Achmed Abdullah: A Bibliography in Progress

Copyright Peter Ruber, Victor A. Berch, Richard Bleiler and Larry Estep

Compiled by Peter Ruber, Victor A. Berch, Richard Bleiler and Larry Estep

Achmed Abdullah
(May 12, 1881 - May 12, 1945)

Bibliography in Progress
Draft 7.0 / 11-2-03

(Afghan name: Achmed Abdullah Nadir Khan el-Durani el Iddrissyeh)

Born Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, in Yalta, Crimea, Russia.

Father was second cousin to Russian Czar Nicholas Romanoff; mother was an Afghan princess. His parents divorced when he was young, after his mother tried to poison his father for having multiple affairs. He and his brothers and sister were then adopted and raised by his maternal grandparents. Was born Russian Orthodox, but raised as a Moslem by his grandparents. Later in life he considered himself a Roman Catholic. Sent to England at age 12 to be educated at Eton; then to Oxford Univ.

He joined British Army upon graduating Oxford. Rose to rank of acting colonel during his 17-year military career, though it could have been of shorter duration. Served in India with the British-Indian Army; also was a colonel in a cavalry regiment for one year in the Turkish Army as a British spy. Served in India, Afghanistan (Khyber Pass), Tibet, China, Turkey, and in Africa. Spent most of his military years as a spy because of his wide knowledge of Oriental and Mid-East customs and religions. Traveled widely throughout Russia, Europe, China, Africa, Mid-East; spoke many languagges and dialects. Was made aBritish citizen by an act of Parliament. Convicted in absentia by the Germans during WW I for being a spy.

Emigrated to U.S. early-1910s (his NY Times Obit said 1924, but that was incorrect); eventually became a successful, well-paid writer, Broadway playright and later a Hollywood screenwriter. Only British subject (up to his time) to receive membership in the French Academy; also a doctorate from the College of El-Azar, Cairo, in Koranic studies.

Married to Jean Wick, literary agent, who died in 1939; adopted her daughter Phyllis (later Phyllis Adams, U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WW II). Married again in 1940 to Mrs. Rosemary A. Dolan. Died May 12, 1945 of a heart attack after a long illness, at Columbia Presbytarian Medical Center, which he entered in January of 1945.
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MAGAZINES:

AINSLEE'S
As He Reaped ( ) - 7-1917
There's Corn in Egypt ( ) - 1-1921

ALL-STORY WEEKLY
Indian Jataka ( ) - 3-13-1920

AMERICAN BOY
Outside the Mosque ( ) - 6-1919
Pell Street Choice ( ) - 11-1919
Hill Bred Yar Hyder ( ) - 12-1919

AMERICAN MERCURY
Gates of Tamerlane (ss) - 8-1924

ALL AROUND MAGAZINE
(As Sheykh Achmed Abdullah)
A Successful Man (ss) - 5-1916
The Undying Race (n) - 9-1916

(As Achmed Abdullah & William Mallabar)
The Patriot (ss) - 12-1916

ALL-STORY WEEKLY
The God of the Invincibly Strong Arms (I)
1. The Affair of the Double Alibi (ss) - 9-11-1915
2. The Temple at Marly-le-Toi (ss) - 9-18-1915
3. The Tale of the Living Corpse (ss) - 9-25-1915
4. The Affair of the Million Francs of Gold (ss) - 10-2-1915
5. The Mystery of the Missing Syllable (ss) -- 10-9-1915
6. The Affair of the Luminous Death (ss) - 10-16-1915

To Be Accounted For (ss) - 1-8-1916
Poker (ss) - 2-5-1916
The Red Gods Who Talked (ss) - 3-11-1916

The God of the Invincibly Strong Arms (II)
1. Trail of the Blue Eyes (ss) - 3-25-1916
2. Tale of the Manchu's Benevolence (ss) - 4-1-1916
3. Tale of the Manchu's Arsenal (ss) - 4-8-1916
4. Tale of the Half Caste's Revenge (ss) - 4-15-1916
5. The Third Soul of Mascasenhas (ss) - 4-22-1916
6. The Man Who Lost an Empire (ss) - 4-29-1916

