Cornell Woolrich - Nightwebs (A Collection of Stories)

1. 1/37 Shooting Going On. (SMM 10/58.)

2. 2/37 Murder on the Night Boat.

3. 5/37 I’ll Never Play Detective Again. (WI 5; EQMM 7/63.)

4. 6/37 Mimic Murder. (SMM 7/58; The Saint Mystery Library — 130, 1960.)

5. 9/37 Nelli from Zelli’s.

6. 10/37 Face Work. (WI 13, as “One Night in New York”; EQMM 12/46, Ellery Queen’s 1968 Anthology, as “Angel Face.” Story was incorporated into CW 10.)

7. 11/37 Cab, Mister? (EQMM 9/50.)

8. 12/37 Dusk to Dawn. (CW 22.)

9. 1/38 After-Dinner Story. (WI 4; EQMM 9/43; Ellery Queen’s 1964 Anthology.)

10. 2/38 Dime a Dance. (EQMM Fall 1941, under original title; WI 6, Murder by Experts (Queen, ed., 19471, Fourteen Great Detective Stories (Haycraft, ed., 1949), Mystery Digest 9/58, Ellery Queen’s 1968 Mid-Year Anthology, as “The Dancing Detective.”)

11. 7/39 Borrowed Crime. (WI 7. The climax of this story was revised and incorporated into the last chapters of CW 7.)

12. 8/39 Men Must Die. (WI 9, CW 15, as “Guillotine”; CW 20, EQMM 4/47, Ellery Queen’s 1969 Mid-Year Anthology, as “Steps Going Up.”)

13. 9/39 Crime by the Forelock.

14. 10/39 Collared. (WI 12, EQMM 7/49, Ellery Queen’s 1963 Anthology, under original title; WI 13, as “One Night in Chicago.”)

15. 12/39 Through a Dead Man’s Eye. (WI 16; EQMM 3/51; Ellery Queen’s 1964 Mid-Year Anthology.)

16. 4/40 Post Mortem. (The Second Mystery Companion, A. L. Furman, ed., 1944; RSMM 6/46.)

17. 10/4 °C-Jag. (The Pocket Mystery Reader, Lee Wright, ed., 1942, as “Cocaine”; Mystery Digest, 12/58, as “Dream of Death”; EQMM 12/65, as “Just Enough to Cover a Thumbnail.”)

18. 4/41 Cool, Calm and Detected. (EQMM 5/56, as “The Absent-Minded Murder.”)

19. 5/42 Dormant Account. (EQMM 5/53, under original title; WI 7, as “Chance.”)

20. 7/42 Three Kills for One. (Triple Detective, Autumn 1952, under original title; WI 5, as “Two Murders, One Crime”; EQMM 9/53, as “The Loophole.”)

21. 2/43 If the Dead Could Talk. (WI 9; The Mystery Companion, A. L. Furman, ed., 1943; EQMM 7/46; SMM 4/64.)

22. 7/44 Picture Frame. (WI 13, as “One Night in Hollywood”; EQMM 6/54, as “Dead Shot.”)

1. 4/35 Spanish and What Eyes.

2. 6/35 Don’t Fool Me.

3. 8/35 Clip Joint. (College Life, Winter 1936.)

4. 10/35 No Kick Coming.

5. 11/35 Flower in His Buttonhole.

6. 12/35 Annabelle Gets Across.

7. 3/36 Pick Up the Pieces.

8. 4/36 The Clock at the Astor.

9. 7/36 His Name Is Jack.

10. 1/37 Jimmy Had a Nickel.

11. 5/37 Kidnapped.

12. 7/37 The Girl Next Door.

13. 10/37 I Knew Her When.

14. 1/39 The Invincibles.

1. 11/38 The Screaming Laugh. (CW 22.)

1. 9/26 Honey Child.

2. 1/27 Bread and Orchids.

3. 8/27 Children of the Ritz, Part 1.

3. 9/27 Children of the Ritz, Part 2.

3. 10/27 Children of the Ritz, Part 3.

3. 11/27 Children of the Ritz, Part 4.

NOTE: This serial was published in book form as CW 2.

4. 8/28 Mother and Daughter.

5. 2/29 Bluebeard’s Thirteenth Wife.

6. 6/29 We’re Just a Lot of Smart Alecks.

7. 1/30 Gay Music.

8. 8/31 The Girl in the Moon.

1. 10/28 The Good Die Young.

2. 5, 6, 7/34 The Next Is On Me.

1. 8/4/34 Death Sits in the Dentist’s Chair. (WI 12, under original title; EQMM 6/58, as “Hurting Much?”)

2. 8/18/34 Walls That Hear You.

3. 12/ 7/35 The Death of Me.

4. 12/14/35 The Showboat Murders.

5. 1/11/36 Cigarette. (MSMM 3/65.)

6. 1/25/36 Change of Murder. (WI 5; Murder for the Millions, Frank Owen, ed., 1946; MSMM 12/62.)

7. 3/21/36 Blood in Your Eye.

