RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: Frederick Nebel

Books and short stories believed to be complete.

Thanks to Katherine Harper for sending this over. She had the short fiction in alphabetical, not chronological, order, and I left it that way.

Books

• Sleepers East (Boston: Little, Brown, 1933)
• But Not the End (Boston: Little, Brown, 1934)
• Fifty Roads to Town (Boston: Little, Brown, 1936)
• Six Deadly Dames (New York: Avon, 1950)
• The Adventures of Cardigan: A Dime Detective Book (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1988)

Short Fiction

• "Accidental Night" (Collier's, 22 October 1938)
• "All the Answers" (Liberty, 29 October 1938)
• "All the Good Times" (American Magazine, September 1941)
• "All the Way Back" (Redbook, October 1951)
• "Alley Rat" (Black Mask, February 1930)
• "Alone" (North West Magazine, 22 August 1926)
• "And There Was Murder" (Dime Detective, February 1932)
• "Any Boy Can Be President" (Liberty 23 August 1941)
• "Appointment in Rio" (Today's Woman, January 1949)
• "Ask Me No Questions" (The Elks, September 1938)
• "At the End of the Alley Was a Door" (Mystery, November 1939)
• "Back in Town" (Liberty, October 1948)
• "Backwash" (Black Mask, May 1932)
• "Bad News" (Black Mask, March 1934)
• "The Bars Between" (Collier's, 2 October 1937)
• "Be Your Age" (Black Mask, August 1934)
• "Beat the Rap" (Black Mask, May 1931)
• "Behind the Eight Ball" (Dime Detective, March 1937)
• "Behind the Shield" (Columbia, August 1929)
• "Best of Luck" (Collier's, 5 April 1941)
• "Bet Your Life" (Liberty, 9 March 1940)
• "Big Moon Lake Patrol" (North West Stories, June 1926)
• "The Big World" (Women's Home Companion, October 1944)
• "Birdmen of Borneo" (North West Stories, September 1927)
• "Birdmen of Passage" (North West Stories, June 1928)
• "The Black Fox Skin" (North West Stories, April 1926)
• "Blood in the Dark" (Dime Detective, January 1936)
• "Bloodhounds of the Sky" (Wings, December 1930; January 1931; February 1931; March 1931)
• "The Bluff That Worked" (Action Stories, ?)
• "Bolt From the Blue" (Air Stories, ?)
• "Boomerang Barnes" (Air Adventures, ?)
• "The Brave Tradition" (Elks Magazine, November 1927)
• "The Breaks of the Game" (Black Mask, March 1926)
• "The Bribe" (Cosmopolitan, September 1947)
• "Brood of the Wind" (Wings, November 1930)
• "Cache Law" (North West Stories, September 1926)
• "Call It Justice" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 February 1930)
• "The Candy Killer" (Dime Detective, November 1932)
• "Case Against Women" (Collier's, 17 July 1937)
• "Case for Innocence" (Collier's, 1 November 1941)
• "Chains of Darkness" (Dime Detective, 1 July 1933)
• "Champions Also Die" (Black Mask, August 1933)
• "Chance is an Enemy" (Collier's, 11 March 1939)
• "Change of Heart" (Redbook, April 1937)
• "Chechako Trail" (North West Stories, April 1930)
• "China Silk" (Black Mask, March 1927)
• "Claws of the Jungle" (Action Stories, January 1927)
• "Coast of Hate" (Action Stories, ?)
• "The Come Back" (Lariat, ?)
• "Cops Are Dumb" (Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories, October 1929)
• "A Couple of Quick Ones" (Dime Detective, 1 June 1935)
• "Courage of the Strong" (North West Stories, March 1927)
• "Crack Down" (Black Mask, April 1936)
• "Crate Crashers" (Air Stories, February 1930)
• "The Creed of Sergeant Bone" (Argosy, ?)
• "The Crimson Diamond" (Action Stories, April 1928)
• "The Crimson Fist" (Detective Action Stories, March 1932)
• "The Crooked Spot" (Detective Action Stories, October 1931)
• "The Curse of Cardigan" (Dime Detective, December 1935)
• "Dance No More" (Collier's, 23 September 1933)
• "The Darjeeling Diamond" (Action Stories, ?)
• "The Dead Die Twice" (Dime Detective, August 1935)
• "The Dead Don't Die" (Dime Detective, October 1932)
• "Dead Man's Folly" (Dime Detective, 1 May 1933)
• "Death After Murder" (Dime Detective, 15 August 1933)
• "Death Alley" (Dime Detective, November 1931)
• "Death for a Dago" (Black Mask, July 1931)
• "Death in the Raw" (Dime Detective, October 1935)
• "Death's Not Enough" (Black Mask, October 1931)
• "Deep Red" (Black Mask, August 1936)
• "Defiance Valley" (North West Stories, 3 March 1926)
• "The Devil's Double-Cross" (Triple-X Magazine, March 1928)
