JOHN O'BRIEN
"Ludwig Soaring Down" (July 1971) [Dept of 1st Stories]

HUGH O'CONNOR
"Double Trouble" (co-writ. with Walter Duranty) (Apr 1949)

MARK O'DAY
"A Killing on Chalk" (Oct 1970)

WILLIAM O'FARRELL
"A Paper for Mr. Wurley" (July 1963) (incl. Editor's "In Memoriam"; O'Farrell died Apr 11, 1962)
"Over There - Darkness" (Nov 1964) (repr. from Sleuth Mystery Magazine, Oct 1958)
"With Blue Ribbons On It" (Oct 1966) (1961 reprint) (orig. title "The Hood Is a Bonnet")

LENORE GLEN OFFORD
"Memoirs of a Mystery Critic" (Apr 1967) (poem) (repr. from Mystery Writers Annual, 1966)
"The Old Lady Shows Her Prejudices" (Mar 1968) (poem)

JOHN O'HARA
"The Public Career of Mr. Seymour Harrisburg" (Nov 1962) (1935 reprint)

DONALD OLSON
"Vengeance Villa" (Aug 1969)

MURIEL LUDLOW OLSON
"In No Other Place" (June 1971) [Dept of 1st Stories]

DENNIS O'NEIL [comics writer]
"Report on a Broken Bridge" (Dec 1971)

JUDITH O'NEILL
"The Identification" (Feb 1967) [Dept of 1st Stories]
"In the Camp of the Enemy" (May 1969)

BARONESS ORCZY
"Mysterious Death in Percy Street" (Apr 1949)

RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI
"A Frosty Morning" (Jan 1943)

FULTON OURSLER (see Rupert Hughes)

WILL OURSLER
"The Shadow and the Shadowed" (Feb 1951)

STUART B. OVER
"The Old Man in the Next Bed" (Jan 1965) [Dept of 1st Stories]

ROBERT T. OWENS
"With Perpetual Care" (Jan 1966) [Dept of 1st Stories]

JOSH PACHTER
"E. Q. Griffen Earns His Name" (Dec 1968) [Dept of 1st Stories] (author was 16 yrs old) (Ellery Queen pastiche)
"E. Q. Griffen's Second Case" (May 1970) [Dept of 2nd Stories]
"Sam Buried Caesar" (Aug 1971) (author was 18) (Nero Wolfean)

JUAN PAGE [no doubt a pseudonym-pun on "one page," length of story]
"Dead Heat" (Feb 1961)
"Fair Game" (Feb 1962)
"Story Without an Ending" (Apr 1968)
"The Justice of Solomon" (June 1968)

BARRY PAIN
"The Problem Club" (May 1949)

ELIZABETH PALMER
"Post-Obit" (Aug 1970) [Dept of 1st Stories]

STUART PALMER
"The Lady From Dubuque" (Mar 1944) (repr. from Sunday News, 12-27-42) (orig. title "The Puzzle of the Scorned Woman") [Withers]
"The Adventure of the Marked Man" (July 1944) [Sherlockiana]
"The Riddle of the Twelve Amethysts" (Mar 1945) [Hildegarde Withers]
"Snafu Murder" (Nov 1945) [Withers]
"The Riddle of the Black Museum" (Mar 1946) [Withers]
"The Monkey Murder" (Jan 1947)
"The Riddle of the Double Negative" (Mar 1947)
"The Riddle of the Tired Bullet" (Mar 1948) [Withers]
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" (Feb 1951)
"Cherchez La Frame" [co-written with Craig Rice] (June 1951) [Hildegarde Withers and John J. Malone]
"Who Is Sylvia?" (July 1961)
"Withers and Malone, Crime-Busters" [co-writ. w/Craig Rice] (Nov 1963)
"The Return of Hildegarde Withers" (July 1964)
"Hildegarde Withers Is Back" (Apr 1968)
"The Stripteaser and the Private Eye" (Nov 1968)
"Hildegarde Plays It Calm" (Apr 1969)

