This is a collector's checklist of Dell Mapback paperbacks, a series of paperback books, primarily mysteries, produced in the 1940's to 1950's. Each book in the series had two unique features: a map on the back, calling out all the locations mentioned in the story; and a "Persons this mystery/story is about" on the flyleaf, listing names and descriptions of all the characters in the story.

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3 Murder on the Hudson / Jennifer Jones
4 American Gun Mystery / Ellery Queen
5 Four Frightened Women / George Harmon Coxe
6 Ill Met By Moonlight / Leslie Ford
7 See You at the Morgue / Lawrence G Blochman
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9 Double for Death / Rex Stout

10 Lone Wolf / Louis Joseph Vance
11 Hearses Don't Hurry / Stephen Ransome
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13 Death Wears a White Gardenia / Zelda Popkin
14 Doctor Died at Dusk / Geoffrey Homes
15 Golden Swan Murder / Doris Disney
16 Unicorn Murders / Carter Dickson
17 Dead Can Tell / Helen Reilly
18 Puzzle of the Silver Persian / Stuart Palmer
19 Death Over Sunday / James Francis Bonnell

20 Tambay Gold / Samuel Hopkins Adams
21 I Was a N a z i Flier / Gottfried Leslie
22 Holiday Homicide / Rufas King
23 Private Practice of Michael Shayne / Brett Halliday
24 Phantom of the Opera / Gaston Leroux
25 Speak No Evil / Mignon Eberhart
26 Raft / Robert Trumbull
27 Camera Clue / George Harmon Coxe
28 Mountain Cat Murders / Rex Stout
29 Curtains for the Copper / Thomas Polsky

30 Memo to a Firing Squad / Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
31 Fallen Sparrow / Dorothy Hughes
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33 Dance of Death / Helen McCloy
34 Crime Hound / Mary Semple Scott
35 Cat Saw Murder / D B Olsen
36? Skeleton Key / Lenore Glen Offord
36? Hammersmith Murders / David Frome
37 Queen of the Flat Tops: Story of the Lexington / Standley Johnson
38 Liberty Laughs / Cavana & Weir, eds.
39 Murder Challenges Valcour / Rufas King

40 Case of Jennie Brice / Mary Roberts Rinehart *
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42 Murders at Scandle House / Dorothy B Hughes
43 Midnight Sailing / Lawrence Blochman
44 Reply Paid / H F Heard
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46 Boomerang Clue / Agatha Christia
47 Keeper of the Key / Earl Derr Biggers
48 Cross-Eyed Bear Murders / Dorothy Hughes
49 Feathered Serpent / Edgar Wallace

50 Iron Spiders / Kendrick
51 While the Wind Howled / Audrey Gaines
52 Body That Wasn't Uncle / George W Yates
53 Blood Money / Dashiell Hammett
54 Harvard Has a Homicide / Timothy Fuller
55 The D.A.'s Daughter / Herman Petersen
56 Frightened Stiff / Kelley Roos
57  The Window at the White Cat /  Mary Roberts Rinehart *
58 Murder for the Asking / George Harmon Coxe
59 Turn on the Heat / A A Fair

60 Thirteen at Dinner / Agatha Christie
61 Clue of the Judas Tree / Leslie Ford
62 The Strawstack Murders / Dorothy Cameron Disney
63 Mourned on Sunday / Helen Reilly
64 Blood on the Black Market / Brett Halliday
65 Scotland Yard - Dept. of Queer Complaints / Carter Dickson
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67 Hidden Ways / Fredrick F Van de Water
68 Juliet Dies Twice / Lange Lewis
69 Death From a Top Hat / Clayton Rawson

