Joseph Thompson Shaw
 (8 May 1874 - 1 August 1952)
Gorham (Maine) - New York City

Bibliography

Last modified: 18.08.2008

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Series characters:
Cass Manning [
cop of the homicide squad] 10* stories (September 1938) written by Mark Harper [a house name or Joseph T. Shaw-?]

Novels:

Derelict (New York: Knopf, 1930);
(republished as serialization of novel : February - May 1931, Black Mask)

[--Murder, romance and disaster on deserted ocean liner]

Danger Ahead (New York: Mohawk, 1932)

Blood on the Curb (New York: Dodge, 1936)

It Happened at the Lake (New York: Dodd & Mead, 1937)

Stories & Novellas:

Makings (December 1926, Black Mask)

[western]

Fugitive (August-November 1932, Black Mask)

[adventure serial set in the Far East (Rangoon, Burma)]

Death Rides Double. (October 1939, Black Mask) as Mark Harper [Joseph T. Shaw]

[detective story about a motorcycle cop] (* Cass Manning*?)

other publications of Mark Harper [a house name ?]:

Monkey Man (September 1938, Crime Busters, vol. 2, # 5) Cass Manning-1

Frame for a Fall Guy (December 1938, Dime Detective)

The Spot Marked X (January 1939, Crime Busters, vol. 3, #3) Cass Manning-2

Murder Tails a Hundred Grand (August 1939, Crime Busters, vol. 4, #4) Cass Manning-3

Two in the Dark (October 1939, Crime Busters, vol. 4, #6) Cass Manning-4

Knives in the Night (November 1939, Mystery Magazine, vol. 5, #1 [Street & Smith’s "Mystery Magazine" - new title for "Crime Busters" magazine])

There Were Seven (November 1939, Clues)

Murder from Nowhere [Disembodied Murder] (January 1940, Mystery Magazine, vol. 5, #3) Cass Manning-5

The Rolling Heads [A Head for Murder] (March 1940, Mystery Magazine, vol. 5, #5) by Mark Harper [Joseph T. Shaw]; (also in "Detective Story Annual 1941" [ed. Street and Smith, 160pp.])

Murder Sometimes Happens (April 1940, Mystery Magazine, vol. 5, #6) Cass Manning-6

Murder Breeder (June 1940, Clues)

Wanted for Murder (June 1940, Mystery Magazine, vol. 6, #2) Cass Manning-7

Killer Loose (June 1940, Mystery Magazine, vol. 6, #2) by Grant Lane [Joseph T. Shaw]

Murder Goes Screwy (September 1940, Mystery Magazine, vol. 6, #4) Cass Manning-8

The Mystery of the One-Eyed Man (September 1940, Clues)

Blood Is Where You Find It (November 1940, Detective Short Stories)

The Terror of Martin's Glade (January 1941, Mystery Magazine, vol. 6, #6)

Murder Are Stupid (May 1941, Mystery Magazine, vol. 7, #2) Cass Manning-9

Get Paul Dwyer! (September 1941, Mystery Magazine, vol. 7, #4)

Murder on the Spot (November 1941, Mystery Magazine, vol. 7, #5) Cass Manning-10

The Chain of Death (March 1942, Clues)

Six Heads on a String (March 1942, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #1)

Murder for a Million [Five Grand or a Million] (March 1942, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #1) as Gary Barton [Joseph T. Shaw]

*!* Will of the Devil Gods (May 1942, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #2) by Gary Barton [Schuyler G. Edsall, Jr.] -!*

A Dead Hand Will Strike You (May 1942, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #2) by Mark Harper

Return of the Fugitive (May 1942, Clues) 

Fall Guy for Murder [A Sap for Murder] (July 1942, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #3)

Murder Squeeze (July 1942, Clues) 

*!* The Smiling Magi (September 1942, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #4) by Gary Barton [Schuyler G. Edsall, Jr.] -!*

The Norwegian Diamond [Death and Thunder] (September 1942, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #4) by Mark Harper

“I Killed a Man” (November 1942, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #5) by Mark Harper [Joseph T. Shaw]; (also in Detective Story Magazine (UK) February 1943 [vol. 165, #2])

A Skinful of Lead (January 1943, Mystery Magazine, vol. 8, #6) by Mark Harper [Joseph T. Shaw]

Murder for a Price (January 1943, Clues) 

Dan Rafferty’s Kill (May 1943, Clues)

The Death Statue [Murder as You Like It] (May 1943, Mystery Magazine, vol. 9, #2) by Mark Harper [Joseph T. Shaw]

