Frederick Nebel
Writer
November 3, 1903 - May 3, 1967
Credits – book and short
story titles:
A Couple of Quick Ones; A
Gambler Passes; A Girl Must be Sure; A Grudge is a Grudge; A Gun in the Dark; A
Man Must Fight; A Man With Sand; A Truck-Load of Diamonds; Accidental Night; All
the Answers; All the Good Times; All the Way Back; Alley Rat; Alone; And There
Was Murder; Any Boy Can Be President; Appointment in Rio; Ask Me No Questions; At
the End of the Alley Was a Door; Back in Town; Backwash; Bad News; Be Your Age;
Beat the Rap; Behind the Eight Ball; Behind the Shield; Best of Luck; Bet Your
Life; Big Moon Lake Patrol; Birdmen of Borneo; Birdmen of Passage; Blood in the
Dark; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 1; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 2; Bloodhounds
of the Sky, Part 3; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 4; Bolt From the Blue; Boomerang
Barnes; Brood of the Wind; But Not the End; Cache Law; Call It Justice; Case
Against Women; Case for Innocence; Chains of Darkness; Champions Also Die; Chance
is an Enemy; Change of Heart; Chechako Trail; China Silk; Claws of the Jungle; Coast
of Hate; Cops Are Dumb; Courage of the Strong; Crack Down; Crate Crashers; Dance
No More; Dead Man’s Folly; Death After Murder; Death Alley; Death for a Dago; Death
in the Raw; Death’s Not Enough; Deep Red; Defiance Valley: The Complete
Northwoods Stories of Frederick Nebel, Vol. 1; Defiance Valley; Die-Hard; Dog
Eat Dog; Doom Drums; Doom Lagoon; Doors in the Dark; Doorway to Danger; Dreams
Are Real; Dumb Luck; East of Big Moon; Emeralds of Shade; Empire of the Devil
& Other Tales of Adventure; Empire of the Devil; Fan Dance; Far North of
Chilkoot; Farewell to Crime; Fifty Roads to Town; Flame Island & Other
Tales of Adventure; Flame Island; Fly-by-Night; Flyers of Fortune; Flying
Freebooters; Flying Freebooters; Flying Jade; Forbidden Affair; Forbidden
River: Five Novels of Conflict in the Frozen North; Forbidden River; Get a Load
of This; Ghost of a Chance; Give Me This; Graft; Grain to Grain; Grampa and the
Spirit of ’76; Guess Again, Lady; Gun Thunder; Guns Down; Hands; Hard to Take; He
Could Take It; He Was a Swell Guy; Heir to Murder; Hell Couldn’t Stop Him; Hell
on Wheels; Hell to Pay; Hell’s Back Door; Hell’s Pay Check; Hell-Smoke; High
Jinks as Sky High; Hot Spot; Hounds of Darkness; If You Can Take It; Isle of
Lost Men; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 1; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 2; Isle of Lost
Wings, Part 3; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 4; It Takes a Man; It’s a Gag; It’s the
Live Ones That Talk; Junk; Just Leave Everything to Me; Kick Back; Killed After
10 P.M.; Killer at Large; King of the Yukon; Last Question; Law Alone; Law of
the Trapline; Law Without Law; Lay Down the Law; Lead Pearls; Lead Poison; Leave
It to Cardigan; Magnificent Gesture; Make Mine Murder; Man-Crazy; Mask of
Murder; Me–Cardigan; Moment in the Dark; Money, Money; Murder & Co; Murder
รก la Carte; Murder by Ballot; Murder by Mail; Murder Cure; Murder Off Stage; Murder
on the Loose; Murder Won’t Wait; Muscle Man; Needle in a Haystack; Never Sing
Again; New Guns for Old; Night Shift on the Lunchwagon; Nightfall; No Hard
Feelings; No Kid Stuff; No Shadow of Doubt; No Time for Tears; No Time to Kill;
Nobody’s Fall Guy; Not a Care in the World; Not So Tough; Nothing to Lose; Old
Put’s Camp Ground; One Cold Night; Out of Stir; Outcast Ships; Pardon My Murder;
Patrol of Courage; Pearls Are Tears; Phantom Fingers; Pity the Poor Underdog; Pound
for Pound; Protecting Monica; Proud Eagles; Proud Youth; Raw Courage; Raw Law:
The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 1; Raw Law; Read ‘Em and Weep;
Rebound; Red Hot; Red Night; Red Pavement; Red Web; Remember the Good Times; Remember
the Music; Rendezvous With Treason; Reprieve at Eleven; Return of the Exile; Rogue’s
Ransom; Roses in the Rain; Rough Justice; Rough Reform; Round Trip; Save Your