• "The Devil's Slouch" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 10 December 1932)
• "The Devil's Souvenir" (Far East Adventure Stories, November 1930)
• "Die-Hard" (Black Mask, August 1935)
• "Dog Eat Dog" (Black Mask, October 1928)
• "Doom Drums" (Danger Trail, October 1927)
• "Doom Lagoon" (Action Stories, ?)
• "Doors in the Dark" (Black Mask, February 1933)
• "Doorway to Danger" (Dime Detective, 1 March 1933)
• "Dreams Are Real" (Collier's, 4 September 1937)
• "The Drifting Kid Strikes" (Lariat, May 1927)
• "Dumb Luck" (Black Mask, January 1927)
• "East of Big Moon" (North West Stories, 8 November 1926)
• "Emeralds of Shade" (Black Mask, August 1927)
• "Empire of the Devil" (Frontier Stories, March 1930)
• "Fan Dance" (Black Mask, January 1936)
• "Far North of Chilkoot" (North West Stories, 22 Sept. 1928)
• "Farewell to Crime" (Black Mask, April 1933)
• "The Fifth Question" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1959)
• "The Firelight Patrol" (North West Stories, September 1925)
• "Flame Island" (Action Stories, ?)
• "Fly-by-Night" (Short Stories, ?)
• "Flyers of Fortune" (Air Stories, August 1927)
• "Flying Freebooters" (Wings, September 1930)
• "Flying Jade" (Air Stories, December 1927)
• "Forbidden Affair" (The Saturday Evening Post, 10 January 1953)
• "Forbidden River" (Five-Novels Monthly, June 1930)
• "The Frontier of Vengeance" (North West Stories, 8 December 1926)
• "A Gambler Passes" (Five-Novels Monthly, __ 1929)
• "Get a Load of This" (Black Mask, February 1931)
• "Ghost of a Chance" (Black Mask, March 1935)
• "A Girl Must be Sure" (Collier's, 17 August 1940)
• "The Girl on the Big Drum" (This Week, 10 January 1954)
• "The Girl With the Blonde" (Collier's, 16 November 1940)
• "Give Me This" (Collier's, 17 April 1943)
• "Graft" (Black Mask, May 1929)
• "Grain to Grain" (Black Mask, November 1926)
• "Grampa and the Spirit of '76" (Liberty, 6 September 1941)
• "The Grand Manner" (Collier's, 6 March 1937)
• "The Great Big-Hearted People" (Collier's, 31 Jan 1942)
• "The Green Widow" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 11 February 1933)
• "A Grudge is a Grudge" (Black Mask, September 1927)
• "Guess Again, Lady" (McCall's, February 1951)
• "A Gun in the Dark" (Black Mask, June 1928)
• "Gun Thunder" (Black Mask, January 1931)
• "Guns Down" (Black Mask, September 1933)
• "Hands" (Complete Stories Magazine, 15 March 1933)
• "Hard to Take" (Black Mask, June 1936)
• "The Hard Way" (Collier's, 2 April 1938)
• "The Hardy Fly Hard" (Air Stories, May 1928)
• "He Could Take It" (Black Mask, September 1932)
• "He Was a Swell Guy" (Black Mask, January 1935)
• "Heir to Murder" (Dime Detective, 1 April 1933)
• "The Hell-Bender" (Lariat, April 1927)
• "Hell Couldn't Stop Him" (Dime Detective, 15 April 1935)
• "Hell on Wheels" (Dime Detective, 1 February 1935)
• "Hell-Smoke" (Black Mask, November 1929)
• "Hell to Pay" (Black Mask, August 1928)
• "Hell's Back Door" (Far East Adventure Stories, February 1931)
• "Hell's Pay Check" (Dime Detective, December 1931)
• "High Jinks as Sky High" (Lariat, November 1926)
• "Hot Spot" (Dime Detective, 1 March 1934)
• "Hounds of Darkness" (Black Mask, April 1927)
• "The Human Side" (Collier's, 7 August 1937)
• "If You Can Take It" (Women's Home Companion, December 1940)
• "The Island Nobody Knows" (Ford Times, February 1958)
• "Isle of Lost Men" (Action Stories, November 1927)
• "Isle of Lost Wings" (Wings, March 1930; April 1930; May 1930; June 1930)
• "Israel Putnam Camp Grounds" (Ford Times, ?)
• "It Takes a Man" (North West Stories, 22 October 1927)
• "It's a Gag" (Black Mask, February 1935)
• "It's the Live Ones That Talk" (Black Mask, November 1931)
• "Junk" (Black Mask, March 1931)
• "Just Leave Everything to Me" (Good Housekeeping, May 1944)
• "Kick Back" (Dime Detective, 1 April 1934)
• "The Kill" (Black Mask, March 1931) (as Grimes Hill)
• "Killed After 10 P.M" (Mystery, August 1934)
• "Killer at Large" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1961)
• "King of the Yukon" (North West Stories, August 1930)
• "Last Question" (This Week, 22 April 1945)
• "Law Alone" (Mystery Stories, November 1928)
• "The Law Dies Hard" (North West Stories, February 1931)
• "The Law Laughs Last" (Black Mask, November 1928)
• "Law of the Trapline" (North West Stories, 22 April 1926)