8. 4/4/36 The Mystery of the Blue Spot.

9. 5/2/36 Johnny on the Spot. (WI 12; EQMM 11/48.)

10. 5/16/36 Double Feature. (CW 20, EQMM 9/55, as “The Most Exciting Show in Town.”)

11. 6/20/36 Nine Lives.

12. 7/4/36 Dilemma of the Dead Lady. (WI 11, as “Wardrobe Trunk”; revised, EQMM 3/64, as “Working Is for Fools.”)

13. 8/8/36 The Night I Died. (Originally published as by Anonymous.) (WI 12; EQMM 6/50; Ellery Queen’s 1965 Mid-Year Anthology; 13 Ways to Dispose of a Body, Basil Davenport, ed., 1966.)

14. 8/15/36 Murder on My Mind. (WI 16, as “Morning After Murder”; Five Detective Novels, Spring 1952, as “The Morning After Murder.”)

15. 8/22/36 Bluebeard’s Seventh Wife. (WI 16.)

16. 9/26/36 Murder in the Middle of New York.

17. 10/10/36 Death in the Air. (CW 22.)

18. 11/14/36 Afternoon of a Phony.

19. 12/26/36 The Two Deaths of Barney Slabaugh. (Reprinted in same magazine, 3/51.)

20. 1/23/37 The Corpse Next Door. (CW 22.)

21. 2/27/37 Blue Is for Bravery. (EQMM 3/55, as “Invitation to Sudden Death.”)

22. 3/27/37 Round Trip to the Cemetery.

23. 6/5/37 Wake Up with Death.

24. 7/3/37 If I Should Die Before I Wake. (WI 5; MSMM 12/64.)

25. 7/17/37 Vision of Murder.

26. 7/31/37 Somebody on the Phone. (WI 12; CW 20; EQMM 4/49; These Will Chill You, Lee Wright & Richard C. Sheehan, eds., 1967; Ellery Queen’s Mini Mysteries, Queen ed., 1969.)

27. 9/11/37 Murder Story (WI 4; EQMM 2/59, as “The Inside Story.”)

28. 9/25/37 You Bet Your Life. (EQMM 3/58, as “Don’t Bet on Murder.”)

29. 10/ 9/37 The Lie. (WI 11.)

30. 12/ 4/37 The Gun But Not the Hand. (Incorporated into CW 8.)

31. 2/19/38 Endicott’s Girl. (EQMM 2/58.)

32. 3/12/38 I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes. (WI 2.)

33. 4/16/38 The Cape Triangular. (WI 7; EQMM 2/63.)

34. 6/4/38 Mystery in Room 913. (EQMM 12/49, under original title; WI 22, as “The Room with Something Wrong.”)

35. 9/10/38 Detective William Brown. (WI 7.)

36. 10/ 1/38 Three O’Clock. (CW 14; WI 2; And the Darkness Falls, Boris Karloff, ed., 1946; The Avon Mystery Story Teller, 1946; Verdict, 9/53.)

37. 1/7/39 Silhouette. (WI 16.)

38. 2/18/39 The Counterfeit Hat. (WI 16, as “The Hat”; EQMM 10/61, as “The Singing Hat.”)

39. 3/4/39 Those Who Kill. (Expanded into DFW 48 and ultimately into WI 1. Original short story reprinted, MSMM 4/66.)

40. 2/17/40 Death in Duplicate. (EQMM 9/56, as “The Ice Pick Murders.”)

41. 6/22/40 Finger of Doom. (CW 20, as “I Won’t Take a Minute”; Great American Detective Stories, Boucher ed., 1945, under same title; EQMM 1/57, as “Wait for Me Downstairs”; Mysterious Traveler, 3/52, as “I’ll Just Be a Minute.”)

42. 10/26/40 The Detective’s Dilemma. (WI 6; SMM, Spring 1953.)

43. 12/14/40 Murder Always Gathers Momentum. (WI 12, EQMM 5/49, as “Momentum”; reprinted in original magazine, 4/51, as “Murder Is a Snow ball”; SMM 7/54, as “Murder Gathers Momentum.”)

44. 2/8/41 He Looked Like Murder. (WI 6, as “Two Fellows in a Furnished Room.”)

45. 3/15/4 1 Of Time and Murder. (Expanded into WI 3. Original short story reprinted, EQMM 3/54, as “The Last Bus Home.”)

46. 5/3/41 Marihuana. (WI 4; separate publication as Dell 10c Book — 11, c1950.)

47. 6/14/41 The Fatal Footlights. (EQMM 6/55, as “Death at the Burlesque.”)

NOTE: The magazine’s title was now changed to Detective Fiction.

48. 5/42 Phantom Alibi, Part 1.

48. 6/42 Phantom Alibi, Part 2.

NOTE: The magazine’s title was now changed to Flynn’s Detective.

48. 7/42 Phantom Alibi, Part 3.

48. 8/42 Phantom Alibi, Part 4.

48. 9/42 Phantom Alibi, Part 5.