EDGAR PANGBORN
"The Singing Stick" (Aug 1952) [Cro-Magnon detective]
"Mrrrar!" (July 1953)
"Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (Oct 1962)

PERCY SPURLARK PARKER
"Block Party" (Apr 1972) [Dept of 1st Stories]

HENRY T. PARRY
"Winter Savory" (June 1965) [Dept of 1st Stories]
"A Place of Sacrifice" (Mar 1966)
"The Baker Street Irregulars Murder Case" (Feb 1968) [Sherlockiana]
"An Academic Crime" (Feb 1969)
"Season's Greetings" (Oct 1970)
"Turnpike Roulette" (Aug 1971)

SISTER PASCHALA, O.P.
"?" (Jan 1962) [Dept of 1st Stories]

Q. PATRICK (pseudonym of Richard Webb and Hugh Wheeler; see Patrick Quentin)
"White Carnations" (Nov 1945) (repr. from Collier's, 1945) [Timothy Trant]
"Witness for the Prosecution" (July 1946)
"Love Comes to Miss Lucy" (Apr 1947)
"The Corpse in the Closet" (Jan 1948) [Timothy Trant]
"The Jack of Diamonds" (Feb 1949)
"Thou Lord Seest Me" (July 1949)
"Another Man's Poison" (Jan 1951)
"Who Killed the Mermaid?" (Feb 1951)
"Town Blonde, Country Blonde" (Aug 1951)
"All the Way to the Moon" (Sept 1951)
"Death on Saturday Night" (Jan 1953) (1950 reprint)
"Woman of Ice" (Feb 1953)
"The Glamorous Opening" (Jan 1954)
"Death and Canasta" (Apr 1954)

NEIL PATERSON
"Man on the Tightrope" (Nov 1964) (1952 reprint)

B. D. PEIRCE (South African radio writer)
"Hit in the Night - and Run" (May 1969)

J. F. PEIRCE
"The Man Who Was a Station Wagon" (Dec 1963) (co-writ. w/Fred Rodewald)
"The Lonely Ones" (Mar 1964)
"The Great Shakespeare Mystery" (May 1964)
"Devil To Pay" (Oct 1965)
"The Pale Face of the Rider" (Nov 1966)
"The Total Portrait" (Apr 1971)
"The Hot Tamales Murder Case" (Dec 1971)
“Nothing New Under the Sun” (June 1972)

ALEX PELLE
"Play It Cool, Pal" (Aug 1968)

BRUCE D. PELLETIER
"The Hedgehog and the Fox" (Apr 1961) [Dept of 1st Stories]

HUGH PENDEXTER
"According to the Evidence" (Sept 1942) (repr. from Adventure Magazine, 1913)