Tears; Scandal in St. Louis; Scoundrel’s Choice; Scrambled Murder; Shake-Down:
The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 2; Shake-Down; Shake-Up; Six
Deadly Dames; Six Diamonds and a Dick; Sky Blazers & Other Tales of
High-Flying Adventure; Sky Blazers; Sky Scrappers; Sky Spoilers; Sky-High Nerve;
Skyrocket Scott; Sky-Trap; Sleepers East; Soda-Pop Mary; Some Die Young; Some
Grudge; Something Like a Dream; Something to Remember; Somewhere East of
Singapore; Song and Dance; South of Saigon; Spades Are Spades; Spare the Rod; Stand
Up and Fight; Strangle Hold; Street Wolf: The Black Mask Stories of Frederick
Nebel; Street Wolf; Stuart of the City Patrol; Sun Dog Gold; Sunken Sovereigns;
Take It and Like It; Tell It to the Mounted; Ten Men From Chicago; That’s
Kennedy; The Adventures of Cardigan: A Dime Detective Book; The Bars Between; The
Big World; The Black Fox Skin; The Bluff That Worked; The Brave Tradition; The
Breaks of the Game; The Bribe; The Candy Killer; The Come Back; The Complete
Air Adventures of Gales & McGill, Vol. 1; The Complete Air Adventures of
Gales & McGill, Vol. 2;The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 2; The
Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 3; The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol.
4; The Complete Casebook of Cardigan: Vol. 1; The Complete Casebook of Sgt.
Brinkhaus; The Creed of Sergeant Bone; The Crimson Diamond; The Crimson Fist; The
Crooked Spot; The Curse of Cardigan; The Darjeeling Diamond; The Dead Die Twice;
The Dead Don’t Die; The Devil’s Double-Cross; The Devil’s Slouch; The Devil’s
Souvenir; The Drifting Kid Strikes; The Fifth Question; The Firelight Patrol; The
Frontier of Vengeance; The Girl on the Big Drum; The Girl With the Blonde; The
Grand Manner; The Great Big-Hearted People; The Green Widow; The Hard Way; The
Hardy Fly Hard; The Hell-Bender; The Human Side; The Island Nobody Knows; The
Kill; The Law Dies Hard; The Law Laughs Last; The Legend; The Lemon; The
Makings of Command; The Man Who Couldn’t Spell; The Man Who Knew; The Man Who
Lost Everything; The Man Who Promised Not to Tell; The Man You Love; The
Missing Car; The Mystery at Pier 7; The Penalty of the Code; The Pinch; The
Quick or the Dead; The Real Thing; The Red-Hots; The Secret Vanity; The Seed of
Caution; The Shanghai Jest; The Sign of Murder; The Simple Life; The Spot and
the Lady; The Tailormade Clue; The Things You Say; The Trail to Caribou; The
Valley of Wanted Men; The Web; The Wheel; The White Peril; The Woman in Shadow;
The Woman Who Changed Her Mind; The X-Circle; The Yukon Trail; Too Hot to
Handle; Too Young to Die: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 3; Too
Young to Die; Tough As Nails: The Complete Casebook of Donahue; Tough Treatment;
Trade Law; Try It My Way; Unfinished Marriage; Unfriendly Call; Wait Till I’m
On My Feet; Wanted: An Accomplice; Wayward Journey; Weekend to Kill; Welcome
Home, Soldier; When the Time Comes; Whispers of Death; White Villa in Rio; Wind
Patrol; Wings of Mercy; Winter Kill: The Complete Cases of MacBride &
Kennedy Vol. 4; Winter Kill; Wise Guy; With Benefit of Law; Wolves of Dismay; Wolves
of the Wind: Sky High Tales of Adventure; Wolves of the Wind; Woman at Bay; Yangtze
Yellow; You Can Take So Much; You Can’t Have Everything; You Go Your Way; You
Got to Think of the Kids; You Haven’t Changed a Bit; You Know How Women Are; You
Owe It to Yourself; Your Face Looks Familiar.
Movie and television adaptations:
TV Teatro (1958); M
Squad (1958); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); Celebrity Playhouse
(1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Bribe (1949); A Shot in the Dark
(1941); Sleepers West (1941); Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939); Torchy
Runs for Mayor (1939); Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939); Torchy Gets Her Man
(1938); Torchy Blane in Panama (1938); The Adventurous Blonde (1937); Fifty
Roads to Town (1937); Smart Blonde (1937); Sleepers East (1934); Ships of the
Night (1928); Isle of Lost Men (1928).