72  The Man in the Moonlight / Helen McCloy
81  Glass Triangle / George Harmon Coxe
110 Wall of Eyes / Margaret Millar
111 Greenmask / Jefferson Farjeon
116 Honor Bound / Faith Baldwin
117 Women Are Like That / Alice Elinor Lambert
119 Robin Hill / Lida Larrimore
122 Death in the Doll's House / Hannah Lees and Lawrence Bachmann
129 The Continental Op / Dashiell Hammett
136 Wolf in Man's Clothing / Mignon Eberhart
137 Crimson Friday / Dorothy Cameron Disney
139 Love and the Countess to Boot / Jack Iams
140 Footprint of a Cinderella / Philip Wylie
143 Bar the Doors / selected by Alfred Hitchcock
146 Alphabet Hicks / Rex Stout
154 The Return of the Continental Op / Dashiell Hammett
158 The Devil in the Bush / Matthew Head
173 Rim of the Pit / Hake Talbot
175 And So To Murder / Carter Dickson
177 Hand in the Glove / Rex Stout
178 The Pink Camellia / Temple Bailey
184 Murder is My Business / Brett Halliday (also issued as 326)
185 Too Busy To Die / H. W. Roden (also issued as 349)
187 N or M? / Agatha Christie
193 Scarecrow / Eaton K. Goldthwaite
198 The Glass Mask / Lenore Glen Offord
203 The State vs. Elinor Norton / Mary Roberts Rinehart*
204 The Frightened Pigeon / Richard Burke
208 The Black Curtain / Cornell Woolrich
220 Hospital Nocturne / Alice Elinor Lambert
223 Hammett Homicides / Dashiell Hammett
227 Trail Town / Ernest Haycox
229 Bad for Business / Rex Stout
235 Red Threads / Rex Stout
245 Wallflowers / Temple Bailey
248 Dangerous Ground / Francis Sill Wickware
249 Stars Still Shine / Lida Larrimore
253 Treasure of the Brasada / Les Savage. Jr.
255 Enchanted Oasis / Faith Baldwin
263 The Panic-Stricken / Mitchell Wilson
264 Fear and Trembling: Shivery Stories / Alfred Hitchcock (ed)
268 Blood on Biscayne Bay / Brett Halliday
280 Counterfeit Wife / Brett Halliday
281 Anthony Adverse in Italy / Hervey Allen
284 Outlaw on Horseback / Will Ermine
288 The Heart Remembers / Faith Baldwin
294 Jim the Conqueror / Peter B. Kyne
297 The Great Mistake / Mary Roberts Rinehart*
301 Q as in Quicksand / Lawrence Treat
304  Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal/ Lloyd C. Douglas
306 Brandy for a Hero / Win O'Farrell
311 Bengal Fire / Lawrence Blochman
312 The Gaunt Woman / Edmund Gilligan
313 Death of a Billionaire / A. B. Cunningham
324 The Corpse Came Calling / Brett Halliday
326 Murder is My Business / Brett Halliday (also issued as 184)
329 Young Doctor Kildare / Max Brand
334 The Case of the Seven Sneezes / Anothony Boucher
335 Double Treasure / Clarence Budington Kelland
336 Afterglow / Ruby M. Ayres
339 She / H.Rider Haggard
343 The Chinese Doll / Wilson Tucker
348 A Halo For Nobody / Henry Kane
349 Too Busy To Die / H. W. Roden (also issued as 185)
353 Yankee Pasha / Edison Marshall
354 The Philadelphia Murder Story / Leslie Ford
358 To a God Unknown / John Steinbeck
360 Don Lorenzo's Bride / Juanita Savage
366 Unfinished Business / Cary Lucas
374 Night and the City / Gerald Kersh
377 Alias the Dead / George Harmon Coxe
378 Last of the Longhorns / Will Ermine
379 Nightmare Town / Dashiell Hammett
390 Cabinda Affair / Matthew Head
391 Murder at Hazelmoor / Agatha Christie
395 The Devil's Stronghold / Leslie Ford
398 Murder in Any Language / Kelley Roos
410 The Affair at the Boat Landing / A. B. Cunningham
416 They Drive By Night (Long Hall) / Al Bezzerides
423 Murder in Havana / George Harmon Coxe
428 Call for Michael Shayne / Brett Halliday
432 Stag Night / Phillips Rogers
445 The High Road / Faith Baldwin
450 Alder Gulch / Ernest Haycox (western)
453 The Camera Clue / George Harmon Coxe
455 Hang By Your Neck / Henry Kane
462 Desperate Angel / Helen T. Miller
472 Crows Can't Count / A. A. Fair
473 The Steel Mirror / Donald Hamilton
474 The Miracle of the Bells / Russell Janney
476 My True Love Lies / Lenore Glen Offord
477 Crosstown / John Held, Jr.
478 Plunder of the Sun / David Dodge
479 The Web of Evil / Lucille Emerick
482 Women Must Weep / Ruth Adams Knight
485 The Queen and the Corpse / Max Murray
503 Marked For Murder / Brett Halliday
505 Murder With Southern Hospitality / Leslie Ford
537 Hag's Nook / John Dickson Carr
541 Episode of the Wandering Knife / Mary Roberts Rinehart *
543 A Graveyard to Let / Carter Dickson
546 Hunt With the Hounds / Mignon Eberhart
549 The Jade Venus / George Harmon Coxe
570 The Mysterious Mr. Quin / Agatha Christie
573 The Wheel is Fixed / James M. Fox
580 Until You Are Dead / Henry Kane
630 Untamed / Helga Moray
1386 The Uncomplaining Corpses / Brett Halliday
1388 Murder Wears A Mummer's Mask / Brett Halliday

* Please also see my eBay Guide: The Books of Mary Roberts Rinehart

Special thanks to Linda Peashka (eBay id: lindapeashka) and Michael Bathrick for their help in compiling this list. If you have any additions, corrections or clarifications to this guide, please send them to me, and I will revise this page. Thanks for making it better! - rickmills9