CONTENTS:The Armchair Detective [v15 #1, (Winter) 1982] ed. Otto Penzler (The Mysterious Press, $4.00, 96pp+, quarto, cover by "Ken" from the 1936 edition of Dick Donovan's Startling Crimes And Notorious Criminals)4 · The Quality Of Ingenuity: The Work Of J. J. Connington · David Beams18 · The Unique Mystery Magazine: Hugo Gernsback’s Scientific Detective Monthly: Part V · Robert A. W. Lowndes · ar [Hugo Gernsback]23 · P. I. Novels Of 1980 · Robert J. Randisi30 · Norbert Davis: Portrait Of A Pulp Writer · John L. Apostolou38 · Chester Himes And The Hard-Boiled Tradition · Jay R. Berry, Jr.46 · Classic Corner: Rare Tales From The Archives - Red Hand · Neil Munro · ss The Lost Pibroch And Other Sheiling Stories, Blackwood 1896 57 · Bouchercon XII alias Beer City Capers · Mary Ann Grochowski73 · Guilty Until Proven Innocent · Hannelore Hess80 · Ernest Bramah On Max Carrados: An Unpublished BBC Talk · With A Note By William White86 · Miss Allingham's Knight: The Saga Of Albert Campion · J. Randolph Cox92 · Lauran Bosworth Paine Interview · Allen J. HubinThe 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).