Detective and mystery stories

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21-22	June 2005 Readings/Article Boys, uninterrupted SEE ALSO: Children's literature; Detective and mystery stories; Dixon, Franklin W.; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Technique PDF IMAGES
34	July 1990 Readings/Article Menu for murder By Martin Roth SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Plots (Drama, novel, etc.); Technique PDF IMAGES
45-52	September 1988 Article Plotting the perfect murder By Tony Hillerman, Donald E. Westlake, Sarah Caudwell, Peter Lovesey, and Nancy Pickard SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Murder; Technique PDF IMAGES
406-412	May 1948 Article The guilty vicarage: Notes on the detective story, by an addict By W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
171	January 1945 Another man's poison/Article Another man's poison By Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
34-37	December 1944 The easy chair/Article The easy chair By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Grattan, C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley); Detective and mystery stories; Wilson, Edmund; Literature; Views on 20th century literature; Views on detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
485-492	April 1941 Article A sober word on the detective story By Harrison R. (Harrison Ross) Steeves SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Men PDF IMAGES
567-571	October 1921 Article “Had I the pen of a G.P.R. James” By Katharine Fullerton Gerould SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Canon (Literature); Criticism; Detective and mystery stories; English fiction; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Ainsworth, Harrison; Popular literature; Stevenson, Robert Louis; Scott, Walter, Sir; Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES

87-91	October 2002 Review The mystery of influence: Why Raymond Chandler persists while so many more respected writers are forgotten By Pico Iyer SEE ALSO: Collected stories (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Chandler, Raymond; The big sleep, Farewell, my lovely, The high window (Book); The lady in the lake, The little sister, The long goodbye, Playback (Book) PDF IMAGES
72-74	July 1981 In print/Review Mysteries for the misbegotten: The literary corpse By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Bioy Casares, Adolfo; Cross, Amanda; Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy); Death in a tenured position (Book); Death under sail (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Van de Wetering, Janwillem; Borges, Jorge Luis; Six problems for Don Isidro Parodi (Book); The mind-murders (Book) PDF IMAGES
120-125	October 1971 Books/Review It's a mystery By John Thompson SEE ALSO: Hall, Adam; Lewis, Arthur H.; Maling, Arthur; Willeford, Charles Ray; Beaty, David; Dead piano (Book); Detective and mystery stories; MacKenzie, Donald; Dunnett, Dorothy; Fisherman's luck (Book); Beare, George; Thomson, Helen; Van Dyke, Henry; Hayes, Joseph Arnold; Like any other fugitive (Book); Loophole (Book); Freeman, Lucy; Match for a murderer (Book); Murder at Harvard (Book); Ransom (Book); Stark, Richard; Smith, Robert Kimmel; Sullivan, Robert; Slayground (Book); Sleep is for the rich (Book); The burnt orange heresy (Book); The copper beeches (Book); The disappearance of Dr. Parkman (Book); The dream (Book); The fly on the wall (Book); The temple tree (Book); The very breath of hell (Book); The Warsaw document (Book); Pace, Tom; Hillerman, Tony PDF IMAGES
90-92	July 1967 The new books/Review Murder fancier recommends By John Dickson Carr SEE ALSO: A thrill a minute with Jack Albany (Book); A very private intrigue (Book); Hall, Adam; Death shall overcome (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Queen, Ellery; Lathen, Emma; Face to face (Book); Masur, Harold Q.; Brean, Herbert; Cross, James; Godey, John; Rosten, Leo Calvin; Freeling, Nicolas; Thomas, Ross; The 9th detective (Book); The cold war swap (Book); The king of the rainy country (Book); The legacy lenders (Book); The traces of Merrilee (Book); To hell for half-a-crown (Book) PDF IMAGES
84-88	July 1966 The new books/Review Murder fancier recommends . . . By John Dickson Carr SEE ALSO: Black money (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Westlake, Donald E.; Dover three (Book); Queen, Ellery; Daniels, Harold R.; House on Greenapple Road (Book); John Gardner; Porter, Joyce; Davies, L.P. (Leslie Purnell); Deighton, Len; Kruger, Paul; Macdonald, Ross; Woods, Sara; The billion dollar brain (Book); The busy body (Book); The fourth side of the triangle (Book); The paper dolls (Book); The windy side of the law (Book); Understrike (Book); Weep for willow green (Book) PDF IMAGES
