Compiled by Peter Ruber and Victor A. Berch
Draft 4.0 / 11-1-03
William J. Makin
1894 - 1944
ARGOSY (UK)
Tombacco (ss) - Dec 1937
BLUE BOOK
Series character Legends: WA: Wolf of Arabia
JL: Jonathan Lowe
IH: Isaac Heron
CD: Captain Dario
The Woman of Antioch [WA] (ss) - Nov 1932
The Desert of Singing Sands [WA] (ss) - Dec 1932
The Dhow that Sailed to Nowhere [WA] (ss) - Jan 1933
Miracle of the Desert [WA] (nt) - Feb 1933
The Secret of Zogra Island [WA] (ss) - Mar 1933
Three Dead Camels [WA] (nt) - Apr 1933
Thirteen Men [WA] (ss) - May 1933
It Happened in Port Said [WA] (ss) - Jun 1933
Man Killer [JL] (ss) - Jul 1933
The Rhino Charges [JL] (ss) - Aug 1933
The Tiger Woman [JL] (ss) - Sep 1933
The Jerusalem Express [WA] (ss) - Dec 1933
The Gold Ship [WA] (ss) - Feb 1934
The Garden of T.N.T. [WA] (ss) - Mar 1934
The Drums of Omduran [WA] (ss) - Apr 1934
A Brother of the Leopard (ss) - May 1934
The Elephant Man [JL] (ss) - Jul 1934
Red Sea Pearls [WA] (ss) - Aug 1934
Death in the Desert [WA] (ss) - Sep 1934
The Merchant of Mocha [WA] (ss) - Nov 1934
The Planes that Never Returned [WA] (ss) - Mar 1935
The Queen of Sheba [WA] (ss) - Jun 1935
Who Killed Cock Robin? [IH] (ss) - Aug 1935
The Gorge of Terror [WA] (ss) - Sep 1935
Gypsy Blood [IH] (ss) - Sep 1935
The Windmill Mystery [IH] (ss) - Oct 1935
The Painted Grin [IH] (ss) - Nov 1935
The Lion of Judah [WA] (ss) - Dec 1935
The Death Barge [IH] (ss) - Dec 1936
The Corpse in the Stocks [IH] (ss) - Jan 1936
The Card of Death [IH] (ss) - Feb 1936
The Houseboat of Vanished Men [IH] (ss) - Mar 1936
Drums Over Ethiopia (nf) - Mar 1936
The Mines of Sheba's Queen [WA] (nt) - Apr 1936
The Tattooed Man [IH] (ss) - May 1936
Murder on the Merry-go-Round [IH] (ss) - Jun 1936
The Leopard Woman (nf) - Jun 1936
Duelists in the Dark [IH] (ss) - Jul 1936
Brown Napoleon (nf) - Jul 1936
The Return of Red Wolf [WA] (ss) - Aug 1937
Lady of Spain [CD] (ss) - Sep 1937
The Assassins of Angora [WA] (ss) - Oct 1937
The Blue Oasis [WA] (ss) - Nov 1937
Pianos for Shanghai (ss) - Dec 1937
The Murder Club of Bagdad [WA] (ss) - Jan 1938
The Treasure of Abdul the Damned [WA] (ss) - Apr 1938
The Doge of Istanbul [WA] (ss) - May 1938
Shanghai Explosive (ss) - Dec 1938
The Elusive General [ ?] (ss) - Dec 1939
London Blackout [WA] (ss) - Mar 1940
Orient Express [WA] (ss) - Apr 1940
Desert Nurse (ss) - Aug 1943
Red Darkness (ss) - May 1944
Nightingale at Port Said (ss) - Jun 1944
Flight from Teheran (ss) - Aug 1944
The Man Who Lost a Battle (nv) - Oct 1944
The Thirteenth Man [WA] (nt) - Nov 1944
THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
(Series character legends same as "Blue Book" - but adds [FB] The Four Brains)
The Woman of Antioch [WA] (ss) - Jan 14, 1934
The Desert of Singing Sands [WA] (ss) - Jan 28, 1934
Miracle of the Desert [WA] (ss) - Feb 11, 1934
The Dhow That Sailed to Nowhere [WA] (ss) - Feb 25, 1934
Three Dead Camels [WA] (ss) - Mar 11, 1934
