Mystery and Crime Various: Thrilling Mysterys Sampler. V1. 22 Mar 2012

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Thrilling Mystery started as a weird menace title in reaction to the success of titles like Dime Mystery Magazine and Terror Tales. By the 1940s it had started a gradual shift to more conventional mysteries, changing its name in 1945 to Thrilling Mystery Novel Magazine, followed two years later by Detective Mystery Novel Magazine and two years after that by 2 Detective Mystery Novels Magazine, running for a total of 88 issues in all.

THE TORTURE WINCH—DONALD BAYNE HOBART

Death Reaches Out to Grasp Innocent Victims in the Gory Clutch of Greed and Inhumanity.

AUCTION OF THE DAMNED—DONALD BAYNE HOBART

Death Stalks Grimly Across the Mongolian Lowlands as a Lone White Girl Faces Sinister Peril.

DANSE MACABRE—JOHN EASTERLY

Rand Wade Invades a Spider-Mesh of Horror When Men Go Back to the Primeval Ooze!

DEALER IN HUMAN PARTS—NOEL LOOMIS

The Man Was Dead—But There Were Fresh Footprints of Ghastly Horror In the Snow!

MUMMIES TO ORDER—E. HOFFMANN PRICE

Murray Deane Had Unveiled the Secrets of Many Egyptian Tombs—But He Was Confounded by the Vengeance of Dead Gods!

WAKE NOT THE DEAD—JOHN H. KNOX

A Complete Novelet of Weird Orgies.

CELLAR OF SKULLS—WILL GARTH

A Nightmarish Dream Turns to Cold Reality When Nina Benson Suddenly Faces a Horrible Ordeal

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THE DAY OF DEBTS—WILL GARTH

When the Spirit of Old China Demanded Its New Year’s Toll, Chung Lee Paid in Full!

DISTURB THE DEAD—SAM MERWIN, JR

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A Murder and a Jewel Theft Take Bill Post on a Strange Graveyard Trail.

KIDNAPED EVIDENCE—JOSEPH J. MILLARD

Private Detective McGee Steals a Corpse to Save a Case!

CLOSE TO A CORPSE—C. K. M. SCANLON

Detective Sergeant Dan Kenny Moves Swiftly to Spike a Killer’s Alibi!

THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE—OWEN FOX JEROME

It Takes a Cat, a Fiddle, and a Lovely Singer to Transform Gentle, Mild Mr. Remington, Violinist of the Romany Club, into a Smart Detective as Well as a Hero!

RATS ARE SMART—ROBERT WALLACE

Mike the Mouse Didn’t Even Like Cheese!

THE CORPSE THAT PLAYED DEAD—A. BOYD CORRELL

Murder Closes Down on a Hollywood Lot When a Pompous Actor Gives Up the Ghost in the Midst of a Machine-Gun Melodrama !