104-106	July 1964 Review Murder-fancier recommends By John Dickson Carr SEE ALSO: Christie, Agatha; And on the eighth day (Book); Garve, Andrew; Death's foot forward (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Francis, Dick; Queen, Ellery; Frame-up (Book); Mair, George B.; Kirst, Hans Hellmut; Ullman, James Michael; Ashford, Jeffrey; Le Carré, John; Nerve (Book); Fish, Robert L.; The mirror crack'd (Book); The neon haystack (Book); The night of the generals (Book); The shrunken head (Book); The spy who came in from the cold (Book); Will anyone who saw the accident . . . (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-93	August 1961 Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Barbarian's country (Book); Best detective stories of the year (Book); Halliday, Brett; Detective and mystery stories; Radin, Edward D.; Sainsbury, Geoffrey; Plimpton, George; Webb, Jack; Barzun, Jacques; Hougran, Jean; Listen, the red-eyed vireo (Book); Lizzie Borden: the untold story (Book); White, Milton; One for my dame (Book); Out of my league (Book); Macdonald, Ross; The delights of detection (Book); The Wycherly woman (Book) PDF IMAGES
107-108	March 1956 Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Hoehling, A.A. (Adolph A.); Friedman, Albert B.; Detective and mystery stories; Don't look back! (Book); Grierson, Edward; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Evenings with the orchestra (Book); Gardening; Simenon, Georges; Geraniums for windows and gardens (Book); Stone, Hampton; Berlioz, Hector; Helen Keller: sketch for a portrait (Book); Wilson, Helen Van Pelt; How to make cut flowers last (Book); Hunt the man down (Book); Inspector Maigret and the burglar's wife (Book); Barzun, Jacques; Dineen, Joseph F.; Erskine, Margaret; Hoehling, Mary Duprey; Men and gardens (Book); Borgenicht, Miriam; Murder is where you find it (Book); Music; Music in America (Book); Mystery stories (Book); Fairbrother, Nan; Orchestral accents (Book); Stout, Rex; Richard Korn; Hansen, Robert P.; Chotzinoff, Samuel; Ellin, Stanley; The case of the demure defendant (Book); The last voyage of the Lusitania (Book); The second man (Book); The strangler who wouldn't let go (Book); The Viking book of folk ballads of the English speaking world (Book); The voice of murder (Book); Three witnesses, a Nero Wolfe threesome (Book); Toscanini: an intimate portrait (Book); Underworld U.S.A. (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Kasperski, Victoria R.; Pearson, William PDF IMAGES
193-200	August 1947 New books/Review Bright facts and pleasurable fears By Jacques Barzun SEE ALSO: Angels are painted fair (Book); Back to Methuselah (Book); Shaw, Bernard; Blood of vintage (Book); Chambers, Dana; Date with darkness (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Hamilton, Donald; Crispin, Edmund; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Famous stories of code and cipher (Book); Final curtain (Book); Lockridge, Frances; Coxe, George Harmon; Simenon, Georges; Ghost of a chance (Book); How like a god (Book); Bonney, Joseph; Roos, Kelley; Ford, Leslie; Look to the lady (Book); Mathematical recreations (Book); Marsh, Ngaio; Whelton, Paul; Bond, Raymond; Stout, Rex; Lockridge, Richard; Armour, Richard Willard; Rope for an ape (Book); The case of the fan dancer's horse (Book); The Devil at Westease (Book); The fifth key (Book); The first born (Book); The moving toyshop (Book); The woman in black (Book); Think of death (Book); Kyd, Thomas; Sackville-West, V. (Victoria); Ball, W.W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse); Writing light verse (Book) PDF IMAGES
48	December 1943 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By William C. Weber SEE ALSO: Karloff, Boris; Hare, Cyril; Detective and mystery stories; Going, going, gone (Book); He fell down dead (Book); Wilson, Mitchell A.; Lombard, Nap; Cheyney, Peter; Taylor, Phoebe Atwood; Chandler, Raymond; Stalk the hunter (Book); Tales of terror (Book); The grinning pig (Book); The lady in the lake (Book); The stars are dark (Book); Tragedy at law (Book); Perdue, Virginia PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 29-30	September 1943 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By William C. Weber SEE ALSO: Christie, Agatha; Colour scheme (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Doctors beware (Book); Philpott, Eden; Queen, Ellery; Flower of the gods (Book); Coxe, George Harmon; Treat, Lawrence; Murder for two (Book); Marsh, Ngaio; O as in omen (Book); Postgate, Raymond William; Somebody at the door (Book); The female of the species (Book); Triple threat (Book); McCully, Walbridge PDF IMAGES
