Henry Slesar-An Appreciation and a Bibliography

by Lawrence A. Herman

Henry Slesar

Henry Slesar might just be the most successful writer in American history that nobody has ever heard of.

Of course, some people have heard of him. If you’re a loyal reader of bare bones, you probably have read the series of reviews of episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (see here). Slesar was involved in 47 of those episodes, either as the author of the teleplay or of the story it was based on, or both.I got interested in Slesar through Hitchcock. I became an ardent fan of Hitchcock movies way back, having been just old enough to have seen Hitchcock’s last movie on its first run: 1976’s Family Plot. I became a fan of Alfred Hitchcock Presents when a local TV channel started airing the episodes. Then I started buying cheap used copies of those paperback collections of short stories published under Hitchcock’s name. I read more than five hundred stories in those collections.I picked up a collection of stories that had been published in Playboy and one of them knocked me out. It was called After and it consisted of four separate stories all taking place after a nuclear holocaust, each with an exquisitely ironic twist ending, all four of them together taking up a mere five pages. There was an introduction about the author, Henry Slesar, and how good he was at the short-short story. The name rang a bell, and I went looking back at the Hitchcock books to see if he was in there. He was, many times, having written some of my very favorite of the stories: "Case of the Kind Waitress," "Something Short of Murder," "You Can’t Blame Me," "Murder Delayed," "The House on Damn Street," and many more. And then I connected him to a bunch of the TV episodes: "Not the Running Type," "The Morning After," "The Right Kind of House," and many more.

I’d fallen into rabbit holes of collecting before (Leiber and Stoller songs, the plays of George S. Kaufman), but a few years ago I started looking Slesar up on the internet, buying and downloading as much as I could. I found out that he had written a staggering amount of work. Estimates of how many short stories he wrote go as high as 550. His IMDb page has more than 100 listings of scripts for movies and TV that either he wrote or were based on his stories. He wrote 40 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, 25 of those in its first year. He wrote one-page mysteries that challenged the reader to find the solution; I know of 17 of them. He wrote three books of those one-page stories that were combined with acrostic crossword puzzles that gave you either the solution or clues, 80 stories total. He created a company to make jigsaw puzzles that gave clues to one-page mysteries; there are at least eight of those. He wrote a series of interactive stories for the internet. He even wrote a comic book, although that seems to have had only one issue.

He also wrote long-form works, including five novels and two novelizations. He wrote two full-length plays and six one-acts.

But none of that was how he made his main living. Until 1969, he was V.P. and Creative Director at several advertising agencies, including one he founded in 1964. In 1969 he left the advertising world to concentrate on television. Aside from writing episodes of numerous television series, he had a remarkably long run, 16 years, as the head writer of the daytime soap opera, The Edge of Night. He was also head writer of four other soap operas at various times. Using IMDb, I estimate that there were more than 4500 soap opera episodes he was responsible for. He created and was the head writer for a prime-time series, but it only lasted one year.

"The Brat," Slesar's first short story to
be published, was in this issue

His work isn’t easy to collect. Almost all the prose he wrote is out of print. There have only been four collections of his short stories in English that I know of, three of them published under the banner of Hitchcock’s name. Two are from the early 1960s, and two are from the late 1980s. There have been none since. There were many reprints of his stories in anthologies, but most of those are out of print, too. All his novels are out of print and sell for decent prices. Getting one for under $20 takes work. Getting one for $50 to $200 is much easier.

A publisher in Switzerland has published more than 25 of his books in German. I’ve collected a bunch of these and, not speaking German, mechanically translated some of the stories I couldn’t find in English using internet translators.

Some of his movie and TV work has been put out on DVD or is streaming, but some of it hasn’t, obscure shows that seem to have disappeared into the ether. Even those that were put out are mostly out of print. Occasionally you can find them on YouTube, or being sold by a rare films site. It is probable that some of his TV work doesn’t exist anymore. That is definitely true of many episodes of his soap operas, which were erased years ago.

One of many title cards
from Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Many of his stories were published in old pulp fiction magazines that went out of business quickly, making copies rare. It’s made even harder because it’s often difficult to tell what issues of what magazines have Slesar stories; even sites selling old magazines rarely put tables of contents in the descriptions.

I spent a lot of hours scraping the internet for information. I found a great bibliography of Slesar’s short stories at the FictionMags Index (http://www.philsp.com). I’ve expanded it to include his other work, and have found about 20 stories that weren’t in it.

My version has 754 entries at the moment. That includes 30 articles about Slesar or reviews of his work. I count the soap operas as one entry each, regardless of number of episodes. Of these 754 entries, I’ve managed to collect some version of 627 of them.

A few notes on the index:

• It’s a work in progress. If you have corrections or additional information, I’d love to hear from you.
• -00- for a date means either that I just don’t know it or there isn’t any more info, such as the publication day of a magazine that’s published monthly.
• TV show's credits don’t generally tell you what story an episode is based on. I’ve put those in mostly based on me recognizing the story (or a small part of it).
• Wikipedia says Terror From the Year 5000 is based on "Bottle Baby." There’s nothing of the plot, only the idea of a woman from the future. Good enough, I suppose.
• I’ve put in only the original publication, but many have been reprinted as part of collections or in later issues of the magazines. The FictionMags Index mentioned above is a good source for the reprints.
• A few of these items were co-written; I haven’t put that info in yet.
• Likewise for the exact credit line on the films and TV shows. Some are by Slesar, others are just based on his stories, many both. I’ll get that in at some point, too.
• Some of these were originally published under pseudonyms. Wikipedia helped sort out what I should look for. I haven’t put that info in yet, either.
• If the only publishing information for a story is a German book, that means I have it only in German and haven’t been able to match it to an English title. This definitely means some stories are out of place chronologically, because all I have is the book reprint year.
• A story has an a/k/a only if it appeared in print with more than one title; titles changed for film, TV, or radio, don’t.

Have I gotten to the bottom of the barrel on Slesar’s work? Some of the adaptations for film and TV are pretty bad, but almost all the short stories are worth it. I’m still trying to find others. So many are gems, and others just good fun.

I’m happy to share this index of Slesar’s works and would love to find other fans of Henry Slesar out there. He deserves to be better known.

HENRY SLESAR BIBLIOGRAPHY

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1958-00-00 The Man in the Chair

Comic Book

1966-00-00 Kosher Comics

Introductions

1985-00-00 Introduction to Hitchcock in Prime Time

1989-00-00 Introduction to Death on Television: The Best of Henry Slesar's Alfred Hitchcock Stories

Jigsaw Puzzles

1973-00-00 The Case of the Snoring Skinflint

1974-00-00 The Case of the Shaky Showman

1974-00-00 Who Is the Monster of Midvale?