The Secret of Zogra Island [WA] (ss) - Apr 1, 1934
Thirteen Men [WA] (ss) - Apr 8, 1934
It Happened in Port Said [WA] (ss) - May 20, 1934
Death in the Desert [WA] (ss) - Mar 10, 1935
The Elephant Man [JL] (ss) - Mar 31, 1935
The Drums of Omduran [WA] (ss) - Apr 7, 1935
Red Sea Pearls [WA] (ss) - Apr 28, 1935
The Four Brains [FB] (ss) - Feb 9, 1936
The Charabanes of Crooks [FB] (ss) - Feb 16, 1936
Pearls Before Swine [FB] (ss) - Feb 23, 1936
X. X. Exmoor [FB] (ss) - Mar 8, 1936
Mail Bag Murder [FB] (ss) - Mar 22, 1936
Robbery By Telephone [FB] (ss) - Apr 12, 1936
The Red Girl [FB] (ss) - Apr 19, 1936
The Motor Hearse [FB] (ss) - May 3, 1936
Q Cars [FB] (ss) - May 24, 1936
The Paris Plane Arrives [FB] (ss) - Jun 7, 1936
Night of Sniowdon [FB] (ss) - Jun 14, 1936
Hold-Up! [WA] (ss) - Jul 12, 1936
Cigarettes After Eight [FB] (ss) - Aug 2, 1936
The Informer [FB] (ss) - Aug 16, 1936
Fifteen Black Pearls [FB] (ss) - Aug 23, 1936
The Planes That Never Returned [WA] (ss) - Oct 18, 1936
Man Killer [JL] (ss) - Nov 29, 1936
The Rhino Charges [JL] (ss) - Dec 27, 1936
The Merchant of Mocha [WA] (ss) - Jan 17, 1937
The Queen of Sheba [WA] (ss) - Feb 21, 1937
The Tiger Woman [JL] (ss) - Apr 11, 1937
Who Killed Cock Robin? [IH] (ss) - Jun 13, 1937
Gypsy Blood [IH] (ss) - Jun 27, 1937
The Card of Death [IH] (ss) - Sep 12, 1937
The Gorge of Terror [WA] (ss) - Sep 19, 1937
The Lion of Judah [WA] (ss) - Sep 26, 1937
The Mines of Sheba's Cave [WA] (ss) - Oct 24, 1937
The Houseboat of Vanishing Men [IH] (ss) - Oct 31, 1937
The Corpse in the Stocks [IH] (ss) - Nov 14, 1937
The Windmill Mystery [IH] (ss) - Dec 12, 1937
The Tattooed Man [IH] (ss) - Mar 20, 1938
Grin [IH] (ss) - Apr 10, 1938
Murder on the Merry-Go-Round [IH] (ss) - May 1, 1938
The Blue Oasis [WA] (ss) - Aug 21, 1938
The Treasure of Abdul the Damned [WA] (ss) - Sep 11, 1938
Pianos for Shanghai (ss) - Oct 30, 1938
The Murder Club of Bagdad [WA] (ss) - Apr 16, 1939
The Assassins of Angora [WA] (ss) - Jun 25, 1939
Caribbean Spy (ss) - Dec 31, 1939
Queer Mr. Quell (S-10)
- Sep 29, 1940
- Oct 6, 1940
- Oct 13, 1940
- Oct 20, 1940
- Oct 27, 1940
- Nov 3, 1940
- Nov 10, 1940
- Nov 17, 1940
- Nov 24, 1940
- Dec 1, 1940
The Elusive General [WA] (ss) - Dec 29, 1940
Bethlehem--1939 [WA] (ss) - Jan 26, 1941
Orient Express [WA] (ss) - Apr 6, 1941
BRITANNIA AND EVE
Sham Shiek (ss) - Aug 1932
Among the Hashish Smugglers (ar)
[Part 1] - Jul 1933
[Part 2] - Oct 1933
The Riders of the Desert (ar) - Dec 1933
The L100 Manadarin (ss) - Jul 1934
Evidence in Camera (ss) - Sep 1934
COLLIER'S
Noble Fool (ss) - May 15, 1943
DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY
The Doctor's Secret (ss) - Jul 30, 1938
MAGAZINE OF HORROR
The Black Laugh (ss) - Apr 1965
MEN ONLY (UK)
Our Lonely King (ar) - Jun 1936
THE NOVEL MAGAZINE
Heads I Die, Tails... (ss) - May 1937
Mrs. Crimson Goes to Bed (ss) - Oct 1937
PEARSON'S WEEKLY (UK)
Whose Wife? (ss) - Sep 14, 1929
Mrs. Murder (S-7)
- Jul 4, 1931
- Jul 11, 1931
