A Chronological Listing of the
Johnny Ludlow Stories
Compiled by Michael Flowers ©2001-2006
In the following list all publication dates refer to the Argosy Magazine.
The number in parentheses after each story title indicates the collected series in which that story subsequently appeared. A zero represents an uncollected story.
The third column attempts to provide an indication of the genre in which that story falls, or a very brief synopsis of the plot.
Title |
First Publication | Category |
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1. |
Shaving the Ponies' Tails (0) |
January 1868 | Childish prank |
2. |
Losing Lena (1) |
February 1868 | Crime - child abduction |
3. |
Finding Both of Them (1) |
March 1868 | Crime - abductor's trial |
4. |
Watching on St. Mark's Eve (5) |
April 1868 | Ghost-watching |
5. |
Sanker's Visit (5) |
May 1868 | Crime - theft/schoolboys |
6. |
Roger Monk (5) |
July 1868 | Crime - plant poisoning |
7. |
A Hunt by Moonlight (1) |
August 1868 | Crime - theft/schoolboys |
8. |
Major Parrifer (1) |
September 1868 | Crime - social injustice |
9. |
Coming Home to Him (1) |
October 1868 | Social injustice |
10. |
Reality or Delusion? (1) |
December 1868 | Ghosts/Love triangle |
11. |
Lease, the Pointsman (1) |
January 1869 | Railway accident |
12. |
Going through the Tunnel (1) |
February 1869 | Crime - theft |
13. |
The Beginning of the End (1) |
March 1869 | Romance |
14. |
"Jerry's Gazette" (1) |
April 1869 | Financial sharp practice |
15. |
Crabb Ravine (3) |
May 1869 | Crime - blackmail/prank |
16. |
Tod's Repentance (3) |
June 1869 | Continuation of 15 |
17. |
Jellico and His Pack (3) |
August 1869 | Working-class wives in debt |
18. |
Sophie Chalk (1) |
September 1869 | Crime - theft |
19. |
At Miss Deveen's (1) |
October 1869 | Theft - unresolved |
20. |
The Game Finished (1) |
November 1869 | Theft - detected |
21. |
David Garth's Night-Watch (1) |
December 1869 | Child cruelty (10's sequel) |
22. |
Robert Ashton's Wedding-Day (2) |
January 1870 | Missing groom found |
23. |
Hardly Worth Telling (2) |
February 1870 | Fallen woman |
24. |
Lost in the Post (2) |
March 1870 | Crime - theft |
25. |
Dick Mitchel (1) |
April 1870 | Child farm labour |
26. |
A Life of Trouble (2) |
May 1870 | Crime - theft (sequel to 24) |
27. |
A Tale of Sin (2) |
July - October 1870 | Fallen woman/illegitimacy |
28. |
Wolfe Barrington's Taming (1) |
December 1870 | Schoolboy bullying |
29. |
David Garth's Ghost (1) |
January 1871 | Apparent haunting |
30. |
Seeing Life (1) |
February 1871 | Gambling debts |
31. |
The Mystery of Jessy Page (3) |
March 1871 | Young woman disappears |
32. |
Coming Home to Die (3) |
April 1871 | Fallen woman |
33. |
Bursting Up (1) |
June 1871 | Bankrupcy/fraud |
34. |
Getting Away (1) |
July 1871 | Fraudulent bankers escape |
35. |
Over the Water (1) |
August 1871 | Bankers spotted in France |
36. |
Our Strike (1) |
November 1871 | Strike hardship |
37. |
Going to the Mop (1) |
December 1871 | Servant's romance |
38. |
At Whitney Hall (1) |
January 1872 | Religious - child's death |
39. |
Breaking Down (1) |
March 1872 | Overworked clerk's rural visit |
40. |
Aunt Dean (1) |
May 1872 | Romance - interfering aunt |
41. |
A Day of Pleasure (2) |
September 1872 | Schoolboy's death |
42. |
The Final Upshot (2) |
October 1872 | Brother's guilty conscience |
43. |
Our First Term at Oxford (5) |
January 1873 | Gambling debts/social |
44. |
A Crisis in His Life (5) |
February 1873 | attractions/reformation |
45. |
A Great Mystery (3) |
April 1873 | Theft/somnambulism |
46. |
Janet Carey (3) |
May 1873 | Social snobbery |
47. |
Dr. Knox (3) |
July 1873 | Romance |
48. |
Fred Temple's Warning (0) |
November 1873 | Ancestral ghost |
49. |
