MURDER BY SIX

FREDRIC BROWN

(1906-1972)


NOVELS OF FREDRIC BROWN

1. The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947)
2. The Dead Ringer (1948)
3. A Plot for Murder (1948)
4. The Bloody Moonlight (1949)
5. The Screaming Mimi (1949)
6. Compliments of a Fiend (1950)
7. Here Comes a Candle (1950)
8. Night of the Jabberwock (1950)
9. Death Has Many Doors (1951)
10. The Far Cry (1951)
11. We All Killed Grandma (1952)
12. The Deep End (1953)
13. Madball (1953)
14. His Name Was Death (1954)
15. The Wench Is Dead (1955)
16. The Lenient Beast (1956)
17. One for the Road (1958)
18. Knock Three-One-Two (1959)
19. The Late Lamented (1959)
20. The Murderers (1961)
21. Five-Day Nightmare (1962)
22. Mrs. Murphy's Underpants (1963)

23. Hunter and Hunted: The Ed and Am Hunter Novels, Part One (2002)

STORY COLLECTIONS

1. Mostly Murder (Collection) (1953)
2. The Shaggy Dog and Other Murders (1953)
3. Carnival of Crime (The Best Mystery Stories of Fredric Brown)(1985)
4. Homicide Sanitarium (1984)
5. Before She Kills (1984)
6. Madman's Holiday (1984)
7. The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches (1985)
8. The Freak Show Murders (1985)
9. Thirty Corpses Every Thursday (1986)
10. Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter (1986)
11. Red is the Hue of Hell (1986)

12. Sex Life on the Planet Mars (1986)
13. Brother Monster (1987)
14. Nightmare in Darkness (1987)
15. Who Was that Blonde I Saw You Kill Last Night? (1988)
16. Three-Corpse Parley (1988)
17. Selling Death Short (1988)
18. Whispering Death (1989)
19. Happy Ending (1990)
20. The Water-Walker (1990)
21. The Gibbering Night (1991)
22. The Pickled Punks (1991)

STORIES

1938

1. "The Moon for a Nickel"

1939

2. "The Cheese on Stilts"
3. "Blood of the Dragon"
4. "There Are Bloodstains in the Alley"
5. "Murder at 10:15"

1940

6. "Bloody Murder"
7. "The Prehistoric Clue"
8. "A Matter of Taste"
9. "Trouble in a Teacup" (aka"Teacup Trouble")
10. "Murder Draws a Crowd"
11. "Footprints on the Ceiling"
12. "Town Wanted"
13. "The Little Green Men"
14. "Herbie Rides His Hunch"
15. "The Stranger from Trouble Valley"
16. "The Strange Sisters Strange"

1941

17. "Fugitive Impostor"
18. "The King Comes Home"
19. "Big-Top Doom"
20. "The Discontented Cows"
21. "Life and Fire"
22. "Big-League Larceny"
23. "Client Unknown"
24. "Homicide Sanitarium"

25. "Your Name in Gold"
26. "Here Comes the Hearse"
27. "Six-Gun Song"
28. "Star-Spangled Night"
29. "Wheels Across the Night"
30. "Little Boy Lost"
31. "Bullet for Bullet"
32. "Listen to the Mocking Bird"
33. "You'll End Up Buming"
34. "Selling Death Short"
35. "Thirty Corpses Every Thursday"
36. "Trouble Comes Double"
37. "Number Bug"

1942

38. "Clue in Blue"
39. "Death is a White Rabbit"
40. "Twenty Gets You Plenty"
41. "Little Apple Hard to Peel"
42. "Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter"
43. "Death in the Dark" (aka"The Black Dark")
44. "Handbook for Homicide"
45. "The Incredible Bomber"
46. "Twice-Killed Corpse"
47. "Mad Dog!"
48. "Moon Over Murder"
49. "A Cat Walks"
50. "Who Did I Murder"
51. "Murder in Furs"
52. "Suite for Flute and Tommy Gun"
53. "Three Corpse Parlay"
54. "A Date to Die"
55. "Red is the Hue of Hell"
56. "Two Biers for Two"
57. "You'll Die Before Dawn"
58. "Get Out of Town"
59. "A Little White Lye"
60. "Nothing Sinister"

61. "The Numberless Shadows"
62. "Satan's Search Warrant"
63. "Where There's Smoke"
64. "Boner"
65. "Legacy of Murder"
66. "The Santa Claus Murders"
67. "Double Murder"
68. "A Fine Night for Murder"
69. "Heil, Werewolf"
70. "I'll See You At Midnight"
71. "The Monkey Angle"
72. "Satan One-and-a-Half"
73. "The Men Who Went Nowhere"