Professor Barker Harrison--Tartar (ss) - 6-10-1916
How Fear Died at Kimbedi (ss) - 7-15-1910

Bucking the Tiger (s-2) - 8-5-1916
- 8-12-1916

A Hair of the Dog (ss) - 9-23-1916

The God of the Invincibly Strong Arms (III)
1. The Oath of Mascasenhas (ss) - 11-18-1916
2. The Gentle Mr. Ah Yat-Sen (ss) - 11-25-1916
3. Two Bluffs and a Show-Down (ss) - 12-2-1916
4. A Robespierre of China (ss) - 12-9-1916

Consider the Oath of M'Taga (ss) - 3-10-1917
Silence (ss) - 4-21-1917
Disappointment (ss) - 5-19-1917
The Charmed Life (nt) - 9-22-1917
How Peace Came (translator) (ss) - 11-10-1917

Master of the Hour (s-5) - 12-22-1917
- 12-29-1917
- 1-5-1918
- 1-12-1918
- 1-19-1918

Over There! (ss) - 2-9-1918
A Simple Act of Piety (ss) - 4-20-1918
Light (ss) - 5-18-1918
Wings (ss) - 8-10-1918
Sickness in Kakamoeka (ss) - 9-28-1918
Bibi--His Mark (nt) - 11-2-1918
The Assassin (ss) - 12-28-1918
According to Herbert Spencer (ss) - 3-1-1919
Himself to Himself (ss) - 3-15-1919

A Buccaneer in Spats (s-6) - 11-29-1919
- 12-6-1919
- 12-13-1919
- 12-20-1919
- 12-27-1919
- 1-5-1920

Almost a Christian (nt) - 5-29-1920

THE ARGOSY
"He Who Goes Fantee" (ss) - 6-1915

The Trail of the Beast (s-7) - 2-9-1918
- 2-16-1918
- 2-23-1918
- 3-2-1918
- 3-9-1918
- 3-16-1918
- 3-23-1918

Johnny (ss) - 5-11-1918
A Yarkand Survey (ss) - 7-20-1918
White Lights (n) - 8-31-1918
A Pell Street Spring Song (ss) - 9-28-1918

The Mating of the Blades (s-5) - 6-28-1919
- 7-5-1919
- 7-12-1919
- 7-19-1919
- 7-26-1919

ARGOSY AND RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE
The Web (s-7) - 12-28-1918
- 1-4-1919
- 1-11-1919
- 1-18-1919
- 1-25-1919
- 2-1-1919
- 2-8-1919

ARGOSY
Flame of Allah (s-3) - 12-1942
- 1-1942
- 2-1942

ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY
Bismallah! (n) - 6-11-1921
Behind the Veil (n) - 10-15-1921

BEST DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
Scented Fear (ss) - 12-1933
(Reprinted from DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE, 6-11-1918)

THE BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE
The Hatchetman (ss) - 3-1919
The Incubus (ss) - 4-1920

Became BLUE BOOK
Pell Street Blues (ss) - 3-1935
The King's Highway (ss) - 5-1935

Tempest Over Africa (s-3) - 10-1936
- 11-1936
- 12-1936

Old Peru (OP):
1. Head in the Sand (ss) - 6-1942

The Two Swordsmen:
1. Two Swordsmen of High Tartary (ss) - 9-1942
2. The Beloved Ruffian (ss) - 11-1942
3. Their Own Dear Land (ss) - 1-1943

OP 2. Caballeros (ss) - 2-1943
OP 3. Meredith Kindles a Flame (ss) - 5-1943

Scots Hidalgo (s-4) - 8-1943
- 9-1943
- 10-1943
- 11-1943

False Face (ss) - 3-1944
OP 4. A Strong Willing Man (ss) - 8-1944

1944 Persian Nights Entertainment:
1. Small Hero (ss) - 12-1944

(Series not continued due to hospitalization and author's death in May, 1945. Stories below appear to have been in BB's inventory awaiting publication.)