HUGH PENTECOST (real name is Judson P. Philips)
"Room Number Twenty-Three" (June 1949) [first story Pentecost wrote; reprinted from Flynn's, 1925; original byline was Judson Philips]
"Challenge to the Reader" (May 1947)
"The Contradictory Case" (Aug 1951)
"Lonely Boy" (Aug 1952) (repr. from Collier's?, 1949)
"Murder in Manhattan" (Nov 1953) (repr. from Collier's?, 1952)
"Talking Calf" (May 1954)
"The Missing Miss Maydew" (Sept 1959)
"The Man Inside" (Jan 1961)
"The Rubber Doorstops" (Feb 1961)
"The Sooty Man" (May 1961) (orig. title "A Black Eye for Miss Millington"; 1958)
"Frightened Star" (Sept 1961)
"Murder by a Southpaw" (Nov 1961) (orig. title "Murder Throws a Curve"; 1958)
"Hover Through the Fog" (Feb 1962) (+ author's foreword)
"A World of Envelopes" (May 1962)
"A Kind of Murder" (Aug 1962)
"Cop's Job To Know" (Sept 1962) (orig. title "Good Cop"; 1959)
"The Man With the Sixteen Beards" (Dec 1962)
"Delinquent Account" (Feb 1963)
"The Day the Children Vanished" (June 1963) (1958 reprint) [Clyde Haviland]
"In the Middle of Nowhere" (Aug 1963)
"Murder de Luxe" (Oct 1963)
"The Man in Seat 12" (Jan 1964)
"The Needle Sharp As Ever" (Apr 1964) (rej. titles "Poor Dear Consuela," "You Don't Know George," "Only the Good," "We All Have To Learn," "The Needle Man")
"Jericho and the Skiing Clue" (Nov 1964)
"Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (Apr 1965) (orig. title "Eager Victim"; 1950) [Lieutenant Pascal]
"Jericho and the Painting Clue" (July 1965)
"Jericho and the Dying Clue" (Oct 1965)
"Jericho and the Silent Witnesses" (Nov 1965)
"Jericho and the a Go-Go Clue" (May 1966)
"Jericho and the Nuisance Clue" (Aug 1966)
"Volcano in the Mind" (Jan 1967) (orig. title "Volcano"; 1947)
"The Monster of Lakeview" (Mar 1967) [Uncle George]
"The False Face Murder" (Aug 1967)
"No Witnesses on the Waterfront" (Jan 1968) (1960 reprint) (orig. title "The Ghost of Champagne Charlie")
"Murder Underground" (Oct 1968) (1953 reprint) (orig. title "Murder Goes Underground")
"Pierre Chambrun and the Black Days" (Dec 1968)
"Pierre Chambrun and the Sad Song" (Apr 1969)
"The Masked Crusader" (Nov 1969) [Pierre Chambrun]
"Pierre Chambrun and the War for Peace" (Jan 1970)
"Blood-Red in the Morning" (Sept 1970)
"Pierre Chambrun and the Last Fling" (Sept 1971)
"Jericho and the Dead Clue" (Dec 1971)

S. J. PERELMAN
"Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer" (July 1945) (repr. from New Yorker, 1944)
"The Saucier's Apprentice" (Dec 1961) (copyright 1956)
"Danger in the Drain" (June 1964) (repr. from The New Yorker, 1948) (aka "The Case of the Indelible Bath"?)

BARRY PEROWNE (pseudonym of Phil Atkey)
"The Blind Spot" (Nov 1945)
"Up the Garden Path" (Feb 1949)
"The Headprint" (Jan 1951)
"The Six Golden Nymphs" (May 1956) [Raffles]
"Papa Tral's Harvest" (Mar 1964)

JANE PERRY
"Ransom in Unmarked Bills" (Apr 1969) [Dept of 1st Stories]

PAUL PERRY
"Fixed Fee" (Oct 1968)

JULIA PETERKIN
"Ashes" (Mar 1954)

STEVEN PETERS
"George Washington, Detective" (Aug 1967) [Dept of 1st Stories]
"The Backyard Dig" (Aug 1967)
"On Death Row" (June 1968)
"Project Murder" (Feb 1969)

CHARLES A. PETERSON
"The Arithmetic of Poison" (Feb 1968)

RHONA PETRIE
"What We're All Hooked On" (Sept 1968)
"Such a Long Time After" (Dec 1968)
"People Keep Dying Round Here" (Mar 1969)
"Part of That Cold Eye" (July 1969) [Larry Moss]

EDEN PHILLPOTTS
"Peters, Detective" (Apr 1954)

JOHN PICK
"They Said It Couldn't Be Done" (Sept 1967) [Dept of 1st Stories]

ROBERT PICKERING
"A Lesson in Logic" (Nov 1962) [Dept of 1st Stories]

MARJORIE L. C. PICKTHALL
"The Man Who Bought Things Cheap" (Apr 1953) (repr. from Harper's Magazine, 1913)

