, original) Murder Mystery Monthly 42 1946 Dead Man Blues (coll, Lippincott, 1948, abr) Mercury Mystery 135 [1949] Deadline at Dawn (Lippincott, 1944, abr) Bestseller Mystery B90 [1947] I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (coll, Lippincott, 1943, abr) Mercury Mystery 82 [1944] different abridgement, as And So to Death Jonathan Press Mystery J31 [1947] different abridgement, as Nightmare Readers-Choice Library 12 1950 If I Should Die Before I Wake (coll, original) Murder Mystery Monthly 31 1945 Nightmare see I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes Irwin, Theodore D. see ps Jed Anthony Jackquin, Lee ps of Jack Hanley, q.v. Immoral Woman see Two Sinners Two Sinners (original) Stork 8 1950 as Immoral Woman Croydon 106 1953 Jackson, Giles pseudonym, see Dana Chambers Jacquin, Lee ps of Jack Hanley, q.v. Studio Lovers (Phoenix, 1938, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Time for Love (Love Me Now, Phoenix, 1935, c/u) Prize Love Novel 24 n.d. The Wife and the Wolf (Phoenix, 1942) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Jaffe, Michael Death Goes to a Party (Phoenix, 1942, c/u) Best Detective Selection 3 1942 Jakes, John [William] (1932- ) US Gonzaga's Woman (original) 1/2 of double Royal Books 22 1953 James, Dan ps of James Denson Sayers, q.v. Gun Thunder on the Rio (Godwin, 1935) Fighting Western Novel 10 n.d. Rancho Bonita (by Denver Bardwell, Godwin, 1936) Western Novel of the Month un 1940 Stranger at Storm Ranch (Godwin, 1936) Fighting Western Novel 7 n.d. James, Griffith ps of James Noble Gifford, q.v. Dangerous Loves (Ashes of Love, Phoenix, 1947) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. A Room for Love (Phoenix, 1944) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. The Wench Is Willing (Phoenix, 1948) Lev Gleason Library 103 1949 Jameson, Malcolm (1891-1945) US Atomic Bomb (mag, 1943) Bonded 10A 1945 Tarnished Utopia (mag, 1942) Galaxy Novel 27 1956 Jeffers, Albert ps of Thomas [Albert] Curry, q.v. Design for Dying (Screen for Murder, Mystery House, 1941, abr) Bleak House 12 n.d. Jellett, Dr. H[enry] (1872-1948) with Ngaio Marsh The Nursing Home Murder (Sheridan, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 79 [1944] Jenkins, Will[iam] F[itzgerald] (1896-1975) US, see also ps Murray Leinster. The Man Who Feared (Gateway, 1942, abr) Hangman's House 4 n.d. Jepson, Selwyn (1899-1989) UK Keep Murder Quiet (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 73 [1944] Jerome, E. D. ps of Jerome Darwin Engel (1909- ) Love Hungry (Cute Kid, Phoenix, 1942, c/u) Croydon 12 1949 Jerome, Owen Fox ps of Oscar J[erome] Friend, q.v. Murder [-] as Usual (Gateway, 1942) Black Cat Detective 13 1945 Johns, Veronica Parker ps of Veronica Johnson (1907-1988) US series: Webster Flagg, Agatha Welch Hush, Gabriel! [Welch] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce,1940, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Murder by the Day [Flagg] (Doubleday, 1953, c/u) Mercury Mystery 197 [1954] Shady Doings [Welch] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce,1941, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 The Singing Widow (Duell, Sloan & Pearce,1941) Atlas Mystery un 1945 Johnson, [Walter] Ryerson (1901-1995) US South to Sonora (Curl, 1946, abr) Western Novel Classic 69 n.d.
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Jones, Harvey One Night with Diane (original) Quarter Book 63 1950 Jones, Inigo pseudonym The Albatross Murders (Mystery House, 1941) Mystery Novel of the Month 33 [ ] The Clue of the Hungry Corpse (Arcadia, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1940 Jones, Raymond [Fisher] (1915-1994) US The Alien (original) Galaxy SF Novel 6 1951 Jordan, Gail ps of Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q.v. The Affairs of a Country Girl (original) Cameo Book 311 1952 [same] Cameo Book 328 (1953) as Country Girl Cameo Book 341 (1954) Back-Country Wench see Passionate Lover Call Girl (Passion for Profit, Phoenix, 1941, rev) Quarter Book 46 1949 Call It Marriage (original) Venus Book 146 1952 revised, as Young Bride Venus Book 195 1957 Come Sin with Me ( ? , 1949) [Novels, Inc.] un n.d. Country Girl see The Affairs of a Country Girl Desirous - Confessions of a Manicurist ([Gabrielle's Girls], Phoenix, 1943) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Love on the Run (Phoenix, 1944) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Made for Love (Godiva Girl, Phoenix, 1948) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Once a Sinner (Phoenix, 1947, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Palm Beach Apartment (Phoenix, 1945) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Part Time Passion (Phoenix, 1940, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Passionate Lover (original) Stork 5 1950 as Restless Wife Croydon 19 1952 as Back-Country Wench Croydon 109 {1954} Professional Glamour Girl (Private Parlor, Phoenix, 1946, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Restless Wife see Passionate Lover Sinner in Gingham (Phoenix, 1940) [Novels, Inc.] un n.d. Sins of a Private Secretary (original) Croydon 23 1952 Small-Town Virgin (Not Bad, Phoenix, 1944, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Student Nurse (Innocent Wanton, Phoenix, 1950) Uni-Book 37 The Lost Virgin (Phoenix, 1945, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. The Wanton Blonde (Blonde and Beautiful, Phoenix, 1948, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Unleashed Woman (Dark Passion, Phoenix, 1950, rev) Uni-Book 28 (1952) Week-End Husband (Phoenix, 1943) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Young Bride see Call It Marriage Joscelyn, Archie [Lynn] (1899-1986) US see also pss Tex Holt, Lynn Westland Ambush on Satan's Hill see The Vengeance Trail Bad Hombre (original) Star Book 7 1950 as Texas Outlaw Star Book 30 1952 Blue River Riders (Phoenix, 1944, abr) Black Cat Western 31 1948 Border Wolves (original) Star Book 9 1950 as Duel at Killman Creek Star Book 29 1952 Boss of the Northern Star (Phoenix, 1944) Gunfire Western Novel 47 n.d. Death in the Saddle (Arcadia, 1946) Western Novel Classic 70 n.d. Duel at Killman Creek see Border Wolves The Faceless Riders (Cottonwood Canyon, Phoenix, 1938, abr) Black Cat Western 40 Gun-Thunder Valley(!) (original) Star Book 13 1951 [same] Star Book 24 {1951} Hell for Leather (original) Western Novel Classic 111 1951 Judge Colt (Arcadia, 1946, abr) Prize Western Novel 28 [ ] Outcast Law (original?, “abridged") Black Cat Western 45 1950 Ranch of the Two Thumbs (Phoenix, 1937) Gunfire Western Novel 39 n.d. Sign of the Gun (Phoenix, 1945, c/u) Century 71 n.d. Smoke in the West (Curl, 1948, abr) Black Cat Western 41 n.d. The Texan's Revenge (original) Star Book 37 1952 as Texas Revenge Star Book 48 Texas Outlaw see Bad Hombre Texas Revenge see The Texan's Revenge Texas Showdown (original) Star Book 39 1953
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Two-Gun Vengeance (original) Star Book 42 1953 The Vengeance Trail (original) Star Book 14 1951 as Ambush on Satan's Hill Star Book 32 1952 Wyoming Outlaw (original) Star Book 18 1951 [same] Star Book 47 Kästner, Erich (1899-1974) German [trans by Cyrus Brooks] The Missing Miniature (Knopf, 1936, [abr]) Mercury Book 21 [1939] Kahm, Harold S. see ps Jerry Cole Kane, Frank (1912-1968) US series: Johnny Liddell Bullet Proof [Liddell] (Washburn, 1951, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 64 [1953] Dead Weight [Liddell] (Washburn, 1951, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 56 [1952] Green Light for Death [Liddell] (Washburn, 1949) Readers-Choice Library 8 1950 Johnny on a Slay Ride (forecast as Five Star Mystery # 48 but not published) Karig, Walter see ps Keats Patrick Keating, E[va] P[earl] [Murphy] (1887- ) Virgin by Day (Come to My Arms, Macaulay, 1935, rev) [Magazine Village] 8 1948 (as by Lois Bull on cover) Keating, Walter S. ps of Henrietta Rosenberg (1911- ) The Pleasure Primer (anth, The Omnibus of Pleasure, Stravon, 1943) Eerie Series 6 1944 Keene, Day, [né Gunard Hjertstedt] (1904-1969) US, see also ps Lewis Dixon Farewell to Passion (original) Original Novel 712 1952 Hunt the Killer (original) Phantom Book 507 1951 Naked Fury (original) Phantom Book 509 1952 This Is Murder, Mr. Herbert (forecast as Murder Mystery Monthly # 47 but not published, issued as Avon Book # 159 instead) Wake Up to Murder (original) Phantom Book 513 1952 [with Gil Brewer (1922-1983) US] Love Me—and Die! (original) Phantom Book 504 1951 Kelland, Clarence Budington (1881-1964) US Arizona (Harper, 1939) Adventure Novel Classic 30 [1945] Murder Makes an Entrance (Harper, 1955, abr) Bestseller Mystery B197 [1956] Valley of the Sun (Harper, 1940, abr) Adventure Novel Classic 25 n.d. Keller, H(arry) A. (1894- ) Her Day of Sin (Yesterday's Sin, Macaulay, 1934) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Her Sacred Sin ([The Sacred Sin], Macaulay, 1932, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Kelsey, [Audrey] Vera (1892-1961) Canadian/US The Bride Dined Alone (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Mercury M y s t e r y 93 [1945] Fear Came First (Doubleday, Doran, 1945, abr) Thriller Novel Classic 31 n.d. Whisper Murder[!] (Doubleday, 1946, abr) Bestseller Mystery B88 [1947] Kendrake, Carleton pseudonym, see Erle Stanley Gardner Kendrick, Baynard [Hardwick] (1894-1977) US series: Duncan Maclain You Die Today[!] [Maclain] (Morrow, 1952, c/u) Mercury Mystery 205 [1955] Kennedy, Howard pseudonym, see Jack Woodford Kenny, Charles J. pseudonym, see Erle Stanley Gardner Ketchum, Philip [L.] (1902-1969) US Good Night for Murder (Death in the Night, Phoenix, 1939, c/u) Dagger House Mystery 22 1946 Kill at Dusk (Death at Dusk, Phoenix, 1938, abr) Red Dagger Mystery 23 1946 Keystone, Oliver ps of James Howard Mantinband (1919-1980) series: Paul Plush Major Crime [Plush] (Phoenix, 1948, c/u) Prize Mystery Novel 30 King, Rufus [Frederick] (1893-1966) US series: Lt. Valcour The Case of the Dowager's Etchings (Doubleday, Doran, 1944, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 69 n.d. Design in Evil (Doubleday, Doran, 1942) Thriller Novel Classic 21 n.d. Diagnosis: Murder (coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Century 14 n.d. Murder by Latitude [Valcour] (Doubleday, Doran, 1930, abr) Detective Novel Classic 33 n.d. A Murderer in This House [Valcour] (Somewhere in This House, Doubleday, Doran, 1930) Detective Novel Classic 38 n.d.
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King, [Raymond] Sherwood (1904- ) US If I Die before I Wake (Simon & Schuster, 1938) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1940 Kingsland, Delmar ps of James W. Lumpp, q.v. Hoyden of the Mountains see Mountain Sinner Joy Girl (original) Croydon 66 1954 Mountain Sinner (original) Croydon 28 1953 as Hoyden of the Mountains Croydon 72 1954 Kinsey, Chet ps of [John] Ted
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The Road House Murders [Gregg] (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) Hangman's House 17 n.d. Steps to Murder [Branson] (Phoenix, 1943) Detective Novel Classic 27 n.d. Kootz, [Samuel] [Melvin] (1898-1982) US series: Jason Emory Puzzle in Paint [Emory] (Crown, 1943, abr) Hangman's House 2 n.d. Puzzle in Petticoats [Emory] (Crown, 1944) Black Knight Mystery 34 n.d. Kummer, Frederic Arnold (1873-1943) US series: Judge Henry T y s o n The Clue of the Twisted Face [T y s o n ] (The Twisted Face, Dodd, Mead, 1938, c/u) Detective Novel Classic 10 n.d. Design for Murder (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1936, abr) Arrow 11 n.d. The Scarecrow Murders (Dodd, Mead, 1938, c/u) Detective Novel Classic 6 n.d. Kutak, [Margaret] Rosemary [née Norris] (1905-1999) US series: Marc Castleman I Am the Cat [Castleman] (Farrar, Straus, 1948, abr) Mercury Mystery 130 [1948] Kuttner, Henry see ps Lewis Padgett La Roche, K. Alison Dear Dead Professor (Phoenix, 1944, abr) Black Cat Detective 25 1947 Laing, Patrick ps of Amelia Reynolds Long, q.v. series: Patrick Laing If I Should Murder [Laing] (Phoenix, 1945, c/u) Bleak House 19 n.d. Murder from the Mind [Laing] (Phoenix, 1946) Red Dagger Mystery 25 1947 Stone Dead [Laing] (Phoenix, 1945) Green Dragon 26 n.d. Lake, Joe Barry (1909-1961) see pss Joe Barry, Donell Carey Lakin, Richard ps of Richard Lakin Mason (1919-1997) The Body Fell on Berlin (Putnam, 1943, abr) Detective Novel Classic 50 n.d. Lambert, Janet, [née Snyder] (1894-1973) US series: Penny Parrish Star-Spangled Summer [Parrish] (Dutton, 1941, c/u) Comet Books 3 1948 Landon, Herman (1882-1960) Swedish/US The Back-Seat Murder (Liveright, 1931) [Voigt] 2 n.d. The Owl's Warning (Liveright, 1932, abr) [Green] 9 n.d. Lane, Jeremy (1893-1963) series: Whitney Wheat Death to Drumbeat [Wheat] (Phoenix, 1944, abr) Black Knight Mystery 17 n.d. Kill Him Tonight [Wheat] (Phoenix, 1946) Black Knight Mystery 32 n.d. Murder Menagerie [Wheat] (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) Bleak House 18 n.d. Lang, Beatrice see anonymous anthologies Langham, James R[ichard] (1912-1999) series: Sammy Abbott A Pocket Full of Clues [Abbott] (Simon & Schuster, 1941) Chartered 28 Lanham, Edwin [Moultrie] (1904-1979) US series: Vern Gray, Lt. Madigan The Case of the Missing Corpse [Madigan] (Death of a Corinthian, Harcourt, Brace, 1953, abr) Bestseller Mystery B182 [1955] One Murder Too Many [Gray] (Harcourt, Brace, 1952, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B169 [1954] Lariar, Lawrence (1908-1981) US series: Homer Bull Death Is the Host [ Bull] (Death Paints the Picture, Phoenix, 1943, [abr]) Crime Novel Selection 6 1943 He Died Laughing [Bull] (Phoenix, 1943, abr) [Femack] un n.d. Latimer, Jonathan [Wyatt] (1906-1983) US series: William Crane Dark Memory (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Century 100 n.d. The Dead Don't Care [Crane] (Doubleday, Doran, 1937, abr) Mercury Mystery 182 [1953] The Fifth Grave (Mystery Club, 1946, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J65 [1953] Headed for a Hearse [Crane] (Doubleday, Doran, 1935, abr) Mercury Mystery 38 [1941] [same] Jonathan Press Mystery J84 [1955] Murder in the Madhouse [Crane] (Doubleday, Doran, 1935, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery 69 [1954]
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Red Gardenias [Crane] (Doubleday, Doran, 1939) Mercury Mystery 55 [1942] [same, c/u] Century 34 n.d. as Some Dames Are Deadly (c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 77 [1955] Some Dames Are Deadly see Red Gardenias Lauferty, Lilian (1887-1958) US (The) Hungry House (Simon & Schuster, 1943, abr) Bonded Mystery 3 n.d. Lawless, Anthony pseudonym, see Philip MacDonald Lawrence, Ann Dance Hall Girl (Private Lessons, Godwin, 1933) Romantic Novel un n.d. Gin Wedding ([Gin Wife], Godwin, 1933, [rev]) Intimate Novel 8 (1951) Hoyden of the Hills (She Wanted More, Godwin, 1933, rev) Uni-Book 36 (1952) Jezebel's Daughter (Mother and Daughter, Godwin, 1934, rev) Uni-Book 27 n.d. Lawrence, D[avid] H[erbert] [Richards] (1885-1930) UK Love Among the Haystacks and other stories (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 46 1949 A Modern Lover and other stories (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 49 1949 Lawrence, Hilda
