JEFFERY RAND

Full Name:	C. Jeffery Rand
Nationality:	British
Organization:	Department of Concealed Communications
Occupation	Agent

Creator:	Edward Hoch
Time Span:	1965 - 2008

ABOUT THE SERIES

Jeffery Rand is an agent with British Intelligence.

Rand, whose first name is sometimes spelled Jeffrey, is a expert specializing in codes and cyphers, though he quickly becomes quite good at being a detective as well. Rand is the Director of the Department of Concealed Communications created in 1963. Long before the days of one-time pads and 64-, 128-, and 256-bit encryption, the men and women of this agency worked to crack the codes of the enemy and to create encryption methods for its own side.

Born in 1926, Rand is 39 years old when the first story appeared in 1965. Unmarried, he is said to have an eye for the ladies but lacks the drive to maintain a lasting relationship, at least for the first few years. As the series continues, he eventually meets a half-Scottish, half-Egyptian woman named Leila Gaad, falls in love after a time, and then marries her. After his retirement from the Department, the two take numerous trips to interesting places, giving him even more opportunity to get into trouble.

Rand loves a good puzzle and cannot resist when one shows itself. Nor can he sleep when one is still nibbling at him and he takes on an almost-childlike excitement when he begins to see the solution, a trait that is infectious to those around him and humorous to his wife.

No novel was ever written about Rand - all his adventures are told through short stories published in the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Three books were published containing some of the stories, with a fourth mentioned in one of the books but not verified by me as yet (though why would he lie?).

In total, approximately 81 stories were written about Rand from the first in 1965 to the last published the year of the author's death, 2008.

BOOKS

Number of Books:	4
First Appearance:	1971
Last Appearance:	2001

Despite the fact that Edward Hoch never wrote a novel about the spy named Rand, four books were released. Each of these contained a few Rand stories taken from the pages of the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. A couple of the stories appeared in more than one collection.


1			The Spy And The Thief Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1971 A compilation of 14 stories from the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. The first are about Rand: The Spy And The Bermuda Cipher The Spy And The Calendar Network The Spy Who Came To The End Of The Road The Spy Who Had Faith In Double-C The Spy Who Purchased A Lavender The Spy Who Took The Long Route The remaining 7 are about gentleman thief Nick Velvet: The Theft Of The Blue Horse The Theft Of The Brazen Letters The Theft Of The Coco Loot The Theft Of The Laughing Lions The Theft Of The Wicked Tickets

2			Tales of Espionage Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1989 A compilation of 8 Rand stories. There were also a selection of Edward Hoch's Interpol stories and stories from other authors. The Rand stories are: The Spy In The Pyramid The Spy Who Traveled With A Coffin The Spy In The Toy Business The Spy And The Cats Of Rome The Spy In The Labyrinth The Spy And The Snowman The Spy At The End Of The Rainbow The Spy Who Didn't Defect

3			The Spy Who Read Latin Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1990 Another collection of intriguing stories and mysteries concern Rand. This volume contained 5 stories: The Spy Who Came To The Brink The Spy Who Read Latin The Spy Who Traveled With A Coffin The Spy Who Collected Lapel Pins The Spy Who Came Back From The Dead

4			The Old Spies Club Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 2001 Contains 15 stories about Rand and his wife, - Leila Gaad, most taking place after his retirement from the Service though still involved in intrigue. The stories are: The Spy And The Nile Mermaid The Spy In The Pyramid The Spy At The End Of The Rainbow The Spy Who Took A Vacation The Spy And The Cats Of Rome The Spy In The Labyrinth The Spy Who Was Alone The Spy Who Wasn’t Needed The Spy And The Healing Waters Egyptian Days Waiting For Mrs. Ryder The Old Spies Club One Bag Of Coconuts The Man From Nile K The War That Never Was

NOVELLAS AND SHORT STORIES

Number of Stories:	84
First Appearance:	1965
Last Appearance:	2008

The incredibly talented Edward Hoch created the character Jeffrey Rand as yet another interesting entry for the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and must have liked the man and the challenge of mixing espionage and mystery for he continued depicting cases/assignments for the next 35 years. In fact, only a handful of years did not contain at least two or three stories. All stories were published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

Most, though not all, started with the words "The Spy". One interesting outlier is a story named "The Spy On The Seaway", published in Espionage Magazine in 1985 which is not a Rand story but one involving another Hoch recurring character, Simon Ark.