1943

74. "A Lock of Satan's Hair"
75. "The Spherical Ghoul"
76. "The Wicked Flea"
77. "Death is a Noise"
78. "Hound of Hell" (aka"Beware of the Dog")
79. "The Sleuth from Mars"
80. "A Change for the Hearse"
81. "Encore for a Killer"
82. "Trial By Darkness"
83. "Cadavers Don't Make a Fifth Column"
84. "Death of a Vampire"
85. "Death's Dark Angel"
86. "The Freak Show Murders"
87. "Market for Murder"
88. "The Corpse and the Candle"
89. "Madman's Holiday"
90. "Blue Murder"
91. "Tell 'em, Pagliaccio"
92. "Whispering Death"
93. "Death Insurance Payment"
94. "The Motive Goes Round and Round"

1944

95. "The Djinn Murder"
96. "Murder in Miniature"
97. "The Ghost of Riley"
98. "The Devil's Woodwinds"
99. "The Jabberwocky Murders"
100. "The Ghost Breakers"
101. "The Gibbering Night"
102. "Murder While You Wait"
103. "The Bucket of Gems Case" (aka "Mr Smith Kicks the Bucket")
104. "To Slay a Man About a Dog" (aka "Shaggy Dog Murders")
105. "A Matter of Death"

1945

106. " The Night the World Ended"
107. "No Sanctuary"
108. "Compliments of a Fiend"
109. "Murder-on-the-Hudson"

1946

110. "Dead Man's Indemnity"
111. "Song of the Dead"
112. "Obit for Obie"
113. "Whistler's Murder"

1947

114. "A Voice Behind Him"
115. "Don't Look Behind You"
116. "Miss Darkness"

1948

117. "I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen"
118. "The Dead Ringer"
119. "Four Letter Word (aka "The Greatest Poem Ever Written")
120. "The Four Blind Men"
121. "The Laughing Butcher"
122. "If Looks Could Kill" (aka"The Joke")
123. "Cry Silence"
124. "Red-Hot and Hunted"

1949

125. "This Way Out.
126. "Murder and Matilda"
127. "Last Curtain" (aka "Cream of the Jest")
128. "Each Night He Died" (aka "Cain")
129. "The Cat from Siam"
130. "The Sinister Mr. Dexter" (aka "House of Fear")
131. "Deadly Weekend"
132. "The Bloody Moonlight"

1950

133. " Death and Nine Lives"
134. "The Blind Lead"
135. "The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches"
136. "The Nose of Don Aristide"
137. "Walk in the Shadows"
138. "Night of the Jabberwock"

1951

139. "Something Green"

1953

140. "Witness in the Dark"
141. "The Pickled Punks"
142. "The Wench is Dead"

1955

143. " Premiere of Murder"
144. "The Perfect Crime" (aka"Fatal Error")
145. "The Letter" (aka"Dead Letter")

1956

146. "Line of Duty"

1957

147. "Murder Set to Music"

1958

148. "The Amy Waggoner Murder Case"
149. "Who Was That Blonde I Saw You Kill Last Night?"

1959

150. "The Late Lamented"
151. "Night of the Psycho"

1960

152. "Granny's Birthday"
153. "The House"

1961

154. " Before She Kills"

1962

155. " Fatal Facsimile"

1963

156. "Instant Novellas" (aka"20 Stories in 60 Lines")
157. "The Missing Actor"

1964

158. "Why, Benny, Why"


MOVIES

1. Crack-Up (1948) - Madman's Holiday

2. The Screaming Mimi (1958)

 

TELEVISION

1. Pepsi-Cola Playhouse - "The House Nobody Wanted" (November 13, 1953)

2. Pepsi-Cola Playhouse - "The Motive Goes Round and Round" (December 11, 1953)

3. Pepsi-Cola Playhouse - "Miss Darkness" (January 3, 1954)

4. Studio 57 - "The Traveling Room" (October 12, 1954)

5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "The Cream of the Jest" (March 10, 1957)

6. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "The Night the World Ended" (April 28, 1957)

7. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "The Dangerous People" (June 23, 1957)

8. ITV Television Playhouse - "Cry Silence" (January 31, 1958)

9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Human Interest Story" (May 24, 1959)

10. Boris Karloff's Thriller - "Knock Three-One-Two" (December 13, 1960)

11. Historias para no dormir - Spain (1964)

12. L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo (1970) - The Screaming Mimi

13. L'Ibis rouge - France (May 21, 1975) - Knock Three-One-Two

14. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "The Human Interest Story" (November 17, 1985)

15. I prodosia - Greece (1990)

16. Vieille canaille - France (January 6, 1993) - His Name Was Death

17. Ça ne se refuse pas - France (August 12, 1998)

18. La bête de miséricorde - France (October 17, 20001) - The Lenient Beast