RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: Day Keene

Thanks to Michael David Sharp.

Books

* indicates a Johnny Aloha novel.

• This is Murder, Mr. Herbert, and Other Stories (Avon, 1948)
• Framed in Guilt (Mill, 1949)
• Evidence Most Blind (Hennel Locke, 1950) (reprint of Framed in Guilt)
• Farewell to Passion (Hanro, 1951)
• My Flesh Is Sweet (Lion, 1951)
• Love Me and Die (Phantom, 1951)
• To Kiss or Kill (Gold Medal 206, 1951)
• Hunt the Killer (Phantom, 1952) [#rpt. Avon 705, c.1956]
• About Doctor Ferrel (Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1952)
• Home Is the Sailor (Gold Medal 225, 1952)
• If the Coffin Fits (Graphic 43, 1952)
• Naked Fury (Phantom, 1952)
• Wake Up to Murder (Phantom, 1952)
• Mrs. Homicide (Ace, 1953)
• Strange Witness (Graphic, 1953)
• The Big Kiss-Off (Graphic 75, 1954)
• Death House Doll (Ace Double D-41, 1954)
• His Father's Wife (Pyramid, 1954)
• Homicidal Lady (Graphic, 1954)
• Joy House (Lion, 1954)
• Notorious (Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1954)
• Sleep with the Devil (Lion 204, 1954)
• The Dangling Carrot (Ace Double D-129, 1955)
• The Passion Murders (Avon, 1955) (reprint of Farewell to Passion)
• Who Has Wilma Lathrop? (Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1955)
• Bring Him Back Dead (Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1956)
• Forests of the Night (?, ?)
• Murder on the Side (Gold Medal 622, 1956)
• It's a Sin to Kill (Avon, 1958)
• Passage to Samoa (Gold Medal 823, 1958)
• Dead Dolls Don't Talk (Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1959)
• Dead in Bed* (Pyramid, 1959)
• Moran's Woman (Zenith, 1959)
• Miami 59 (Dell, 1959)
• So Dead My Lovely (Pyramid, 1959)
• Take a Step to Murder (Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1959)
• Too Black for Heaven (Zenith, 1959)
• Too Hot to Hold (Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1959)
• The Brimstone Bed (Avon, 1960)
• Chautauqua, (with Dwight Vincent) (Putnam, 1960)
• Payola* (Pyramid, 1960)
• World Without Women (with Leonard Pruyn) (Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1960)
• Seed of Doubt (Simon and Schuster, ?)
• Bye, Baby Bunting (Holt Rinehart, 1963)
• Carnival of Death (Macfadden-Bartell 239, 1965)
• Chicago 11 (Dell 1198, 1966)
• Guns Along the Brazos (Signet, 1967)
• Southern Daughter (Macfadden, 1967)
• Live Again, Love Again (New American Library, 1970)
• Wild Girl (Macfadden, 1970)

Short Fiction

First known publication listed. The stories listed as being in books could have been published earlier in magazines.

• "It Could Happen Here!" (Ace G-Man Stories, September 1940)
• "Wake Up, America!" (Ace G-Man Stories, January 1941)
• "Last of the Fighting Ainsleys" (Ace G-Man Stories, September 1941)
• "The Stars Say Die" (Detective Tales, November 1941)
• "The Corpse That Ran Away" (Dime Mystery, March 1942)
• "Murder Is My Sponsor" (Detective Tales, April 1942)
• "A Slight Mistake in Corpses" (Detective Tales, May 1942)
• "Til the Day You Die" (Ten Detective Aces, June 1942)
• "The Mystery of Tarpon Key" (Detective Tales, August 1942)
• "What So Proudly We Hail" (Ace G-Man Stories, October 1942)
• "Blaze of Glory" (Detective Tales, November 1942)
• "Rhapsody in Blood" (Dime Mystery, January 1943)
• "Herr Yama From Yokohama" (Ace G-Man Stories. February 1943)
• "He Who Dies Last, Dies Hardest" (Detective Tales, May 1943)
• "Sauce for the Gander" (Black Mask, May 1943)
• "Hearse of Another Color" (Dime Mystery, November 1943)
• "The Female Is More Deadly" (Dime Detective, December 1943)
• "A Great Whirring of Wings" (Dime Detective, ? 1943)
• "Corpses Come in Pairs" (Detective Tales, April 1944)
• "Brother, Can You Spare a Grave?" (Dime Mystery, July 1944)
• "Make Mine Murder" (New Detective, September 1944)
• "Murder on My Mind" (Detective Tales, July 1945)
• "The Night I Died" (Detective Story Magazine, August 1945)
• "A Corpse Walks in Brooklyn" (Detective Tales, October 1945)
• "Nothing to Worry About" (Chase, ? 1945)
• "As Deep as the Grave" (Detective Tales, January 1946)
• "Claws of the Hell-Cat" (Dime Mystery, January 1946)
• "Doc Egg's Graveyard Reunion" (Dime Mystery, February 1946)
• "Little Miss Murder" (Detective Tales, November 1946)
• "The Case of the Sobbing Girl" (Best Detective Stories of the Year 1946, Dutton, 1946)
• "Married to Murder" (Dime Mystery, January 1947)
• "So Dead the Rogue" (New Detective, January 1947)
• "No Grave Could Hold Him" (Dime Mystery, February 1948)
• "Marry the Sixth for Murder" (Detective Tales, May 1948)
• "No Match for Murder" (Black Mask, May 1948)
• "Some Die Easy" (New Detective, May 1948)
• "Knock Twice for Murder" (Detective Tales, June 1949)
• "Wait for the Dead Man's Tide" (Dime Mystery, August 1949)
• "Old Homicide Week" (Detective Tales, April 1950)
• "Murder - Do Not Disturb" (New Detective, March 1950)
• "The Bloody Tide" (Dime Mystery, June 1950)
• "Murder Stop" (Famous Detective, November 1950)
• "Remember the Night" (Best Detective Stories of the Year 1950, ed. David Coxe Cook, Dutton, 1950)
• "Blonde and Bad" (Smashing Detective, March 1951)
• "The Passing of Johnny Maguire" (15 Story Detective, May 1951)
• "Mighty Like a Rogue" (As Tough As They Come, ed. Will Oursler, Doubleday, 1951)
• "How Deep My Grave?" (Famous Detective, November 1952)
• "A Great Whirring of Wings" (Maiden Murders, ed. John Dickson Carr, Harper, 1952)
• "Booty and the Beast" (Private Eye, July 1953)
• "Homicide House" (Crook's Tour, ed. Bruno Fischer, Dodd, Mead, 1953)
• "A Better Mantrap" (Dangerous Dames, ed. "Mike Shayne" (Brett Halliday), Dell First Edition 77, 1955)
• "I'll Die for You" (Crime and Justice, September 1956)
• "Dead Dreams for Sale" (Terror, February 1957)
• "The Ghost of Cock Robin" (Detective Tales, August 1958)
• "Mr. Smith's Flying Corpses" (Detective Tales, November 1961)
• "For Old Crimes Sake" (Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, December 1964)

Short Nonfiction

• "Strangled" (Underworld Detective, ??? 1951) (as William Richards)

Adaptations

• Les Félins (Joy House, Love Cage) (1964, from Joy House) (Charles Williams worked on the script)