Mrs. Todhetley's Earrings (2) |
December 1873 | Crime/theft |
50. |
Selina Radcliffe's Home (4) |
January 1874 | Marriage - large age-gap |
51. |
Pritchley's Farm (4) |
February 1874 | Alcoholism/lunacy |
52. |
The Cries in the Trees (4) |
March 1874 | Haunted house/prison? |
53. |
Sandstone Torr (4) |
April 1874 | Prisoner released |
54. |
Hester Reed's Pills (2) |
August 1874 | Poisoning of babies |
55. |
Abel Crew (2) |
September 1874 | Herbalist cleared |
56. |
The Other Earring (2) |
December 1874 | Theft in 49 solved |
57. |
Charles Van Rheyn (2) |
January 1875 | Schoolboy bullying/death |
58. |
Margaret Rymer (2) |
February 1875 | Thief reformed/romance |
59. |
The Key of the Church (2) |
April 1875 | Crime - suspected murder |
60. |
The Syllabub Feast (2) |
May 1875 | Suspected murderer cleared |
61. |
Chandler & Chandler (4) |
September - October 1875 | Cheated from inheritance |
62. |
Seen in the Moonlight (2) |
December 1875 | Ghost (sequel to 48) |
63. |
Rose Lodge (2) |
January 1876 | Crime - property swindle |
64. |
The Angels' Music (3) |
February 1876 | Timid girl nearly dies |
65. |
Ketira the Gypsy (4) |
March - April 1876 | Fallen woman/gypsy curse |
66. |
Anne (2) |
October - December 1876 | Attempted bigamy/romance |
67. |
The Mystery at Number Seven (6) |
January 1877 | Crime - servant murdered |
68. |
Owen, the Milkman (6) |
February 1877 | Murderer becomes insane |
69. |
Helen Whitney's Wedding (3) |
March 1877 | Romance - fortune-hunter |
70. |
Helen's Curate (3) |
April 1877 | Romance thwarted |
71. |
A Day in Briar Wood (3) |
August 1877 | Crime - shooting |
72. |
Lee, the Letter-Man (3) |
December 1877 | Rural postman's story |
73. |
Caromel's Farm (3) |
January 1878 | Rural marriage/emigration |
74. |
Charlotte and Charlotte (3) |
February 1878 | Bigamy/ghost |
75. |
The Last of the Caromels (3) |
March 1878 | Bigamist shammed death |
76. |
Lady Jenkins (3) |
January - April 1879 | Poisoning/fraud |
77. |
The Curate of St. Matthew's (4) |
November 1879 | Eligible curate creates stir |
78. |
The Rector of St. Matthew's (4) |
December 1879 | but is married and promoted |
79. |
Verena Fontaine's Rebellion (4) |
January - May 1880 | Thwarted romance/murder |
80. |
The Story of Dorothy Grape (3) |
January - February 1881 | Bigamy - ruins woman's life |
81. |
Mrs. Cramp's Tenant (4) |
December 1881 | Wife hides from husband |
82. |
A Mystery (4) |
January - March 1882 | Disappearance/murder? |
83. |
The Ebony Box (4) |
January - March 1883 | Suspected theft |
84. |
A Curious Experience (4) |
November 1883 | Ghost story |
85. |
Roger Bevere (4) |
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I. Mr. Brandon's Skeleton |
January 1884 | Young medical student |
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II. The Bell-and-the Clapper |
February 1884 | marries a fallen woman |
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III. Roger's Skeleton |
March 1884 | and lives in fear of discovery |
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86. |
Caramel Cottage (6) |
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I. The Barrister's Visit |
January 1885 | Romance terminated by |
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II. Disappeared |
February 1885 | possible murder but |
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III. Under the Summer Apple Tree |
March 1885 | happily resolved |
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87. |
A Tragedy (6) |
January - April 1886 | Crime - theft and suicide |
88. |
In Later Years (6) |
December 1887 | Woman fakes drowning |
89. |
Featherston's Story (5) |
January - June 1889 | Marriage/murder for money |
90. |
The Silent Chimes (6) |
January - June 1891 | Uncanny curse/bigamy? |