Minstrel of Afghanistan (ss) - 2-1945
The Wild Road, the Free Road (ss) - 3-1945
The Honor of Rivals (ss) - 4-1945
Pell Street Blues (ss) - 8-1945
The Return of Rufo (ss) - 9-1945
Murder Was His Meat (ss) - 11-1945

BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE MAGAZINE
(This was a reprint publication. Original sources for stories listed below can be found under ALL-STORY MAGAZINE and ARGOSY.)

The Affair of the Double Alibi (ss) - 3-4-1917
The Temple at Marley-le-Roi (ss) - 3-11-1917
The Tales of the Living Corpse (ss) - 3-18-1917
The Affair of the Million Francs of Gold (ss) - 3-25-1917
The Mystery of the Missing Syllable (ss) - 4-1-1917
The Affair of the Luminous Death (ss) - 4-8-1917

The God of the Blue Eyes (ss) - 8-12-1917
Tales of the Manchu's Benevolence (ss) - 8-19-1917
Tale of the Manchu's Arsenal (ss) - 8-26-1917
Tale of the Half-Caste Revenge (ss) - 9-2-1917
The Third Soul of the Nascasenhas (ss) - 9-9-1917
The Man Who Lost His Empire (ss) - 9-16-1917

White Lights I - 9-21-1919
White Lights II - 9-28-1919

BRITANNIA AND EVE
This Red-Haired Girl (ss) - Nov 1929
Desert Bred (ss) - Jan 1931
Portrait of an Actor (ss) - Jun 1931
Happy Ending (ss) - Jul 1932
Two White Men and Another (ss) - Oct 1932
Constant and Eternal (ss) - Apr 1933
Pell Street Blues (ss) - Jul 1935
One--Not Two (ss) - Sep 1935
O'Connor-Burke of the Waffs (ss) - Feb 1938
Desert Passion (ss) - Aug 1938
Aristocrat (ss) - Mar 1940

CENTURY
Cobbler's Wax (ss) - 7-1918
Feud (ss) - 12-1916
Tao (ss) - 4-1920

COLLIER'S
Strength of the Little Thin Thread (ss) - 10-5-1912
Affair of the Chinese Case (ss) - 10-22-1921
Affair of the Nauratama Amulet (ss) - 12-10-1921
Affair of the Shiva Natarajah (ss) - 12-24-1921
Why I Am a Mohammedan (ar) - 1-26-1926
Interlude (ss) - 5-7-1927
Portrait (ss) - 7-23-1927

COSMOPOLITAN
Most Just Among Moslem ( ) - 7-1922
The Tale the Drum Told ( ) - 8-1922
When War Gods Call ( ) - 2-1932

DELINEATOR
Beside Still Waters (ss) - 11-1921
Tao (ss) - 2-1926
Samarkand the Golden (ss) - 8-1927
Red Braggart (ss) - 2-1928
The King Rode to Kabul (ss) - 6-1928
Dancer of Sammarkand (ss) - 5-1929
The Orderly Homespun Fields (ss) - 4-1930
The Third Chose Death (ss) - 3-1931
Simple Act of Piety (ss) - 7-1932
Prince Among the Vagabonds (ss) - 5-1933
Tall Hero (ss) - 9-1935

DESIGNER
Ahee! ( ) - 8-1925
Road of His Feet ( ) - 1-1926
When My Caravan Comes In - 5-1926
Godless Man ( ) - 10-1926

DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE
Scented Fear (ss) - 6-11-1918
Wrapped in Clay (ss) - 7-30-1918
The Golden Trail of Youth (ss) - 9-17-1918
The Soul Catcher (ss) - 12-24-1918
Fear (ss) - 2-4-1919
From the Black Tents (w-Lillian G. Fassett) (ss) - 3-4-1919
Framed at the Benefactors Club (ss) - 4-16-1921