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Leiber, Fritz [Reuter], [Jr.] (1910-1992) US Destiny Times Three (mag, 1945) Galaxy Novel 28 [1957] The Sinful Ones (mag, 1950) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 5 1953 Leinster, Murray ps of Will[iam] F[itzgerald] Jenkins, q.v. series: Ron Cantrell The Black Galaxy [Cantrell] (mag, 1949) Galaxy SF Novel 20 1954 Fight for Life (mag, 1947) Prize S F Novel 10 n.d. Fighting Horse Valley (by Will F. Jenkins, King, 1934) Quarter Book 20 1948 as Texas Gun Slinger (abr) Star Book 1 1949 Guns along the Western Trail ({Mexican Trail by Will Jenkins, King, 1933}) West in Action 2 1948 Kid Deputy ( by Will Jenkins, King, 1935, c/u) West in Action 3 1948 The Last Space Ship ([coll], Fell, 1949, [c/u]) Galaxy Novel 25 [1955] Outlaw Deputy see Texas Gun Law Outlaw Guns see Wanted Dead or Alive Outlaw Sheriff (by Will Jenkins, King, 1934) West in Action 1 1948 Texas Gun Law (Black Sheep by Will F. Jenkins, Messner, 1936, abr) Quarter Book 23 1949 as Outlaw Deputy Star Book 5 1950 Texas Gun Slinger see Fighting Horse Valley Two-Gun Showdown (The Gamblin' Kid by Will Jenkins, King, 1933, rev) West in Action 4 1948 Wanted Dead or Alive! (original) Quarter Book/West in Action 25 1949 as Outlaw Guns Star Book 3 1950 Leitfred, Robert H. (1891-1968) US, see also ps Robert Fleming series: Simon Crole The Corpse That Spoke [Crole] (Green Circle, 1936) Hangman's House 14 n.d. The Man Who Was Murdered Twice [Crole] (Green Circle, 1937, abr) Green Dragon 21 n.d. Murder Is My Racket [Crole] (Death Cancels the Evidence, Green Circle, 1938) Tech Mystery 2 [1946] LeMay, Alan [Brown] (1899-1964) US Murder Range ({Cattle Kingdom, Farran, 1933}) Western Novel Classic 35 n.d. Rivermen Die Broke (Old Father of Waters, Doubleday, Doran, 1928) Adventure Novel Classic 14 [1943] Leonard, Charles L. ps of M[ary] V[iolet] Heberden, q.v. series: Paul Kilgerrin Assignment to Death [Kilgerrin] (The Fanatic of Fez, Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Thriller Novel Classic 27 [1945] Deadline for Destruction [Kilgerrin] (Doubleday, Doran, 1942) Thriller Novel Classic 24 n.d. The Secret of the Spa [Kilgerrin] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944, abr) Thriller Novel Classic 30 n.d. (as by Charles A. Leonard on cover) Sinister Shelter [Kilgerrin] (Doubleday, 1949, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B141 [1951] Leroux, Gaston (1868-1927) French series: Joseph Rouletabille Murder in the Bedroom [Rouletabille] (The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Brentano's, 1908) [Brussel] un 1945 Leslie, Jean (1908-1994) US Blood on My Shoe (Shoes for My Love, Doubleday, 1948, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B136 [1951] Lewis, Dana Backstage Sin ({Mad Parade}, Greenberg, 1934) Uni-Book 8 n.d. Lewis, Lange ps of Jane Beynon, née Lewis, (1915-2003) US series: Richard Tuck The Passionate Victims [Tuck] (Bobbs-Merrill, 1952, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B176 (1954) Lewis, [Harry] Sinclair (1885-1951) US Mantrap (Harcourt, Brace, 1926) Mercury Book 11 (1938) The Prodigal Parents (Doubleday, Doran, 1938, [abr]) Mercury Book 17 (1939) Seven Selected Short Stories (coll, Selected Short Stories, Doubleday, Doran, 1935, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 6 1943 Lewton, Val, [né Vladimir Ivan Leventon] (1904-1951) Russian/US No Bed of Her Own (Vanguard, 1932, c/u, reissue of Novel Library 39) Avon Monthly Novel 22
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Lilly, Jean [ M c C o y ] (1886-1961) US series: Bruce Perkins Death Thumbs a Ride [Perkins] (Dutton, 1940, [abr]) Black Cat Detective 6 1943 Lindsay, Perry ps of Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q.v. As Good as Married (Phoenix, 1945, rev) Quarter Book 48 1949 Blonde Trouble ({The Blonde, Phoenix, 1946}, c/u) Century 77 n.d. Buy My Love ([The Burning Desire], Phoenix, 1947) Exotic Novel Mag Dec 1949 No Nice Girl (Phoenix, 1946) Century 67 [1947] The Passionate Widow (Passion in the Pantry, Phoenix, 1942, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Paula Has a Price ([Desire under the Rose], Phoenix, 1948, c/u) Ecstasy Novel Mag Jan 1950 Shady Lady (Phoenix, 1941, c/u) [Hanro] 2 n.d. Shameless Woman (Sin Cinderella, Phoenix, 1948, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Sin for Two (original) Merit Book B-11 1951 Six Times a Bride (Phoenix, 1944) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Swamp Girl (Phoenix, 1950, rev) Intimate Novel 11 1951 Little, Constance (1899-1980) with Gwenyth Little (1903-1986) The Black Honeymoon (Doubleday, Doran, 1944, abr) Bestseller Mystery B85 [1947] The Black Paw (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 94 [1945] The Black Rustle (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, c/u) Mercury Mystery 107 [1947] Little, Gwenyth see Constance Little Litvinoff, Ivy ps of Ivy Low Litvinova (1890-1977) UK/Russian (The) Moscow Mystery (Coward-McCann, 1943, abr) Green Dragon 5 n.d. Livingston, Armstrong (1885- ) series: Jimmy Traynor The Case of the Walking Corpse (original) [Lucom] un 1946 Double Cross [Traynor] (Henkle, 1929) [Lucom] un 1946 Magic for Murder (Skeffington [UK], 1936) Cavalcade 2 1945 Murder Is Easy! (Speller, 1936, abr) [Femack] un n.d. Night of Crime [Traynor] (Sovereign House, 1938) Omnibus M y s t e r y un 1944 Livingston, Mae with Jane Allen Without Reservations (original) Century 103 {1946} Livingston, Ruth (S.) Men Are Molehills (original) Cavalcade 1 1946 Lobaugh, Elma K[linedorf] (1907-1997) US The Devil Is Loneliness (Wyn, 1946, rev) Avon Monthly Novel 11 1949 Lockridge, Frances [Louise], [neé Davis] (1896-1963) US with Richard Lockridge [Orson] (1898-1982) US series: Merton Heimrich, Jerry and Pamela North Death of a Tall Man [North] (Lippincott, 1946, abr) Mercury Mystery 129 [1948] I Want to Go Home [Heimrich] (Lippincott, 1948, abr) Mercury Mystery 137 [1949] Killer in the Straw [Heimrich] (Death and the Gentle Bull, Lippincott, 1954, c/u) Mercury Mystery 208 [1955] Murder Is Served [North] (Lippincott, 1948, abr) Mercury Mystery 145 [1950] Murder out of Turn [North] (Stokes, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 77 [1944] The Norths Meet Murder [North] (Stokes, 1940) Mercury Mystery 44 [1941] Spin Your Web, Lady(!) [Heimrich] (Lippincott, 1949, c/u) Mercury Mystery 154 [1950] Trial by Terror [Heimrich] (Death by Association, Lippincott, 1952, c/u) Mercury Mystery 192 [1954] Untidy Murder [North] (Lippincott, 1947) Mercury Mystery 133 [1949] Lockridge, Richard see Frances Lockridge Lomax, Bliss ps of Harry Sinclair Drago, q.v. series: Rainbow Ripley Canyon of Golden Skulls (Macaulay, 1937, abr) Western Novel Classic 103 n.d. Closed Range (Macaulay, 1936) Western Novel Classic 96 n.d. Colt Comrades [Ripley] (Doubleday, Doran, 1939) Century 62 n.d. Gringo Gunfire [Ripley] (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Century 58 n.d. Horsethief Creek [Ripley] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944) Western Novel Classic 63 n.d. The Leather Burners [Ripley] (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Century 54 n.d. Outlaw River [Ripley] (Dodd, Mead, 1945) Western Novel Classic 52 n.d.
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The Phantom Corral [Ripley] (Dodd, Mead, 1946, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 21 n.d. Rusty Guns [Ripley] (Dodd, Mead, 1944) Western Novel Classic 57 n.d. Saddle Hawks [Ripley] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944) Western Novel Classic 66 n.d. Secret of the Wasteland (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, c/u) Century 59 n.d. Long, Amelia Reynolds (1904-1978) US, see also ps Patrick Laing series: Steve Carter Death Has a Will [Carter] (Phoenix, 1944) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Murder by Magic [Carter] (Phoenix, 1947) Green Dragon 31 n.d Long, Julius [W.] (1907-1955) US Murder in Her Big Blue Eyes (Keep the Coffins Coming, Messner, 1947, c/u) Murder Mystery Monthly 48 1950 Long, Manning (1906- ) US series: Liz Parrott Invitation to Murder [Parrott] (False Alarm, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943) Arrow 9 n.d. Modeled in Murder [Parrott] (Here's Blood in Your Eye, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941, abr) Best Detective Selection 8 1943 Savage Breast [Parrott] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1948, c/u) Mercury Mystery 207 [1955] Short Shrift [Parrott] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945, abr) Bestseller Mystery B118 [1950] Vicious Circle [Parrott] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942) Croydon Mystery un 1945 Long, Max [Freedom] (1890-1971) series: Kom ak o Koa Death Goes Native [Komako] (Lippincott, 1941, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Long, William (1922- ) see pss Will Creed, Peter Yates Longstreet, Stephen, [né Chauncey Weiner] (1907-2002) US, see pss Paul Haggard, Henri Weiner Loomis, Noel [Miller] (1905-1969) US series: Glassmen City of Glass [Glassmen] (mag, 1942) Double Action Pocketbook un 1955 Lorac, E. C. R. ps of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958) UK series: Robert MacDonald Place for a Poisoner [MacDonald] (Doubleday, 1949, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B129 [1950] Relative to Poison [MacDonald] (Doubleday, 1948) Mercury Mystery 136 [1949] Lord, Garland joint ps of Isabel Garland, q.v. & Mindret Lord (1903-1955) US Murder with Love (Morrow, 1943, abr) Big Green Detective 4 n.d. Lord, Mindret see ps Garland Lord Low, Gardner ps of Percival Charles Rodda (1891-1976) Aust/UK Invitation to Kill (Putnam, 1937, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 17 1945 Lucas, Curtis Forbidden Fruit (original) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 8 1953 Lucas, Robert see also ps Luke Roberts Below the Belt (original) Uni-Book 76 1953 Ludwig, Margaret, translator by Georges Simenon Maigret Returns (from Maigret Sits It out, Harcourt, Brace, 1941) Jonathan Press Mystery 18 [1945] Maigret Sits It out (from [same], Harcourt, Brace, 1941) Jonathan Press Mystery 8 [1944] Lumpp, James W[illiam] (1909-1994) US see pss Amos Hatter, Delmar Kingsland, Frederic Spencer, William Vaneer, Ben West Lyon, [Mabel] Dana (1897-1982) House on Telegraph Hill (The Frightened Child, Harper, 1948, c/u) Mercury Mystery 158 [1951] It's My Own Funeral (Farrar & Rinehart, 1944, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 27 1947 Lyons, Gwen ps of Sally Chayes They Call Her "Easy" (original) Ecstasy Novel 16 1951 Lyons, Ruth Hotel Wife (Macaulay, 1933, abr) Lev Gleason Library 101 1949 MacArthur, Arthur (1896- ) Aphrodite's Lover (After the Afternoon, Appleton-Century, 1941, c/u) Universal Giant 9 (1953) MacDonald, Philip (1900-1980) UK/US Harbour (by Anthony Lawless, Doubleday, Doran, 1932, abr) Bonded Mystery 13 n.d. Murder Gone Mad (Doubleday, Doran, 1931, abr) Mercury Mystery 181 [1953] No Time for Terror (Guest in the House, Doubleday, 1955, abr) Bestseller Mystery B195 [1956]
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MacDonald, [Allan] William Colt (1891-1968) US series: The Three Mesquiteers The Battle at Three-Cross (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 5 n.d. Black Sombrero (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) W estern Novel Classic 37 n.d. Boomtown Buccaneers (Doubleday, Doran, 1942, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 8 n.d. California Caballero (Covici-Friede, 1936) Century 69 n.d. Cartridge Carnival (Doubleday, Doran, 1945) Western Novel Classic 54 n.d. Master of the Mesa (Doubleday, 1947) Gunfire Western Novel 26 n.d. The Phantom Pass (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Century 56 n.d. Powdersmoke Range [Mesquiteers] (Covici-Friede, 1934, c/u) Century 76 n.d. Rebel Ranger [Mesquiteers] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 11 n.d. Renegade Roundup (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Century 16 n.d. The Riddle of Ramrod Ridge (Doubleday, Doran, 1942) Western Action Novel 2 n.d. Roaring Lead [Mesquiteers] (Covici-Friede, 1935) Century 61 n.d. Six-Gun Melody [Mesquiteers] (Covici-Friede, 1933) Gunfire Western Novel 14 n.d. The Three Mesquiteers [Mesquiteers] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 22 n.d. Thunderbird Trail [Mesquiteers] (Doubleday, 1946) Gunfire Western Novel 17 n.d. The Vanishing Gunslinger [Mesquiteers] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943) Gunfire Western Novel 19 n.d. MacVeigh, Sue ps of Elizabeth Custer Nearing (1898-1960) US series: Andy MacVeigh The Corpse and the Three Ex-Husbands by Sue McVeigh [MacVeigh] (Houghton Mifflin, 1941, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Grand Central Murder [MacVeigh] (Houghton Mifflin, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month 27 1941 Streamlined Murder [MacVeigh] (Houghton Mifflin, 1940) Mystery Novel Classic 49 Mace, Merlda ps of Madeleine McCoy series: Chrsitine Andersen Blondes Don't Cry [Andersen] ( Messner, 1945, abr) Black Cat Detective 28 (1947) Headlong for Murder [Andersen] (Messner, 1943, abr) Black Cat Detective 15 1945 Motto for Murder (Messner, 1943, abr) Black Cat Detective 17 1945 Malmar, McKnight (1903-1985) US Never Say Die (Coward-McCann, 1943, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 23 1946 Mann, E[dward] B[everly] (1902-1989) US Texas Lightnin' (The Man from Texas, Morrow, 1931, c/u) Readers-Choice Library 6 1950 Manners, David X. (1912-2007) US Memory of a Scream (Mystery House, 1946, c/u) Hangman's House 18 n.d. Manning, Bruce Cafe Society Sinner (original) Intimate Novel 48 1953 Off Limits (original) Intimate Novel 14 Triangle of Sin (original) Intimate Novel 25 1952 Manning, Jane ps of Ruth Manoff, q.v. The Affairs of a Leading Lady (original) Venus Book 150 1952 City Hotel (original) Carnival Book 919 1953 [same] Carnival Book 933 1954 [same] Carnival Book 939 Reefer Girl (original) Cameo Book 330 1953 as Young Sinners Venus Book 175 (1954) [same, revised] Venus Book 183 1956 Young Sinners see Reefer Girl Manning, Roy ps of Fred East, q.v. Tangled Trail (Macrae-Smith, 1947) Gunfire Western Novel 31 n.d. Trigger Trail (Macrae-Smith, 1945) Fighting Western Novel 16 n.d. Vengeance Valley (Macrae-Smith, 1946) Fighting Western Novel 18 n.d. Manning, Tom ps of Jack Hanley, q.v. Hotel Waitress see Pick-Up at Midnight by Gene Harvey Mannon, M. M. joint ps of Mary Ellen Mannon (1913-2003) & Martha Mannon (1909-1993) series: George White Here Lies Blood [White] (Bobbs-Merrill, 1942, abr) Croydon Mystery un 1945 Manoff, Ruth see pss Jane Manning, Denise Marcelle Marcelle, Denise ps of Ruth Manoff, q.v. French Pick-Up see Secrets of Paris Nights Secrets of Paris Nights (original) Croydon 41 1953 as French Pick-Up Croydon 96 1955
