A Treasury of Stories (Collection of novelettes and short stories)

Woolrich died leaving fragments of an unfinished novel, The Loser; fragments have been published separately and also collected in Tonight, Somewhere in New York (2005).

Short Fiction[1]

1920s

“Honey Child” (College Humor, September 1926)

“Dance It Off!” (McClure’s, October 1926)

“Bread and Orchids” (College Humor, January 1927)

“Children of the Ritz” (College Humor, August-November 1927)

“The Gate Crasher” (McClure’s, August 1927)

“The Drugstore Cowboy” (McClure’s, October 1927)

“Mother and Daughter” (College Humor, August 1928)

“The Good Die Young” (College Life, October 1928)

“Hollywood Bound” (Live Girl Stories, November 1928-February 1929)

“Bluebeard’s Thirteenth Wife” (College Humor, February-March 1929)

1930

“Gay Music” (College Humor, January 1930)

“Soda-Fountain Saga” (Liberty, 11 October 1930)

“Cinderella Magic” (Illustrated Love, November 1930)

1931

“The Girl in the Moon” (College Humor, August 1931)

1933

“Orchids and Overalls” (Illustrated Love, March 1932)

“Women Are Funny” (Illustrated Love, October 1932)

1934

“Between the Acts” (Serenade, March 1934)

“Insult” (Serenade, March 1934)

“The Next Is On Me” (College Life, May-July 1934)

“Death Sits in the Dentist’s Chair” (Detective Fiction Weekly,

 4 August 1934)

“The Very First Breakfast” (Serenade, June 1934)

“Walls That Hear You” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 18 August 1934)

“Preview of Death” (Dime Detective, 15 November 1934)

1935

“Murder in Wax” (Dime Detective, 1 March 1935)

“The Body Upstairs” (Dime Detective, 1 April 1935)

“Spanish-And What Eyes!” (Breezy Stories, April 1935)

“Kiss of the Cobra” (Dime Detective, 1 May 1935)

“Don’t Fool Me!” (Breezy Stories, June 1935)

“Dark Melody of Madness” (Dime Mystery, July 1935)

“Red Liberty” (Dime Detective, 1 July 1935)

“Clip-Joint” (Breezy Stories, August 1935)

“The Corpse and the Kid” (Dime Detective, September 1935)

“No Kick Coming” (Breezy Stories, October 1935)

“Flower in His Buttonhole” (Breezy Stories, November 1935)

“Annabelle Gets Across” (Breezy Stories, December 1935)

“Dead On Her Feet” (Dime Detective, December 1935)

“The Death of Me” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 7 December 1935)

“The Showboat Murders” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 14 December 1935)

“Hot Water” (Argosy, 28 December 1935)

1936

“Baal’s Daughter” (Thrilling Mystery, January 1936)

“Cigarette” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 11 January 1936)

“Change of Murder” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 25 January 1936)

“Crime on St. Catherine Street” (Argosy, 25 January 1936)

“Pick Up the Pieces” (Breezy Stories, March 1936)

“Blood In Your Eye” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 21 March 1936)

“The Clock at the Astor” (Breezy Stories, April 1936)

“The Living Lie Down with the Dead” (Dime Detective, April 1936)

“The Night Reveals” (Story, April 1936)

“The Mystery of the Blue Spot” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 4 April 1936)

“Johnny On the Spot” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 2 May 1936)

“Double Feature” (Detective Fiction Weekly

, 16 May 1936)

“Nine Lives” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 20 June 1936)

“His Name Was Jack” (Breezy Stories, July 1936)

“The Dilemma of the Dead Lady” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 4 July 1936)

“Evil Eye” (Ace-High Detective, November 1936)

“Underworld Trail” (Argosy, 16 May 1936)

“One and a Half Murders” (Black Book Detective Magazine, July 1936)

“The Night I Died” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 8 August 1936)

“Murder on My Mind” () (Detective Fiction Weekly, 15 August 1936)

“Bluebeard’s Seventh Wife” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 22 August 1936)

“You Pays Your Nickel” (Argosy, 22 August 1936)

“Gun for a Gringo” (Argosy, 5 September 1936)

“Murder In the Middle of New York” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 26 September 1936)

“Death In the Air” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 10 October 1936)

“Public Toothache Number One” (Argosy, 7 November 1936)

“Afternoon of a Phony” (Detective Fiction Weekly, 14 November 1936)

“Holocaust” (Argosy, 12 December 1936)