JOHN PIERCE
"The Chicken Game" (July 1968)
"A Case of Jurisdiction" (Aug 1968)
"Something Damp and Green" (Oct 1968)
"A Child's Garden of Profits" (Dec 1968)
"The Fur-Lined Goodbye" (Mar 1969)
"Miss Paisley on a Diet" (Feb 1970)
"The Pig Sticker" (Jan 1971)
"Exercise Number One" (Sept 1971)
"The Ropewalker" (Oct 1971)
"Once a Cop" (Jan 1972) [Inspector Seal]
"Abracadabra" (Apr 1972) [Inspector Seal]

ROBERT L. PIKE
"Clancy and the Subway Jumper" (Dec 1961) [Case Book of 52nd Precinct]
"Clancy and the Paper Clue" (Jan 1962) [52nd Precinct]
"Clancy and the Shoeshine Boy" (June 1962) [52nd Precinct]
"Clancy and the Cat's Eyes" (Mar 1963) [52nd Precinct]

CYRIL PLUNKETT
"The Killer" (Nov 1943)
"The Guest" (Sept 1944)

POLLY PODOLSKY
"End Game" (Sept 1964)

EDGAR A. POE
"The Purloined Letter" (Feb 1950) (repr. from his book Tales, 1845) [C. Auguste Dupin]
"The Cask of Amontillado" (Apr 1951)
"Diddling" (Feb 1962)
"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (Feb 1965) (w/notes by A.Boucher & E.Queen) (repr. from Godey's Lady's Book, Apr 1844)

KACA POLACKOVA
Translated Josef Skvorecky's "The Classic Semerak Case" (Oct 1967)

ZELDA POPKIN
"Junie-No-Name" (Feb 1954)

SIDNEY PORCELAIN
"The Last Manuscript" (June 1962)

ARTHUR PORGES
"Do You Believe in Astrology?" (Aug 1962)
"The Devil Will Surely Come" (Oct 1963)
"The Unsolvable Crime" (Mar 1964)
"The English Village Mystery" (Dec 1964) [Celery Green]
"The Birthday Murders" (Jan 1965)
"The Indian Diamond Mystery" (June 1965) [Celery Green]
"The Scientist and the Bagful of Water" (Nov 1965) [Cyriack Skinner Grey]
"The Scientist and the Wife Killer" (Jan 1966) [Cyriack Skinner Grey]
"The Scientist and the Vanished Weapon" (Mar 1966) [Cyriack Skinner Grey]
"In Compartment 813" (June 1966) [Arsene Lupin]
"The Scientist and the Obscene Crime" (Sept 1966) [Cyriack Skinner Grey]
"Private Beachhead" (Dec 1966)
"The Scientist and the Multiple Murder" (Feb 1967) [Cyriack Skinner Grey]
"The Scientist and the Invisible Safe" (May 1967) [Cyriack Skinner Grey]
"Murder of a Priest" (Sept 1967)
"The Nose of a Beagle" (Nov 1967)

JOYCE PORTER
"Dover Pulls a Rabbit" (Feb 1969)
"Dover Tangles with High Finance" (Dec 1970)
“Dover and the Dark Lady” (May 1972)

MELVILLE DAVISSON POST
"The God of the Hills" (June 1953)
"The Devil Track" (Nov 1953) (1927 reprint) [Uncle Abner]
"The Dark Night" (Jan 1954)
"The Great Game" (Aug 1956) (orig. title "The Mute Voices") (writ. 1929)
"The Three Threads of Justice" (Mar 1962)
"Dead Man's Gloves" (Jan 1963) (orig. title "The Age of Miracles") (writ. 1918) [Uncle Abner]

ROY POST and AUSTIN RIPLEY [A MINUTE MYSTERY series] (also see Austin Ripley)
"The Case of the Impossible Marriage" (Sept 1942)
"The Case of the Eternal Triangle" (Sept 1942)
"The Case of the 6 Corridors" (Sept 1942)
"The Case of the 3 Suspects" (Sept 1942)
"The Case of the Young Detective" (Sept 1942)
"The Case of the Direct Angle" (Sept 1942)
"The Case of the Dead Detective" (May 1943)
"The Case of the Careless Visitor" (May 1943)
"The Case of the Death Car" (May 1943)