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March, William ps of William Edward March Campbell (1893-1954) US Company K (Smith & Haas, 1933) Mercury Book 4 [1937] Marin, Arthur ps of Arnold Sroog, q.v. Blonde Hellcat see Sheila's Daughter by William Arnold The Doctor's Wife (original) Venus Book 134 1951 [same] Venus Book 156 (1953) Marion, Frances ps of Frances Marion Owens (1886-1973) US The Passions of Linda Lane (Minnie Flynn, Boni & Liveright, 1925, rev) Diversey Prize Novel 3 1949 Marlett, Melba [Balmat] [Grimes] (1909-1994) US Escape While I Can (Doubleday, Doran, 1944) Mystery Novel Classic 72 n.d. Marquand, John P[hillips] (1893-1960) US series: Mr. Moto Last Laugh, Mr. Moto [Moto] (Little, Brown, 1942) Mercury Mystery 139 [1949] Ming Yellow (Little, Brown, 1935, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 54 [1951] Mr. Moto Is So Sorry [Moto] (Little, Brown, 1938, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 49 [1950] No Hero [Moto] (Little, Brown, 1935, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 52 [1951] Thank You, Mr. Moto [Moto] (Little, Brown, 1936, abr) Bestseller Library 12 [1941] Think Fast, Mr. Moto [Moto] (Little, Brown, 1937) Bestseller Mystery B124 [1950] Marsh, [Edith] Ngaio (1899-1982) NZ series: Roderick A l l e y n Artists in Crime [A l l e y n ] (Furman, 1938, abr) Bestseller Mystery B64 [1945] The Bride of Death [A l l e y n ] (Spinsters in Jeopardy, Little, Brown, 1953, abr) Mercury Mystery 203 [1954] Death in Ecstasy [A l l e y n ] (Sheridan, 1941) Bestseller Mystery B23 [1942] A Man Lay Dead [A l l e y n ] (Sheridan, 1942, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J3 1943 Vintage Murder [A l l e y n ] (Sheridan, 1940, abr) Bestseller Mystery B68 1945 with Dr. Henry Jellett The Nursing Home Murder [A l l e y n ] (Sheridan, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 79 [1944] Marshall, Sidney Some Like it Hot (Morrow, 1941) [Green] 6 n.d. Marston, William [Moulton] (1893-1947) US The Private Life of Julius Caesar (Venus with Us, Sears, 1932, abr) Universal Giant 6 1953 Martin, A[rchibald] E[dward] (1885-1955) series: Pel Pelham The Outsiders [Pelham] (Simon & Schuster, 1945) Mercury Mystery 116 [1947] Sinners Never Die (Simon & Schuster, 1944, abr) Bestseller Mystery B84 [1947] Martin, Charles (M)[orris] (1891- ) see also ps Clay Starr series: Roaming Reynolds The Deuce of Diamonds [Reynolds] (Greenberg, 1937, abr) Western Novel Classic 94 n.d. Raw Passion ([Tie-Fast Hombre], Greenberg, 1936, rev) Uni-Book 16 n.d. Martin, George Victor (1900- ) US The Lady Said Yes (Mark it with a Stone, Fell, 1947) Avon Monthly Novel 10 1949 Mason, [Francis] Van W yck (1901-1978) US series: Hugh North The Budapest Parade Murders [North] (Doubleday, Doran, 1935, abr) Bestseller Mystery B63 [1945] Cairo Garter Murders [North] (Doubleday, Doran, 1938) Bestseller Mystery B27 [1942] The Cairo Garter Murders [North] (Doubleday, Doran, 1938) Century 70 n.d. Hongkong Airbase Murders [North] (Doubleday, Doran, 1937) Detective Novel Classic 9 n.d. The Shanghai Bund Murders [North] (Doubleday, Doran, 1933, c/u) Century 32 n.d. [same] [2nd edition] Century 32 n.d. The Sulu Sea Murders [North] (Doubleday, Doran, 1933) Century 21 n.d. The Washington Legation Murders [North] (Doubleday, Doran, 1935, abr) Bestseller Mystery B57 [1944] Matthews, Ernest L., Jr. Out of Bounds (original) Uni-Book 78 1954 Maugham, W[illiam] Somerset (1874-1965) UK Ah King and other Romance Stories of the Tropics (coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1933, [abr]) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 18 1944 Cosmopolitans (coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, c/u) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 1 1943 East of Suez (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 43 1948 (forecast as More Tales of Tropical Romance) (Great) Stories of Love and Intrigue (from The Mixture As Before, coll, Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 38 1947
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More Great Stories (coll, First Person Singular, Doubleday, Doran, 1931, rev) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 8 (1943) The Romantic Young Lady and Other Intriguing People (from Creatures of Circumstance, coll, Doubleday, 1947, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 51 1950 The Trembling of a Leaf (coll, Doran, 1921, [abr]) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 35 1946 McCary, Reed ps of Ernie
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Mersereau, John (1898-1989) US The Corpse Comes Ashore (Lippincott, 1941, [abr]) Atlas Mystery un 1945 M erw i n , [W.] Sam[uel] [Kimball], Jr. (1910-1996) US series: Amy Brewster, Elspeth Marriner Body and Soul (original, from movie) Century 63 1947 The House of Many Worlds [Marriner] (Doubleday, 1951, [c/u]) Galaxy SF Novel 12 (1952) Killer to Come (Abelard, 1953, [abr]) Galaxy SF Novel 22 1954 A Matter of Policy [Brewster] (Mystery House, 1946, c/u) Green Dragon 30 n.d. Message from a Corpse [Brewster] (Mystery House, 1945, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 22 {1946} Murder in Miniatures (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Black Cat Detective 19 1945 Michel, M[ilton] Scott (1916-1992) The Psychiatric Murders (Mystery House, 1946) Black Knight Mystery 27 n.d. Millburn, Cynthia ps of Anne [Tedlock] Brooks (1905-1980) US Thanks, Angel (Gramercy, 1945) Prize Love Novel 20 Miller, Max [Carlton] (1899-1967) US I Cover the Waterfront (NF, Dutton, 1932, [abr]) Mercury Book 12 (1938) Mitchell, Francis [O.] Dirt Farm (original) Uni-Book 51 1953 Mitchell, Gladys [Maud] [Winifred] (1901-1983) UK series: Mrs. Bradley When Last I Died [Bradley] (Knopf, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 119 [1948] Mitchell, J[ames] Leslie (1901-1935) UK Three Go Back (Bobbs-Merrill, 1932, [abr]) Galaxy SF Novel 15 [1953] Molnar, Louis [M.] (1873-1956) with Charles Saxby Death over Hollywood (Dutton, 1937) Detective Novel Classic 29 n.d. Montana, Zed Six Gun Pay-Off! (Jonathan Press [UK], 1948) Black Cat Western 46 n.d. Montgomery, Ione series: Christopher Gibson The Golden Dress [Gibson] (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Montgomery, Rutherford [George] (1894-1985) US Gray Wolf (Houghton Mifflin, 1938, c/u) Comet Books 24 1949 Husky (Holt, 1942, c/u) Comet Books 20 1949 Midnight (Holt, 1940) Comet Books 26 1949 Moore, Amos ps of George Barron Hubbard (1884-1958) US Devlin's Day Off (Doubleday, Doran, 1942) Gunfire Western Novel 13 n.d. Lead Law (Macaulay, 1934, abr) Western Novel Classic 93 n.d. Moore, C[atherine] L[ucille] (1911-1987) US series: Northwest Smith Shambleau [Smith] (coll, Gnome, 1953, [abr]) Galaxy Novel 31 [1958] Moore, [Robert] Ed[gar] (1908- ) Black Gold Stampede (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Western Novel Classic 81 n.d. Moore, Frances Sarah ps of Elsie Frances [Wilson] Mack (1909- ) Love Should Be Laughter (Curl, 1947, c/u) Avon Romance Novel Monthly 2 1950 Moore, Hal R. Odd Girl (original) Intimate Novel 56 1954 Morell, [Alfred] Parker (1906-1943) Diamond Jim Brady (NF, Simon & Schuster, 1934, [abr]) Mercury Book 7 [1938] Morland, Nigel (1905-1986) UK see pss John Donavan, Norman Forrest Mortimer, Peter ps of Dorothy James Roberts (1903-1990) US If a Body Kill a Body (Mystery House, 1946, abr) Dagger House Mystery 24 [ ] Mosher, J[ohn] S. Liar Dice (Simon & Schuster, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1941 Muir, Denis Death Defies the Doctor (Phoenix, 1944, abr) Green Dragon 19 n.d. Mulford, Clarence E[dward] (1883-1956) US series: Hopalong Cassidy, Matt Skinner "Bring Me His Ears" (McClurg, 1922) Thrilling Novel 29 n.d. The Deputy Sheriff (Doubleday, Doran, 1930, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 7 n.d.
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Hopalong Cassidy and the Eagle's Brood [Cassidy, Skinner] (Doubleday, Doran, 1931) Western Novel Classic 26 (1943) Hopalong Cassidy Serves a Writ [Cassidy] (Doubleday, Doran, 1941) Western Novel Classic 59 n.d. Rustler's Valley (Doubleday, Page, 1924, abr) Thrilling Novel 20 n.d. Thunder Ranch (Me an' Shorty, Doubleday, Doran, 1929) Western Novel Classic 32 n.d. Trail Dust (Doubleday, Doran, 1934, abr) Thrilling Book 11 n.d. Mullen, Clarence (1907-1971) Thereby Hangs a Corpse (Mystery House, 1946, c/u) Hangman's House 16 n.d. Mundy, Talbot [né William Lancaster Gribbin] (1879-1940) UK/US series: James G r im Affair in Araby [Grim] (The King in Check, Appleton, 1922, c/u) 1/2 of double Royal Books 22 1953 Full Moon (Appleton-Century, 1935, c/u) 1/2 of double Royal Books 20 1953 Jimgrim Sahib [Grim] (Jimgrim, Century, 1931, c/u) Royal Books 12 (1953) The Queen's Warrant (W.H., Hutchinson [UK], 1931) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 11 1953 Trek East (The Ivory Trail, Bobbs-Merrill, 1919, c/u) Royal Books 19 (1953) Munroe, Val ps of Frank E. Castle US Carnival of Passion (original) Rainbow 115 1952 Tender Hearted Harlot (original) Rainbow 125 1952 Murray, Max[well] (1901-1956) Australian The King and the Corpse (Farrar, Straus, 1948, abr) Mercury Mystery 138 [1949] Nathan, Robert [Gruntal] (1894-1985) US One More Spring (Knopf, 1933) Bestseller Library 2 [1940] Nebel, [Louis] Frederick (1903-1967) US Fifty Roads to Town (Little, Brown, 1936) American Mercury Book 33 (1940) Week End to Kill (mag, 1938) 1/2 of double Century 30 1945 Nelson, Hugh Lawrence (1907- ) series: Steve Johnson Fountain of Death [Johnson] (Rinehart, 1948, abr) Bestseller Mystery B116 [1949] Neubauer, William Arthur (1916-1982) US see pss William Arthur, Norman Bligh, Ralph Carter, Mitchell Coleman, Gordon Semple, hps James Clayford Newell, Audrey series: Patrick D o y l e Murder Is Not Mute [D o y l e ] (Macrae-Smith, 1940) Mystery Novel Classic 44 1943 Newland, N. M. ps of C. William Harrison (1913-1994) Dunn of the Double D (Phoenix, 1948) Gunfire Western Novel 23 n.d. Newman, Bernard [Charles] (1897-1968) UK The Mussolini Murder Case (The Mussolini Murder Plot, Hillman-Curl, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1939 Newton, D[wight] B[ennett] (1916- ) US Gunmaster of Saddleback (Phoenix, 1948, abr) Prize Western Novel 29 1948 Nezelof, Pierre [trans by Sylvia Stuart?] Scandalous Loves (NF, Josephine the Great Lover, Liveright, 1929, abr) Readers-Choice Library 30 n.d. (as by N. P. Nezelof on cover and spine) Nickerson, Kate ps of Lulla Adler, q.v. Boy Hungry (original) Carnival Book 927 1954 [same] Carnival Book 951 Boy-Chaser (original) Carnival Book 937 1955 [same, rev] Cameo Book 359 1956 [same] Carnival Book 957 (1957) Passion Is a Woman (original) Venus Book 152 1952 [same] Venus Book 165 as Hollywood Starlet by Richard Hall Venus Book 198 (1957) Ringside Jezebel (original) Original Novel 725 1953 Street of the Blues (original) Original Novel 729 1953 Nielsen, Virginia, [mariée McCall] (1909-2000) US Try to Forget me (Doubleday, Doran, 1942) Golden Willow 53 1946
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Nixon, Harry Lewis ps of Herbert Leon Newbold, Jr. (1921-1994) US Confessions of a Psychiatrist (original) 1/2 of double Royal Books 27 1953 Naked Desire (original) Intimate Novel 31 1953 Secrets of a Doctor's Bride (original) Intimate Novel 55 Ship's Doctor (original) Intimate Novel 51 1954 [same] Stallion Book 209 n.d. Nolan, Jeannette [née] Covert (1896-1974) US series: Lace White Final Appearance [White] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 "I Can't Die Here" [White] (Messner, 1945, abr) Detective Novel Classic 49 n.d. Murder Will Out [White] (Profile in Gilt, Funk, 1941, c/u) Detective Novel Classic 8 n.d. Nonweiler, Arville (1906-1996) Murder on the Pike (Phoenix, 1944, abr) Hangman's House 1 n.d. Norcross, Robert Greenwich Village Girl ([The French Wench], Phoenix, 1949) Intimate Novel 7 (1951) Love at a Price (Phoenix, 1936, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Norton, Andre ps of Alice Mary Norton (1912-2005) US, adopted legally? Scarface (Harcourt, Brace, 1948, c/u) Comet Books 28 1949 Nye, Nelson (C)[oral] (1907-1997) US, see also ps Clem Colt series: Wild Horse Shorty Blood of Kings [Shorty] (Macmillan, 1946) Fighting Western Novel 41 n.d. The Gun-Wolf of Tubac (The Barber of Tubac, Macmillan, 1947, c/u) Western Novel Monthly 1 1949 Wild Horse Shorty [Shorty] (Macmillan, 1944) Fighting Western Novel 38 n.d. Nyland, Gentry Hot Bullets for Love (Mr. South Burned His Mouth, Morrow, 1941) Double Action Detective 2 1943 [same] Big Green Detective 2 n.d. O'Farrell, William (1904-1962) Lovely in Death (The Snakes of St. Cyr, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1951, abr) Bestseller Mystery B179 [1955] These Arrows Point to Death (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1951, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B149 [1952] O'Hanlon, James [D.] (1910-1969) series: Jason Cordry As Good as Murdered [Cordry] (Random, 1940) Century 17 n.d. Murder at Coney Island [Cordry] (Phoenix, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month 23 [ ] O'Hara, John [Henry] (1905-1970) US All the Girls He Wanted (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 50 1949 Files on Parade (coll, Harcourt, Brace, 1939, c/u) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 2 1943 Hellbox (coll, Random, 1947, c/u) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 45 1949 Hope of Heaven and other stories (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 29 1946 Stories of Venial Sin (from Pipe Night, coll, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 39 1947 [same] Avon Special un [ ] O'Neil, Kerry ps of John Thomas MacIntyre (1871-1951) US Death at Dakar (Doubleday, Doran, 1942) Thriller Novel Classic 28 n.d. Offord, Lenore [née] Glen (1905-1991) US series: Bill Hastings Clues to Burn [Hastings] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 186 [1953] Ogden, George W[ashington] (1871-1966) US Windy Range (Dodd, Mead, 1938) Western Novel Classic 65 n.d. Ogilvie, Elisabeth see ps Elisabeth Gill Olsen, [Julia] [Clara] [Catherine] D[olores] B[irk] (1907-1973) US, later Dolores Hitchens, q.v. series: Rachel Murdock, Prof. Pennyfeather The Alarm of the Black Cat [Murdock] (Doubleday, Doran, 1942, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B66 [1945] The Cat Wears a Noose [Murdock] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944, abr) Detective Novel Classic 43 n.d. Cat's Claw [Murdock] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943) Mystery Novel Classic 87 n.d. Cats Don't Need Coffins [Murdock] (Doubleday, 1946, abr) Bestseller Mystery B99 [1948] Devious Design [Pennyfeather] (Doubleday, 1948, abr) Bestseller Mystery B120 [1950] Oursler, Charles Fulton see ps Anthony Abbott