ELK'S MAGAZINE
Magnificent Gesture ( ) - 3-1925
A Matter of Oriental Imagination ( ) - 7-1925
Strong Man ( ) - 7-1928

EVERYBODY'S
The Remittance-Woman ( ) - 7-1922
Lucifer ( ) - 8-1923
The First Hundred Thousand ( ) - 6-1925
The Second Hundred Thousand ( ) - 7-1925
The Million ( ) - 8-1925

FAMOUS STORY MAGAZINE
A Simple Act of Piety ( ) (R) - 12-1925
The Hatchetman ( ) (R) - 4-1926
The Honourable Gentleman ( ) (R) - 8-1926
Cobbler's Wax ( ) (R) - 11-1926
Fear ( ) (R) - 12-1926

FORUM
Senussyehs (ss) - 5-1914
Seen Through Mohammadean Spectacles (ss) - 10-1914
Batoum (ss) - 11-1917
After Youth (ss) - 3-1918

GHOST STORIES
Renunciation (ss) - 9-1929

GOLDEN BOOK
Tao ( ) (R) - 2-1926
Two-Handed Sword (ss) - 7-1926
Reprisal (ss) - 1-1927
Catnip (ss) - 7-1927
River of Hate (ss) - 10-1927
Way of the Gray Hills (ss) - 3-1928
Fear (ss) - 1-1929
A Simple Act of Piety ( ) (R) - 7-1932

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
Jewell in the Lotus (ss) - 9-1928
Home Wind (ss) - 6-1929
Golden to the Winds (ss) - 9-1929
Once in Our Hills (ss) - 4-1930
Sword of the Lord (ss) - 10-1930
From Whence Cometh My Help (ss) - 12-1931
For the Love of One Small Girl (ss) - 9-1932
Laughter In Tartary (ss) - 6-1933
Tongue that Spoketh Proud (ss) - 6-1934
Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord? (ss) - 12-1934
Multitude of His Mercy (ss) - 6-1935
Hunter Home From the Hill (ss) - 4-1936
Why Go to Panama (ss) - 10-1936
Beulah Land (ss) - 3-1937
Nor She Less Naughty (ss) - 10-1937
His Leaf Also Shall Not Wither (ss) - 5-1938

THE GRAND MAGAZINE
The Perfect Way (ss) - 4-1930

HARDBOILED
Boiled New England Dinner (ss) - 10-1936

HARPER'S BAZAAR
Good Girl ( ) - 5-1923
Catnip ( ) - 5-1924
Victory ( ) - 7-1924

HARPER'S MAGAZINE
Home-Coming (ss) - 5-1917
Dance on the Hill (ss) - 11-1918

HARPER'S WEEKLY
The Last Word (ss) - 10-3-1914
The Banker and the Cobra (ss) - 10-10-1914
Asia and the War (ar) - 11-1915
The Man Who Lost Caste (ss) - 2-12-1916

HEARST'S INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE
Flower of Deborah's Choosing ( ) - 2-1923
Rest in Silence ( ) - 10-1923
Affair of Honor ( ) - 1-1925

HUTCHINSON'S ADVENTURE-STORY MAGAZINE
Slit-Eye (ss) (#822) - 11-1918

THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
The Evil Goddess (ss) - 12-1931

LIBERTY
La Zanahoria (ss) - 4-17-1926
Enemies ( ) - 7-10-1926
Affair of the Leopard's Spots ( ) - 10-30-1926
Worthy Foeman ( ) - 12-25-1926
Professor Struts His Stuff ( ) - 11-5-1927
It's Fun to Be French! ( ) - 5-12-1928
Breckenridge Necklace ( ) - 3-2-1929
The Red-Haired Girl ( ) - 3-30-1929
Dead Orchids ( ) - 1-9-1932
The Shortest Ghost Story (ss) [by Gilbert K. Chesterton as told to Achmed Abdullah] - Feb 13, 1937