1978-00-00 The Case of His Headless Highness

1992-00-00 A Classic Case of Murder

1994-00-00 Foul Play and Cabernet

1994-00-00 Murder Makes a Call

1997-00-00 The Haunted Garden

Movies

Full Length

1958-00-00 Terror From the Year 5000

                     Based on "Bottle Baby"

                     American-International/Sam Z. Arkoff

1964-00-00 The Eyes of Annie Jones

                     Based on/Adapted as "The Girl Who Found Things"

                     British

1965-00-00 Two on a Guillotine

                     Co-writer, story by

1966-00-00 One of Our Spies Is Missing

                     Story by

                     Based on "The Bridge of Lions"

                     The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

1969-00-00 Honeymoon With a Stranger

                     Co-writer

                     Based on Piege Pour un Homme Seul by M. Robert Thomas

1971-00-00 Murders in the Rue Morgue

                     Co-writer, based on "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe

1978-00-00 Vorhang auf, wir spielen Mord (Curtain Up, We Play Murder)

                     Co-writer

                     Based on "Enter Murderers"

                     German

1983-00-00 Der Tod kommt durch die Tur [Death Comes Through the Door])

                     Based on "The Thing at the Door"

                     German

1984-00-00 Yomigaetta engi [Revived Acting]

                     Based on "Starring the Defense"

                     Japanese

1988-00-00 Kaitô Ruby [Thief Ruby]

                     Based on the Ruby Martinson Stories

                     Japanese

1995-00-00 The Maddening

                     Co-writer, based on Playmates by Andrew Neiderman,

2002-00-00 Heartbreak Hospital

                     Co-writer, based on Murder at Heartbreak Hospital

Segments

1975-00-00 Mütter [Mothers]

                     German

1977-00-00 Sanfter Schreken [Gente Terror]

                     Based on "The Day of the Execution"

                     German

1992-00-00 Sacrifice for Love, from Three Tales From the Inner Sanctum

                     Based on "Museum Piece"

1992-00-00 Ecstacy, from Three Tales From the Inner Sanctum

                     Based on "The Substitute" 

Shorts

1983-00-00 A Choice of Witnesses

                     Based on "A Choice of Witnesses"

                     Student Film

1993-00-00 Il sorvegliante [The Supervisor])

                     Italian

1997-00-00 Der Grosse Lacher [The Big Laugh]

                     Based on Boffola

                     German

2010-00-00 The Candidate

                     Based on "The Candidate"

2011-00-00 Satilik Ev [House for Sale]

                     Based on "The Right Kind of a House"

                     Turkish

2012-00-00 Chapeau

                     French

2014-00-00 die Prufung

                     Based on "Examination Day"

                     German

2016-00-00 The Philip Highland Fan Club

Novels

1959-00-00 The Grey Flannel Shroud

1960-00-00 Enter Murderers

1963-00-00 The Bridge of Lions

1974-00-00 The Thing at the Door

1998-00-00 Murder at Heartbreak Hospital

Novelizations

1957-00-00 20 Million Miles to Earth

                     Based on the movie  by Bob Williams, Christopher Knopf, Charlott Knight, Ray                                       Harryhausen

1969-00-00 The Edge of Night No 1: The Seventh Mask

                     Based on The Edge of Night soap opera episodes 

Plays

Full Length

1966-00-00 The Four-Cornered Couch

1991-00-00 He Had a Hat

One Act

1963-00-00 The Right Kind of House, by Anne Coulter Martens

                     Based on "The Right Kind of a House"

1991-00-00 Speak to the Dead

                     One Act of Three Acts of Murder

1991-00-00 Hanged for a Sheep

                     Based on "Hanged for a Sheep"

                     One Act of Three Acts of Murder

1991-00-00 The Right Kind of House

                     Based on "The Right Kind of a House"

                     One Act of Three Acts of Murder

1992-00-00 Coming Home

                     One Act of Letters From the Devil

1992-00-00 Invitation to Lunch

                     One Act of Letters From the Devil

1992-00-00 A Letter Too Late

                     Based on "A Letter Too Late"

                     One Act of Letters From the Devil

1997-00-00 The Veil

                     Based on "The Girl Who Found Things/The Eyes of Annie Jones"

Puzzle Books

1985-00-00 Acrostic Mysteries (40 Stories With Puzzles)

1991-00-00 Inspector Cross Vol 1 (20 Stories With Puzzles)

1991-00-00 Inspector Cross Vol 2 (20 Stories With Puzzles)

Radio

CBS Radio Mystery Theater

All episodes based on stories of the same name except as noted.

1974-01-26 "The Ring of Truth"

1974-01-24 "Deadly Honeymoon"

1974-01-20 "The Chinaman Button"

1974-01-19 "The Girl Who Found Things"

                     Based on "The Eyes of Annie Jones" (?)

1974-01-06 "The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill"

1974-01-07 "The Return of the Moresbys"

1974-01-09 "Lost Dog"

1974-02-28 "A Choice of Witnesses"

1974-02-24 "The Horse That Wasn't for Sale"

1974-02-06 "After the Verdict"

                     Based on "Second Verdict"

1974-03-18 "Sea of Troubles"

1974-04-16 "Men Without Mouths"

                     Based on "The Haunted Man"

1974-04-08 "The Locked Room"

                     Based on "Behind the Locked Door"

1974-05-16 "The Trouble With Ruth"

1974-06-25 "Where Fear Begins"

1974-06-20 "Bargain in Blood"

                     Based on "The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross"

1974-08-22 "The Case of M.J.H."

1974-08-19 "The Hands of Mrs. Mallory"

1974-08-15 "The Final Vow"

                     Based on "Hiding Out"

1974-08-01 "The Hit Man"

                     Based on "Blood Bargain"

1974-08-09 "The Murder Museum"

                     Based on "Museum Piece"

1974-09-17 "Thicker Than Water"

1974-10-17 "The Last Escape"

1974-10-10 "The Doll"

                     "Voodoo Doll" (a/k/a "Voodoo Doll—$1.98")

1974-11-04 "Bury Me Again"

                     Based on "I’m Dead, Honey"

1975-04-15 "My Own Murderer"

                     Based on "The Man in the Mirror"

1975-05-16 "The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich"

1975-07-04 "The Slave"

1975-08-19 "Welcome for a Dead Man"

                     Based on "You Can’t Blame Me"

1975-12-03 "I Promise to Kill"

                     Based on "Promise to Kill"

1976-02-11 "You Owe Me a Death"

                     Based on "Half a Death"

1977-03-17 "Jobo"

1977-06-02 "A God Named Smith"

1977-06-10 "The Night We Died"

1979-12-12 "The Movie Makers"

1980-01-16 "Prisoner of the Machines"

                     Based on "Prisoner in Orbit"

1980-04-09 "Kitty"

                     Original (?)

