CLAYTON RAWSON/STUART TOWNE:

This is Rawson's output, with year of publication, alternate titles (if any), Swedish titles, and the detective of the story. The Merlini short stories (number 5 a-l) all appeared in book-form some time after Rawson's death. At the end are the two short story collections Rawson published under the pseudonym Stuart Towne (nos. 6-7), and five uncollected short stories published under the same pseudonym (nos. 8-12).

M = The Great Merlini
DD = Don Diavolo


  1. DEATH FROM A TOP HAT 1938
    Mord i hög hatt
    (M)

  2. THE FOOTPRINTS ON THE CEILING 1939
    Fotsteg i taket
    (M)

  3. THE HEADLESS LADY 1940
    Hokus pokus
    (M)

  4. NO COFFIN FOR THE CORPSE 1942
    (M)

  5. THE GREAT MERLINI 1979
    (M)

    1. The clue of the tattooed man
    2. The clue of the broken legs
      Vem mördade Jorge Lasko?
    3. The clue of the missing motive
    4. From another world
      Från en annan värld
    5. Off the face of the earth
      Spårlöst försvunnen
    6. Merlini and the lie detector
    7. Merlini and the vanished diamonds
      Merlini och de försvunna diamanterna
    8. Merlini and the sound effects murder
    9. Nothing is impossible
      Ingenting är omöjligt
    10. Miracles - all in the day's work
      Svartkonster - mitt på ljusa dagen
    11. Merlini and the photographic clue
    12. The world's smallest locked room
      Det slutna rummet i miniatyr





  6. DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR 1941
    (DD)

    1. Death from the past (Ghost of the undead)
      Döden från det förgångna
    2. Death from the unseen (Death out of thin air)

  7. DEATH FROM NOWHERE 1943
    (DD)

    1. Act I (The claws of Satan)
    2. Act II (The enchanted dagger)






  8. Stand-in for a kill 1940

  9. Mr. Mystery 1940

  10. The man with the radio mind 1941

  11. The ace of death 1942

  12. The man with X-ray eyes 1944



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