Alias Emerald Annie (S-10) [with Anthony Abbot, pseud of Fulton Oursler, managing editor of LIBERTY] - May 15, 1937
- May 22, 1937
- May 29, 1937
- Jun 5, 1937
- Jun 12, 1937
- Jun 19, 1937
- Jun 26, 1937
- Jul 3, 1938
- Jul 10, 1937
- Jul 17, 1937

Two Minute Stories:
Not Quite a Christian (ss) - Jul 31, 1937
Fog (ss) - Aug 7, 1937
Solitaire! (ss) - Aug 14, 1937
A Diplomat in the Making (ss) - Aug 21, 1937
Duval Is the Name (ss) - Aug 28, 1937
He Never Knew (ss) - Sep 4, 1937
The Great Bazoo! (ss) - Sep 11, 1937
Golden Helmet (ss) - Sep 25, 1937

Desert Passion (ss) - Sep 25, 1937
Because He Loved Greatly (ss) - Apr 16, 1938

Paradise Kate (S-10) [w-Anthony Abbot] - Jul 30, 1938
- Aug 6, 1938
- Aug 13, 1938
- Aug 20, 1938
- Aug 27, 1938
- Sep 3, 1938
- Sep 10, 1938
- Sep 17, 1938
- Sep 24, 1938
- Oct 1, 1938

Once It Happened (ss) - Nov 9, 1938
Aristocrat (ss) - Dec 17, 1938
The New Hair-Do (ss) - Feb 25, 1939
I PLay These (ss) - Apr 15, 1939

The Shadow of the Master (S-11) [with Anthony Abbot] - Sep 23, 1939
- Sep 30, 1939
- Oct 7, 1939
- Oct 14, 1939
- Oct 21, 1939
- Oct 28, 1939
- Nov 4, 1939
- Nov 11, 1939
- Nov 18, 1939
- Nov 25, 1939
- Dec 2, 1939

To Be Accounted For (ss) - Dec 23, 1939
A Saint (ss) - 10-5-1940
Blood of the Dragon (ss) - 11-29-1941

LIPPINCOTT'S
Infidel (ss) - 1-1915
The Rock Whence Ye Were Hewn (ss) - 2-1915
Flowering Stone (ss) - 4-1915
Black Lilly (ss) - 7-1915

LIVE STORIES
Taint (ss) - 7-1918

METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE
One Night (ss) - 8-1920-29?
- (WorldCat date of publ.)

McBRIDE'S
The Man Who Wished (ss) - 9-1915

McCALL'S
A Matter of Fan (ss) - 6-1922
Once It Happened in the Black Tents (ss) - 1-1923
Hound of the Wilderness (ss) - 2-1925
The Woman of the Benni-Fuhara (ss) - 10-1925
Heart's Thief (ss) - 3-1928
Once in High Tartary (ss) - 6-1928
Hey-Oh! Flies the Kite (ss) - 6-1929
The Missionary (ss) - 10-1929
Ebony and Amber (ss) - 3-1930

McCLURE's
Thingumajee Thingumabob Jones (ss) - 7-1918

METROPOLITAN
Swinging Caravan (ss) - 2/3-1923
One Night (ss) - 6-1924

MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE
Yellow Wife (ss) - 7-1919
Broadway of It (ss) - 10-1920

THE NEW MAGAZINE
Requiscat in Pace (ss) - 7-1915

THE PARISIENNE MONTHLY MAGAZINE
The Linguist ( ) - 10-1917

The Captain of His Soul (s-3) - 2-1918
(w-Robert Simpson) - 3-1918
- 4-1918

Bohemia and the Captain Bols ( ) - 9-1918

PEOPLE'S
Holy Russia and Jacqueline ( ) - 2-1917

PEOPLE'S FAVORITE MAGAZINE
The Mannikins ( ) - 6-25-1918
Royalty in Disguise ( ) - 9-10-1918
Pro Patria ( ) - 12-10-1918
The Turk (ss) - 1-10-1919
A Full House (ss) - 2-10-1919