1980-05-19 "Two of a Kind"

                     Based on "Real, Real Crazy"

1980-05-28 "The Bluff"

1980-07-16 "Murder Preferred"

                     Based on "The Seventh Mask"

1980-11-17 "The Eleventh Plague"

1982-04-19 "Shelter"

                     Based on "The Bottom Line"

1982-10-29 "I Hate Harold"

                     "The Contessa Collection"

The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas

2005-00-00 "The Old Man in the Cave"

                     Based on "The Old Man"

                     Adapted by another author

2006-00-00 "The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross"

                     Adapted by another author

Short Stories

1955-09-00 "The Brat"

                     Imaginative Tales

1956-05-00 "Alibi on the Steve Allen Show"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1956-05-00 The Bloodless Laws

                    Fantastic Universe

1956-06-00 "A Victim Must Be Found"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1956-07       "The Monument"

                     Amazing Stories

1956-07-00 "The Movie Makers"

                     Fantastic Universe

1956-08-00 "The Man With Two Faces"

                     Manhunt

1956-10-00 "A Trip to Florida"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1956-10-00 "Messenger"

                     Fantastic Universe

1956-10-00 "A Message From Our Sponsor"

                     Infinity Science Fiction

1956-10-00 "We’ll Open Your Skull"

                     Trapped Detective Story Magazine

1956-11-00 "Sleep It Off"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1956-11-00 "The Monster Died at Dawn"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1956-12-00 "Marriages Are Made in Detroit"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1956-12-00 "Repeat Broadcast"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1956-12-00 "Coward’s Death"

                     Fantastic

1956-12-00 "Death Rattle"

                     Fantastic

1956-12-00 "The Chimp"

                     Fantastic

1956-12-00 "Thought for Today"

                     If

1956-12-00 "Who Am I?"

                     Super-Science Fiction

1957-01-00 "The Trouble With Ruth"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-01-00 "Heart"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-01-00 "Reluctant Genius"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-01-00 "Dream Town"

                     Fantastic Universe

1957-01-00 "Cop for a Day"

                     Manhunt

1957-01-00 "The Second Jury"

                     Killers Mystery Story Magazine

1957-01-00 "Instrument of Torture"

                     Verdict Crime Detection Magazine

1957-02-00 "A Kiss for the Conqueror"

                     Fantastic

1957-02-00 "Beauty Contest?"

                     Fantastic

1957-02-00 "My Robot"

                     Fantastic

1957-02-00 "The Right Kind of a House"

                     Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine

1957-02-00 "Mr. Loneliness"

                     Super-Science Fiction

1957-02-00  "The Morning After"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1957-02-00 "Handcuffed Slayer"

                     Terror Detective Story Magazine

1957-02-00 "Fraternity Hell Week"

                     Trapped Detective Story Magazine

1957-03-00 "M Is for the Many"

                     Clean Crimes and Neat Murders

1957-03-00 "The Goddess of World 21"

                     Fantastic

1957-03-00 "Proposal of Marriage"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-03-00 "To Save a Body"

                     Manhunt

1957-03-00 "The Gentleman From Boston"

                     Crime and Justice Detective Story Magazine

1957-03-00 "A Night in Rockbury"

                     Nugget

1957-04-00 "Abe Lincoln—Android"

                     Fantastic

1957-04-00 "Bottle Baby"

                     Fantastic

1957-04-00 "25 Words or Less"

                     Fantastic Universe

1957-04-00 "Brainchild"

                     If

1957-04-00 "The Pleasures of Reading"

                     Murders Most Macabre

Illustration from "Victory Parade"

1957-04-00 "Victory Parade"

                     Playboy

1957-04-00 "The Kissing Dead!"

                     Sure Fire Detective Stories

1957-04-00 "Too Anxious to Murder" (a/k/a "Black Money")

                     Sure Fire Detective Stories

1957-05-00 "40 Detectives Later"

                     Manhunt

                     *This story appears in 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories with the end cut off.

1957-05-00 "For Services Rendered" (a/k/a "RFD #2")

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-05-00 "Symbol of Authority"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1957-05-00 "The Metal Martyr"

                     Fantastic

1957-05-00 "Sob Story" (a/k/a "He Disappeared!")

                     Guilty Detective Story Magazine

1957-05-00 "Kill the Umpire!"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-06-00 "The Day of the Execution"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-06-00 "No Room in Heaven"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-06-00 "The Babbit From Bzlfsk"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-06-00 "The Mad Killer"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1957-06-00 "Ben’s Idea"

                     Satellite Science Fiction

1957-06-00 "Desire Woman"

                     Super-Science Fiction

1957-06-00 "The Dope"

                     Super-Science Fiction

1957-07-00 "A God Named Smith"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-07-00 "The Anonymous Man"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-07-00 "The Marriage Machine"

                     Fantastic

1957-07-00 "The Secret of Marracott Deep"

                     Fantastic

1957-07-00 "The Show Must Go On"

                     Infinity Science Fiction

1957-07-00 "The Substitute"

                     Manhunt

1957-07-00 "A Foot in the Door"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-08-00 "Monster on Stage 4"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-08-00 "Inheritance"

                     Fantastic

1957-08-00 "Tailor-Made Killers"

                     Fantastic

1957-08-00 "Traveling Man"

                     Fantastic

1957-08-00 "Appointment in 806"

                     Caper

1957-08-00 "Mad Dog!"

                     Sure Fire Detective Stories; Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (Ellison)

1957-09-00 "The First Crime of Ruby Martinson"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-09-00 "The Success Machine"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-09-00 "Saucer! Saucer!"

                     Fantastic

1957-09-00 "Before the Talent Dies"

                     Venture Science Fiction

1957-09-00 "I’m Dead, Honey"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-10-27 "The Secret Formula" (a/k/a "Attar of Love")

                     Playboy

1957-11-00 "Something Short of Murder"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-11-00 "Tool of the Gods"

                     Fantastic

1957-11-00 "A Timely Reward"

                     Mystery Digest

1957-12-00 "Get Our of Our Skies"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1957-12-00 "Personal Interview"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1957-12-00 "My Father the Cat"

                     Fantastic Universe; Faeries

1957-12-00 "Ruby Martinson, Confidence Man"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-12-00 "Death of a Mistress"

                     Trapped Detective Story Magazine

1957-12-00 "One Critic Too Many"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-12-00 "Pen Pal"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1957-12-00 "Fly Home to Betsy"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1958-01-00 "Space Brat"

                     Fantastic; Back Cat Weekly

1958-02-00 "The Mind Merchants"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-02-00 "The Night We Died"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-02-00 "Danger, Red!"