JEAN POTTS
"The Inner Voices" (Apr 1966)

JAMES POWELL
"The Friends of Hector Jouvet" (Apr 1966) [Dept of 1st Stories]
"The Stollmeyer Sonnets" (Oct 1966)
"The Beddoes Scheme" (Oct 1967)
"The Eye of Shafti" (Feb 1968)
"Maze in the Elevator" (July 1968)
"The Daring Daylight Melon Robbery" (Oct 1968)
"The Great Paleontological Murder Mystery" (Nov 1968)
"The Altdorf Syndrome" (May 1969)
"Kleber on Murder in 30 Volumes" (Oct 1969)
"Coins in the Frascati Fountain" (May 1970)
"The Plot Against Santa Claus" (Jan 1971)
"The Gobineau Necklace" (Mar 1971)
"Three Men in a Tub" (Sept 1971)
"Trophy Day at the Chateau Gai" (Feb 1972) [San Sebastiano]
"The Mandalasian Garotte" (July 1972) [Sergeant Bullock]

LARRY POWELL
"Double Exposure" (June 1969)

TALMAGE POWELL
"Somebody Cares" (Dec 1962)
"A Break in the Weather" (Aug 1963)
"Lorna's Back in Town" (June 1966)
"Last Run of the Night" (Jan 1967)
"In the House of Rats" (Sept 1970)
"The Nylon Stocking Bandits" (Feb 1971)

E. L. PRICE
"Point of No Return" (Mar 1964)

J. B. PRIESTLY
"An Arabian Night in Park Lane" (Mar 1947)
"What a Life!" (May 1951)

JEROME and HAROLD PRINCE
"The Man in the Velvet Hat" (May 1944) [Inspector Magruder]
"The Finger Man" (Jan 1945) [Magruder]

MAURICE PROCTER
"The Policeman and the Lamp" (July 1961) (orig. title "No Place for Magic"; 1954)

BILL PRONZINI [see WILLIAM JEFFREY]

TOM VARNER PURSER
"Deaths on the Hiawassee" (Oct 1964) [Dept of 1st Stories]