PEOPLE'S STORY MAGAZINE
Ways and Means (ss) - 5-10-1922

PICTORIAL REVIEW
An honorable Gentleman ( ) - 9-1919
Evening Rice ( ) - 6-1920
Lute of Jade ( ) - 10-1920
Dutiful Grief ( ) - 8-1921

THE POPULAR MAGAZINE
Unloaded Dice (ss) - 3-7-1917

THE PREMIER MAGAZINE (UK)
The Scarlet Mask:
1. The Affair of the Double Alibi - 3-1916
2. The Renegade - 4-1916
3. The Affair of the Million Francs of Gold - 5-1916
4. The Mystery of the Missing Syllable - 6-1916
5. The Affair of the Luminous Dead - 7-1916

The Trail of the Blue Eyes (ss) - 9-1916
The Manchu's Benevolence (ss) - 10-1916
The Manchu's Arsenal (ss) - 11-1916
The Medicine Man (ss) - 3-1919
Litte Crimson Lotus-Bud (ss) - 6-1919
The Sickness (ss) - 7-4-1919
Black Lilly (ss) - 1-2-1920
Fear (ss) - 5-7-1920
The Tale of a Bluff (ss) - 7-2-1920
Lute of Jade (ss) - 9-23-1921
The Strong Man (ss) - 12-27-1921
Dross (ss) - 10-17-1921
Harar Lal, the Baba (ss) - 3-13-1924
Romance (ss) - 4-14-1924
"Plum Blossom" (ss) - 8-1926
The Quest of the "One Man" (ss) - 7-1929

READER'S DIGEST
The Man Who Led (ar) - 7-1944

RED BOOK MAGAZINE
Omar Rides Alone ( ) - 2-1928
The Long Road, the Far Road ( ) - 7-1928
A Woman Who Is Mine! ( ) - 12-1928
Mehmet the Red ( ) - 9-1929
Nor Were Her Lips Unwilling ( ) - 10-1920
Come Back to Me Soon ( ) - 12-1929
Wanderer's Way ( ) - 5-1930

The Veiled Woman (s-7) - 6-1930
- 7-1930
- 8-1930
- 9-1930
- 10-1930
- 11-1930
- 12-1930

SHORT STORIES with KEITH'S HOUSE PLANS
The Brother of the Eagles ( ) - 2-1915

SHORT STORIES
The Tale of a Bluff (ss) - 9-1915
The Fetish of Remorse (ss) - 4-1916
One Way With Traitors (n) - 6-25-1945

THE SMART SET
The Head of the Family (ss) - 6-1914
The Letter ( ) - 1-1917
The Guerdon (ss) - 2-1917 *
A Gentleman of the Old Regime - 2-1917 *
The Commonsense of Monsieur Lebel (ss) - 1917
Henri Always Says So! (ss) - 1917
Monsieur le Marquis is Not at Home (ss) - 1917
The Hair of Madame Duvergnier (ss) - 1917
Gamut ( ) - 12-1917

(WorldCat has no monthly pub data for these stories)

SNAPPY STORIES
The Shadow of Jean-Marie Pierrot (ss) - 1915
A Five Dollar Gold Piece ( ) - 12-18-1917

SUNSET
Armed Yellow Fist (ss) - 1-1915

TELLING TALES
Triumph ( ) - 8-1921
Perfect Way ( ) - 9-1921
The Vase of Ancient People ( ) - 10-1921
Black Poppies ( ) - 11-1921

TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE
The River of Hate ( ) - 10-1918

TOP-NOTCH
Delighted to Meet You (ss) - 2-1-1917
East or West? (ss) - 4-15-1917

TROPICAL ADVENTURES
Bismallah (ss) - 3-1928
(Reprint from ARGOSY, 6-11-1921)

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BOOKS:

Novels:

The Red Stain,
a. New York: Hearst's International, 1915.
b. London: Hutchinson & Co., nd

The Blue-Eyed Manchu.
a. New York: Robert J. Shores Co., 1917
b. London: Hutchinson, 192- (?)