                     Fantastic

Virgil Finlay's illustration for "Jewel of Ecstasy"

1958-02-00 "Earth Specimen"

                     Fantastic

1958-02-00 "Jewel of Ecstasy"

                     Fantastic

1958-02-00 "Lost Dog"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1958-02-00 "Examination Day"

                     Playboy 

1958-03-00 "Great Men Can Die"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-03-00 "Sam’s Heart"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-03-00 "The Creators"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-03-00 "The Moon Chute"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-03-00 "Let’s Repeal Love"

                     Fantastic

1958-03-00 "The Lavender Talent"

                     Fantastic

1958-03-00 "The Search for Murphy’s Bride"

                     Fantastic

1958-03-00 "The Genie Takes a Wife"

                     Fantastic

1958-04-00 "Ruby Martinson, Ex-Con"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-04-00 "I Promise to Kill"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-04-00 "The Split-Level Ghost"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-04-00 "Boffola"

                     The Gent

1958-05-00 "Brother Robot"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-05-00 "The Invisible Man Murder Case"

                     Fantastic

1958-05-00 "The Love Nest"

                     Mystery Digest

1958-06-00 "Job for an Amateur"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-06-00 "The Man Who Took It With Him"

                     Fantastic

1958-07-00 "Whodunit"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-07-00 "No Place to Go"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-07-00 "The Love Song of Ruby Martinson"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-08-00 "Garden of Evil"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-08-00 "A Very Rare Disease"

                     Playboy

1958-08-00 "Compliments to the Chef"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-09-00 "Ten Per Cent of Murder"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1958-09-00 "Ignore All Requests"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-09-00 "The Life You Lose"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-09-00 "The Birthday Present"

                     The Dude

1958-10-00 "Case of the Kind Waitress"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-10-00 "The Delegate From Venus"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-10-00 "Deadly Honeymoon"

                     Sleuth Mystery Magazine

1958-11-00 "One Grave Too Many"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-11-00 "Legacy of Terror"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-11-00 "Mission: Murder!"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-11-00 "Never Cool a Cop"

                     Off Beat Detective Stories; A Crime for Mothers

1958-11-00 "The Jam"

                     Playboy

1958-11-00 "The Grey Flannel Shroud" (Abridged)

                     Cosmopolitan

1958-12-00 "Better Than Murder"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-12-00 "Make Me an Offer"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-12-00 "The Ordeal of Ruby Martinson"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1958-12-00 "Deadly Satellite"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1958-12-00 "The Eleventh Plague"

                     Fantastic

1959-01-00 "A Very Special Killer"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-01-00 "Dear Mrs. Fenwick"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-01-00 "Personal Challenge"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-01-00 "The Blonde From Space"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1959-01-00 "The Seven Eyes of Captain Dark"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1959-01-00 "Not the Running Type"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1959-02-00 "Peephole"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-02-00 "Like Father—Like Son"

                     Fantastic

1959-02-00 "The Only Thing to Do"

                     Mercury Mystery Magazine

1959-02-00 "A Fist Full of Money"

                     Playboy

1959-02-00 "You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-02-00 "The Sherlock Method"

                     The Gent

1959-02-00 "Something Borrowed"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1959-03-00 "Not So Sudden Death"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-03-00 "Lay Analyst"

                     Knave

1959-04-00 "It Started Most Innocently"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-04-00 "Job Offer"

                     Satellite

1959-04-00 "Masquerade"

                     Mystery Digest

1959-05-00 "Coroner’s Jury"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-05-00 "Homicide Only Knocks Once"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-05-00 "The Seduction of Sara"

                     Knave

1959-05-00 "A Whimper"

                     The Dude

1959-05-00 "Run, Willie, Run"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1959-06-00 "The Man in the Telephone Booth"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-06-00 "Curiosity Killed a—"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-06-00 "Ruby Martinson, Cat Burglar"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-06-00 "The Trigger"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1959-06-00 "The Worth of a Man"

                     Fantastic

1959-06-00 "Heavy Schedule"

                     Rogue

1959-06-00 "Dig You Later"

                     Mystery Tales

1959-07-00 "Letter From a Very Worried Man"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-07-00 "Say It Isn’t So, Ruby Martinson"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-07-00 "Last Drink"

                     Das Morden ist des Morders Lust

1959-08-00 "Beware the Unloaded Weapon"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-08-00 "The Case of M.J.H."

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-08-00 "The Traveling Couch"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1959-08-00 "Incognito"

                     Playboy

1959-09-00 "The Toy"

                     Fantastic

1959-09-00 "Survivor No. 1" (a/k/a "The Man With the Green Nose")

                     Knave

1959-09-00 "The Tooth"

                     Knave

1959-09-00 "Alone"

                     Rogue

1959-10-00 "Ruby Martinson’s Bank Job"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-10-00 "Simon Says: Hand Over Your Fortune"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-10-00 "A Blonde for Budo"

                     Mystery Tales

1959-11-00 "A Cry From the Penthouse"

                     Playboy

1959-11-00 "Hunt the Tiger"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-12-00 "And Seven Makes Death"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1959-12-00 "One Last Look"

                     Knave

1960-01-00 "The Deadly Telephone"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-01-00 "Terror Requires Preparation"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-01-00 "Cop Without Medals"

                     The Saint Mystery Magazine

1960-02-00 "Sleep Is for the Innocent"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-03-00 "Case for Evil"

                     Rogue

1960-04-00 "Voodoo Doll" (a/k/a "Voodoo Doll--$1.98")

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-05-00 "Key to a Skeleton Closet"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-05-00 "Ruby Martinson’s Big Dentist Caper"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-05-00 "Victim, Dear Victim"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-05-00 "Trust Me, Mr. Paschetti"

                     Clean Crimes and Neat Murders

1960-06-00 "After"

                     Playboy

1960-06-00 "Joke on a Nice Old Lady"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-07-00 "The Last Escape"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-07-00 "Welcome to Our Bank"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-07-00 "As Bad as Memory"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-07-00 "More than a Nightmare"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-07-00 "Perfect Moment"

                     Swank

1960-08-00 "The Absent-Minded Murder"

                     The Saint Mystery Magazine

1960-09-00 "My Baby, the Embezzler"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-09-00 "The Crooked Road"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1960-09-00 "Who Is Mrs. Myob?"