• "Law Without Law" (Black Mask, April 1929)
• "Lay Down the Law" (Black Mask, November 1933)
• "Lead Pearls" (Dime Detective, September 1932)
• "Lead Poison" (Dime Detective, April 1936)
• "Leave It to Cardigan" (Dime Detective, 15 December 1934)
• "The Legend" (Women's Home Companion, December 1939)
• "The Lemon" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 6 May 1933)
• "Magnificent Gesture" (Redbook, November 1933)
• "Make Mine Murder" (Dime Detective, November 1936)
• "Man-Crazy" (Liberty, 30 December 1939)
• "A Man Must Fight" (North West Stories, 22 April 1927)
• "The Man Who Couldn't Spell" (Collier's, 30 June 1934)
• "The Man Who Knew" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1956)
• "The Man Who Lost Everything" (Collier's, 12 October 1940)
• "The Man Who Promised Not to Tell" (Good Housekeeping, November 1940)
• "A Man With Sand" (Black Mask, July 1927)
• "The Man You Love" (Family Circle, April 1958)
• "Mask of Murder" (The Saturday Evening Post, 8 Oct 1955)
• "Me--Cardigan" (Dime Detective, February 1933)
• "The Missing Car" (Black Bat, October 1933)
• "Moment in the Dark" (Cosmopolitan, January 1944)
• "Money, Money" (This Week, 14 February 1954)
• "Murder á la Carte" (Dime Detective, 15 November 1933)
• "Murder & Co" (Dime Detective, 15 September 1933)
• "Murder by Ballot" (Detective Action Stories, April 1932)
• "Murder by Mail" (Dime Detective, June 1936)
• "Murder Cure" (Dime Detective, January 1933)
• "Murder Off Stage" (Mystery, February 1934)
• "Murder on the Loose" (Dime Detective, April 1932)
• "Murder Won't Wait" (Dime Detective, 15 May 1933)
• "Muscle Man" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 10 June 1931)
• "The Mystery at Pier 7" (Detective Action Stories, September 1931)
• "Needle in a Haystack" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1962)
• "Never Sing Again" (Collier's, 5 June 1937)
• "New Guns for Old" (Black Mask, Sept. 1929)
• "Night Shift on the Lunchwagon" (Esquire, November 1937)
• "Nightfall" (Cosmopolitan, December 1947)
• "No Hard Feelings" (Black Mask, February 1936)
• "No Kid Stuff" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1958)
• "No Shadow of Doubt" (Collier's, 22 August 1942)
• "No Time for Tears" (American Magazine, January 1942)
• "No Time to Kill" (Dime Detective, May 1937)
• "Nobody's Fall Guy" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 8 August 1931)
• "Not a Care in the World" (Ladies' Home Journal, September 1950)
• "Not So Tough" (Dime Detective, 15 August 1934)
• "Nothing to Lose" (Cosmopolitan, January 1937)
• "Old Put's Camp Ground" (Ford Times, December 1953)
• "One Cold Night" (Collier's, 17 February 1940)
• "Out of Stir" (Young's Magazine, November 1929)
• "Outcast Ships" (Air Stories, ?)
• "Pardon My Murder" (Dime Detective, 15 November 1934)
• "Patrol of Courage" (North West Stories, 8 May 1926)
• "Pearls Are Tears" (Black Mask, September 1931)
• "The Penalty of the Code" (Black Mask, January 1928)
• "Phantom Fingers" (Dime Detective, March 1932)
• "The Pinch" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 17 September 1932)
• "Pity the Poor Underdog" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1958)
• "Pound for Pound" (Danger Trail, ?)
• "Protecting Monica" (Collier's, 5 October 1935)
• "Proud Eagles" (Air Stories, ?)
• "Proud Youth" (Toronto Star Weekly, 22 June 1929)
• "The Quick or the Dead" (Black Mask, March 1932)
• "Raw Courage" (Action Stories, December 1925)
• "Raw Law" (Black Mask, September 1928)
• "Read 'Em and Weep" (Dime Detective, 1 May 1934)
• "The Real Thing" (Collier's, 8 May 1937)
• "Rebound" (Good Housekeeping, October 1948)
• "Red Hot" (Dime Detective, 1 July 1934)
• "The Red-Hots" (Black Mask, December 1930)
• "Red Night" (North West Stories, 8 August 1927)
• "Red Pavement" (Black Mask, December 1932)
• "Red Web" (Black Mask, October 1932)
• "Remember the Good Times" (American Magazine, June 1942)
• "Remember the Music" (Collier's, 13 May 1939)
• "Rendezvous With Treason" (Coronet, February 1942)
• "Reprieve at Eleven" (Collier's, 26 June 1937)
• "Return of the Exile" (North West Stories, 8 July 1927)
• "Rogue's Ransom" (Dime Detective, August 1932)
• "Roses in the Rain" (Cosmopolitan, November 1945)
• "Rough Justice" (Black Mask, November 1930)