Bucking the Tiger.
a. New York, Robert J. Shores Co., 1917.

The Trail of the Beast
a. London: Hutchinson, 1918
b. New York: James A. McCann Co., 1919.
c. New York: A. L. Burt & Co., 1920.

The Man on Horseback
a. New York: James A. McCann Co., 1919.
b. New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1920.

The Mating of the Blades.
a. New York: James A. McCann Co., 1920.
b. New York: A. L. Burt & Co., (1920-21?)

Jim Lofton: American.
(with George Brydges Rodney)
a. James A. McCann Co., 1920.

Night Drums.
a. New York: James A. McCann Co., 1921.
b. New York: A.L. Burt Co., [1922]. (?)
c. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1921.

The Remittance Woman (1924)
Not separate book--See next item:
Four In One Mysteries.
a. Garden City, NY: The Garden City Publishing Co., 1924.
(Contains "The Remittance Woman" by Abdullah; other stories by Edgar Wallace, Edison Marshall, Carolyn Wells.)

Shackled.
a. New York: Brentano's Books, 1924.

A Buccaneer in Spats.
a. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1924.

The Thief of Bagdad.
a. New York: H. K. Fly Co., 1924
b. New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1924.
(includes photos from the Douglas Fairbanks film)
c: Norfolk, VA: The Donning Co., Starblaze Classics,
1987 (ltd. h/c & lg trade p/b)
(Illustrated by P. Craig Russell)
d: London: Darf, 1987.

A Wild Goose of Limerick.
a. New York: Brentano's, 1926.

The Year of the Wood-Dragon.
(Illustrated by Frank Dobias)
a. New York: Brentano's, 1926

Steel and Jade.
a. New York: George H. Doran & Co., 1927.

Ruth's Rebellion.
a. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1927.

Broadway Interlude (with Faith Baldwin).
a. New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1929.

They Were So Young.
a. New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1929.

Broadway Sensation (with Faith Baldwin)
a. New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1930.
b. London: (?)
c. Berlin: Paul Zaolnay Verlag, 1930.
(trans by Richard Hoffmann)

Black Tents.
a. New York: H. Liveright, 1930.

The Bungalow On the Roof.
a. New York: The Mystery League, 1931.

The Veiled Woman, a Novel of West and East.
a. New York: Horace Liveright Inc., 1931.

Girl On the Make (with Faith Baldwin).
a. New York: Ray Long & Richard Smith, 1932.

A Romantic Young Man.
a. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932.

Love Comes to Sally.
a.
b. A. L. Burt Co., Publishers, 1933.

Never Without You.
a. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.
b. London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., 1934.
c. New York: Caxton House, Inc., 1939.

The Flower of the Gods
(with Anthony Abbott, pseud. of [Charles] Fulton Oursler.)
a. New York: Green Circle Books, 1936.
b. New York: Lee Furman, 1936.

Deliver Us from Evil.
a. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939

Shadow of the Master (with Anthony Abbott, pseud. Of [Charles] Fulton Oursler.)
a. New York: Green Circle Books, 1941.

Collections:

The Honorable Gentleman and Others.
a. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919.
7 stories set in China: The Honourable Gentleman; The Hatchetman; A Pell Street Spring Song; Cobbler's Wax; A Simple Act of Piety; Himself, to Himself Enough.

Wings: Tales of the Psychic.
a. New York: James A. McCann Co., 1920.

Alien Souls
a. New York: James A. McCann Co., 1922.

The Swinging Caravan.
a. New York: Brentano's, 1925
b. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
c. Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, 1929, "Au Branle des Caravannes," trans. by Louis Postif; preface by Paul Dottin. 9 stories: A Gesture of No Importance; The Gates of Tamerlane; Decadence; Bred in the Clay; Most Just Among Moslims; The Rest is Silence; Victory; Romance; Dutiful Grief.