                     Fantastic

1960-11-00 "Faster Than an Honest Man"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-11-00 "Ruby Martinson's Poisoned Pen"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-11-00 "Very Small, Very Fine"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1960-11-00 "Father Amion’s Long Shot" (a/k/a "Long Shot")

                     Fantastic

1960-12-00 "A Child Was Lost"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1960-12-00 "A Crime for Mothers"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-01-00 "Behind the Locked Door"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-01-00 "The Case of the Secret Sorrow"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-01-00 "The Lesson"

                     Swank

1961-02-00 "Real, Real Crazy"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-02-00 "Stray Bullet"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-02-00 "Mr. D. and Death"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-02-00 "The Man in the Next Cell"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1961-03-00 "Thoughts Before Murder"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-03-00 "Ruby Martinson and the Great Coffin Caper"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-04-00 "The Accomplice"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1961-04-00 "Discoverers"

                     Fantastic

1961-05-00 "Two Accounts, One Death"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-05-00 "You Can't Blame Me"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-05-00 "The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross"

                     The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

1961-06-00 "I'm Better than You"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-06-00 "First-Class Honeymoon"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1961-07-00 "Murder Out of a Hat"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-07-00 "The Dirty Detail"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1961-08-00 "Dig We Must"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-08-00 "Policeman’s Lot"

                     Fantastic

1961-08-00 "The Stuff"

                     Galaxy

1961-08-00 "The Candidate"

                     Rogue

1961-09-00 "The Mask of Ruby Martinson"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-09-00 "The Firing Line"

                     Playboy

1961-09-00 "Blood Bargain"

                     Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine

1961-10-00 "Beggars Can Be Chosen"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-10-00 "The Painless Method"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-11-00 "Dead Give-Away"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-11-00 "Thicker Than Water"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1961-11-00 "The Last Smile"

                     Playboy

1961-11-07 "The Living End"

                     Fantastic

1962-00-00 "Keep Me Company"

                     A Crime for Mothers and Others

1962-00-00 "Servant Problem"

                     A Crime for Mothers and Others

1962-00-00 "And Beauty the Prize"

                     A Crime for Mothers and Others

1962-00-00 "The Old Man"

                     The Diners Club Magazine

1962-00-00 "The Penalty"

                     Microcosmic Tales

1962-00-00 "A Woman’s Help"

                     A Crime for Mothers and Others

1962-01-00 "Be My Valentine"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1962-01-00 "The Truth"

                     Off Campus—Extracurricular Entertainment

1962-01-00 "The Hands of Mrs. Mallory"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1962-01-00 "One Step to Hell!"

                     Keyhole Detective Stories

1962-02-00 "Museum Piece"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1962-02-00 "The Cure"

                     The Diners’ Club Magazine

1962-02-00 "Suicide Marathon"

                     Trapped Detective Story Magazine

1962-03-00 "Solo for Violin"

                     Playboy

1962-03-00 "The Lady and the Boy"

                     The Dude

1962-04-00 "A Way to Make It"

                     Playboy

1962-05-00 "Ruby Martinson’s Great Fur Robbery"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1962-07-00 "Item"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1962-07-00 "Blackmailer"

                     The Saint Mystery Magazine

1962-08-00 "Murder Delayed"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1962-08-00 "Good Morning, This Is the Future"

                     Rogue

1962-09-00 "Chip on Black 13"

                     Argosy (UK)

1962-09-00 "Mr. Justice"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1962-10-00 "Whosit’s Disease"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1962-10-00 "Light Fingers"

                     Cavalier

1962-10-00 "Three Letters From Hollywood"

                     Rogue

1962-10-25 "Hiding Out"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1962-11-00 "Weep for the Guilty"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1962-11-00 "Confessions of a Talking Dog"

                     Adam Bedside Reader #11

1962-11-00 "Under the Covers"

                     Adam Bedside Reader #11

1962-12-00 "How to Stop Smoking"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1963-00-00 "The Witness"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1963-01-00 "The Glowworm"

                     Playboy

1963-01-00 "The Colonel’s House"

                     Swank

1963-01-00 "Way-Station"

                     The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

1963-03-00 "A Day Off"

                     Knight

1963-03-00 "The Valley of Good News"

                     The Dude

1963-04-00 "Starring the Defense"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1963-05-00 "Sea of Troubles"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1963-05-00 "Jobo"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1963-06-00 "The Wish-Giver"

                     Rogue

1963-12-00 "A Note on American Literature by My Uncle, Monroe Sanderson"

                     The Diners Club Magazine

1963-12-00 "Sword of the Sultan"

                     Adam Bedside Reader 1963 #12

1964-01-00 "The Return of the Moresbys"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1964-02-00 "Second Verdict"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1964-02-00 "Beside the Golden Door"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1964-03-00 "The Last Word in Coloring Books"

                     Knight

1964-04-00 "Prisoner in Orbit"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1964-04-00 "The Chair"

                     Amazing Science Fiction Stories

1964-04-00 "Federal Offense"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1964-05-00 "The Horse That Wasn't for Sale"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1964-05-15 "Goodbye Charlie"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1964-09-00 "The Chinaman Button"

                     Ace

1964-09-00 "Tony’s Death"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1964-09-00 "Three Miles to Marleybones"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1964-11-00 "The Knocking in the Castle"

                     Fantastic

1964-11-00 "Sick Joke on Stanley"

                     Debonair

1965-00-00 "Speak"

                     The Diners Club Magazine

1965-00-00 "My Mother the Ghost"

                     The Diners Club Magazine

1965-01-00 "The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1965-02-00 "The Ring of Truth"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1965-04-00 "Gomber’s Army"

                     The Dude

1965-08-00 "Melodramine"

                     Playboy

1965-10-00 "One of Those Days"

                     The Saint Mystery Magazine

1965-10-00 "The Rats of Dr. Picard"

                     Bizarre Mystery Magazine

1966-00-00 "The Last Word"

                     Reveille

1966-03-00 "A Choice of Witnesses"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1966-03-00 "I Remember Oblivion"

                     The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

1966-11-00 "The Cop Who Loved Flowers"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1967-00-00 "Ersatz"

                     Dangerous Visions

1967-02-00 "The Diagnosis"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1967-04-00 "The Bluff"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1967-07-00 "The Prisoner"

                     Playboy

1967-08-00 "Cop in a Rocker"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1967-09-00 "The Man With the Green Eyes"

                     Ace

1968-06-00 "The House on Damn Street"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1968-07-00 "You Can Bet on Ruby Martinson"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1968-09-00 "Don’t I Know You?"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1968-09-00 "The Moving Finger Types"

                     The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

1968-10-00 "The Job"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1968-11-00 "An Affair of the Heart"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1968-11-00 "Death of the Kerry Blue"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1968-12-00 "Ball of the Centuries"

                     Fantastic

1969-02-00 "Death of a General"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1969-06-00 "I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Feldman"

                     Playboy

1969-07-00 "Bones"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1969-08-00 "Sea Change"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1969-09-00 "Eulogy in a Phone Booth"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1970-00-00 "The Slave"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make Your Teeth Chatter (1980)

1970-08-00 "The Gourmet"

                     Playboy

1970 Spring "Cry, Baby, Cry"

                     Startling Mystery Stories

1972-00-00 "A Different Line of Work"

                     Over the Edge

1972-12-00 "The Loan"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1973-03-00 "The Intruder"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1973-07-00 "The Girl Who Found Things"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1974-02-00 "The Seersucker Heart"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1974-02-00 "The Gourmet"

                     Playboy

1974-02-00 "Thou Shalt Not"

