Search - List of Books by Anthony Boucher

The 1940s proved to be a very busy and productive decade for Boucher. In 1945 he launched into a spectacular three-year radio career, plotting more than 100 episodes for The Adventures of Ellery Queen, while also providing plots for the bulk of the Sherlock Holmes radio dramas. By the summer of 1946 he had created his own mystery series for the airwaves, The Casebook of Gregory Hood. ("I was turning out three scripts each week for as many shows," he stated. "It was a mix of hard work and great fun.")

Tony left dramatic radio in 1948, "mainly because I was putting in a lot of hours working with J. Francis McComas in creating what soon became The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. We got it off the ground in 1949 and saw it take hold solidly by 1950. This was a major creative challenge and although I was involved in a lot of other projects, I stayed with F&SF into 1958."

Indeed, throughout his years with the magazine, Boucher was certainly involved in "a lot of other projects." Among them:

:? Supplying the SF and crime markets with new fiction.

:? Teaching an informal writing class from his home in Berkeley.

:? Continuing his Sunday mystery columns for the New York Times Book Review.

:? Functioning as chief critic for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

:? Reviewing SF and fantasy (as H.H. Holmes) for the New York Herald Tribune.

:? Editing True Crime Detective.

:? Supervising the Mercury Mystery Line and (later) the Dell Great Mystery Library.

:? Hosting Golden Voices, his series of historical opera recordings for Pacifica Radio.

:? Serving (in 1951) as president of Mystery Writers of America.

In addition to all of this, Tony was a devoted poker player, a political activist, a rabid sport fan (football, basketball, track, gymnastics and rugby), an active "Sherlockian" in the Baker Street Irregulars and a spirited chef.

Mystery novels

• The Case of the Seven of Calvary (1937)
• The Case of the Crumpled Knave (1939)
• The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (1940)
• Nine Times Nine (as H.H. Holmes) (1940)
• The Case of the Solid Key (1941)
• Rocket to the Morgue (as H.H. Holmes) (1942)
• The Case of the Seven Sneezes (1942)

Collections

• Far and Away; Eleven Fantasy and SF Stories (1955) (fantasy and science fiction)
• The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and SF (1969) (fantasy and science fiction)
• Exeunt Murderers (1983) (mysteries)
• The Compleat Boucher (1999) (fantasy and science fiction)
• The Casebook of Gregory Hood, Radio Plays by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, edited by Joe R. Christopher (2009) (scripts from a radio program)

• New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
• Clute and Nicholls, 1993, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, St. Martins. ISBN 0-312-13486-X