20	June 1943 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By William C. Weber SEE ALSO: Cellini Smith (Book); Death takes a bow (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Do not disturb (Book); Ambler, Eric; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Experiment perilous (Book); Lockridge, Frances Louise Davis; Bailey, H.C. (Henry Christopher); McCloy, Helen; Intrigue (Book); Carpenter, Margaret; Mr. Fortune finds a pig (Book); Reeves, Robert; The case of the buried clock (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 20-21	March 1943 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By William C. Weber SEE ALSO: Cunningham, A.B.; Upfield, Arthur William; Kendrick, Baynard; Dougall, Bernard; Blind man's buff (Book); Dickson, Carter; Dark duet (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Don't catch me (Book); Down among the dead men (Book); Murder down under (Book); Davis, Norbert; Cheyney, Peter; Powell, Richard; She died a lady (Book); Sterling, Stewart; The affair at the boat landing (Book); The mouse in the mountain (Book); The singing corpse (Book) PDF IMAGES
43	December 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By T. Gregson SEE ALSO: Bouttell, Anita; Cradled in fear (Book); Rice, Craig; Detective and mystery stories; Carr, John Dickson; Wolffe, Katherine; Eberhart, Mignon Good; The attic room (Book); The emperor's snuff box (Book); The Sunday pigeon murders (Book); Wolf in man's clothing (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 24	November 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By T. Gregson SEE ALSO: Cue for murder (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Queen, Ellery; Lockridge, Frances Louise Davis; Coxe, George Harmon; Hanged for a sheep (Book); McCloy, Helen; Innes, Michael; Lockridge, Richard; The charred witness (Book); The daffodil affair (Book); The detective short story, a bibliography (Book) PDF IMAGES
21	October 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By T. Gregson SEE ALSO: Street, Cecil J.C. (Cecil John Charles); Dead of the night (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Gruber, Frank; Wellard, James Howard; Henning, Nelms; The buffalo box (Book); The case of the careless kitten (Book); The hangman's handyman (Book); The snake in the grass (Book) PDF IMAGES
14	September 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By T. Gregson SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Simenon, Georges; Ford, Leslie; Millar, Margaret; Murder and M. Labbé (Book); Murder in the OPM (Book); Passing strange (Book); Phantom lady (Book); Sale, Richard; The devil loves me (Book); Irish, William PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 27	August 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By T. Gregson SEE ALSO: A talent for murder (Book); Wells, Anna Mary; Cerf, Bennett; Rawson, Clayton; Hammett, Dashiell; Dodge, David; Detective and mystery stories; Don't mention my name (Book); Goldthwaite, Eaton K.; Homes, Geoffrey; No coffin for the corpse (Book); Shear the black sheep (Book); The complete Dashiell Hammett (Book); The street of the crying woman (Book); Three famous spy novels (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 22	July 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By T. Gregson SEE ALSO: Dickson, Carter; Rice, Craig; Detective and mystery stories; Bailey, H.C. (Henry Christopher); Meet Mr. Fortune (Book); The big midget murders (Book); The gilded man (Book); The twelve disguises (Book); Beeding, Francis, pseud PDF IMAGES