• "Rough Reform" (Black Mask, March 1933)
• "Round Trip" (Good Housekeeping, December 1945)
• "Save Your Tears" (Black Mask, June 1933)
• "Scandal in St. Louis" (Collier's, 18 February 1955)
• "Scoundrel's Choice" (Collier's, 23 December 1933)
• "Scrambled Murder" (Dime Detective, 15 July 1933)
• "The Secret Vanity" (Columbia, April 1929)
• "The Seed of Caution" (Sea Stories, ?)
• "Shake-Down" (Black Mask, September 1930)
• "Shake-Up" (Black Mask, August 1932)
• "The Shanghai Jest" (Air Stories, January 1928)
• "The Sign of Murder" (Dime Detective, March 1936)
• "The Simple Life" (Collier's, 6 January 1940)
• "Six Diamonds and a Dick" (Dime Detective, January 1932)
• "Sky Blazers" (Air Stories, May 1931)
• "Sky-High Nerve" (Air Stories, February 1928)
• "Sky Scrappers" (Air Stories, April 1931)
• "Sky Spoilers" (Air Stories, April 1931)
• "Sky-Trap" (Air Stories, ?)
• "Skyrocket Scott" (Wings, March 1928)
• "Soda-Pop Mary" (Lariat, January 1926)
• "Some Die Young" (Black Mask, December 1931)
• "Some Grudge" (?, ?) (as Eric Lewis)
• "Something Like a Dream" (Good Housekeeping, February 1943)
• "Something to Remember" (Collier's, 30 November 1940)
• "Somewhere East of Singapore" (Action Stories, 3 July 1926)
• "Song and Dance" (Black Mask, July 1933)
• "South of Saigon" (Air Stories, ?)
• "Spades Are Spades" (Dime Detective, 1 January 1934)
• "Spare the Rod" (Black Mask, August 1931)
• "The Spot and the Lady" (Black Mask, May 1931) (as Grimes Hill)
• "Stand Up and Fight" (Short Stories, ?)
• "Strangle Hold" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 29 July 1933)
• "Street Wolf" (Black Mask, May 1930)
• "Stuart of the City Patrol" (North West Stories, December 1925)
• "Sun Dog Gold" (North West Stories, January 1928)
• "Sunken Sovereigns" (?, ?) (as Lewis Nebel)
• "The Tailormade Clue" (Dime Detective, June 1932)
• "Take It and Like It" (Black Mask, June 1934)
• "Tell It to the Mounted" (North West Stories, 22 December 1926)
• "Ten Men From Chicago" (Black Mask, August 1930)
• "That's Kennedy" (Black Mask, May 1935)
• "The Things You Say" (The Saturday Evening Post, 3 February 1945)
• "Too Hot to Handle" (Dime Detective, 15 Sept. 1934)
• "Too Young to Die" (Black Mask, February 1934)
• "Tough Treatment" (Black Mask, January 1930)
• "Trade Law" (North West Stories, July 1925)
• "The Trail to Caribou" (North West Stories, December 1929)
• "A Truck-Load of Diamonds" (Dime Detective, December 1932)
• "Try It My Way" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1956)
• "Unfinished Marriage" (American Magazine, June 1947)
• "Unfriendly Call" (Collier's, 7 April 1934)
• "Wait Till I'm On My Feet" (Collier's, 26 December 1942)
• "Wanted: An Accomplice" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1958)
• "Wayward Journey" (Good Housekeeping, May 1946)
• "The Web" (Cosmopolitan, June 1947)
• "Weekend to Kill" (McCall's, June 1938)
• "Welcome Home, Soldier" (The Elks, Magazine January 1944)
• "The Wheel" (The Saturday Evening Post, 9 April 1932)
• "When the Time Comes" (Collier's, 7 June 1941)
• "Whispers of Death" (Detective Action Stories, December 1931)
• "The White Peril" (North West Stories, 8 January 1926)
• "White Villa in Rio" (Cosmopolitan, April 1955)
• "Wind Patrol" (Wings, November 1929)
• "Wings of Mercy" (Air Stories, ?)
• "Winter Kill" (Black Mask, November 1935)
• "Wise Guy" (Black Mask, April 1930)
• "With Benefit of Law" (Black Mask, November 1927)
• "Wolves of Dismay" (Wide World Adventures, ?)
• "Wolves of the Wind" (Wings, August 1928)
• "Woman at Bay" (Collier's, 13 March 1937)
• "The Woman in Shadow" (Liberty, 31 March 1945)
• "The Woman Who Changed Her Mind" (Cosmopolitan, January 1947)
• "The X-Circle" (Detective Action Stories, January 1932)
• "Yangtze Yellow" (Air Stories, March 1928)
• "You Can Take So Much" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1956)
• "You Can't Have Everything" (Cosmopolitan, July 1945)
• "You Go Your Way" (Liberty, 23 September 1939)
• "You Got to Think of the Kids" (Liberty, __ August 1942)
• "You Haven't Changed a Bit" (Cosmopolitan, May 1945)
• "You Know How Women Are" (Good Housekeeping, January 1944)
• "You Owe It to Yourself" (American Magazine, February 1946)
• "Your Face Looks Familiar" (Liberty, 16 June 1945)
• "The Yukon Trail" (North West Stories, ?)

