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No. |
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
NOTES |
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| 1 |
Cortland Fitzsimmons |
The Evil Men Do |
April 1942
Brown cover
|
|
| (2) |
Edith Howie |
Murder for Tea |
Numbers in () indicate that
these only appear numbered in publishers lists |
|
| (3) |
Jerome Barry |
Murder with your Malted |
|
|
| (4) |
Edith Howie |
Murder for Christmas |
Red cover |
|
| (5) |
Charles E. Vivian |
Girl in the Dark. |
Blue cover |
x
|
| (6) |
Brock Williams |
The Earl of Chicago |
Purple cover |
|
| (7) |
E.M. Curtiss |
Dead Dogs Bite |
|
|
| (8) |
Cortland Fitzsimmons |
Death Rings a Bell |
Green cover |
|
| (9) |
Theodora Dubois |
Death is Late to Lunch |
|
|
| (10) |
Cortland Fitzsimmons |
The Whispering Window |
|
|
| (11) |
James D. O'Hanlon |
Murder at Horsethief |
|
|
| (12) |
Christopher Hale |
Dead of Winter |
Purple cover |
|
| (13) |
Raymond Leslie Goldman |
Murder behind the Mike |
|
|
| (14) |
Adele Seifort |
Shadows Tonight |
Green cover |
|
| (15) |
Christopher Hale |
Exit Screaming |
|
|
| (16) |
Cortland Fitzsimmons |
Murder is Swift |
|
|
nn |
Bernard Dougall |
The Singing Corpse |
TVB Books 1944
Blue cover
|
|
| nn |
Ione Montgomery |
The Golden Dress |
Orange cover |
|
| nn |
Jerome Odlum |
Nine Lives are not Enough |
Red cover |
|
| nn |
Stephen Acre |
The Yellow Overcoat |
Orange cover |
|
| nn |
Marian Buxton Clark |
The Model Corpse |
Red cover |
|
| nn |
R.L. Goldman |
Death Plays Solitaire |
Purple cover |
|
| nn |
R.L. Goldman |
The Snatch |
Orange cover |
|
| nn |
Adele Seifort |
Three Blind Mice |
Blue cover |
|
| nn |
Monte Barrett |
Murder at Belle Camille |
TVB Books 1946
Purple cover
|
|
| nn |
Theodora Du Bois |
The Case of the Perfumed Mouse |
TVB Books 1946
Brown cover
|
|
| nn |
Theodora Du Bois |
Death Sails in a High Wind |
Orange cover |
|
| nn |
Christopher Hale |
Hangman's Tie |
Grey cover |
|
| nn |
Christopher Hale |
Witch Wood |
Red cover |
|
| nn |
Lawrence Lariar |
He Died Laughing |
Blue cover |
|
| nn |
Nancy Rutledge |
Beware the Hoot Owl |
Green cover |
|
| nn |
Christopher Hale |
Murder on Display |
Purple cover |
|
| nn |
Edith Howie |
No Face to Murder |
Green cover |
|
| nn |
Alberta Hughes Wahl |
Handsome, But Dead |
Blue cover |
|
| 40 |
Adele Seifort |
Kill your Own Snakes |
TVB Books 1947
Green cover - price increase to 1/6d
|
|
| 40 |
Adele Seifort |
Kill your Own Snakes |
TVB Books 1947
Illustrated edition
|
|
| 41 |
Christopher Hale |
Ghost River |
The first of the illustrated TVB covers (McLoughlin)
First published in TVB books 1947
|
|
| 42 |
Theodora Du Bois |
Murder Strikes an Atomic Unit |
First published in TVB books
1947
|
|
| 43 |
June Truesdell |
The Morgue the Merrier |
First published in TVB books
1947
|
|
| 44 |
Christopher Hale |
Rumour Hath It |
First published in TVB books
1947
|
|
| 45 |
Francis Allan
|
First Come, First Kill
|
First published in TVB books
1947 |

|
| 46 |
Norbert Davis |
Sallys' in the Alley |
First published in TVB books
1947
|
|
| 47 |
Robert Portner Koehler |
The Road House Murders |
first published by TV Boardman 1943
TVB edition 1948
|
|
| 48 |
Jerome Brown |
Leopard Cats Cradle |
first published by TV Boardman 1943
TVB edition 1948
|
|
| 49 |
Ernest Dudley |
Armchair Detective Reader |
|
|
| 50 |
Elizabeth Dean |
Murder a Mile High |
|
|
| 51 |
Edith Howie |
The Band Played Murder |
First published in TVB books
1948
|
|
| 52 |
Brown |
Murder in the Rough |
First published in TVB books
1948
|
|
| 53 |
Michael Stark |
Run For Your Life
(AKA The Tobacco Auction Murders) |
First published in TVB books
1948
|
|
| 54 |
Harry Lang |
The Corpse on the Hearth |
First published in TVB books
1948
|
|
| 55 |
J. Lane Linklaker |
Shadow for a Lady |
|
|
| 56 |
Guy Emery |
Front For Murder |
First published in TVB books 1948
NOTE: This edition has a dustwrapper (right) which covers a "red
cover" edition.