                     Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine

1974-04-00 "Happiness Before Death"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1974-04-00 "The Haunted Man"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1974-06-00 "The Poisoned Pawn"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1974-0800   "The Memory Expert"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1975-01-00 "The Kidnaping"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1975-0400   "The Bottom Dollar"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1975-08-00 "The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich"

                     The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

1977-00-00 "Just Like Her"

                     Schlimme Geschichten fur schlaue Leser

1979-07-00 "The Kindest Man in the World"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Anthology #60

1980-04-23 "The Game As It Is Played"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1981-00-00 "I Like It Here in Wilmington"

                     Coole Geschichten fur clevere Leser

1982-00-00 "Prez"

                     Terrors

1982-01-27 "Bottom Line"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1982-03-24 "The Contessa Collection"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1983-09-00 "The Bracelet"

                     Mike Shayne MM

1984-06-00 "The Tin Man"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1986-08-00 "The Bottle"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1987-00-00 "The Amateur Filmmaker"

                     Frisch gewagt ist halb gemordet

1987-04-14 "Mama’s Secret"

                     Woman’s World

1987-07-00 "A Pair of Eyes"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1987-11-00 "Harley’s Destiny"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1988-00-00 "Act of Mercy"

                     Das Morden ist des Morders Lust

1989-00-00 "The Man Who Loved Christmas"

                     Mistletoe Mysteries 1989

1989-00-00 "Murder in Blue and Gray"

                     Mr. President, Private Eye

1989-00-00 "The Phantom of the Soap Opera"

                     Phantoms

1989-00-00 "Bats"

                     The Further Adventures of Batman

1989-04-00 "Possession"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1990-00-00 "Dick Tracy and the Syndicate of Death"

                     Anthology: Dick Tracy: The Secret Files 1990

1990-00-00 "The Fifty-Third Card"

                     The Further Adventures of The Joker

1990-00-00 "Honey Suit"

                     Gauntlet Magazine

1990-06-00 "Hanged for a Sheep"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1991-06-00 "Deuce"

                     The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

1991-11-00 "Home Again"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1991-12-mid What Do I Do About Dora?

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

1992-00-00 "The Assassin From MVX-TV"

                     Teuflische Gschichten fur tapfere Leser (Diogenes)

1992-07-00 "A Letter Too Late"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1993-00-00 "I, Monster"

                     Journeys to the Twilight Zone 1993

1993-00-00 "I Now Pronounce You Superman and Wife"

                     The Further Adventures of Superman

1993-00-00 "Behind the Screen"

                     The Further Adventures of Wonder Woman

1993-03-00 "The High Price of Amazonas"

                     New Mystery

1993-11-00 "Happen to Anyone"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1993-12-00 "The Inside Track"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1994-00-00 "The Operation"

                     Murder Is My Business

1994-02-00 "The Deal"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1994-03-00 "Breaking and Entering"

                     New Mystery

1994-05-00 "The Other Woman"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1995 Spring "The Acrostic Mystery"

                     Based on "The Case of the Secret Sorrow"

                     New Mystery Magazine

1996-00-00 "The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer"

                     Resurrected Holmes 1996

1996-04-00 "The Theft"

                     New Mystery

1998 Fall     "Boredom"

                     The Strand Magazine

1999-00-00 "The Darlington Substitution Scandal"

                     The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

1999-07,09 "Life Sentences"

                     HMS Beagle

1999-00-00 "Untitled"

                     Mein Vater, der Kater

2000-03-00 "The Museum"

                     Fantasy & Science Fiction

2000-08,09 "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"

                     Futures

2000-12-00 "Outsourcing"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

2000-00-00 "Cancel My Suicide"

                     Das todliche telefon

2000-00-00 "Home Again"

                     Das todliche telefon

2000-00-00  "My Totga"

                     Das todliche telefon

2000-00-00 "The Abduction"

                     Das todliche telefon

2000-00-00  "The Cleaning Lady"

                     Das todliche telefon

2000-00-00 "Where Love Lies"

                     Das todliche telefon

2001-00-00 "Killing Teddy Ballgame"

                     Based on "Kill the Umpire!"

                     Murderer’s Row—Baseball Mysteries

2001-01-00 "The Dinner Party"

                     The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

2001-01-03 "The Houdini Homicide"

                     About Mysteries

2001-04-00 "Lucrezia and the Thief"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

2001-05-00 "The Housebreakers"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

2001-06-00 "Light Switch, Mirror, Stairs"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

2001-06,07 "Abigail"

                     Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers,07

2001-12-00 "Luck"

                     Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers/2002-01

2002-00-00 "Change Partners"

                     Death Dance 2002

2002-00-00 "The Sitting Duck"

                     Babyboom

2002-00-00 "Baby Boom"

                     Babyboom

2002-00-00 "Payment Due"

                     Babyboom

2002-00-00 "Double Cross"

                     Based on "Sea of Troubles"

                     Babyboom

2002-00-00 "The Haunting of Penthouse D"

                     Babyboom

2002-00-00 "The Slaying of Santa Claus"

                     Babyboom

2002-06-00 "A Mother’s Kiss"

                     Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

2002-09,10 "The Discount Club"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

2003-00-00 "The Day of the 31st"

                     Blood on Their Hands 2003

 Puzzles

1983-00-00 "Mystery Acrostic"

                     Mystery Writers Annual 1983

1985-00-00 "The Case of the Miserly Murderer"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "It’s a Matter of Perfect Timing"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "But Who Said Diamonds Are Forever?"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Broken String of Pearls"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Ace in the Hole or Hole in the Ace"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "A Murder in a Very Quiet Room"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Murder in A Flat and in B Flat"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Vaudeville Is Dead and So Is Joey"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Curse of Absentmindedness"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Last of Mr. Philpott"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "This Time It Wasn’t a Cat Burglar"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Case of the Nervous Runaway"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The High Fashion Murder Case"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Inspector Cross Makes a Catch"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Strange Case of Peter Funk"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Dead Man: Please Do Not Disturb"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Man Who Took It With Him"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "For Death of Auld Lang Syne"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Art of Stealing Paintings"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Mystery of the Broken Vase"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Some Children Should Be Heard"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "How a Bookkeeper Gets Booked"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Murder Is the Big League Game"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Murder in the Roaring Twenties"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Insurance Is the Best Policy"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Doctor Diagnoses a Crime"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Mystery of the Missing Totem Pole"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Dumb Disguise of Dum Dum Davis"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Boy Who Broke the Windows"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "For Revenge in Another Country"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "About the Terrible Death of Ivan"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Mystery of the Missing Hand"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "One of Our Diamonds Is Missing"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Last Word in Haberdashery"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Look a Race Horse in the Mouth"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Case of the Deadly Disc Jockey"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Inspector Reports a Crime"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "A Ten Thousand Dollar Phone Call"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "The Case of the Malevolent Machinist"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1985-00-00 "Santa Claus and the Locked Room"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Acrostic Mysteries

1989-00-00 "The Gibson Mystery Acrostic Puzzle"

                     Mystery Writers Annual 1989

1991-00-00 "Cook Your Goose"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Bad Egg"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Fileted Finalé"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Out on a Limb"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Just Under the Wire"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Paint the Town Red"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Disappearing, Inc."

