CONTENTS:The Armchair Detective [v16 #3, Summer 1983] ed. Otto Penzler (The Mysterious Press, $5.00, 112pp+, quarto, cover painting of Father Brown by Frank G. Jefferies, dated 1924)226 · The Uneasy Chair · Michael Seidman · ed227 · In Memoriam · Dennis Lynds (aka Michael Collins) · ob [Ref. Kenneth Millar, aka Ross Macdonald]228 · Eye To Eye: A Survey Of The Private Eye Writers Of America · Michael T. Nietzal & Robert Baker · ar235 · Interview With Elmore Leonard · Joel M. Lyczak · iv [Ref. Elmore Leonard]241 · The Changing Face Of Evil In The Hard-Boiled Novel · Frederick Isaac · ar248 · Collecting Mystery Fiction · Otto Penzler · bi251 · G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown: A Bibliography · William White · bi257 · The Oriental In Mystery Fiction: Martial Arts [Part 4 of?] · Greg Goode · ar262 · TAD At The Movies · Thomas Godfrey · cl263 · TAD On TV · Richard Meyers · cl265 · The Radio Murder Hour · Chris Steinbrunner · cl266 · From The Dawn Of Television: Front Page Detective · Francis M. Nevins, Jr. · ar269 · The Unique Mystery Magazine: Hugo Gernsback’s Scientific Detective Monthly [Part 7 of ?] · Robert A. W. Lowndes · ar [Ref. Hugo Gernsback]275 · Let's Call It "Gun In Girdle" · Dean M. Dorn & C. E. "Teet" Carle · ar (Article by the author duo who wrote under the pseudonym "Michael Morgan", focusing on their 1953 novel "Decoy" (Ace Books D-09), which Bill Pronzini has called "the worst mystery of all time.") 278 · Rex Stout Newsletter · John McAleer · cl [Ref. Rex Stout]280 · Classic Corner: Rare Tales From The Archive: In The Fog · Richard Harding Davis · na R.H. Russell, 1901292 · Dorothy L. Sayers Newsletter · [uncredited] · cl [Ref. Dorothy L. Sayers]293 · Characternyms In Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Novels · James L. Traylor · ar [Ref. Mickey Spillane]296 · Paper Crimes · Raymond Obstfeld · cl298 · Current Reviews · [Various] · rc302 · The Paperback Revolution · Charles Shibuk · cl303 · Retrospective Reviews · [Various] · br304 · Minor Offenses · Edward D. Hoch · cl305 · Little Known Author Previews "World Of Tomorrow" · Rafael Tilton · ar [Ref. Phoebe Atwood Taylor]309 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc310 · The Oddly Colored Thread: Logic In Detective Fiction · Louis Phillips · ar314 · A Catalogue Of Crime · Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor · bi315 · A Nero Wolfe Quiz · Dave Lewis, Bruce Taylor, & others · qz [Ref. Rex Stout]316 · Crime Hunt: Real Life Cases: The Leyra Case · T. M. McDade · cl322 · Answers To A Nero Wolfe Quiz · Dave Lewis, Bruce Taylor, & others · qz [Ref. Rex Stout]323 · The First Five Capers Of Ross H. Spencer · Earl F. Bargainnier · ar [Ref. Ross H. Spencer]330 · Children Of Darkness: A Newgate Prison Tragicomedy · Albert Borowitz · ar [Ref. Edwin Justus Mayer]333 · Checklist · M. S. Cappadonna · bi323 · Two Poems · Mel D. Ames · pm335 · Mystery Marketplace · adsThe Armchair Detective was a quarterly fanzine on mystery & detective fiction featuring articles, commentary, checklists, interviews with authors, bibliographical material, book reviews, etc., which was started by the legendary crime fan and bibliographer Allen J. Hubin. 119 issues were published over a thirty-year period from 1967 to 1997.It began publication in 1967 as a crudely printed, stapled fanzine. In 1978, it morphed into a professionally printed semi-prozine which could be found in the magazine sections of large chain bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders.In addition to the goldmine of nonfiction articles on the genre (by Bill Pronzini, Jon L. Breen, Jacques Barzun, E. F. Bleiler, Robert E. Briney, Allen J. Hubin, Francis M. Nevins, Jr., Edward D. Hoch, and many more), The Armchair Detective published a single piece of classic reprint fiction in each issue from October 1978 to Winter 1986 and original fiction from Winter 1990 to Fall 1994 (by the likes of Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Bloch, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Charles McCarry, Jerome Charyn, Joe Gores, Jonathan Valin, Dick Lochte, Jonathan Kellerman, George Baxt, Michael Z. Lewin, and others).