15	June 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By Howard Haycraft SEE ALSO: Black orchids (Book); Center of the web (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Holding, Elizabeth Sanxay; Mitchell, Gladys; Haunted lady (Book); Roberts, Katharine; Lady killer (Book); Rinehart, Mary Roberts; Stout, Rex; When last I died (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 30	May 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By Howard Haycraft SEE ALSO: Hocking, Anne; Black alibi (Book); Calamity town (Book); Woolrich, Cornell; Death on the aisle (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Queen, Ellery; Lockridge, Frances; McCloy, Helen; Poison is a bitter brew (Book); Lockridge, Richard; The body goes round and round (Book); Du Bois, Theodora; Who's calling (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 17	April 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By T. Gregson SEE ALSO: Bookman's holiday (Book); Brand, Christianna; Detective and mystery stories; Five alarm funeral (Book); Heads you lose (Book); Pentecost, Hugh; I'll sing at your funeral (Book); Lazarus #7 (Book); Sale, Richard; Sterling, Stewart; Starrett, Vincent PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 19	March 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By Howard Haycraft SEE ALSO: Christie, Agatha; Dead center (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Gruber, Frank; Coles, Manning; Collins, Mary; Rough on rats (Book); The body in the library (Book); The mighty blockhead (Book); The widening stain (Book); They tell no tales (Book); Johnson, W. Bolingbroke; Francis, William PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 13	February 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By Howard Haycraft SEE ALSO: A man lay dead (Book); Bosworth, Allan R. (Allan Rucker); Detective and mystery stories; Bowers, Dorothy; Fear and Miss Betony (Book); Footsteps behind her (Book); Full crash dive (Book); Simenon, Georges; Norman, James; Rhode, John; Ford, Leslie; Maigret sits it out (Book); Wilson, Mitchell; Murder behind the mike (Book); Murder, chop chop (Book); Murder with Southern hospitality (Book); Marsh, Ngaio; Goldman, R.L. (Raymond Leslie); The fourth bomb (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 10	January 1942 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By Howard Haycraft SEE ALSO: Fair, A.A.; Alphabet Hicks (Book); Cerf, Bennett A.; Detective and mystery stories; Double or quits (Book); Howie, Edith; Envious Casca (Book); Bagby, George; Heyer, Georgette; Murder for Christmas (Book); Red is for killing (Book); Stout, Rex; Shady doings (Book); Three famous murder novels (Book); Johns, Veronica Parker PDF IMAGES
54-57	December 1941 Murders for pleasure/Review Murders for pleasure By Howard Haycraft SEE ALSO: A losing game (Book); Boston, Charles K.; Rice, Craig; Death turns the tables (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Queen, Ellery; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Exit a star (Book); Crofts, Freeman Wills; Carr, John Dickson; Knight, Kathleen Moore; Eberhart, Mignon; 101 years' entertainment: the great detective stories, 1841-1941 (Book); The case of the empty tin (Book); The silver jackass (Book); Trial by fury (Book); With this ring (Book) PDF IMAGES
998	May 1899 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By John Kendrick Bangs SEE ALSO: Carryl, Charles E. (Charles Edward); Detective and mystery stories; The river syndicate, and other stories (Book) PDF IMAGES

50-55	September 1982 Fiction A tomb with a view: A story By Paul Theroux SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Diplomatic and consular service, American PDF IMAGES
51-54	June 1901 Fiction In the library By W.W. (William Wymark) Jacobs SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
370-376	February 1901 Fiction Captain Rogers By W.W. (William Wymark) Jacobs SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
945-959	November 1896 Fiction The next room By Octave Thanet SEE ALSO: Absence and presumption of death; Detective and mystery stories; Sheriffs PDF IMAGES
445-454	February 1894 Fiction An anonymous letter By Richard Harding Davis SEE ALSO: Anonymous letters; Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
857-872	May 1893 Fiction Etelka Talmeyr: A tale of three cities By Brander Matthews SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
41-57	December 1892 Fiction A Christmas party By Constance Fenimore Woolson SEE ALSO: Children's parties; Christmas stories; Clowns; Detective and mystery stories; Diplomats; Mistaken identity; Venice PDF IMAGES
525-544	September 1892 Fiction Lot no. 249 By Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Ghost stories; Mummies; Oxford; University of Oxford PDF IMAGES
364-374	August 1886 Fiction De Barbadoesa's little hour By Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Impostors and imposture PDF IMAGES
78-95	June 1885 Fiction A secret of the sea By Brander Matthews SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Hijacking of ships; North Atlantic Ocean PDF IMAGES