|
|
| 57 |
Carl Shannon |
Lady, That's My Skull |
First published in TVB books
1948
|
|
| 58 |
C.P. Donnell |
Murder-Go-Round |
First published in TVB books 1948
NOTE: This edition has a dustwrapper (right) which covers a "blue
cover" edition.
|
|
| 59 |
Christopher Hale |
Midsummer Nightmare |
First published in TVB books
1948
|
|
| 60 |
Theodora Du Bois |
The Wild Duck Murders |
First published in TVB books
1948
|
|
| 61 |
R.L. Goldman |
The Purple Shells |
|
|
| 62 |
Marie de Nervaud |
Early One Morning |
|
|
| 63 |
Henry Kane |
A Halo for Nobody |
First published in TVB books 1949
|
|
| 64 |
Nancy Rutledge |
The Preying Mantis |
First published in TVB books
1949
|
|
| 65 |
John Godey |
The Blue Hour |
|
|
| 66 |
Christopher Hale |
Smoke Screen |
First published in TVB books
1948
|
|
| 67 |
Eli Colter |
Cheer for the Dead |
McLoughlin's signature appears in the text of the newspaper
First published in TVB books 1949
|
|
| 68 |
Theodora Du Bois
|
The Footsteps |
|
|
| 69 |
Frederick Brown |
The Fabulous Clipjoint |
|
|
| 70 |
J. Lane Linklater |
The Black Opal |
|
|
| 71 |
Don Cameron |
White for a Shroud |
First published in TVB books
1949
|
|
| 72 |
Frederick Brown |
The Dead Ringer |
|
|
| 73 |
William P. McGivern |
But Death Runs Faster |
|
|
| 74 |
Edith Howie |
Cry Murder |
|
|
| 75 |
Jack Dolph |
Odds-On Murder |
|
|
| 76 |
Ernest Dudley |
(Second) Armchair Detective Reader |
First published in TVB books
1950
|
|
| 77 |
Lawrence Treat |
H - As in Hunted |
|
|
| 78 |
Jack Dolph |
Murder is Mutuel |
|
|
| 79 |
Edward Ronns |
No Place to Live |
|
|
| 80 |
Christopher Hale |
Going, Going, Gone |
First published in TVB books 1950
|
|
| 81 |
Edwin Lantham |
Headline for Murder |
|
|
| 82 |
Nancy Rutledge |
Blood on the Cat |
First published in Great Britain 1946 - first TVB 1950
|

|
| 83 |
Henry Kane |
Armchair in Hell |
First UK 1949
TVB edition 1951
|
|
| 84 |
Robert Finnegan |
The Bandaged Nude |
|
|
| 85 |
Hilary Waugh |
Hope to Die |
|
|
| 86 |
Christopher Hale |
He's Late this Morning |
|
|
| 87 |
Louisa Revell |
The Bus Station Murders |
|
|
| 88 |
Theodora Du Bois |
The Devil and Destiny |
|
|
| 89 |
June Truesdell |
Be Still My Love |
This was made into the film
The Accused (AKA Strange Deception)
starring Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, and Wendell Corey, directed
by William Dieterle. Classic film noire.
|
|
| 90 |
Inez Haynes Irwin |
The Women Swore Revenge |
First UK 1948
TVB edition 1951
|
|
| 91 |
|
|
|
|
| 92 |
|
|
|
|
| 93 |
Louisa Revell |
No Pockets in Shrouds |
|
|
| 94 |
Christopher Hale |
Deadly Ditto |
First UK edition 1949
TVB edition 1951
|
|
| 95 |
John Evans |
Halo for Satan |
|
|
| 96 |
Hilary Waugh |
The Odds Run Out |
|
|
| 97 |
Henry Kane |
Hang by your Neck |
|
|
| 98 |
Frederick Brown |
Murder in Moonlight |
|
|
| 99 |
Gale Gallaher |
Chord in Crimson |
|
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