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“Life and Death of Bubbles Schroeder” by Benjamin Bennett
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True Crime Detective Spring 1952

True Crime Detective Spring 1942

“There’s nothing I like better than a good story well told with a flavor of surprise and suspense. That’s the reason I pick up True Crime Detective.”
–Lauritz Melchior, world-famous tenor

True Crime Detective Vol. 2 No. 2 Spring 1952
Contents Page
Benjamin Bennett “Life and Death of Bubbles Schroeder”
Joseph Catton “Secret Story of Winnie Ruth Judd”
Pierre Perchard “Curiosity Kills a Cop”
Here’s the Answer (readers’ crime-related Q&A)
Edward D. Radin “Homemade Murder”
Bob Patterson “Unfinished Business”
Joseph Gollomb “Nemesis in Texas”
Stuart Palmer “The Dandy and the Squire”
M.R. Kelly “Case of the Quiet Coed”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editor: Edward D. Radin
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Art Director: George Salter
Cover: Dirone Photography
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢

Detective: The Magazine of True Crime Cases
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Detective No. 2

Detective No. 2

“Stories” changed to “Cases” in this issue’s full title:
Detective: The Magazine of True Crime Cases Vol. 1 No. 2 Spring 1951
Contents
Stuart Palmer “Fancy Nancy’s Secret”
Allan R.Bosworth “The Laughing Killer of the Woodside Glens”
Burton Rascoe “The Affair of Mr. X”
William T. Brannon “The Curse at Christmas”
Mary Sullivan “The Rosenthal Case”
M.R. Kelly “American’s Jack-the-Ripper”
Edward D. Radin “Murder by Conscience”
James Thurber “A Sort of Genius”
Stewart H. Holbrook “Dead Man’s Bounty”
William Roughead “Malice Domestic”
Don Pancho Vega “One Morning in Ecuador”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editor: Edward D. Radin
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Art Director: George Salter
Cover: Sid Rosenbaum
5.5” x 7.75” 126 pages 35¢

Detective No. 2 back cover
Bestseller Mystery B128 excerpt
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Bestseller Mystery B128

Bestseller Mystery B128 coverAlthough not labeled officially with the “Ellery Queen Selects” banner, Bestseller Mystery B128 follows the series’ formula: a short story collection edited by Queen, with his introduction. It’s also the last of the series.

Bestseller Mystery, B128, Nov. 1, 1950
“The Monkey Murder and other Hildegarde Withers Stories” by Stuart Palmer
“The Monkey Murder,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jan.1947
“The Purple Postcards,” The Detroit Free Press, July 2, 1939 as “The Riddle of the Purple Postcards” with slight differences in text
“Miss Withers and the Unicorn,” Aug. 3, 1941*
“The Riddle of the Double Negative,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1947
“The Long Worm,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Oct.1947
“The Hungry Hippo,” 1943**
“Tomorrow’s Murder,” The Detroit Free Press, June 2, 1940 as “Riddle of the Beggar on Horseback” with slight differences in text.
“Fingerprints Don’t Lie,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 1947

* date of copyright registration: no findable publication previous to this volume.
** 1943 is copyright date given in the book; earliest findable publication: The Australian Women’s Weekly, Feb. 19, 1944. The text has numerous differences.