125-137	December 1884 Fiction A capillary crime By Francis Davis Millet SEE ALSO: Artists; Artists' models; Detective and mystery stories; Legal stories; Trials (Homicide) PDF IMAGES
925-931	November 1882 Fiction The doctor's house By Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Dwellings; First loves; Secrecy PDF IMAGES
761-768	April 1882 Fiction A hereditary witness By Nathaniel A. Prentiss SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Investigation; Legal stories; Memory; Murder; Witnesses PDF IMAGES
737-745	October 1877 Fiction Raspberry Island. Told to me by Dora By Constance Fenimore Woolson SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Fugitives from justice; Great Lakes Region; Migrant agricultural laborers PDF IMAGES
440-460	August 1877 Fiction Percy and the prophet: Events in the lives of a lady and her lovers By Wilkie Collins SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Fortune-telling; Habeas corpus; Historical fiction; 1800-1837 PDF IMAGES
391-406	February 1877 Fiction Noel Brewster's secret By Julian Croskey SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Insanity PDF IMAGES
227-243	January 1877 Fiction A craniologist By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Craniology; Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
892-897	May 1873 Fiction Lost By D.R. Castleton SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Missing persons PDF IMAGES
696-709	October 1870 Fiction The detective. A tale of the old Walton house By H. Macaulay SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Ghost stories; Historical fiction; Revelation; Ship captains PDF IMAGES
348-355	August 1868 Fiction In the Maguerriwock By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford SEE ALSO: Cider; Detective and mystery stories; Murder PDF IMAGES
523-527	September 1867 Fiction Mrs. Robertson's boarders By John Webb SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
460-469	September 1865 Fiction The pond house By J.W. Watson SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Robbery PDF IMAGES
623-626	April 1865 Fiction Mr. Furbush By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Murder PDF IMAGES
40-48	December 1864 Fiction The Pigot murder By C. Davis SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Murder PDF IMAGES
659-664	April 1863 Fiction My mysterious foe By Mary Mapes Dodge SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Rats PDF IMAGES
195-206	January 1860 Fiction The atoms of Chladni By J.D. (James Davenport) Whelpley SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Inventors PDF IMAGES
764-773	May 1859 Fiction The burning of Saltone Villa SEE ALSO: Arson; Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
620-626	April 1859 Fiction The costly kiss: A New York detective experience SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Embezzlement PDF IMAGES
504-509	March 1859 Fiction What was it? A mystery SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Ghost stories PDF IMAGES
511-525	September 1858 Fiction The identification: A narrative of facts, by a constabulary officer SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Mistaken identity PDF IMAGES
334-357	February 1858 Fiction A marriage tragedy By Wilkie Collins SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
659-667	April 1857 Fiction The three numbers SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
357-367	August 1855 Fiction The mysterious occurrence in Lambeth By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Legal stories PDF IMAGES
525-531	September 1854 Fiction Father and son SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Legal stories PDF IMAGES
463-471	March 1854 Fiction The raven By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
500-503	March 1854 Fiction A leaf from the parish register SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
769-772	May 1853 Fiction Warming a viper SEE ALSO: Autobiographical fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Extortion; Resuscitation PDF IMAGES
660-663	April 1853 Fiction The stain of parentage SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Murder PDF IMAGES
483-487	September 1852 Fiction A reminiscence of a Bow-Street officer SEE ALSO: Bath; Detective and mystery stories; Robbery investigation PDF IMAGES
202-210	July 1852 Fiction A terribly strange bed SEE ALSO: Asphyxia; Detective and mystery stories; Gambling PDF IMAGES