Screenplays

• The Isle of Lost Men (1928)

Adaptations

About the Torchy Blane movies, Katherine Harper said, "The character of Torchy was not Nebel's: the sassy, sexy career gal of the movie series was, in the original stories, a 100-pound, malnourished, falling-down-drunk male reporter named John X. Kennedy."

• Ships of the Night (1928, from ?)
• Sleepers East (1934, from novel)
• "Meet McBride" (13 June 1936) (CBS radio drama, written by Charles Tazewell, based on the Kennedy and MacBride stories by Nebel)
• Smart Blonde (1936, a Torchy Blane movie, from "No Hard Feelings")
• The Adventurous Blonde (1937, a Torchy Blane movie)
• Fifty Roads to Town (1937, from novel) (aka Fifty Races to Town)
• Fly-Away Baby (1937, a Torchy Blane movie)
• Blondes at Work (1938, a Torchy Blane movie)
• Torchy Blane in Panama (1938, a Torchy Blane movie)
• Torchy Gets Her Man (1938, a Torchy Blane movie)
• Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939, a Torchy Blane movie)
• Torchy Plays With Dynamite (1939, a Torchy Blane movie)
• Torchy Runs For Mayor (1939, a Torchy Blane movie)
• A Shot in the Dark (1941, from ?)
• Sleepers West (1941, from Sleepers East)
• The Bribe (1948) (from story)