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Oursler, Will[iam] [Charles] (1913-1985) US series: Philip Strong Bullets for a Blonde (Departure Delayed, Simon & Schuster, 1947, abr) Bestseller Mystery B110 [1949] Folio on Florence White [Strong] (Simon & Schuster, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 78 [1944] The Trial of Vincent Doon [Strong] (Simon & Schuster, 1941, c/u) Mercury Mystery 86 [1945] Overholser, Wayne D[aniel] (1906-1996) US Gun Crazy (mag, 1946) Readers-Choice Library 17 n.d. Owen, Ethel Confessions of a Good-Time Girl (Some One Shall Love Me, Furman, 1939, c/u) [Astro] 10 1948 Unwilling Bride (Romance in the Rain, Green Circle, 1937, c/u) [Astro] 9 1948 Owen, Hans C. Fit to Kill (Ways of Death, Green Circle, 1937, abr) Hangman's House 6 n.d. Ozaki, Milton K. see ps Robert O. Saber Packard, Frank L[ucius] (1877-1942) Canadian series: Jimmy Dale Jimmy Dale and the Phantom Clue [Dale] (Doran, 1922) Thriller Novel Classic 8 n.d. Padgett, Lewis ps of Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) US Chessboard Planet ([The Fairy Chessmen], with Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gnome, 1951) Galaxy Novel 26 [1956] Well of the Worlds (mag, 1952) Galaxy SF Novel 17 1953 Page, Ralph Flame of Forgotten Guns (Doubleday, Doran, 1933) Western Novel Classic 82 n.d. Palmer, [Charles] Stuart [Hunter] (1905-1968) US series: Hildegarde Withers The Monkey Murder (coll, original) Bestseller Mystery B128 1950 The Penguin Pool Murder [Withers] (Brentano's, 1931, c/u) Detective Novel Classic 18 (1943) The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers [Withers] (coll, original) Jonathan Press Mystery 26 [1947] Trap for a Redhead [Withers] (Nipped in the Bud, Mill & Morrow, 1951, abr) Bestseller Mystery B189 [1955] Paradise, Viola [Isabel] (1887-1980) US A Girl Died Laughing (Harper, 1934, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 62 n.d. Parkman, Sydney [Müller] (1895-1995) series: Captain Bowker Out from Shanghai (Harper, 1935) Adventure Novel Classic 16 n.d. Ship Ashore [Bowker] (Harper, 1937, abr) Adventure Novel Classic 40 n.d. Patrick, Keats ps of Walter Karig (1898-1956) US The Pool of Death (Death Is a Tory, Bobbs-Merrill, 1935, abr) Best Detective Selection 5 1942 Paul, Elliot (H)[arold] (1891-1958) US, see also ps Brett Rutledge series: Homer Evans I'll Hate Myself in the Morning [Evans] (from [same], Random, 1945) Bonded 16 n.d. Indelible (Houghton Mifflin, 1922, [abr]) Mercury Book 15 (1938) The Mysterious Mickey Finn [Evans] (Modern Age, 1939, c/u) Murder of the Month 2 1942 Payne, Stephen Riders of the Rocker K (Dial, 1935, abr) Thrilling Novel 28 n.d. Pease, [Clarence] Howard (1894- 1974) US series: Tod Moran Long Wharf (Dodd, Mead, 1939) Comet Books 33 1949 The Tattooed Man [Moran] (Doubleday, Page, 1926, c/u) Comet Books 10 1947 [same] (second edition) Comet Books 10 1948 Pember-Hiller, Guy Run, Corpse, Run!! (original) Double Action Detective 1 1943 [same] Big Green Detective 3 n.d. Pentecost, Hugh ps of Judson Philips, q.v. series: Luke Bradley Secret Corridors [Bradley] (mag, 1945) 1/2 of double Century 30 (1945) Perdue, Virginia (1899-1945) US series: Eleanora Burke The Case of the Foster Father [Burke] (Doubleday, Doran, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 92 [1945] He Fell Down Dead (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Mercury Mystery 80 [1944] The Singing Clock (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 61 [1943] Perkins, Kenneth [Taylor] (1890-1951) US see pss Randolph Hale, Kim Knight
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Perowne, Barry ps of Philip Atkey (1908-1985) UK Ten Words of Poison (Mystery House, 1941, abr) Green Dragon 13 n.d. Perry, George Sessions (1910-1956) US with Dorothy Cameron Disney Thirty Days Hath September (Random, 1942, abr) Bestseller Mystery B53 [1944] Petersen, Herman (1893-1973) US series: Doc Miller Murder R.F.D. [Miller] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942, abr) Best Detective Selection (10) 1943 (as by Peterson on cover) Philips, Judson [Pentecost] (1903-1989) US, see also ps Hugh Pentecost Bottom Deal (from anth, 1941) 1/2 of double Century (18) n.d. Phillips, Ernie Rustlers of Table Butte (Phoenix, 1936) Fighting Western Novel 34 n.d. Phillips, Rog ps of Roger P[hillips] Graham (1909-1965) US World of If (original) Merit Book B-13 1951 Pierson, Eleanor (1903-1989) Murder without Clues (The Defense Rests, Howell, Soskin, 1942) Mystery Novel Classic 55 Piper, Anson Black Creek Buckaroo (Morrow, 1941, abr) Fighting Western Novel 33 n.d. Piper, Evelyn ps of Merriam Modell (1908-1994) US Death of a Nymph (The Motive, Simon & Schuster, 1950, c/u) Mercury Mystery 162 [1951] Pitigrilli ps of Dino Segré (1893-1975) Italian [trans by Winfield Thompson?] Without Consent by M. Pitigrilli (Eighteen Carat Virgin, Greenberg, 1933, rev) Uni-Book 10 1951 Pitkin, Walter B[oughton] (1878-1953) US Life Begins at Forty (NF, McGraw-Hill, 1932) Bestseller Library 4 [1940] Pitzer, Robert Claiborne (1879-1962) US Badmen of Elk Head (Phoenix, 1940) Western Novel of the Month 16 n.d. Plievier, Theodor (1892-1955) German translated by Richard & Clara Winston Stalingrad (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948, c/u) Royal Books 16 (1953) Polsky, Thomas (1908-1976) US series: L. F. Griddle Curtains for the Judge [Griddle] (Dutton, 1939, [abr]) Black Cat Detective 3 1943 Popkin, Zelda, [née Feinberg] (1898-1983) US series: Mary Carner Time Off for Murder [Carner] (Lippincott, 1940) Century 25 n.d. Porcelain, Sidney E. (1911-1997) series: Stephen Clay The Purple Pony Murders [Clay] (Phoenix, 1944) Prize Mystery Novel 14 1945 Postgate, Raymond [William] (1896-1971) UK Verdict of Twelve (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Mercury Mystery 65 (1943) Powell, Richard [Pitts] (1908-1999) US series: Andy Blake And Hope to Die [Blake] (Simon & Schuster, 1947, abr) Mercury Mystery 122 [1948] Shark River (Simon & Schuster, 1950, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B125 [1950] Poynter, Beulah (1886- ) White Trash (original) Uni-Book 33 1952 Prather, Richard S[cott] (1921-2007) US Dagger of Flesh! (original) Falcon Book 30 1952 Pratt, [Murray] Fletcher (1897-1956) US Double Jeopardy ([coll], Doubleday, 1952, [c/u]) Galaxy Novel 30 [1958] Pratt, Theodore (1901-1969) US series: Anthony Adams Murder Goes Fishing [Adams] (by Timothy Brace, Dutton, 1936, [abr]) Diamond Library un 1945 Price, E. Hoffmann see ps Hamlin Daly Price, Wesley Death Is a Stowaway (Godwin, 1933) Mystery Novel of the Month un [ ] Prince, Don (1903-1983) UK/US Tom's Temptations (Tom, Messner, 1940, abr) Broadway Novel Monthly 4 1949
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Pritchard, Janet Country Club Cheat (original) Uni-Book 68 1953 Sin Ship (original?) Uni-Book 23 Warped Women (original) Uni-Book 9 Propper, Milton [Morris] (1906-1962) US series: Tommy Rankin The Case of the Cheating Bride [Rankin] (Harper, 1938, [abr]) Black Cat Detective 5 1943 The Great Insurance Murders [Rankin] (Harper, 1937, [abr]) Prize Mystery Novel 7 1943 The Station Wagon Murder [Rankin] (Harper, 1940) Prize Mystery Novel 8 1944 Punshon, E[rnest] R[obertson] (1872-1956) UK series: Bobby Owen The Bathtub Murder Case [Owen] (The Bath Mysteries, Hillman-Curl, 1938) Detective Novel Classic 11 n.d. Death in the Chalk Pits [Owen] (The Dusky Hour, Hillman-Curl, 1938) Mystery Novel of the Month 26 1941 Quandt, Albert L. see also pss Raymond Blair, Barry de Forest, Russell Higgins, Charles Thornton; hpss James Clayford, Luther Gordon. Baby Peddler (original) Original Novel 728 1953 as Big City Nurse Original Novel 743 (1954) Baby Sitter (original) Original Novel 720 1952 [same] Original Novel 736 n.d. [same, revised] Star Novel 751 1955 Beyond Desire (original) Original Novel 707 1952 as Dream Club Original Novel 726 1953 Big City Nurse see Baby Peddler Big-Time Girl (original) Venus Book 129 1951 Boy-C r a z y see Zip-Gun Angels Cellar Club (original) Original Novel 703 1951 [same] Original Novel 716 (1952) [same] Original Novel 738 (1954) [same, revised] Star Novel 754 1956 City Sinner see Ticket to Passion Crime Boss (original) Original Novel 711 1952 Dream Club see Beyond Desire Gang Moll (original) Original Novel 709 1952 Girl of the Slums (original) Venus Book 121 1951 revised, as by Raymond Blair Carnival Book 914 1953 as Big City Hellcat by Raymond Blair Carnival Book 948 (1956) Journey into Ecstasy (original) Venus Book 115 1951 Passion C.O.D. (original) Cameo Book 306 1951 Pick-Up! see Ticket to Passion Pick-Up Alley (original) Venus Book 111 1950 The Sins of Allie-May (original) Quarter Book 75 1950 Social Club (original) Carnival Book 930 1954 [same] Carnival Book 947 (1956) Street Girl see Private Life of a Street Girl by James Clayford Thrill Me Again (original) Venus Book 125 1951 Ticket to Passion (original) Quarter Book 87 1951 as Pick-Up! Carnival Book 910 1952 [same] Carnival Book 924 1954 as City Sinner Cameo Book 366 Zip-Gun Angels (original) Original Novel 721 1952 as Boy-C r a z y Original Novel 735 n.d. [same, revised] Star Novel 750 1955 Queen, Ellery joint ps of Frederic Dannay, [né Daniel Nathan] (1905-1982) US & Manfred Bennington Lee, [né Manford Lepofsky] (1905- 1971) US series: Drury Lane, E l l e r y Queen (The) Adventures of Ellery Queen [Queen] (coll, Stokes, 1934, abr) Bestseller Library (B1) [1940] The American Gun Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1933, [abr]) Mercury Mystery 42 [1941] [same] Mercury Mystery 164 [1951] The Case Book of Ellery Queen [Queen] (coll, original) Bestseller Mystery B59 1945
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The Chinese Orange Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1934) Mercury Detective Book D1 [1942] The Devil to Pay [Queen] (Stokes, 1937, abr) Bestseller Library 8 [1940] The Door Between [Queen] (Stokes, 1937) American Mercury Book 32 (1940) The Dragon's Teeth [Queen] (Stokes, 1939, abr) Mercury Mystery 57 [1942] The Dutch Shoe Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1931) Mercury Book 27 (1940) The Egyptian Cross Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1932) Bestseller Mystery 17 [1941] The Four of Hearts [Queen] (Stokes, 1938, abr) Mercury Mystery 47 [1941] The French Powder Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1930, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J5 (1943 The Greek Coffin Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1932) Bestseller Library 14 [1941] Halfway House [Queen] (Stokes, 1936) Mercury Mystery 39 (1941) More Adventures of Ellery Queen [Queen] (coll, original) Bestseller Library 3 [1940] The Roman Hat Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1929, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery 12 [1944] The Siamese Twin Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1933, abr) Mercury Mystery 36 [1941] The Spanish Cape Mystery [Queen] (Stokes, 1935) Bestseller Library 11 [1941] The Tragedy of Y [Lane] ( b y B a r naby Ross, Viking, 1932, abr) Bestseller Mystery B28 [1942] editor Challenge to the Reader (anth, Stokes, 1938, [abr]) Mercury Mystery 68 (1943) Queen, Ellery, Jr. pseudonym series: Djuna The Green Turtle Mystery [Djuna] (Lippincott, 1944, c/u) Comet Books 13 1949 (advertised as # 11 in small format - not published as such) Raine, William MacLeod (1871-1954) UK/US Border Breed (Houghton Mifflin, 1935) Western Novel of the Month 7 (1941) Bullets for the MK (Who Wants to Live Forever?, Houghton Mifflin, 1945, abr) Western Novel Classic 62 n.d. Ironheart (Houghton Mifflin, 1923) Western Novel Classic 28 [1943] On the Dodge (Houghton Mifflin, 1938, abr) Western Novel Classic 47 n.d. Riders of Buck River (Houghton Mifflin, 1940) Western Novel Classic 34 n.d. Roaring River (Houghton Mifflin, 1934, [abr]) Western Novel of the Month 10 n.d. The Sheriff's Son (Houghton Mifflin, 1918, [abr]) Western Novel Classic 22 (1943) Texas Man (Doubleday, Doran, 1928, abr) Thrilling Book 12 n.d. Trail's End (Houghton Mifflin, 1940) Western Novel Classic 39 n.d. Randolph, Vance (1892-1980) US with Nancy Clemens The Camp-Meeting Murders (Vanguard, 1936, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 15 1945 Ransome, Stephen ps of Frederick C[lyde] Davis, q.v. Death Checks In (Doubleday, Doran, 1939, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 77 n.d. A Shroud for Shylock (Doubleday, Doran, 1939) Thriller Novel Classic 39 n.d. Rawlings, Frank ps of George Thomas Roberts (1910-1968) US series: George Chance The Lisping Man [Chance] (Gateway, 1942, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Rawson, Clayton [Ashley] (1906-1971) US, see also ps Stuart Towne series: Merlini Death from a Top Hat [Merlini] (Putnam, 1938, abr) Mercury Mystery 155 [1951] Reed, David V. ps of David Vern (1924-1989) US I Thought I'd Die (mag, 1944) Green Dragon 23 n.d. revised, as The Thing That Made Love Uni-Book 15 n.d. Murder in Space (mag, 1944) Galaxy SF Novel 23 1954 The Thing That Made Love see I Thought I'd Die Reed, Kathie ps of Dorothy Simpson Forbidden Desire (original) Intimate Novel 41 1953 Shack Woman (original) Intimate Novel 34 1953 Village Girl (original) Intimate Novel 42 1953 Reed, Mark ps of Norman A. Daniels, q.v. Four Dames Named "Sin" (original) Rainbow 105 1951 Give Me Ecstasy (original) Exotic Novel 18 1951 House of 1000 Desires (original) Falcon Book 26 1952 The Nude Stranger (original) Rainbow 120 1952 The Scarlet Bride (original) Falcon Book 22 1952 Sins of the Flesh (original) Falcon Book 32 1952 Street of Dark Desires (original) Rainbow 107 1951
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Tease the Wild Flame (original) Rainbow 114 1952 Vice Cop (original) Rainbow 123 1952 Reeves, Robert ( -1945 ) US series: Cellini Smith Come Out Killing [Smith] (No Love Lost, Holt, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 184 [1953] Reilly, Helen, [née Kieran] (1891-1962) US series: Christopher McKee All Concerned Notified [McKee] (Doubleday, Doran, 1939, c/u) Century 29 n.d. Murder in the Mews [McKee] (Doubleday, Doran, 1931, [abr]) Detective Novel Classic 23 [1943] Tell Her It's Murder [McKee] (Random, 1954, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B201 [1956] Reilly, William K. ps of John Creasey, q.v. Miracle Range (Jenkins [UK], 1945, abr) Fighting Western Novel 19 n.d. Reisner, Mary Shadows on the Wall (Dodd, Mead, 1943) Mystery Novel Classic 66 [1945] Reltid, Edward ps of Edgar Leon Dittler (1905-1992) The Amorous Interne (The Hippocratic Oath by Edgar Leon Dittler, Liveright, 1938, rev) Diversey Prize Novel 6 1949 Repp, Ed[ward] Earl (1900-1979) US Hell on the Pecos (Godwin, 1935) Western Novel of the Month 4 n.d. Suicide Ranch (Godwin, 1936) Western Novel of the Month 19 n.d. Reynolds, Robert E. ps of Leo Rifkin, q.v. Backwoods Bride (original) Cameo Book 329 1953 [same] Cameo Book 346 Loose Women (original) Cameo Book 322 1952 as Lost Women Cameo Book 345 [same] Cameo Book 367 (1957) Lost Women see Loose Women Streets of Paris (original) Original Novel 732 1953 [same] Original Novel 748 n.d. [same, revised] Star Novel 757 1956 Rhode, John ps of Cecil John Charles Street, q.v. series: Dr. Priestley Too Many Suspects [Priestley] (Vegetable Duck, Dodd, Mead, 1945, abr) Mercury Mystery 115 [1947] Rice, Craig ps of Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, q.v. series: John J. Malone 8 Faces at 3 [Malone] (Simon & Schuster, 1939) Bonded 13 n.d. abridged, as Murder Stops the Clock Mystery Novel of the Month 21 1 941 Murder Stops the Clock see 8 Faces at 3 editor The Craig Rice Mystery Digest (anth, original) Bonded 12 1945 Rider, Brett ps of Arthur Henry Gooden, q.v. Boss of the OK (Phoenix, 1940) Gunfire Western Novel 25 n.d. Rifkin, Leo (1916-2000) US, see also pss Winchell Barry, Robert E. Reynolds Gang Girl (original) Uni-Book 74 1954 Riley, Frank ps of Frank Wilbert Ryhlick (1915-1996) US with Mark Clifton The Forever Machine (They'd Rather Be Right, Gnome, 1957) Galaxy SF Novel 35 1958 Riley, Tex ps of John Creasey, q.v. Bullet Justice (Range Justice, Wright Brown [UK] [1943], abr) Black Cat Western 35 n.d. The Shootin' Sheriff (Wright Brown [UK], 1940, abr) Western Novel Classic 98 n.d. Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876-1958) US The Yellow Room (Farrar & Rinehart, 1945, abr) Bestseller Mystery B95 [1948] Rister, Claude [Ulric] (1892- ) Guns of Ghost Valley (Dodge, 1942) Western Novel Classic 77 n.d. Red River Gunman (Dodge, 1941) Western Novel Classic 80 n.d. Roan, Tom
