Jonathan Press Mystery was an imprint of digest-sized paperback novels in pulp magazine format published first by Mercury Publications, Lawrence Spivak in 1942 and which ran until 1958. The series ran in parallel with other companion imprints, the Bestseller Mystery series and the Mercury Mystery series. The issues typically consisted of an abridged version of about 126 pages of popular mystery titles by authors such as Margery Allingham, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon and Rex Stout. The series ran from 1943 to 1956 with some 96 titles, including 4 by Agatha Christie.
As an American imprint, the books invariably used the American titles.
Agatha Christie titles in the Jonathan Press Mystery series[]
Note that the books themselves did not contain publication dates. The dates have been obtained from resources maintained by other researchers of this genre.[1]
| Year[2] | Issue No. | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | J7 | Murder for Christmas | |
| 1944 | J10 | Death in the Air | |
| 1944 | J13 | N or M? | |
| 1945 | J16 | Murder in Retrospect |
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ See in particular here: Digest Index. This source contains a donwloadable pdf of a publisher index. The entry for Jonathan Press Mystery explains the reasoning process for interpolating the dates based on evidence and may be considered reliable.
- ↑ Year of publication comes from this source: URL. The format of the table has an order of precision which suggests that the creator had access to some fairly reliable sources.
External links[]
- Kenneth Johnson's The Digest Index. Among other things, this resource has a comprehensive table of cover thumbnails here.