- Jul 18, 1931
- Jul 25, 1931
- Aug 1, 1931
- Aug 8, 1931
- Aug 15, 1931
Exploits of Jonathan Jow (JJ):
1. The Lion Man [JJ] (ss) - Oct 22, 1932
2. Ten Minutes Among Tigers [JJ] (ss) - Oct 29, 1932
3. Elephants in the Ring [JJ] (ss) - Nov 19, 1932
4. The Charge of the Rhino [JJ] (ss) - Nov 26, 1932
5. The Man Who Hated Dogs [JJ] (ss) - Dec 3, 1932
6. The Murder Game [JJ] (ss) - Dec 10, 1932
7. The Parrot Speaks [JJ] (ss) - Dec 17, 1932
8. Death in the Aquarium [JJ] (ss) - Dec 24, 1932
Wolf Face [JJ] (ss) - Feb 4, 1933
Bull-Fighter in Evening Dress JJ] (ss) - Feb 18, 2933
Pearls with Peche Melba (ss) - Sep 9, 1933
Do These Monsters on the Lost World Exist To-Day? (ar) - Sep 23, 1933
Drum Haunted (ss) - Dec 9, 1933
The Monster of the Loch [JJ] (S-7) [with Leslie Arliss]
- Jan 20, 1934
- Jan 27, 1934
- Feb 3, 1934
- Feb 10, 1934
- Feb 17, 1934
- Feb 24, 1934
- Mar 3, 1934
Red-Haired Girl Who Inflamed Bohemia (ss) - Mar 10, 1934
The Blue Lizard (ss) - Jun 9, 1934
Murder Hunt (ss) - Jul 21, 1934
What Happened to the Loch Ness Monster?(ar) - Jul 21, 1934
Supper at Midnight (ss) - Sep 1, 1934
The Wall (ss) - Oct 20, 1934
Four Guests [WA] (S-3)
- Jan 26, 1935
- Feb 2, 1935
- Feb 9, 1935
The Elephant Killer (ss) - May 18, 1935
News Reel (ss) - May 25, 1935
Evidence in Camera (ss) - Aug 10, 1935
Cabbages--and Ballet Girls! (ss) - Aug 24, 1935
Gold Digger (ss) - Oct 19, 1935
The Anatomy Lesson (ss) - Jan 11, 1936
Overcoat Sam (ss) - Mar 14, 1936
One Admiralty (S-2)
- Apr 11, 1936
- Apr 18, 1936
He Who Walks with Penguins (ss) - Jun 20, 1936
Farewell Leicester Square (ss) - Jul 11, 1936
The Song of the Bat (ss) - Jan 9, 1937
Brigade of Spies (nf):
1. Portrait of a Spy (?) - Feb 20, 1937
2. The International Spy - Feb 27, 1937
3. The Lone Adventure - Mar 6, 1937
4. The Murder Clubs - Mar 13, 1937
5. Guarding the Dictators - Mar 20, 1937
6. The Spies of Science - Mar 27, 1937
Shanghai Funeral (ss) - Oct 23, 1937
Too Good for the Girl (ss) - Jan 28, 1938
THE POPULAR (UK)
Black Gert (ss) - May 7, 1927
POPULAR FICTION MAGAZINE
Murder in the Desert (ss) - Mar 1932
READER'S DIGEST
Short-wave Warfare (ar) - May 1938
THE STORYTELLER (UK)
Park of a Thousand Lions (ar) - Dec 1936
THE STRAND MAGAZINE
Grand Hotel of the Middle East (ar) - Aug 1944
STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR
The Black Laugh (ss) - Jan 1932
THE THRILLER
The Surgeon's Secret (na) - Jan 12, 1935
TRAVEL
Zulu's Dance at Eshowe (ar) - Dec 1931
Seeking the White Gold of Africa (ar) - Feb 1933
Pilgrimage to Mecca (ar) - Oct 1933
On the Trail of the Gun-runners (ar) - Nov 1933
Heroes of Solitude (ar) - Nov 1934
WEIRD TALES
The Anatomy Lesson (ss) - Mar 1937
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Books:
1. The Price of Exile (n)
a. London: Unwin, 1922
2. Two Moons (n)
a. London: Unwin, 1925
3. Syncopated Love (n)
a. London: Jerrolds, 1929
4. Across the Kalahari Desert (nf)
a. London: Arrowsmith 1929
(CONTENTS....?)