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Roberts, Luke ps of Robert Lucas Harlem Doctor (original) Uni-Book 75 1953 Harlem Model (original) Bronze Book 1 1952 Reefer Club (original) Uni-Book 49 1953 [same] Stallion Book 213 n.d. Robertson, Colin (1906-1980) UK The Yellow Strangler (Hillman-Curl, 1938, c/u) Thriller Novel Classic 3 n.d. Robertson, Frank C[hester] (1890-1969) US, see also ps Robert Crane Brand of the Open Hand (Collins [UK], 1929, abr) Fighting Western Novel 39 n.d. Cow Country Law (Boomerang Jail, Dutton, 1947, c/u) Thrilling Novel 16 n.d. Cowman's Jack-Pot (Dutton, 1942, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 12 n.d. The Firebrand from Burnt Creek (Dutton, 1940) Western Novel Classic 83 n.d. Getley's Gold (Dutton, 1944, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 15 n.d. Grizzly Meadows (Dutton, 1943) Gunfire Western Novel 20 n.d. The Longhorns of Hate (Dutton, 1949, c/u) Thrilling Novel 25 n.d. The Lost Range (Dutton, 1946) Fighting Western Novel 32 n.d. The Noose Hangs High (Dutton, 1945) Western Novel Classic 51 n.d. The Outlaw of Antler (Dutton, 1937) Western Novel of the Month 15 n.d. [same] Black Cat Western 29 1947 Poison Valley (Dutton, 1941, abr) Western Novel Classic 88 n.d. The Powder Burner (Washburn, 1935) Readers-Choice Library 4 The Pride of Pine Creek (Dutton, 1938) Gunfire Western Novel 46 n.d. Red Rustlers (Collins [UK], 1932) Readers-Choice Library 24 n.d. Rope Crazy (Dutton, 1948, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 33 n.d. Round-Up in the River (Dutton, 1945) Western Action Novel 1 n.d. Six-Gun Law in Wrango (original) Readers-Choice Library 1 1950 Thunder on the Range (Dutton, 1938) Western Novel Classic 24 [1943] Trouble Shootin' Man (coll, original) Readers-Choice Library 14 1950 Vigilante War in Buena Vista (Dutton, 1942, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 9 n.d. Rockey, Howard [Philips] (1886-1934) US Wild Oats (The Other Woman's Way, Macaulay, 1932, abr) Readers-Choice Library 35 n.d. Rodney, George B[rydges] (1872-1950) Gunpowder Heritage (Arcadia, 1939) Western Novel of the Month 8 n.d. Roeburt, John (1909-1972) US series: Jigger Moran There Are Dead Men in Manhattan [Moran] (Mystery House, 1946, abr) Red Dagger Mystery 27 1947 Rohmer, Sax ps of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959) UK series: Dr. Fu Manchu, Gaston Max The Golden Scorpion [Max] (McBride, 1920, [abr]) Thriller Novel Classic 9 (1943) The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu [Fu Manchu] (McBride, 1913, [abr]) Thriller Novel Classic 4 n.d. Ronald, James (1905- ) UK, see also pss Michael Crombie, Kirk Wales The Murder in Gay Ladies (Murder in the Family, Lippincott, 1940, abr) Mercury Mystery 172 [1952] Ronns, Edward ps of Edward S[idney] Aarons, q.v. series: Jerr y Benedict The Corpse Hangs High (Phoenix, 1939, [abr]) Best Detective Selection (7) 1943 The Cowl of Doom (Death in a Lighthouse, Phoenix, 1938) Hangman's House 13 n.d. Lady, the Guy Is Dead [Benedict] (No Place to Live, McKay, 1947, abr) Murder Mystery Monthly 49 1950 $1,000,000 in Corpses (Murder Money, Phoenix, 1938) Best Detective Novel of the Month 2 1942 Terror in the Town (McKay, 1947, c/u) Mercury Mystery 152 [1950] Roos, Kelley joint ps of Audrey [née Kelley] Roos (1912-1982) US & William Roos (1911-1987) US series: Jeff & Haila Troy Dangerous Blondes see If the Shroud Fits If the Shroud Fits [Troy] (Dodd, Mead, 1941) Murder Mystery Monthly 13 1943 abridged, as Dangerous Blondes Jonathan Press Mystery 53 [1951] There Was a Crooked Man [Troy] (Dodd, Mead, 1945) Mercury Mystery 105 [1946] Ross, Barnaby pseudonym, see Ellery Queen Ross, Leonard Q. ps of Leo Calvin Rosten (1908-1997) US The Dark Corner (mag, 1945) Century 31 {1946} Sleep, My Love (mag, 1946) Century 66 [1947]
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Ross, Zola [Helen], [neé Girdey] (1912-1989) US Bonanza Queen (Bobbs-Merrill, 1949, abr) Readers-Choice Library 25 Rothman, Nathan (1904- ) Virgie, Goodbye (Crown, 1947, abr) Avon Monthly Novel 8 1948 [same, revised] Avon Special un [ ] Rowe, Anne [von Meibom] series: Inspector Pettengill The Little Dog Barked [Pettengill] (Morrow, 1942) Big Green Detective 5 n.d. Rubel, James L[yon] (1894-1960) Renegade Guns (Phoenix, 1936, abr) Black Cat Western 43 Runyon, [Alfred] Damon (1880-1946) US Ten Stories (coll, original) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 27 1945 Russell, Alice Dyar (1881-1964) US Strangers in the Desert (Harper, 1938, c/u) Comet Books 15 1949 (advertised as # 7 in small format - not published as such) Russell, Eric Frank (1905-1978) UK Sinister Barrier (Fantasy Press, 1948, c/u) Galaxy SF Novel 1 1950 Rutledge, Brett ps of Elliot H[arold] Paul, q.v. The Death of Lord Haw Haw (Random, 1940) Mercury Mystery 35 [1940] Rutledge, Nancy (1915-1995) US Beware the Hoot Owl (Farrar & Rinehart, 1944, abr) Mercury Mystery 102 [1946] Murder for Millions (Emily Will Know, Doubleday, 1949, abr) Bestseller Mystery B135 [1951] Ryan, Jessica [D.] [née Cadwalader] (1914-1972) series: Gregory Pavlov Clue of the Frightening Coin [Pavlov] (The Man Who Asked Why, Doubleday, Doran, 1945) Mystery Novel Classic 79 n.d. Ryttenberg, Lilie see anonymous anthologies Sabatini, Rafael (1875-1950) Italian/UK Bardelys the Magnificent (Houghton Mifflin, 1905) Adventure Novel Classic 2 n.d. The Queen's Messenger (Saint Martin's Summer, Houghton Mifflin, 1924, [abr]) Adventure Novel Classic 5 n.d. Stories of Love and Adventure (The Historical Nights' Entertainment, coll, Houghton Mifflin, 1924, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 36 1947 The Trampling of the Lilies (Houghton Mifflin, 1926, [abr]) Adventure Novel Classic 12 (1943) Saber, Robert O. ps of Milton K. Ozaki (1913-1989) US series: Carl Good City of Sin (original) Original Novel 722 1952 [same] Carnival Book 922 1953 [same, revised] Carnival Book 942 1956 The Deadly Lover [Good] (original) Phantom Book 502 1951 Murder Doll [Good] (original) Phantom Book 510 1952 No Way Out (original) Phantom Book 512 1952 Sainsbury, Geoffrey, translator by Georges Simenon A Face for a Clue (from The Patience of Maigret, Harcourt, Brace, 1940) Bestseller Mystery 24 [1942] Maigret Abroad (coll, Harcourt, Brace, 1940) Murder Mystery Monthly 8 Maigret to the Rescue (from [same], Harcourt, Brace, 1941) Mercury Mystery 89 [1945] The Flemnish Shop (from Maigret to the Rescue, Harcourt, Brace, 1941) Bestseller Mystery B41 (1943) The Patience of Maigret (from [same], Harcourt, Brace, 1940) Bestseller Mystery B69 [1945] St. John, Darby US The Bride Brings Death (The Westgate Mystery, Random, 1941) Mystery Novel Classic 50 1943 Sale, Richard [Bernard] (1911-1993) US series: Daniel Webster Lazarus #7 [Webster] (Simon & Schuster, 1942, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 24 [1946] Passing Strange [Webster] (Simon & Schuster, 1942, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 20 [1946] Sanders, George (1906-1972) UK [ghost-written by Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, q.v. & Cleve Cartmill (1908-1964) US] Crime on My Hands (Simon & Schuster, 1944, [abr]) Bonded 15 n.d. [ghost-written by Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-1978) US] Stranger at Home (Simon & Schuster, 1946, abr) Bestseller Mystery B98 [1948]
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Sanger, Joan The Case of the Missing Corpse (Green Circle, 1936, abr) Bleak House 15 n.d. (as by Langer on cover) Saroyan, William (1908-1981) US Someday I'll Be a Millionaire (coll, The Trouble with Tigers, Harcourt, Brace, 1938, c/u) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 12 1944 Thirty-One Selected Stories (from Inhale and Exhale, coll, Random, 1936, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 4 1943 Saxby, Charles Death in the Sun (Dutton, 1940) [Green] 10 n.d. Murder at the Mike (Dutton, 1938, [abr]) Prize Mystery Novel 2 1943 with Louis Molnar Death over Hollywood (Dutton, 1937) Detective Novel Classic 29 n.d. Saxon, John ps of James Noble Gifford, q.v. Army Widow (Phoenix, 1943) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Devil-May-Care Girl (Something Like Passion, Phoenix, 1949, abr) Lev Gleason Library 102 1949 Forgotten Passion (Phoenix, 1945, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Love on Call (Weak and Willing, Phoenix, 1942, c/u) Griffin Book un n.d. Old Man's Darling (Sin and Suffer, Phoenix, 1948, abr) Prize Love Novel 22 1949 Pleasure Girl (Phoenix, 1938, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Reckless Girl (Men Must Pay, Phoenix, 1939) Romantic Novel un n.d. The Scarlet Sin (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) Century 75 n.d. She Devil (Phoenix, 1938) Uni-Book 41 The Tigress ( ? [see scans]) [Novels, Inc.] 10 (1952) A Touch of Passion (Phoenix, 1944, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Saxon, John A. (1886- 1947) [ghost-written by Robert Leslie Bellem, q.v.] series: Sam Welpton Half-Past Mortem [Welpton] (Mill, 1947, abr) Bestseller Mystery B145 [1952] Sayers, Dorothy L[eigh] (1893-1957) UK series: Lord Peter W im s e y Hangman's Holiday (coll, Harcourt, Brace, 1933, [abr]) Bestseller Mystery B38 [1943] In the Teeth of the Evidence (coll, Harcourt, Brace, 1940, [abr]) Bestseller Mystery B20 [1941] Lord Peter Views the Body [W im s e y] (coll, Brewer, 1929, [abr]) Bestseller Library 13 (1941) Whose Body? [W im s e y] (Boni & Liveright, 1923, c/u) Murder Mystery Monthly 14 1943 Sayers, James Denson (1888-1957) see pss Denver Bardwell, Dan James Sayre, Gordon pseudonym, see Jack Woodford Scherf, Margaret [Louise] (1908-1979) US series: Martin Buell, Lt. R y a n The Case of the Kippered Corpse (Putnam, 1941) Mystery Novel Classic 75 n.d. The Corpse Grows a Beard (Putnam, 1940, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 71 n.d. Divine and Deadly [Buell] (The Curious Custard Pie, Doubleday, 1950, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B159 [1953] For the Love of Murder [Buell] (Gilbert's Last Toothache, Doubleday, 1949, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B126 [1950] Murder Makes Me Nervous [R y a n ] (Doubleday, 1948, c/u) Mercury Mystery 140 [1949] They Came to Kill (Putnam, 1942) Mystery Novel Classic 67 n.d. Schisgall, Oscar see ps Stuart Hardy Schley, Sturges Mason (1907-1950) US series: Dr. Quentin Toby Vengeance Pulls the Trigger [Toby] (Who'd Shoot a Genius?, Random, 1940, c/u) Death House Mystery un 1944 Scholz, Jackson [Volney] (1897-1986) US Batter Up (Morrow, 1946, c/u) Comet Books 2 1948 Fighting Coach (Morrow, 1940) Comet Books 25 1949 Scott, Anthony ps of Davis Dresser, q.v. Diary of a Pleasure Cruise (Stolen Sins, Godwin, 1936) Quarter Book 95 1951 Season for Sin (Let's Laugh at Love by Davis Dresser, Hillman-Curl, 1937, rev) Falcon Book 21 1952 Ten Toes Up (Godwin, 1935, rev) Exotic Novel 17 1951 [claims to be retitled from Sisters in Sin but hardcover had same title] Web of Sin (Virgin's Holiday, Godwin, 1935, rev) Ecstasy Novel 12 1951
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Scott, Denis ps of Mary D. Means & Theodore Saunders series: Mike Jam es Murder Makes a Villain [James] (Bobbs-Merrill, 1944, abr) Croydon Mystery 6 1945 Scott, R[eginald] T[homas] M[aitland] (1882-1966) Canadian series: Aurelius Smith Murder Stalks the Mayor [Smith] (Dutton, 1936) [Green] 13 n.d. Scott, Sutherland ps of William C. Harvey (1900- ) UK series: Septimus Dodds Murder on Stage [Dodds] (Crazy Murder Show, Hillman-Curl, 1937) Mystery Novel of the Month 28 1941 Seaman, Augusta [née] Huiell (1879-1950) US The Mystery of the Empty Room (Doubleday, Doran, 1932) Comet Books 19 1949 Secrist, Kelliher joint ps of Dan T. Kelliher (1910-1995) US & W. G. Secrist series: Algernon Sardius "Sham" Payne Murder Makes By-Lines (Mystery House, 1941, [abr]) Green Dragon 1 n.d. She Screamed Blue Murder [P a y n e ] (Murder Melody, Phoenix, 1939, abr) Green Dragon 25 n.d. Seeley, Mabel, [née Hodnefield] (1903-1991) US The Blonde with the Deadly Past (The Whistling Shadow, Doubleday, 1954, abr) Mercury Mystery 209 [1955] The Chuckling Fingers (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Bestseller Mystery B80 [1946] The Crying Sisters (Doubleday, Doran, 1939) Mercury Mystery 74 [1944] The Listening House (Doubleday, Doran, 1938) Mercury Mystery 45 [1941] The Whispering Cup (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Bestseller Mystery B37 [1943] Selmark, George ps of [Leslie] Seldon Truss, q.v. Murder in Silence (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Thriller Novel Classic 37 n.d. Seltzer, Charles Alden (1875-1942) US Gone North (Doubleday, Doran, 1930) Adventure Novel Classic 13 [1943] Hot Lead Trail (The Red Brand, Doubleday, Doran, 1929, abr) Thrilling Novel 22 n.d. Silverspurs (Doubleday, Doran, 1935, abr) Fighting Western Novel 6 n.d. So Long, Sucker (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Western Novel Classic 64 n.d. Square Deal Sanderson (McClurg, 1922, abr) Thrilling Novel 14 n.d. Semple, Gordon ps of William Arthur Neubauer, q.v. The Affairs of a Mistress (Time for Passion, Phoenix, 1950, c/u) Romantic Novel un n.d. Blonde Temptress (original) Croydon 36 1953 Career of Sin (original) Croydon 27 1953 [same] Croydon 76 1954 Crusher's Girl (original) Intimate Novel 40 1953 Cue for Passion (Phoenix, 1945, c/u) Century 80 n.d. Indiscretions of a TV Sinner (original) Croydon 65 1954 Life of Passion (original) Stork (1) 1949 as Sinner Croydon 16 1950 [same] Croydon 103 1952 [same] Croydon 61 {1954} Love-Crazy Millionaire (original) Croydon 57 1954 Man-Crazy Hussy ( ? ) Croydon 63 {1954} Playboy's Nurse (original) Croydon 74 1954 Plaything ( ? ) Intimate Novel 4 Pleasure Resort Women (original) Uni-Book 39 1952 Resort Hostess (original) Uni-Book 34 1952 Scandalous Career(-)Girl see Shameless Sue Shameless Sue (original) Croydon 21 1952 as Scandalous Career(-)Girl Croydon 110 1954 Sinner see Life of Passion Slave of Desire (original) Croydon 18 1951 as Warped Desires Croydon 53 1954 [same] Croydon 92 [ ] Warped Desires see Slave of Desire Waterfront Blonde (original) Intimate Novel 36 1953 Waterfront Hotel (original) Croydon 91 1954 Seton, Gerald Model for Love (Phoenix, 1950) Merit Book B-14
