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Night [Collier's, 1912) The man who couldn't sleep (1919)
Arthur Stringer's "The man who couldn't sleep" series (1908-1919)

  We look forward to reading Thomas B Vincent's Arthur Stringer : A Bibliography of the Fiction (2005). We will certainly adjust the information below, should we be corrected.

  Until that time, this is how we have worked out the order of appearance of the stories, and their name changes. First appearances are marked with a 1st, or with a blue —— underline.

      
      

Everybody′s magazine

Adventures of the insomniac

The unique experiences of an insomniac

The man who couldn't sleep

"The guarded house" (1908-aug) 1st

Canadian Writers Limited syndication (1913-jan, onward)

Washington Herald [McClure′s Syndicate] (1913-dec, onward)

Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1919)

     

CH.

 

"The stolen code"

"The stolen code" (1913-dec-14)

01 "Running out of pay-dirt" 1st

The adventures of Witter Kerfoot, insomniac

"The mask of fame"

"The mask of fame" (1913-dec-21)

02 "The ox-blood vase"

Hampton′s magazine (1910-aug to 1912-mar)

"The woman in the case"

"A sense of drama" (1913-dec-28)

03 "The stolen wheel-code"

 

"The guarded house"

"The dish and the spoon" (1914-jan-04)

04 "The open door"

"The stolen code" (1910-jul) 1st

"A sense of drama"

"One night of rain" (1914-jan-11) 1st

05 "The man from Medicine Hat"

"The mask of fame" (1910-sep) 1st

 
Washington Herald promo (1913) 

06 "The irreproachable butler"

"A sense of drama" (1910-nov) 1st

nine stories promised by syndicate; halted at five by an unknown action

07 "The Panama gold chests"

"The dish and the spoon" (1911-mar) 1st

 

08 "The dummy-chucker"

"The woman in the case" (1911-aug) 1st

 

09 "A Rialto rain-storm" *

"The stool pigeon" (1911-oct) 1st

 

10 "The thumb-tap cue"

"The cleverest woman in the world" (1912-jan) 1st

 

11 "The Nile-green roadster" 1st

"A matter of thumbs" (1912-mar) 1st

   
     

* Mundell & Rausch (1974) call this ″A Rialto rainbow″, but I think that′s simply a mistake. Rainbows do not appear in the stories.

 [ceased publication]

     

 

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