Crime Stories and Other Writings

CRIME STORIES Arson Plus (The Black Mask, 1 October 1923)* Slippery Fingers (The Black Mask 15 October 1923)* Crooked Souls (The Black Mask, 15 October 1923)* The Tenth Clew (The Black Mask, 1 January 1924)* Zigzags of Treachery (The Black Mask, 1 March 1924)* The House in Turk Street (The Black Mask, 15 April 1924)* The Girl with the Silver Eyes (The Black Mask, June 1924)* Women, Politics and Murder (The Black Mask, September 1924)* The Golden Horseshoe (The Black Mask, November 1924)* Nightmare Town (Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 27, 1924) The Whosis Kid (The Black Mask, March 1925)* The Scorched Face (The Black Mask, May 1925)* Dead Yellow Women (The Black Mask, November 1925)* The Gutting of Couffignal (The Black Mask, December 1925)* The Assistant Murderer (The Black Mask, February 1926) Creeping Siamese (The Black Mask, March 1926)* The Big Knockover (Black Mask, February 1927)* $106,000 Blood Money (Black Mask, May 1927)* The Main Death (Black Mask, June 1927)* This King Business (Mystery Stories, January 1928) Fly Paper (Black Mask, August 1929)* The Farewell Murder (Black Mask, February 1930)* Woman in the Dark (Liberty, 8, 15, 22 April 1933) Two Sharp Knives (Collier's, 13 January 1934) OTHER WRITINGS The Thin Man: An Early Typescript (City Magazine, November 4, 1975) From the Memoirs of a Private Detective (The Smart Set, March 1923) Suggestions to Detective Story Writers (“The Crime Wave,” The New York Evening Post, June 7, 1930; July 5, 1930) Chronology Note on the Texts Notes