Anthologies edited:

Stories for Men, An Anthology.
a. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1925.

Lute and Scimitar
a. New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928
[Translations of poetry from Mid-East countries]

Mysteries of Asia.
a. London: Philip Allan, 1935.
(15 stories of horror in Oriental settings)

Fifty Enthralling Stories of the Middle East (1937)

Non fiction:

The Cat Had Nine Lives - Adventures And Reminiscences.
a. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933
b. London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd., 1934, as "My Nine Lives."

For Men Only (with John Kenny). [A Cook Book]
a. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935? 1937?

Dreamers of Empire (with T. Compton Pakenham).
a. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1929.
b. London: George G. Harrap, 1930
c. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
[Brief accounts of the exploits of famous colonial explorers, including Cecil Rhodes, Richard Burton, John Nicholson, Henry Lawrence, Charles "Chinese" Gordon.]

Other:

Chanson Couleur Puce [poems]
Paris: 1900

A Grammar of Little-Known Bantu Dialects.
Paris: 1902

The Ten-Foot Chain, or Can Love Survive the Shackles?
A Unique Symposium.
a. New York: Reynolds Publishing Co., 1920.
(Frontispiece and illus. by Herbert Morton Stoops)
b. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970.
(Specially written stories focusing on the same theme: a man and a woman/wife are handcuffed together by a length of chain.) "An Indian Jataka," by Achmed Abdulla "Out of the Dark," by Max Brand "Plum Nauseated," by E(ldred) K(urtz) Means "Princess or Percheron," by P(erly) P(oore) Sheehan

Stories of Men; 13 Robust Tales by America's Most Virile Writers. Edited by Charles Grayson.
a. New York: Permabook, 1949
(contains story by Abdullah)

Plays:

La Carotte (Paris, 1901)
Roulette (Berlin, 1913)
Bucking the Tiger (U.S, 1919)
Toto (U.S., 1920)
The Grand Duke (U.S., 1921)
Salvage (U.S., nd, produced by David Belascco)
Broadway Interlude, 1934. (Co-written with William Almon Wolff; based on the Abdullah-Baldwin novel.)

Screenplays:

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
(starring Douglas Fairbanks)
The Hatchetman
British Agent
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
(starring Gary Cooper)

(note: supposedly wrote 3 more screenplays)
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To check:

1. in his autobio, Abdullah mentions he published a book of verse in 1900 (in Paris). Title: "Chansons Couleur Puce." Self-published? Stated he sent a copy of book and a bouquet of roses to a French cabaret/theater entertainer he admired from afar.

Copyright 2003 by Peter Ruber, Victor A. Berch, Richard Bleiler and Larry Estep

LINKS:
Many thanks to John Locke for the photo scans that accompany this bibliography. The first scan, located near the top of the biographical essay, first appeared in the Writer's Year Book for 1938. The photo located here, at the left, first appeared in the Writer's Year Book for 1937.

Larry Estep's PulpGen site has at least two stories by Achmed Abdullah that you can download and read. Click here or visit http://pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/list_by_author.php

The Books and Writers site has some biographical info about Achmed Abdullah. Click here to read it.

The Thief of Bagdad is available as an eBook from Amazon.com. Click here.

There may also be some used copies of the printed editions available. Click here for availabililty.

The films based on Achmed Abdullah's novel, The Thief of Bagdad, are available from Amazon.com in various formats (VHS and DVD). Check any of these links for the various versions and formats that may interest you.

1961 version starring he-man Steve Reeves and directed by Arthur Lubin, VHS: click here.

1978 version directed by Clive Donner, VHS: click here.

1940 version starring Sabu, DVD: click here.

The 1935 film of Lives of a Bengal Lancer, from Abdullah's screenplay, starring Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone, and based on the novel by Francis Yeats-Brown, is available from Amazon.com. For the VHS format, click here.

The novel The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, by Francis Yeats-Brown, is available from Amazon.com. Click here.

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