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Shallit, Joseph (1915-1995) US series: Dan Morrison The Billion Dollar Body [Morrison] (Lippincott, 1947, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery 42 [1949] Shannon, Carl ps of Wilbur Owings Hogue (1909-1952) US Lady, That's My Skull (Phoenix, 1947) Hangman's House 21 n.d. Shappiro, Herbert [Arthur] (1899-1975) US, see also ps Burt Arthur series: Mustang Marshall The Black Rider [Marshall] (Arcadia, 1941) Tech Western 1 [1946] as by Burt Arthur Star Book 12 1950 [same] Star Book 23 {1951} Gunsmoke Over Utah [Marshall] (Phoenix, 1945, c/u) Prize Western Novel 20 1946 Rainbow Trail [Marshall] (Lead-Hungry Lobos, Phoenix, 1945) Tech Western 2 [1946] Silver City Rangers [Marshall] (Phoenix, 1944, abr) Prize Western Novel 27 1948 Trouble at Moon Pass [Marshall] (Phoenix, 1943, abr) Prize Western Novel 25 1948 Two-Gun Texan ( ? , McBride, 1946) Fighting Western Novel 3 n.d. Woman in the White House (original) Tech Novel 1 1945 Shard, Jerome pseudonym of Davis Dresser, q.v., see hps Luther Gordon Shattuck, Richard ps of Dora Richards Shattuck (1905-1986) US The Body in the Bridal Bed (The Wedding Guest Sat on a Stone, Morrow, 1940, c/u) Mercury Mystery 180 [1953] With Blood and Kisses (The Snark Was a Boojum, Morrow, 1941, c/u) Mercury Mystery 194 [1954] Shaw, Arnold editor (30 Tales of) Adventure and Romance (anth, original) [Doreen] un 1945 (as 30 Tales of Romance and Adventure on title page) The Greatest Adventure Stories Ever Told (anth, original) [Feiner] un 1945 Shaw, Irwin (1913-1984) US Welcome to the City (coll, Random, 1942, c/u) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 32 1946 Shearing, Joseph ps of Gabrielle Margaret Vere [née] Campbell Long (1886-1952) UK The Spectral Bride (Smith & Durell, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 99 [1946] Sheridan, Juanita (1906-1974) [©s by Juanita Sheridan Wolfe] series: Lily Wu The Kahuna Killer [Wu] (Doubleday, 1951, abr) Bestseller Mystery B150 [1952] The Mamo Murders [Wu] (Doubleday, 1952, abr) Bestseller Mystery B155 [1953] Sherman, Harold M[orrow] (1898-1987) US series: Numar The Green Man [Numar] (mag, 1946) Century 104 n.d. Sherman, Joan ps of Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q.v., used once in error on another writer's work Beach Girl see Lovers in the Sun Bodies on Fire (original) Exotic Novel Feb 1951 (as by Peggy Gaddis inside) Girl on the Make (original) Quarter Book 86 1951 as The Girl from Mimi's by Joan Tucker Carnival Book 909 1952 Immoral Models (original) Croydon 26 1952 as Intimate Affairs of a Sinful Model Croydon 107 Intimate Affairs of a Sinful Model see Immoral Models Lovers in the Sun (original) Venus Book 143 1952 as Beach Girl Venus Book 171 1954 [same] Venus Book 180 n.d. Men Call Her "Tramp" (original) Exotic Novel Dec 1950 as A Lover for Anne by Sylvia Erskine Carnival Book 906 1952 revised, as Farm Hussy by Sylvia Erskine Carnival Book 929 1954 [same] Carnival Book 938 n.d. Overnight Girl (Overnight Cabins, Godwin, 1935, c/u) [Astro] 13 1948 (printed as # 31 on book) Pushover (original) Quarter Book 59 1950 as Strangers in the Dark by Peggy Gaddis Carnival Book 905 1952 [same, revised] Carnival Book 953 1957 Reckless (original) Venus Book 138 1952 Soldier's Girl see Two-Timing Wife S u z y Needs a Man (original) Exotic Novel Aug 1950 as Thrill Me-Suzy Quarter Book 93 1951
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Thrill Me-Suzy see Suzy Needs a Man Two-Timing Wife (original) Croydon 32 1953 as Soldier's Girl Croydon 86 1954 by James Noble Gifford, q.v. She Wanted Love! see Pay for My Kiss! by Luther Gordon Sherwood, John [Herman] [Mulso] (1913-2002) UK series: Charles Blessington Dr. Bruderstein Vanishes [Blessington] (Doubleday, 1949, abr) Mercury Mystery 161 [1951] Mr. Blessington's Imperialist Plot [Blessington] (Doubleday, 1951, abr) Bestseller Mystery B144 [1952] Murder of a Mistress [Blessington] (Ambush for Anatol, Doubleday, 1952, abr) Mercury Mystery 198 [1954] Shore, Julian Rattle His Bones (Morrow, 1941, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Short, Luke ps of Frederick Dilley Glidden (1908-1975) US Dead Freight for Piute (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Century 50 [1946] The Feud at Single Shot (Farrar & Rinehart, 1936, abr) Western Novel Classic 45 n.d. Hard Money (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Adventure Novel Classic 23 n.d. Raiders of the Rimrock (Doubleday, Doran, 1939) Western Novel Classic 36 [1943] War on the Cimarron (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Western Novel Classic 40 (1944) Shriber, Ione Sandberg (1911-1987) US series: Bill Grady Pattern for Murder [Grady] (Farrar & Rinehart, 1944, abr) Mercury Mystery 113 [1947] Sideman, Abner (1902-1989) Murder on Both Sides (original) Joe Moss Mystery un 1945 Siller, Van ps of Hilda Van Siller (1911-1982) UK series: Richard Massey, Pete Rector Echo of a Bomb [Massey] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 65 n.d. Fatal Bride [Massey] (The Curtain Between, Doubleday, 1947, abr) Mercury Mystery 128 [1948] Fatal Lover (The Last Resort, Lippincott, 1951, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B154 [1953] One Alone (Doubleday, 1946) Bestseller Mystery B92 [1947] Under a Cloud [Rector] (Doubleday, Doran, 1944) Thriller Novel Classic 38 n.d. Simak, Clifford D[onald] (1904-1988) US Empire (original) Galaxy SF Novel 7 1951 Simenon, Georges[-Joseph-Christian] (1903-1989) Belgian [French] series: Jules Maigret translator uncredited The Death of Monsieur Gallet [Maigret] (Covici-Friede, 1932) American Mercury Book 31 (1940) trans by Margaret Ludwig Maigret Returns [Maigret] (from Maigret Sits it out, Harcourt, Brace, 1941) Jonathan Press Mystery 18 [1945] Maigret Sits It Out [Maigret] (from [sam e], Harcourt, Brace, 1941) Jonathan Press Mystery 8 [1944] trans by Geoffrey Sainsbury A Face for a Clue [Maigret] (from The Patience of Maigret, Harcourt, Brace, 1940) Bestseller Mystery B24 [1942] The Flemish Shop [Maigret] (from Maigret to the Rescue, Harcourt, Brace, 1941) Bestseller Mystery B41 (1943) Maigret Abroad [Maigret] (coll, Harcourt, Brace, 1940,c/u) Murder Mystery Monthly 8 1943 Maigret to the Rescue [Maigret] (from [same], Harcourt, Brace, 1941) Mercury Mystery 89 [1945] The Patience of Maigret [Maigret] (from [same], Harcourt, Brace, 1940) Bestseller Mystery B69 [1945] Simmons, Addison (1902- 1972) US Dead Weight (Phoenix, 1946) Black Knight Mystery 31 n.d. Simmons, Al see pss Sim Albert, Simms Albert Sims, John ps of William (L.) Hopson, q.v. Outlaw of Hidden Valley (Phoenix, 1949) Gunfire Western Novel 34 n.d. Ramrod Vengeance (original) Prize Western Novel 34 1949 Sinclair, Bertrand W[illiam] (1881-1972) UK/Canadian Both Sides of the Law (mag, 1932) Western Novel Classic 110 1951 Room for the Rolling M (original) Western Novel Classic 112 1951 Siodmak, Curt (1902-2000) German/US series: Dr. Patrick Cory Donovan's Brain [Cory] (Knopf, 1943, c/u) Mercury Mystery 87 [1945]
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Slesar, Henry (1927-2002) US 20 Million Miles to Earth (original, from movie) Amazing Stories SF Novel un 1957 Sloan, Gladys ps of Leona Slottman, q.v. Confessions of a Studio Model (Studio Apartment, Phoenix, 1946, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Love for Sale (Single Bed, Phoenix, 1945, abr) Candid Love Novel 20 1949 The Sinful Sisters (Phoenix, 1947, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Wronged Virgin (Professional Passion, Phoenix, 1947) Griffin Book un n.d. Sloane, Ross ps of James Noble Gifford, q.v. Hot Number (Beach Brat, Godwin, 1936) Quarter Book 45 1949 Three Naked Souls (Three Lovers, Godwin, 1935, rev) Quarter Book 52 1949 Slottman, Leona see pss Carlotta Baker, Gladys Sloane Smith, Ben (1916- ) Unwanted Wife (original) Fiesta Novel 6 1952 Smith, George O[liver] (1911-1981) US Operation Interstellar (original) Merit Book B-10 1950 Smith, Laurence Dwight (1895-1952) US series: Dick Whalen The Case of the Rented Coffin [Whalen] (Follow this Fair Corpse, Mystery House, 1941) Mystery Novel of the Month 29 [ ] The Corpse with the Listening Ear [Whalen] (Mystery House, 1940,abr) Green Dragon un n.d. Death Is Thy Neighbor (Lippincott, 1938, abr) Green Dragon 33 n.d. Smith, Shelley ps of Nancy [Hermione] Bodington, [née Courlander] (1912-1998) UK Come and Be Killed (Harper, 1947, abr) Mercury Mystery 125 [1948] Snow, Charles H[orace] (1877-1967) US, see also ps Ranger Lee The Brand Stealer (Macrae-Smith, 1942) Western Novel Classic 86 n.d. The Cowboy from Alamos (Macrae-Smith, 1933, abr) Fighting Western Novel 36 n.d. Guns Along the Border (Macrae-Smith, 1939, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 42 n.d. Horsethief Pass (Macrae-Smith, 1944) Western Novel Classic 99 n.d. Outlaws of Sugar Loaf (Macrae-Smith, 1942) Gunfire Western Novel 52 n.d. Spain, John ps of Cleve F[ranklin] Adams, q.v. series: William R y e Death Is Like That [R y e ] (Dutton, 1943, abr) Detective Novel Classic 35 [1944] Dig Me a Grave [R y e ] (Dutton, 1942) Black Cat Detective 3 1943 The Evil Star (Dutton, 1944) Detective Novel Classic 44 n.d. Spatz, H. Donald (1913- ) Murder with Long Hair (Phoenix, 1940, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 3 Girls and a Killer (Death on the Nose, Phoenix, 1942, [abr]) Crime Novel Selection 5 1943 Spencer, Frederic ps of James W. Lumpp, q.v. Cleo (original) Cameo Book 327 1953 Tight Skirt (original) Cameo Book 321 1952 Wild Party see Untamed Woman by Amos Hatter Sperry, Armstrong [Wells] (1897-1976) US Wagons Westward (Winston, 1936, c/u) Comet Books 1 1948 Spewack, Samuel (1899-1971) Russian/US The Skyscraper Murder (Macaulay, 1928) Bleak House 17 n.d. Spicer, Bart (1918-1978) US series: Carney Wilde The Dark Light [Wilde] (Dodd, Mead, 1949, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B127 [1950] Sroog, Arnold (1917-1992) US see pss William Arnold, Alan Bennett, William David(s), Arthur Marin, David Williams Stafford, Muriel, [mariée Sauer] (1903-1994) US X Marks the Dot (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943) [Guinn] un n.d. Stagge, Jonathan joint ps of Richard Wilson Webb (1901-1965) UK/US & Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-1987) UK/US series: Dr. W estlak e Death, My Darling Daughters [Westlake] (Doubleday, Doran, 1945, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B164 [1953] The Three Fears [Westlake] (Doubleday, 1949, abr) Mercury Mystery 160 [1951] Stahl, Ray pseudonym, see Steve Harragan Stapledon, Douglas (1904- ) with Helen A. Carey The Corpse Is Indignant (original) Five Star Mystery 44 1946
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Stapledon, [William] Olaf (1886-1950) UK Odd John (Dutton, 1936, c/u) Galaxy SF Novel 8 [1951] Starr, Clay ps of Charles M[orris] Martin, q.v. Powder Smoke Blood (unknown retitle, abr) Prize Western Novel 32 1949 Sted, Richard ps of Theodore Olin Thackery (1901-1980) They All Bleed Red (Simon & Schuster, 1954, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B186 [1955] Steel, Kurt ps of Rudolf Hornaday Kagey (1904-1946) US series: Hank H y e r Murder for What? [H y e r ] (Bobbs-Merrill, 1936, abr) Crime Novel Selection 4 1943 Murder Goes to College [H y e r ] (Bobbs-Merrill, 1936, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Strangler's Holiday [H y e r ] (Murder in G-Sharp, Bobbs-Merrill, 1937, abr) Crime Novel Selection 1 1942 The Traveling Corpses [H y e r ] (Murder of a Dead Man, Bobbs-Merrill, 1935, abr) Crime Novel Selection 2 1942 Steen, Marguerite (1894-1975) UK Matador (Little, Brown, 1934, c/u) Royal Books 14 (1953) Steeves, H(arrison) R[oss] (1881-1981) US Good Night, Sheriff (Random, 1941, abr) Mercury Mystery 60 [1943] Stein, Aaron Marc (1906-1985) US, see also pss George Bagby, Hampton Stone series: Tim Mulligan The Case of the Absent-Minded Professor [Mulligan] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 82 n.d. Days of Misfortune [Mulligan] (Doubleday, 1949, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B132 [1951] Mask for Murder [Mulligan] (Doubleday, 1952, abr) Bestseller Mystery B158 [1953] Steinbeck, John [Ernst], [Jr.] (1902-1968) US Cup of Gold (McBride, 1929) Mercury Book 20 (1939) The Long Valley (coll, Viking, 1938, abr) Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 9 1943 Sterling, Stewart ps of Prentice Winchell, q.v. Down among the Dead Men (Putnam, 1943) Detective Novel Classic 45 n.d. Stern, David see ps Peter Stirling Stern, Philip Van Doren see ps Peter Storme Stevenson, Burton [Egbert] (1872-1962) US The Clue of the Red Carnation (The Red Carnation, Dodd, Mead, 1939) Mystery Novel of the Month 40 1942 Stirling, Peter ps of David Stern (1909-2003) US Stop Press - Murder! (Phoenix, 1947) Black Knight Mystery 33 n.d. Stokes, Manning Lee (1911-1976) US, see also pss Kermit Welles, Kirk Westley series: Barnaby Jones The Dying Room (Phoenix, 1947) Mercury Mystery 124 [1948] Green for a Grave [Jones] (Phoenix, 1946) Black Knight Mystery 29 n.d. The Wolf Howls "Murder" [Jones] (Phoenix, 1945) Prize Mystery Novel 21 1946 Stone, Hampton ps of Aaron Marc Stein, q.v. series: Jeremiah X. Gibson The Corpse Who Had Too Many Friends [Gibson] (Simon & Schuster, 1953, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B173 (1954) The Girl with the Hole in Her Head [Gibson] (Simon & Schuster, 1949) Mercury Mystery 149 [1950] Stone, Thomas ps of Florence Stonebraker, q.v., used once in error on another writer’s work Careless Caresses (Phoenix, 1946, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Careless Hussy (Phoenix, 1939, c/u) [Hanro] 1 n.d. Doctor Randolph's Women (Baby Doctor, Phoenix, 1943) Intimate Novel 21 1952 Ex-Mistress (original) Intimate Novel 23 1952 50-50 Girl (original) Merit Book B-15 1952 Passion's Darling (The Bed She Made, Phoenix, 1946, abr) Lev Gleason Library 104 1949 Passion's Prophecy (Madelon, Phoenix, 1944, abr) Prize Love Novel 25 n.d. Playful Wife ([Taylor-Made Wives], Phoenix, 1950) Private Edition 2 1951 Private Practice (original) Intimate Novel 35 1953 Raging Passions (original) Stork 7 1950 as Shameful Love Gem Book 102 {1952} [same] Croydon 102R Red-Headed Nurse (original) Intimate Novel 47 1953 Shameful Love see Raging Passions Stolen Love (Too Much Love, Phoenix, 1937) Griffin Book un n.d.