5. Murder at Covent Garden (n)
a. London: Jerrolds, 1930
as --
The Covent Garden Murder
b. London: Newnes, 1938
c. London; Dublin: Mellifont Press, 1944
6. South of Suez (nf)
a. London: Jarrolds, 1931
b. New York: Alfred H. King, n.d. [1932?]
(CONTENTS...?)
7. Red Sea Nights (nf)
a. London: Jarrolds, 1932
b. New York: Robert McBride, 1933
c. New York: National Travel Club, 1933
d. London: George Newnes, 1937 (abridged)
(CONTENTS...?)
8. The Adventures of Red Head of the Red Sea (ss)
a. London: Jarrolds, 1933
reissued as -
Red Head of the Red Sea
b. London: Newnes, 1937
[Collection of Paul Rodgers (Red Wolf of Arabia) stories from BLUE BOOK. Some titles changed]
A King Goes By ("The Woman of Antioch")
The Man Who Sold Beds
The Black Mantles ("Miracle of the Desert")
The Dhow That Sailed to Nowhere
The Woman With the Celluloid Doll
The Three-Four Flash ("The Secret of Zoga Island")
The Three Dead Camels
9. The Four Brains (ss)
a. London: Eldon Press, 1934 (CONTENTS.....?)
10. African Parade (nf)
a. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1934
b. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1936 (CONTENTS....?)
11. Gipsy in Evening Dress --The Strange Adventures of Isaac Heron, Detective (ss)
a. London: Eldon Press, 1935 (CONTENTS.......?)
12. Red Mask (n)
a. London: John Hamilton, 1935
13. War Over Ethiopia (nf)
a. London: Jarrolds, 1935 (CONTENTS.....?)
14. Greta Garbo (bio)
a. London: C. A. Pearson, 1935
15. Norma Shearer (bio)
a. C. A. Pearson, 1935
16. Swinging the Equator (nf)
a. London: Jarrolds, 1935
b. New York, E. P. Dutton Co., 1936 (CONTENTS.....?)
17. News Chronicle: Story of Twenty-Five Years (nf)
a. London: Pearson, 1935
b. London: George Newnes, 1935
18. The Life of King George the Fifth (bio)
a. London: George Newnes, 1936
19. Red Sea Spy (ss)
a. London: Jarrolds, 1936
[Red Wolf of Arabia collection with title changes]
Jerusalem Express
The Tulip Garden
The Gold Ship
"Two Heads Are Better..."
The Four Guests
Lost Dhows
Parasol in the Desert
The Coffee Merchant of Mokha
Wings Over Aden
A Queen of Sheba
The Salve Trail
A Slave is Bought
The Treasure of Sheba ("The Mines of Sheba's Queen"?)
20. The Exploits of Jonathan Jow (ss)
a. London: Pearson's, 1936
(Published in BLUE BOOK as the Jonathan Lowe stories )
(CONTENTS.......?)
21. Murder at Full Moon (n)
a. London: Eldon Press, 1937
22. Brigade of Spies (nf)
a. London: Robert Hale, 1937
b. New York: E. P. Dutton Co., 1938 (CONTENTS....?)
23. Queer Mr. Quell (n)
a. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937
b. New York: Robert McBride, 1938
24. Smugglers of Today (nf)
a. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937 (CONTENTS....?)
25. Caribbean Nights (nf)
a. London: Robert Hake, 1939 (CONTENTS....?)
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Copyright 2003 by Peter Ruber and Victor A. Berch
LINKS:
You'll find three articles from the pages of Blue Book about Makin elsewhere on The Pulp Rack. Click here to read a brief bio, "William J. Makin," from the November 1937 issue; click here to read "William J. Makin: A Memoir" from the November 1944 issue; and click here to read "A Few Hundred Yards Farther," also from the November 1944 issue.
Posted by ds at May 13, 2004 12:56 PM