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Coffin Cold"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Prescription for Murder"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Infectious Condition"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Pay Through the Nose"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Shear Larceny"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Shop ‘Til You Drop"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Going, Going, Gone!"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Left Holding the Bag"

                     w/Acrostic Crossword

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Spill the Beans"

                     w/Crossword Puzzle

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "Murder on the Books"

                     w/Crossword Puzzle

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "A Taste of Murder"

                     w/Word Find Puzzle

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "A Shot in the Arm"

                     w/Word Find Puzzle

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 "The $64 Question"

                     w/Word Find Puzzle

                     Inspector Cross Volume 1

1991-00-00 Inspector Cross Volume 2 (20 stories w/Acrostic Crossword)

                     Titles to come

1994-06-00 "The Final Paragraph—Amos's Last Words"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1994-09-00 "The Final Paragraph—One More Question"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1994-10-00 "The Final Paragraph—Murder on the Internet"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1994-12-15 "The Final Paragraph—The Last Battlefield"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1995-07-00 "The Final Paragraph—800-Pound Gorilla"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1995-09-00 "The Final Paragraph—Killing With Calories"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1995-10-00 "The Final Paragraph—Out of the Woods"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1995-10-00 "Out of the Woods"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1995-11-00 "The Final Paragraph—Door to Door"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1996-02-00 "The Final Paragraph—The Best Disguise"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1996-06-00 "The Final Paragraph—Good for the Soul"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1996-09,10 "Murder Set to Music"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1996-10-00 "The Final Paragraph—Murder Set to Music"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

1998-08-00 "The Final Paragraph—The Principal"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

2000-07-00 "The Final Paragraph—The Cabin Killer"

                     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Television

Episodes

1957-10-27 "Heart of Gold"

                     Based on "M Is for the Many"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1957-12-29 "Night of the Execution"

                     Based on "Day of the Execution"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1958-00-00 "The Trouble With Ruth"

                     Based on "The Trouble With Ruth"

                     Schlitz Playhouse

1958-00-00 "Bons Amigos"

                     TV Teatro (Brazil)

1958-00-00 "The Man in the Mirror"

                     Based on "The Man in the Mirror"

                     77 Sunset Strip

1958-02-16 "On the Nose"

                     Based on "Something Short of Murder"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1958-03-09 "The Right Kind of House"

                     Based on "The Right Kind of a House"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1959-00-00 "Symbol of Authority"

                     Based on "Symbol of Authority"

                     Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

1959-01-11 "The Morning After"

                     Based on "The Morning After"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1959-03-08 "The Right Price"

                     Based on "Make Me an Offer"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1959-03-29 "The Kind Waitress"

                     Based on "The Case of the Kind Waitress"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1959-05-10 "A Night With the Boys"

                     Based on "A Fistful of Money"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1960-00-00 "A Cry From the Penthouse"

                     Based on "A Cry From the Penthouse"

                     Markham

1960-02-07 "Not the Running Type"

                     Based on "Not the Running Type"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1960-04-24 "40 Detectives Later"

                     Based on "Forty Detectives Later"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1960-05-08 "Sleep Is for the Innocent"

                     Based on "Insomnia"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1960-05-22 "One Grave Too Many"

                     Based on "One Grave Too Many"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1960-05-29 "Party Line"

                     Based on "The Deadly Telephone"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1960-11-01 "Pen Pal"

                     Based on "Pen Pal"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1960-11-29 "The Money"

                     Based on "Trust Me, Mr. Paschetti"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1960-12-13 "The Man With Two Faces"

                     Based on "The Man With Two Faces"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-01-24 "A Crime for Mothers"

                     Based on "A Crime for Mothers"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-01-31 "The Last Escape"

                     Based on "The Last Escape"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-02-28 "The Throwback"

                     Based on "And Beauty the Prize"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-03-14 "The Horseplayer"

                     Based on "Father Amion’s Long Shot"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-03-21 "Incident in a Small Jail"

                     Based on "The Man in the Next Cell"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-03-28 "A Woman's Help"

                     Based on "A Woman's Help"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-06-06 "Servant Problem"

                     Based on "Servant Problem"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-06-13 "Coming Home"

                     Based on "You Can't Blame Me"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-10-10 "The Hat Box"

                     Based on "Murder Out of a Hat"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-10-31 "Cop for a Day"

                     Based on "Cop for a Day"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-11-07 "Keep Me Company"

                     Based on "Keep Me Company"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1961-12-19 "The Right Kind of Medicine"

                     Based on "Never Cool a Cop"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-01-23 "The Case of M.J.H."

                     Based on "The Case of M.J.H."

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-02-02 "The Test"

                     Based on "Thicker Than Water"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-02-27 "Burglar Proof"

                     Based on "Be My Valentine"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-03-27 "The Last Remains"

                     Based on "Dead Give-Away"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-04-17 "The Kerry Blue"

                     Based on "Death of the Kerry Blue"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-04-24 "The Matched Pearl"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-05-08 "Most Likely to Succeed"

                     Based on "Beggars Can Be Chosen"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-05-22 "The Opportunity"

                     Based on "Golden Opportunity" by J.W. Aaron

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-06-12 "First Class Honeymoon"

                     Based on "First-Class Honeymoon"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1962-10-11 "I Saw the Whole Thing"

                     Based on Independent Witness by Henry Cecil

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962-10-25 "Final Vow"

                     Based on "Hiding Out"

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962-11-08 "House Guest"

                     Based on The Golden Deed by Andrew Garve

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1963-00-00 "The Old Man in the Cave"

                     Based on "The Old Man"

                     The Twilight Zone

1963-01-11 "What Really Happened"

                     Based on What Really Happened by Marie Belloc Lowndes

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1963-10-25 "Blood Bargain"

                     Based on "Blood Bargain"

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1963-11-15 "Starring the Defense"

                     Based on "Starring the Defense"

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1964-00-00 "The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross"

                     Based on "The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross"

                     The Twilight Zone

1964-03-27 "Behind the Locked Door"

                     Based on "Behind the Locked Door"

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1964-05-15 "Who Needs an Enemy?"