ELLERY QUEEN
"The Adventure of the Treasure Hunt" (Fall 1941)
"The Adventure of the Mouse's Blood" (Sept 1942) (radio script)
"The Adventure of the Fire-Bug" (Mar 1943)
"The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds" (May 1943) (radio script)
"The Adventure of the Murdered Ship" (July 1943) (radio script)
"The Adventure of the Blind Bullet" (Sept 1943) (radio script)
"The Adventure of the One-Legged Man" (Nov 1943) (radio script)
"The Adventure of the Wounded Lieutenant" (July 1944) (radio script)
"The Adventure of the Inner Circle" (Jan 1947)
"The Adventure of the President's Half Disme" (Feb 1947) [see Mar '65]
"The Ides of Michael Magoon" (Mar 1947) [see Apr '65 for reprint]
"With the Author's Compliments" (Feb 1949)
More "Compliments of the Author" (Mar 1949)
Annual Report on Prize Contests (Apr 1949)
"Queen's Quorum: Part One" [article on history of mystery genre] (June 1949) (orig. appeared in Twentieth Century Detective Stories, 1948)
"The Emperor's Dice" (Apr 1951) [see May '65 for reprint]
"As Simple as ABC" (May 1951)
"The Medical Finger" (June 1951) [see July '65 for reprint]
"The Fallen Angel" (July 1951) [see Aug '65 for reprint]
"The Needle's Eye" (Aug 1951) [see Sept '65 for reprint]
"Definitive Library of Detective-Crime-Mystery Fiction" (Oct 1951) (writ. with Howard Haycraft)
"Lost & Found Department: The Lonely Bride" (Dec 1951) (orig. title "The Lady Couldn't Explain") (repr. from This Week, 1950)
"The Three Widows" (Jan 1952)
"Blackmail Department: Money Talks" (Aug 1952) (repr. from This Week, 1950)
"Sherlock Holmes First Editions" [article] (Feb 1954)
"Miser's Gold" (Apr 1954)
"E = Murder" (May 1961) (repr. from This Week, 1960)
"Mind Over Matter" (Sept 1962) (1940 reprint)
Introduction to John Dickson Carr's "The Grandest Game in the World" (Mar 1963)
"Mystery at the Library of Congress" (Feb 1963) (copyright 1960) (orig. title "Enter Ellery Queen")
"The Death of Don Juan" (Aug 1964) (repr. from Argosy, 1962)
Comments on Poe's "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (Feb 1965)
"The President's Half Disme" (Mar 1965) (repr. from Feb 1947 issue)
"The Ides of Michael Magoon" (Apr 1965) (repr. from Mar 1947 issue)
Editor's Note (2pps.) on Joe Gores' "A Sad and Bloody Hour" (Apr 1965)
"EurekA POE" - Editor's note to Michael Harrison's "Vanished Treasure" (May 1965)
"The Emperor's Dice" (May 1965) (repr. from Apr 1951 issue)
"The Gettysburg Bugle" (June 1965) (1951 reprint)
"The Fallen Angel" (Aug 1965) (repr. from July 1951 issue)
"The Needle's Eye" (Sept 1965) (repr. from Aug 1951 issue)
"The Three R's" (Oct 1965) (1946 reprint)
"The Halloween Mystery" (Nov 1965) (1946 reprint) (orig. title "The Adventure of the Dead Cat")
"The Thanksgiving Day Mystery" (Dec 1965) (1946 reprint) (orig. title "The Telltale Bottle")
"Queen's Quiz: Of Spelling and Nomenclature" (Jan 1966) (1pg.)
"Mum Is the Word" (Apr 1966)
"KIDNAPING DEPT.: The Broken T" (May 1966) (1963 reprint) (orig. title "Mystery in Neon Red")
"CRIME SYNDICATE DEPT.: Payoff" (July 1966) (1963 reprint)
"The Little Spy" (Sept 1966) (copyright 1964) (Queen/Puzzle Club)
"MURDER DEPT: Half a Clue" (Aug 1966) (1963 reprint) (orig. title "Half a Clue to Murder")
"SPY DEPT.: Dead Ringer" (Oct 1966) (copyright 1965)
"INHERITANCE DEPT.: Last Man To Die" (Jan 1967) (copyright 1963)
"The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's Clue" (Mar 1967) (copyright 1965)
"The President Regrets" (July 1967) (copyright 1965) (Queen/Puzzle Club)
"Wedding Anniversary" (Sept 1967) [Wrightsville]
"LAST WORD DEPT.: Uncle from Australia" (Nov 1967) (1965 reprint)
"With the Compliments of Comus" (Jan 1968) (copyright 1948 & 1952) (orig. title "The Dauphin's Doll")
"The Inner Circle" (Feb 1968) (copyright 1946 & 1952)
"QUEEN'S QUORUM: Supplement Number One (1951-1959)" (Nov 1968) (reviews)
"QUEEN'S QUORUM: Supplement Number Two (1961-1967)" (Dec 1968) (reviews) (incl. checklist of 125 most important mystery books)
"Murder in the Park" (Mar 1969)
"GI Story" (May 1970) (1954 reprint)
"Death of a Pawnbroker" (Nov 1971) (orig. title "Miser's Gold") (copyright 1950, 1954)

PATRICK QUENTIN (pseudonym of Richard Webb and Hugh Wheeler; see Q. Patrick)
"Puzzle for Poppy" (Feb 1946)
"The "Laughing Man" Murders" (Aug 1963) (copyright 1953)
"The Lady Had Nine Lives" (June 1965) (copyright 1937 by Q. Patrick) [Timothy Trant]
"Mrs. B.'s Black Sheep" (Sept 1967) (orig. title "Passport for Murder"; 1950)