[*A number of stories bylined "Mark Harper" are also credited to Joseph T. Shaw, who ceased to edit "Black Mask" in 1936, as is a story bylined "Gary Barton" (March 1942, Mystery Magazine) and one bylined "Grant Lane" (June 1940, Mystery Magazine). The records indicated that Shaw was acting as agent for Mark Harper, who is presumed to be a real author. It is not clear if Gary Barton is an actual person, as some stories so bylined are by a "Schuyler G. Edsall, Jr." in reality. Grant Lane is a pen name for Steve Fisher, but Street & Smith occasionally used it as as a house name as well. Schuyler G. Edsall, Jr. was a sub-editor at Street & Smith and a cousin to William G. Bogart, who had occupied that same position. According to Walter Gibson, he and John Nanovic both suspected that Shaw was writing those stories for which he claimed to be acting as agent, but were unable to prove it. (from the article "Street & Smith's Crime Busters" by Will Murray) ]

Anthologies:

The Hard-Boiled Omnibus: Early Stories from Black Mask, edited by Joseph T. Shaw (Simon & Schuster, 468pp., 21 October 1946)
[*Released as a paperback many years later, the missing stories (in Pocket Book version 1952) are by Des Ormeaux (Rosaire), Coxe and Booth.]

Contents:
Joseph T
. Shaw
,
Introduction
J.
J. Des Ormeaux (Forrest Rosaire) "The Devil Suit" [July 1932] sc: Jack McGuire-2

Reuben Jennings Shay
"Taking His Time" [January 1931]
Dashiell
Hammett "Fly Paper" [August 1929]
sc: The Continental Op-28
Ramon
Decolta (Raoul Whitfield) "Death in the Pasig" [March 1930]
sc: Jo Gar
Raymond
Chandler "The Man Who Liked Dogs" [March 1936]
sc: Carmady
Norbert
Davis "Red Goose" [February 1934]
sc: Ben Shaley-1
George Harmon
Coxe "Murder Mixup" [May 1936]
sc: Flashgun Casey
Paul
Cain (Peter Ruric) "Red 71" [December 1932]
Raoul
Whitfield "Inside Job" [February 1932]
Lester Dent "Sail"
[October 1936]
sc: Oscar Sail-1
Charles G.
Booth  "Sister Act" [February 1933]
Thomas
Walsh "Best Man" [October 1934]
Ed
Lybeck "Kick-Back" [January 1932] sc:
Francis St. Xavier Harrigan-2
Roger
Torrey  "Clean Sweep" [February 1934]
sc: Dal Prentice-7
Theodore
Tinsley  "South Wind" [November 1932]
sc:
Jerry Tracy-2

[*"Cap" Shaw would choose (personally) for this anthology:
D. Hammett "Fly Paper" or "Farewell Murder" (Feb' 1930, BM) sc: The Continental Op-29
and F. Nebel "Winter Kill" (Nov' 1935, BM)
sc: Captain MacBride & Kennedy
+ thinking about such stories:
"The Heavenly Rat" by E. S. Gardner  (Sept' 1934, BM)
sc: Ed Jenkins
"Those Catrini" by Norvell Page (Feb' 1933, BM)
sc: Jules Tremaine-1
"Give the Man Rope" by H. H. Stinson (Apr' 1933, BM)
sc: Ken O'Hara-1
"Joe's Woman" by Erika Zastrow (March 1927, BM).]

Spurs West! edited by Joseph T. Shaw (NY: PermaBooks, 1951)

Contents:
Frank Bonham. "Stagecoach West!"
A. B. Guthrie, Jr. "The Last Snake"
Thomas Thompson. "Son of a King"
Dee Linford. "Red Horse Hamber"
John M. Cunningham. "The Long Shot"
Ernest Haycox. "Deep Winter"
Bob Obets. "A Man for the Rio Flame"
Frank Bonham. "Dusty Wheels-Bloody Trail!"
Ray Nafziger. "The Man Who Cursed Texas"
Bennett Foster. "Partners' Quarrel"
Norman A. Fox. "Wild Leather".

[*Virile western-stories by Haycox, Guthrie, Bonham and others.]

Non-Fiction Books:

From Wool to Cloth (Providence, R.I.: Printed by Livermore & Knight, 1904) [pamphlet]
The Wool Trade of the United States: History of a Great Industry; Its Rise and Progress in Boston, Now the Second Market of the World (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909) [pamphlet]
Spain of To-day: A Narrative Guide to the Country of the Dons, with Suggestions for Travellers (New York: Grafton, 1909) [travel guide]
Out of the Rough (New York: Windward House, 1934) [golf instruction book]

[--Out of the Rough (1934) by Joseph T. Shaw. The story of a youngster who travels to Scotland. "An absolutely irresistible story about a young American who travels to Elie, in the Kingdom of Fife, to learn the game from a master and win the girl he loves".]

Articles:

Do You Want To Become a Writer Or Do You Want To Make Money? by Joseph T. Shaw (May 1934, WRITER'S Digest) on-line
Introduction, by Joseph T. Shaw (in "The Hard-Boiled Omnibus: Early Stories from Black Mask", edited by Joseph T. Shaw [ed. Simon & Schuster, October 1946])

 

"Cap" Shaw links:

the Joseph T. Shaw Papers, (1936-1952)

Black Mask on-line

© 2008, composed by Vladimir (составитель библиографии Владимир Матющенко).
 

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