December 1950 Issue, ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE

- The Loaded House
  Francis Bonnamy
  , pp. 4-28
  Peter Utley Shane
- The Tower of Treason
  G.K. Chesterton
  , pp. 45-64
  Father Stephen
- The Straw Man
  Harry Kemelman
  , pp. 68-78
  Nicky Welt
- Cameron's Cave
  Edward G. Ashton
  , pp. 104-113
  Uncle Hamish
- The Respectful Murder
  Roy Vickers
  , pp. 127-143
  Department of Dead Ends
- The Heavy Sugar
  Cornell Woolrich
  , pp. 29-44
- Bezique of Death
  Veronica Parker Johns
  , pp. 96-103
- The Measure of Justice
  Mark Rondy
  , pp. 65-67
- Suspicion
  Dorothy L. Sayers
  , pp. 81-95
- Poison
  Katherine Mansfield
  , pp. 114-118
- Round Trip
  W.R. Burnett
  , pp. 119-126
- Guess Who?
  Talbot C. Hatch
  , pp. 79-80
- Index to Volume Sixteen, pp. 144-146