                     Based on "Goodbye Charlie"

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1964-05-29 "The Second Verdict"

                     Based on "Second Verdict"

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1964-06-05 "Isabel"

                     Based on Isabel by S.B. Hough

                     The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1965-00-00 "The Virtue Affair"

                     The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

1966-00-00 "Ma Parker"

                     Batman

1966-00-00 "The Greatest Mother of Them All"

                     Batman

1967-00-00 "The Assassin"

                     Run for Your Life

1966-00-00 "The Bridge of Lions Affair: Part I"

                     Based on "The Bridge of Lions"

                     The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

1966-00-00 "The Bridge of Lions Affair: Part II"

                     Based on "The Bridge of Lions"

                     The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

1966-00-00 "The Day Time Stopped"

                     Run for Your Life

1966-00-00 "The Sex Object"

                     Run for Your Life

1966-00-00 "The Grotenberg Mask"

                     Based on "Sea of Troubles"

                     Run for Your Life

1966-00-00 "The Cruel Fountain"

                     Based on "The Hands of Mrs. Mallory"

                     Run for Your Life

1966-00-00 "The Round Table Affair"

                     The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

1967-00-00 "At the End of the Rainbow There’s Another Rainbow"

                     Run for Your Life

1968-00-00 "The Frame-Up"

                     Garrison’s Gorillas

1969-00-00 "Next Week, East Lynne"

                     Here Come the Brides

1969-10-03 "Blind Man’s Bluff"

                     Based on "The Bluff"

                     The Name of the Game

1969-12-19 "Laurie Marie"

                     The Name of the Game

1970-03-27 "Jenny Wilde Is Drowning"

                     The Name of the Game

1972-00-00 "Half a Death"

                     Based on "Half a Death"

                     Ghost Story (aka Circle of Fear)

1974-00-00 "Reunion in Terror"

                     McMillan & Wife

1974-00-00 "The Haunting of Penthouse D"

                     Based on "The Haunting of Penthouse D"

                     The Wide World of Mystery

1975-00-00 "Please Call It Murder"

                     The Wide World of Mystery

1976-00-00 "Re: The Secret"

                     Executive Suite

1976-00-00 "Re: The Trap"

                     Executive Suite

1981-00-00 "A Woman’s Help"

                     Based on "A Woman’s Help"

                     Tales of the Unexpected

1982-00-00 "Operation Safecrack"

                     Based on "Be My Valentine"

                     Tales of the Unexpected

1982-00-00 "Light Fingers"

                     Based on "Light Fingers"

                     Tales of the Unexpected

1983-00-00 "The Memory Man"

                     Based on "The Memory Expert"

                     Tales of the Unexpected

1984-00-00 "I Like It Here in Wilmington"

                     Based on "I Like It Here in Wilmington"

                     Tales of the Unexpected

1984-00-00 "The Dirty Detail"

                     Based on "The Dirty Detail"

                     Tales of the Unexpected

1985-00-00 "Deadly Honeymoon"

                     Based on "Deadly Honeymoon"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Reboot)

1985-00-00 "Incident in a Small Jail" (Segment)

                     Based on "The Man in the Next Cell"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Reboot)

1985-00-00 "The Right Kind of Medicine"

                     Based on "Never Cool a Cop"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Reboot)

1985-00-00 "Examination Day" (segment)

                     Based on "Examination Day"

                     The Twilight Zone Reboot

1985-00-00 "Het bloed kruipt"

                     Dutch TV

1988-10-15 "Pen Pal"

                     Based on "Pen Pal"

                     Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Reboot)

1995-00-00 "Ein Mordsgeschaft"

                     Mordslust

                     German TV

1997-00-00 "Parkhotel Stern"

                     German TV

 

Series

1982-00-00 Die Krimistunde (The Crime Hour)

                     German TV

                     Unknown number of episodes

1979-00-00 Parole Chicago

                     Based on Ruby Martinson Stories

                     13 episodes

1971-1972   Somerset

                     Head Writer

                     Episodes 221-1508

1976-1977   Executive Suite

                     Head Writer (possibly fired midway through)

                     Episodes 1-19

1977-1978   Search for Tomorrow

                     Head Writer

                     95 Episodes

1982-1983   One Life to Live

                     Head Writer

                     Unknown number of episodes

1984-1986   Capital

                     Head Writer

                     Unknown number of episodes

1967-1983   The Edge of Night

                     Head Writer

                     3890 Episodes

2000-2001   Love Kills

                     MysteryNet.com

                     Unknown number of episodes

1978-1982   Erlesne Verbrechen und makellose Morde (Exquisite Crimes and Immaculate Murders)

                     Based on his stories

                     German TV

 

About/References to Henry Slesar

Advertising announcement

1964-10-20 Addenda

                     New York Times

 

Articles

1971-12-00 "The Writer With the Largest Audience in America"

                     TV Guide

1979-09-00 "Revealed! Serial Writers’ Secrets"

                     We Love Soaps

1980-09-16 "Henry Slesar: Man of Mystery"

                     Soap Opera Digest

1982-00-00 "Simon Says...Intrigue!"

                     TV Guide

1983-00-00 "A Choice of Witnesses Filmmaker Commentary"

                     Website

1983-04-17 "Sometimes a TV Character Steps Out—And Stays Out"

                     New York Times

1990-08-05 "New Play Listing: The Veil"

                     New York Times

1993-00-autumn "The Short Fiction of Henry Slesar"

                     Foundation

2001-07-00 "Henry Slesar in Paperback"

                     Paperback Parade

2002-04-06 Paid Death Notice

                     New York Times

2002-11-00  "Henry Slesar: An Appreciation"

                     Paperback Parade

2022-10-20 "Henry Slesar" by Russell Atwood

                     Somethingisgoingtohappen.net

2000-00-00 "An Interview With Henry Slesar"

                     Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers, 2001-01

 

Interviews

2000-00-00 Interview

                     Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers

2001-07-00 Interview

                     Paperback Parade

 

Intro

1971-00-00 Intro to Survivor #1 by Harlan Ellison

                     Partners in Wonder

 

Play Promo Website

1998-10-21 The Four Cornered Couch

                     ACT Theatre

 

Reviews

Books

1974-12-15 The Thing at the Door

                     New York Times

1999-03-07 Murder at Heartbreak Hospital

                     New York Times

 

Movies

1964-05-14 The Eyes of Annie Jones

                     New York Times

1965-01-14 Two on a Guillotine

                     New York Times

1972-02-03 Murders in the Rue Morgue

                     New York Times

1992-04-04 Principal Purrs in 'Seduction' Stories

                     Los Angeles Times

 

Plays

1991-03-10 He Had a Hat

                     New York Times

1992-09-13 The Veil

                     New York Times

1998-10-21 The Four Cornered Couch: Poor Man’s Wood

                     The Buzz

 

Radio

1994-04-11 "The Case of Ray Collins"

                     Based on "Pen Pal"

                     Tydenik Rozhlas (Radio Weekly)

                     Czech Newspaper

 

Jigsaw Puzzles

1974-02-00 "The Case of the Snoring Skinflint"

                     The Armchair Detective

1974-08-00 "The Case of His Headless Highness"

                     The Armchair Detective

1974-08-00 "The Case of the Shaky Showman"

                     The Armchair Detective