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A Talent for Love (Phoenix, 1944, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Tramp Girl (original) Intimate Novel 27 1952 [same] Stallion Book 205 n.d. Two Time Girl (Phoenix, 1945) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. by Bennie Caroline Hall, q.v Nature Girl (by Hall Bennett, Phoenix, 1949) Private Edition 1 n.d. Stone, Tom ps of [John] Ted
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Too Many Cooks [Wolfe] (Farrar & Rinehart, 1938, abr) Jonathan Press Book J2 [1943] Where There Is a Will [Wolfe] (Farrar & Rinehart, 1940) Bestseller Mystery B44 (1943) Strange, John Stephen ps of Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett (1896-1983) US series: Barney Gantt The Ballot-Box Murders [Gantt] (Rope Enough, Doubleday, Doran, 1938) Mystery Novel Classic 53 The Fair and the Dead (Reasonable Doubt, Doubleday, 1951, abr) Bestseller Mystery B161 [1953] Look Your Last [Gantt] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943, abr) Mercury Mystery 95 [1945] Make My Bed Soon [Gantt] (Doubleday, 1948, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B107 [1949] Murder at World's End (The Strangler Fig, Doubleday, Doran, 1930) M y s t e ry Novel Classic 59 n.d. (as by John F. Strange on cover) Picture of the Victim [Gantt] (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Century 27 n.d. Strange, O[liver] series: Sudden Sudden Takes Charge [Sudden] (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Western Novel Classic 67 n.d. Stratton, [John] Ted
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Tey, Josephine ps of Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-1952) UK Killer in the Crowd (The Man in the Queue, Macmillan, 1953, abr) Mercury Mys tery 200 [1954] Thomas, Lee ps of Lee Floren, q.v. Dusty Boots (Phoenix, 1950) Gunfire Western Novel 53 n.d. Thompson, Donald The Corpse Wore No Shoes (mag, 1943) Eerie Series 3 1945 Thompson, John B[urton] (1913- ) Bayou Girl (Garden of Love, Arco, 1952) Uni-Book 77 with Jack Woodford, q.v. Honey (Arco, 1951, rev) Uni-Book 72 n.d. Hoyden of the Swamps (Sincerely Yours, Arco, 1951, abr) Uni-Book 71 n.d. (as Swamp Hoyden on cover & spine) Male Virgin (Arco, 1950, rev) Uni-Book 67 [same] Stallion Book 202 n.d. Savage Eve (With These Two Hands, Arco, 1951) Uni-Book 60 Thompson, Lewis ( -1972)(57) US with Charles Boswell More Deadly than the Male (NF, coll, original) Merit Book B-12 1951 Thompson, Winfield, possible translator see Pitigrilli Thornton, Charles ps of Albert L. Quandt, q.v. Dangerous Trade ({Bedroom for Three}, Phoenix, 1949) Intimate Novel 10 (1951) Thurston, Howard (1869-1936) US [ghost-written by Walter B. Gibson, q.v] 300 Tricks You Can Do (NF, 400 Tricks You Can Do, Blue Ribbon, 1939, abr) Comet Books 5 [ ] Titus, Harold (1888-1967) US Below Zero (Macrae-Smith, 1932) Adventure Novel Classic 9 [1943] Code of the North (Macrae-Smith, 1933) Adventure Novel Classic 3 n.d. Flame in the Forest (Macrae-Smith, 1932, abr) Adventure Novel Classic 39 n.d. Tompkins, W[alker] A[llison] (1909-1988) US Wyoming Trail (Phoenix, 1940, abr) Prize Western Novel 35 Torrey, Roger [Denzel] (1901-1946) US 42 Days for Murder (Hillman-Curl, 1938) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1939 Towne, Stuart ps of Clayton Rawson, q.v. series: Don Diavolo Death out of Thin Air [Diavolo] ( coll, Coward, McCann, 1941) Pennant Mystery 1 n.d. Trace, John ps of Bennett Foster, q.v. Range of Golden Hoofs (Doubleday, Doran, 1941, abr) Western Novel Classic 71 n.d. Rough Mesa (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Western Novel Classic 68 n.d. Trigger Vengeance (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Century 22 n.d. [same] (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) Western Novel Classic 76 n.d. Tracy, Don[ald] [Fiske] (1905-1976) US, see also ps William Dale Criss-Cross (Vanguard, 1934, [abr]) Mercury Book 9 (1938) Last Year's Snow (Mill, 1937, abr) Black Knight Mystery 16 n.d. Tracy, Ray Palmer (1886-1966) US Gunsmoke in the Hills (Doubleday, Doran, 1939, abr) Western Novel Classic 72 n.d. Treat, Lawrence [Arthur], [né Goldstone] (1903-1998) US series: Jub Freeman, Carl Wayward "B" as in Banshee [W a y w a r d ] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940, abr) Bonded Mystery 10 n.d. as Wail for the Corpses Best Detective Selection 6 1943 D - as in Dead [W a y w a r d ] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941, abr) [Hercules] un 1943 [same] Mercury Mystery 178 [1952] F as in Flight [Freeman] (Morrow, 1948, abr) Bestseller Mystery B157 [1953] H as in Hangman [W a y w a r d ] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 The Leather Man Murders (The Leather Man, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1944, abr) Mystery Novel Classic 68 n.d. O as in Omen [W a y w a r d ] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943) Mystery Novel Classic 64 n.d. Trial and Terror (Morrow, 1949, abr) Bestseller Mystery B190 [1956]. V as in Victim [Freeman] (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945, abr) Bestseller Mystery B178 [1955] Wail for the Corpses see B as in Banshee Treat, Roger (1906-1969) US Joy Ride! (original) Rainbow 119 1952
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Trent, Timothy ps of Carl Malmberg (1904-1979) US Night Boat (Godwin, 1934, c/u) Broadway Novel Monthly 5 1949 Treynor, Albert M[cKune] (1884-1984) US Hands Up! (Dodd, Mead, 1928) Adventure Novel Classic 7 [1943] Hawk of the Desert (Dodd, Mead, 1930) Adventure Novel Classic 21 n.d. Trimble, Louis [Preston] (1917-1988) US, see also ps Stuart Brock Date for Murder (Phoenix, 1942) Mystery Novel Classic 48 1943 Murder Trouble (Phoenix, 1945, abr) Black Cat Detective 18 1945 You Can't Kill a Corpse (Phoenix, 1946, abr) Dagger House Mystery 26 1947 Truss, [Leslie] Seldon (1892-1990) UK, see also ps George Selmark series: Chief Inspector Gidleigh Never Fight a Lady [Gidleigh] (Doubleday, 1950, c/u) Mercury Mystery 171 [1952] Tucker, Joan ps of Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q.v. At Ruby's Place (original) Cameo Book 326 1952 as Waterfront Club Cameo Book 349 n.d. revised, as Waterfront Club by John Tucker Venus Book 193 1956 The Girl from Mimi's see Girl on the Make by Joan Sherman Shanty Girl (original) Venus Book 159 1953 [same, revised] Cameo Book 342 1954 [same] Cameo Book 354 Waterfront Club see At Ruby's Place Weekend of Madness (original) Venus Book 147 1952 Young Secretary (original) Venus Book 167 1954 Tucker, John ps of Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, q.v. Waterfront Club see At Ruby's Place by Joan Tucker Tucker, [Arthur] Wilson (1914-2006) US series: Charles Horne The City in the Sea (Rinehart, 1951, c/u) Galaxy SF Novel 11 [1952] The Stalking Man [Horne] (Rinehart, 1949, c/u) Mercury Mystery 150 [1950] Turner, Robert [Harry] (1915-1980) US She Devil (original) Rainbow 126 1952 Tuttle, W(ilbur) C[oleman] (1883-1969) US series: Hashknife Hartley Bluffer's Luck (Houghton Mifflin, 1937) Western Novel Classic 27 (1943) The Dead-Line [Hartley] ( Houghton Mifflin, 1941) Western Novel Classic 50 n.d. Ghost Trails ([Hartley] Houghton Mifflin, 1940, abr) Century 15 n.d. Hash Knife of the Double Bar 8 [Hartley] (Hashknife of..., Houghton Mifflin, 1936) Western Novel Classic 55 n.d. The Keeper of Red Horse Pass (Houghton Mifflin, 1937) Western Novel Classic 41 n.d. The Morgan Trail [Hartley] (Houghton Mifflin, 1928, abr) Gunfire Western Novel 6 n.d. The Tin God of Twisted River [Hartley] (Houghton Mifflin, 1941, abr) Western Novel Classic 46 n.d. Tumbling River Range [Hartley] (Houghton Mifflin, 1935) Western Novel Classic 33 n.d. The Vultures of Vacaville (mag, 1947) Western Novel Classic 108 1951 Twain, Mark ps of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) US A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Webster, 1889, c/u) 1/2 of double Royal Books 28 n.d. Unnatural Son (Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894, c/u) 1/2 of double Royal Books 28 n.d. Tyre, Nedra (1912-1990) US Death Is a Lover (Mouse in Eternity, Knopf, 1952, c/u) Mercury Mystery 188 [1953] Ullman, Albert E[dward] The Kidnappers (Amour, 1932) Black Knight Mystery 28 n.d. Underwood, John ps of John Wilstach, q.v. Hollywood Hellcat see Bedtime Blonde by John Wilstach Tempting Tigress see Bedtime Blonde by John Wilstach Valbeck, Michael Sinful Bargain (Headlong from Heaven, Mill, 1947, abr) Readers-Choice Library 27 Van Buren, John pseudonym, see John Wilstach Van Deusen, Delia Many a Murder (Murder Bicarb, Bobbs-Merrill, 1940, abr) Croydon Mystery un 1945 Vance, Jack
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Love Cult (original) Croydon 52 1953 Scandals at a Nudist Colony (original) Croydon 42 1953 Sinful Island Vacation (original) Croydon 49 1953 Vedder, John K. pseudonym, see Frank Gruber Veiller, Bayard (1869-1943) US Bait for a Tiger (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941) Black Cat Detective 2 1943 Venning, Michael ps of Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, q.v. series: Melville Faire Jethro Hammer [Faire] (Coward-McCann, 1944, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J28 [1947] The Man Who Slept All Day [Faire] (Coward-McCann, 1942, abr) Bestseller Mystery B97 [1948] Murder Through the Looking Glass [Faire] (Coward-McCann, 1943) Mercury Mystery 103 [1946] Verner, Gerald ps of Donald William Stweard ( -1980) UK series: Robert Budd The Crooked Circle [Budd] (Macaulay, 1937, abr) Black Cat Detective 16 1945 Vickers, Roy ps of William Edward Vickers (1889-1965) UK series: Detective-Inspector Rason The Department of Dead Ends [Rason] (coll, original) Bestseller Mystery B91 1947 The Hawk [Rason] (Dial, 1930, abr) Bestseller Mystery B100 [1948] Vinton, Aldin ps of Adelin Sumner Briggs Linton (1899-1977) US The Corpse in the Cab (Mystery in Green, Phoenix, 1937, [abr]) Hangman's House 9 n.d. Voltaire ps of François Marie Arouet (1694-1778) French unknown translation Candide (1759, c/u) 1/2 of double Royal Books 25 (1953) von Stroheim, Erich [Oswald], [né Stroheim] (1885-1957) Austrian/US Paprika (Macaulay, 1935) Universal Giant 2 Wade, David ps of Norman A. Daniels, q.v. Bedroom with a View (original) Rainbow 124 1952 Come Night--Come Desire (original) Ecstasy Novel 17 1951 Only Human (original) Rainbow 129 1953 Raise the Devil (original) Falcon Book 35 1952 She Walks by Night (original) Rainbow 116 1952 Walk the Evil Street! (original) Rainbow 111 1952 Wales, Kirk ps of James Ronald, q.v. 6 Were to Die (Mystery House, 1941, abr) Black Cat Detective 12 1944 Walker, Gertrude (1902-1995) So Deadly Fair (Putnam, 1948, abr) Bestseller Mystery B105 [1948] Walker, Mildred, [mariée Schemm] (1905-1998) US Dr. Norton's Wife (Harcourt, Brace, 1938, [abr]) Mercury Book 30 (1940) Wall, Evans [Spencer], [Jr.] (1886-1963) US Ask for Therese (original) Fiesta Novel 2 1952 Back-Country Woman (A Time to Sow, Macaulay, 1932, rev) Intimate Novel 28 1953 Bad Sister (Danger, Macaulay, 1933, abr) Uni-Book 45 n.d. Love Fetish (Macaulay, 1932) Fiesta Novel 3 1952 The Marriage Rite (King, 1932, rev) Intimate Novel 43 (1953) River Woman ([River God], Macaulay, 1934, rev) Uni-Book 50 (1953) Wallace, Arthur unidentified pseudonym, see hps James Clayford Wallace, [Richard] [Horatio] Edgar (1875-1932) UK series: T. B. Smith The Crimson Circle (Doubleday, Doran, 1929, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B71 [1946] On the Spot (Doubleday, Doran, 1931) Murder Mystery Monthly 45 1947 Silinski Master Criminal [Smith] (World, 1930, c/u) Murder of the Month 3 1942 Wallace, F(loyd) L[ee] (1915-2004) US Address: Centauri (Gnome, 1955, [abr]) Galaxy SF Novel 32 [1958] Wallace, Francis (1894-1977) US Little Hercules (Mill, 1939) Detective Novel Classic 24 [1943] Wallis, J[ames] H[arold] (1885-1958) US Once Off Guard (Dutton, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 81 [1944] Walton, Bryce (1918-1988) US The Long Night (original) Falcon Book 42 1952 Warren, Charles Marquis (1912-1990) US Deadhead (Coward-McCann, 1949, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery J47 [1950]
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Warren, James ps of Robert Brendon She Fell among Actors (Doubleday, Doran, 1944) Bestseller Mystery B83 [1947] Wasson, Mildred Nancy (advertised in the first set of Comet Books but never issued) Waters, Frank [Joseph] (1902-1995) US with Houston Branch Secret Affair (Diamond Head, Farrar, Straus, 1948, abr) Readers-Choice Library 32 Watkins, Glen ps of Watkins E. Wright, q.v. The Hard-Boiled Blonde (Phoenix, 1948, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Hotel Wife (Phoenix, 1943, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Over-Time Love (Phoenix, 1944, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Reckless Virgin ({Careless Virgin?}, Phoenix, 1936) Croydon 13 1949 Tavern Girl (Phoenix, 1948, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Watkins, Glenn ps of Watkins E. Wright, q.v. The Shame of Vanna Gilbert see Sinful Life Sinful Life (original) Stork 3 1950 as The Shame of Vanna Gilbert Croydon 20 1952 Way, Wayne ps of Adelaide M. Humphries, q.v. Shameless Wife (original) Intimate Novel 29 1952 Wayne, Rick ps of Norman Ober (1919-2008) Play Rough! (original) Rainbow 113 1952 Webb, Jack see ps John Farr Weigall, Arthur [Edward] [Pearse] [Brome] (1880-1934) Infidelity (Brentano's, 1928, c/u) Broadway Novel Monthly 1 [ ] Weiner, Henri ps of Stephen Longstreet, q.v. The Case of the Severed Skull (Death Walks on Cat Feet by Paul Haggard, Hillman-Curl, 1938) Mystery Novel of the Month un 1940 Weiss, Joe
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Wentworth, Patricia ps of Dora Amy Elles (1878-1961) UK series: Maud Silver The Case Is Closed [Silver] (Lippincott, 1937) Detective Novel Classic 4 n.d. Miss Silver Deals with Death [Silver] (Lippincott, 1943, abr) Bestseller Mystery B75 [1946] Werfel, Franz [V.] (1890-1945) Austrian [trans by Whittaker Chambers] Class Reunion (Simon & Schuster, 1929) Mercury Book 29 (1940) [same] (second edition) Mercury Book 29 West, Ben ps of James W. Lumpp, q.v. Loves of a Girl Wrestler (original) Uni-Book 32 Secrets of a Co-Ed (original) Uni-Book 38 1952 Sins of Jennie Benson--Showgirl (original) Intimate Novel 17 1952 West, Tom ps of Fred East, q.v. Botched Brand (Dutton, 1949) Gunfire Western Novel 35 n.d. Bushwhack Basin (Dutton, 1945, abr) Western Novel Classic 56 n.d. Meddling Maverick (Dutton, 1944) Western Novel Classic 91 n.d. Powdersmoke Pay-off (Dutton, 1948) Fighting Western Novel 31 n.d. Renegade Range (Dutton, 1946) Western Novel Classic 74 n.d. Six-Gun Showdown (Dutton, 1947) Fighting Western Novel 11 n.d. Spectre Spread (Dutton, 1948) Fighting Western Novel 20 n.d. Trouble Trail (Dutton, 1946) Western Novel Classic 60 n.d. Westland, Lynn ps of Archie Joscelyn, q.v. Black River Ranch (Phoenix, 1948) Western Novel Classic 85 n.d. Dakota Marshal (Phoenix, 1937) Western Novel Classic 105 n.d. Long Loop Raiders (Phoenix, 1946) Gunfire Western Novel 44 n.d. Over the Frontier Trail (Phoenix, 1945, abr) Prize Western Novel 31 1949 Prairie Pinto (Phoenix, 1944) Fighting Western Novel 26 n.d. Prairie Pioneers (Phoenix, 1945, abr) Black Cat Western 30 1948 Prentiss of the Box 8 (Phoenix, 1943) Fighting Western Novel 28 n.d. Return to the Range (Phoenix, 1945) Fighting Western Novel 40 n.d. Saddle River Spread (Phoenix, 1942, abr) Black Cat Western 38 The Silver Cayuse (Phoenix, 1947, abr) Black Cat Western 34 1948 Westley, Kirk ps of Manning Lee Stokes, q.v. Man-Chaser see Pleasure Bound by Kermit Welles Shanty Boat Girl see Sin Preferred by Kermit Welles Weston, Garnett [James] (1890-1980) series: Highway The Undertaker Dies [Highway] ([Poldrate Street], Messner, 1944, abr) Mercury Mystery 106 [1946] Wheelock, Dorothy (1908-1981) US Dead Giveaway (Phoenix, 1942, abr) Atlas Mystery un 1944 Whipple, Chandler [Henry] (1905-1977) US Under the Mesa Rim (Doubleday, Doran, 1940, abr) Fighting Western Novel 2 n.d. White, Ethel Lina ( -1944) UK While She Sleeps(!) (Harper, 1940) Bestseller Mystery B77 [1946] White, Leslie T[urner] (1903-1967) UK/US series: Capt. Barnaby River of Fear (The River of No Return, Macrae-Smith, 1941) Adventure Novel Classic 18 n.d. Vice Squad [Barnaby] (Harness Bull, Harcourt, Brace, 1937, c/u) Bestseller Mystery B165 [1953] White, Lionel (1905-1985) US Seven Hungry Men! (original) Rainbow 121 1952 White, William Patterson (1884- ) US series: Farewell Guns of Paradise Bend [Farewell] (Paradise Bend, Doubleday, Page, 1920, abr) Thrilling Novel 18 n.d. [The] Heart of the Range [Farewell] (Doubleday, Page, 1921, abr) Thrilling Novel 24 n.d. Hidden Trails [Farewell] Doubleday, Page, 1920, abr) Thrilling Novel 32 n.d. Whitfield, Raoul [Fauconnier] (1896-1945) US The Green Ice Murders ([coll], Green Ice, Knopf, 1930) Murder Mystery Monthly 46 1947 Whitney, Hallam ps of Harry Whittington, q.v. Backwoods Hussy (original) Original Novel 723 1952 [same] Original Novel 733 (1953) [same] Star Novel 762 1956
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Backwoods Shack (original) Carnival Book 931 1954 [same] Carnival Book 943 (1956) City Girl (original) Original Novel 737 1954 [same] Original Novel 749 [same, rev] Star Novel 759 1956 Shack Road (original) Original Novel 731 1953 [same] Original Novel 747 [same, revised] Star Novel 753 1956 Whittington, Harry [Benjamin] (1915-1989 ) US see also pss Whit Harrison, Hallam Whitney. Cracker Girl (original) Uni-Book 58 1953 [same] Stallion Book 216 n.d. Forever Evil (original) Original Novel 708 1952 Married to Murder (original) Phantom Book 503 1951 Night-Club Sinner see Vengeful Sinner Prime Sucker (original) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 1 1952 Satan's Widow (original) Phantom Book 505 1951 Sinners Club (original) Carnival Book 923 1953 [same, revised] Star Novel 758 1956 Vengeful Sinner (original) Croydon 35 1953 as Night Club Sinner Croydon 62 1954 Wild Oats (original) Uni-Book 70 1954 Wilde, Percival (1887-1953) US series: Lee Slocum Design for Murder (Random, 1941, c/u) Detective Novel Classic 13 [1942] [same] Jonathan Press Mystery 22 [1946] Inquest [Slocum] (Random, 1940) Bestseller Library 15 [1941] Mystery Week-End (Harcourt, Brace, 1938) Mercury Mystery 76 [1944] Tinsley's Bones [Slocum] (Random, 1942, abr) Mercury Mystery 83 [1944] Willard, Joshua The Thorne Theater Mystery (Phoenix, 1937, abr) Prize Mystery Novel 25 [ ] Willeford, Charles [Ray], [III] (1919-1988) US High Priest of California (original) 1/2 of double Royal Books 20 1953 William, Peter Death at Abu Mina (The Affair at Abu Mina, Macrae-Smith, 1944, abr) Thriller Novel Classic 35 n.d. Williams, Bernard see anonymous anthologies Williams, David ps of Arnold Sroog, q.v. Basement Gang (original) Intimate Novel 32 1953 Bulls, Blood and Passion (original) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 5 1953 Williams, Herbert (1914- ) see also anonymous anthologies editor Avon Detective Mysteries # 1 (anth, original) Avon Detective Mysteries 1 1947 # 2 (anth, original) Avon Detective Mysteries 2 1947 # 3 (anth, original) Avon Detective Mysteries 3 1947 Williams, Idabel The Hussy (Greenberg, 1933, c/u) 1/2 of double Universal Giant 1 Williams, Wright ps of Watkins E. Wright, q.v. Bar-Fly Wives (Phoenix, 1944, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Beautiful Body (Phoenix, 1948) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Carnival Girl (Phoenix, 1938, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Cheaters at Love (Phoenix, 1936, c/u) Croydon 11 1949 Everybody Loves Irene (original) Quarter Book 62 1950 Excess Wife (Phoenix, 1947, c/u) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. Fool for Love see Lust for Love Forbidden Passions see Lust for Love Hired Husband (Phoenix, 1948, abr) Candid Love Novel 24 n.d. Illegal Wife (Two Time Woman, Phoenix, 1937, c/u) [Hanro] 3 n.d. Life of Lust see Lust for Love Loose Ladies (Phoenix, 1939) [Knickerbocker] un n.d.
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Lust for Love (original) Stork (2) 1949 as Fool for Love Croydon 15 1950 as Life of Lust Croydon 104 1952 as Forbidden Passions Croydon 60 1954 Percentage Girl (Phoenix, 1940) [Novels, Inc.] un n.d. River(-)Barge Virgin (Body a la Mode, Phoenix, 1949, rev) Uni-Book 25 n.d. Side Street ({Rooming House}, Phoenix, 1938, rev) Uni-Book 20 n.d. Street of Sin (original) Croydon 17 1951 Stripper! (Phoenix, 1941) Uni-Book 14 Williamson, Jack
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# 12 (anth, original) Avon Fantasy Reader 12 1950 # 13 (anth, original) Avon Fantasy Reader 13 1950 # 14 (anth, original) Avon Fantasy Reader 14 1950 # 15 (anth, original) Avon Fantasy Reader 15 1951 # 16 (anth, original) Avon Fantasy Reader 16 1951 # 17 (anth, original) Avon Fantasy Reader 17 1951 # 18 (anth, original) Avon Fantasy Reader 18 1952 Avon Science Fiction Reader # 1 (anth, original) Avon Science Fiction Reader 1 1951 # 2 (anth, original) Avon Science Fiction Reader 2 1951 # 3 (anth, original) Avon Science Fiction Reader 3 1952 Wood, Clement (1888-1950) US series: Skelton Keyne The Corpse in the Guest Room [K e y n e ] (Arcadia, 1945) Bleak House 16 n.d. Wood, S[amuel] Andrew (1890- ) Sinners' Castle (Swift, 1941) Prize Mystery Novel 13 1944 (as Sinner's Castle on cover and spine) Wood, Sally [Calkins] (1897- ) Murder of a Novelist (Simon & Schuster, 1941) Bonded Mystery 2 n.d. Woodford, Jack ps of Josiah Pitts Woolfolk (1894-1971) US The Abortive Hussy (Unwilling Sinner by Gordon Sayre, Godwin, 1933, rev, reissue of Avon 146) Avon Book Dividend 1 1950 Dangerous Love (Temptress, Godwin, 1935, rev) Broadway Novel Monthly 9 1950 Ecstasy Girl (by Gordon Sayre, Godwin, 1937, rev, reissue of Novel Library 2) Avon Monthly Novel 20 [ ] Free Lovers (Fiddler's Fee by Gordon Sayre, Godwin, 1934, rev, reissue of Novel Library 3) Avon Special un [ ] Grounds for Divorce (Love at Last, Godwin, 1937, rev, reissue of Novel Library 7) Avon Book Dividend 4 {1951} The Hard-Boiled Virgin (Lady Killer by Howard Kennedy, Godwin, 1935, rev, reissue of Avon 138) Avon Bedside Novel 2 [ ] Her First Sin (Phoenix, 1944) [Knickerbocker] un n.d. [same] Exotic Novel Mag Oct 1949 Male and Female (by Gordon Sayre, Godwin, 1934, rev, reissue of Novel Library 36) Avon Bedside Novel 5 1951 Passion in the Pines (Arco, 1951) Uni-Book 63 The Passionate Princess (Proxy Princess by Howard Kennedy, Godwin, 1937, rev, reissue of Novel Library 4) Avon Bedside Novel 6 [ ] Peeping Tom (Come into My Parlor by Howard Kennedy, Godwin, 1936, rev, reissue of Novel Library 6) Avon Special un [ ] The Rites of Love (City Limits, Godwin, 1932, rev) Avon Bedside Novel 1 [ ] Teach me to Love (Strangers in Love, Godwin, 1934, rev, reissue of Avon Love Book Monthly # 3) Avon Book Dividend 6 [ ] Three Gorgeous Hussies (by Gordon Sayre, Godwin, 1936, rev, reissue of Novel Library 1) Avon Special un [ ] Untamed Darling (Iris, Woodford, 1946, rev) Broadway Novel Monthly 10 1950 with John B. Thompson, q.v. Honey (Arco, 1951, rev) Uni-Book 72 n.d. Hoyden of the Swamps (Sincerely Yours, Arco, 1951, abr) Uni-Book 71 n.d. (as Swamp Hoyden on cover & spine) Male Virgin (Arco, 1950, rev) Uni-Book 67 [same] Stallion Book 202 n.d. Savage Eve (With These Two Hands, Arco, 1951) Uni-Book 60 Woolrich, Cornell [George] [Hopley-] (1903-1968) US, see also ps William Irish Black Alibi (Simon & Schuster, 1942, abr) Jonathan Press Mystery J23 [1946] [same, different abridgement] Bestseller Mystery B198 [1956] The Black Angel (Doubleday, Doran, 1943) Murder Mystery Monthly 27 1944 [same, abr] Jonathan Press Mystery 51 [1951] [same] Bestseller Mystery B206 (1957) The Black Curtain (Simon & Schuster, 1941, c/u) Mercury Mystery 64 [1943] The Black Path of Fear (Doubleday, Doran, 1934, c/u) Jonathan Press Mystery 61 [1952] [same, abr] Thriller Novel Classic 29 n.d.
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Wormser, Richard see hps Nicholas Carter Worts, George F[rank] (1892-1967) US The Case of the Blue Lacquer Box (The Blue Lacquer Box, Kinsey, 1939) Mystery Novel Classic 41 [ ] The House of Creeping Horror (King, 1934) Hart Book K-1 n.d. Murder and the Secret Weapon (Laughing Girl, Kinsey, 1941) Thriller Novel Classic 6 n.d. Wright, S[ y d n e y ] Fowler (1874-1965) UK, see also ps Sydney Fowler The Amphibians (from, The World Below, Longmans, Green, 1930, c/u) Galaxy SF Novel 4 [1951] The World Below (from [same], Longmans, Green, 1930, c/u) Galaxy SF Novel 5 [1951] Wright, Watkins E[ppes] (1890-1967) US, see also pss Glen(n) Watkins, Wright Williams Borrowed Ecstasy see Wild Passion Margie Is for Loving (The Moneymooners, Godwin, 1934) Quarter Book 58 1950 Wild Passion (original) Quarter Book 51 1949 as Borrowed Ecstasy Carnival Book 904 1952 as Young Passion Carnival Book 955 1957 Young Passion see Wild Passion Wylie, I[da] A[lexa] R[oss] (1885-1959) UK/US To the Vanquished (Doubleday, Doran, 1934) Mercury Book 13 (1938) Wylie, Philip [Gordon] (1902-1971) US Corpses at Indian Stones (Farrar & Rinehart, 1943, c/u) Century 33 n.d. Stab in the Back (mag, 1943) 1/2 of double Century (18) n.d. Wynne, Anthony ps of Robert McNair Wilson (1882-1963) UK series: Dr. Hailey Murder in the Morning [Hailey] (Death of a Golfer, Lippincott, 1937) Detective Novel Classic 14 n.d. Yates, Dornford ps of Cecil William Mercer (1885-1960) UK The Devil in Satin (Doubleday, Doran, 1938, [abr]) Mercury Book 23 [1939] Yates, Peter ps of William Long, q.v. series: Andy Penn, Sandy Blunt Curtain Call for Murder [Penn] (original) Vulcan Mystery 6 1945 Death Comes to Dinner [Penn] (original) Five Star Mystery 4 1945 Death in the Hands of Talent [Blunt] (original) Five Star Mystery 7 1945 The Dress Circle Murders [Blunt] (original) Five Star Mystery 1 1945 Young, Gordon [Ray] (1886-1948) US series: Red Clark, Hurricane Williams Gunman from Tulluco [Clark ] (Red Clark to the Rescue, Doubleday, 1948, abr) Thrilling Novel 23 n.d. Holster Law [Clark] (Red Clark in Paradise, Doubleday, 1947, c/u) Thrilling Novel 13 n.d. Quarter Horse (Doubleday, 1948) Fighting Western Novel 17 n.d. Red Clark at the Showdown [Clark] (Doubleday, 1947) Fighting Western Novel 13 n.d. Tall in the Saddle (Doubleday, Doran, 1943) Western Novel Classic 42 n.d. [same] (Doubleday, Doran, 1943) Fighting Western Novel 30 n.d. The Vengeance of Hurricane Williams [Williams] (Doran, 1925) Adventure Novel Classic 11 (1943) Yudkoff, Alvin (1923- ) US Network of Fear (Circumstances Beyond Control, Rinehart, 1955, abr) Bestseller Mystery B194 [1956] Zinberg, Len
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