Another tale with the word "Spy" in it, "Spy For Sale", was published in The New Black Mask in March of 1987 but is not part of this series as it does not take place in the Rand-universe.


1			The Spy Who Did Nothing short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1965 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 05/1965. Reprinted in the anthology Spies and More Spies (1967). "The question was really very simple - almost too simple: Just how did the clever spy transmit vital information? When top experts were baffled, they called in Rand who was known to have a knack for this kind of problem."

2			The Spy Who Had Faith In Double-C short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1965 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 08/1965 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy and the Thief. "Just two minutes before he was assassinated, undercover agent Cecil Montgomery devised the message that would help the British Government make a vital decision." It would take Jeffery Rand to figure the code out.

3			The Spy Who Came To The Brink short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1965 Published in 2 issues of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, (US - Dec. 1965 & UK - Dec. 1965), then in 3 printed versions of the anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories To Stay Awake By (Random House - 1971, Dell - 1973 & Pan Books - 1974 in Book One). Also reprinted in the collection The Spy Who Read Latin A film crew is allowed into the Foreign Office to make a documentary. A woman from the Message Center notices one of the actors making a wax impression of a key to the code-room and reports it. Jeffery Rand is put on the case which is complicated when that actor is found murdered.

4			The Spy Who Took The Long Route short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1966 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 03/1966 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy and the Thief. Rand arrives in Hoihong to investigate Ivor Kudat, who is sending postcards with microdots containing US ship positions to a contact in Berne, Switzerland. The information seems useless as it takes weeks to arrive by ship.

5			The Spy Who Came To The End Of The Road short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1966 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/1966 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy and the Thief. Jeffery Rand investigates Hans Suffern, suspected to be a former Nazi spy named Schultz, who worked on a project involving electric eels and nerve gas antidotes.

6			The Spy Who Walked Through Walls short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1966 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/1966. Rand is tasked with investigating missing reports from Nurse Beaver's office inside Headquarters, which contain information about foreign assignments.

7			The Spy Who Came Out Of The Night short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1967 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (US - Apr. 1967), then later in the Argosy - The Short Story Magazine (UK - Dec. 1973). Rand is sent to Berne to help Professor Trenton, an agent from a friendly European power, intercept and decode a message. The message is believed to contain the location and time of a meeting between Constantine Blakov, a Russian agent, and Lin Ching, a Chinese espionage chief, regarding a large sum of money being delivered to Russian agents

8			The Spy Who Worked For Peace short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1967 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 08/1967. Martin Dime, a former British government official who defected to Russia five years prior, returns to England on a peace mission. Rand, from Concealed Communications, is assigned to monitor him, suspecting Dime might be transmitting coded messages.

9			The Spy Who Didn't Exist short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1967 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1967. British Intelligence is facing a crisis as the Russians claim to have intercepted messages from a British agent named Beaver, allegedly plotting assassinations. The problem? Beaver doesn't exist; he was a cover name invented for budgetary purposes by Colonel Nelson. Rand, from Concealed Communications, is tasked with resolving the issue before it sabotages a crucial disarmament conference.

10			The Spy Who Clutched A Playing Card short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1968 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 02/1968. "On a frozen waste near the Gulf of Finland an agent from the private intelligence organization known as SPAD was performing one of the most audacious acts conceivable in the world of espionage . . . a fascinating jigsaw puzzle—but Rand, the Double-C man, thought there were too many pieces to fit together."

11			The Spy Who Read Latin short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1968 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 08/1968 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy Who Read Latin. "Rand comes face to face with the infamous Tax, his opposite number, head of the Moscow equivalent of London's DCC. Before it was over, Rand had only a split second to make perhaps the most crucial decision of his life."

12			The Spy Who Purchased A Lavender short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1969 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1969 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy and the Thief. The Lavender was the latest American cipher machine, based on the WWII Japanese Purple Machine. Now it may have fallen into enemy hands and Jeffery Rand is brought in.

13			The Spy And The Shopping List Code short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1969 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/1969. Was the shopping list a code used by a spy in the National Security Agency, a spy who could reveal the secrets of our latest bomb-detecting system?

14			The Spy And The Calendar Network short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1969 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/1969 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy and the Thief. A group of former intelligence agents from the "Calendar Network" reunite after twenty years in Cornwall. One of them is murdered. Rand, the only member still in intelligence, investigates and discovers a dying message indicating the killer was "Taurus".

15			The Spy And The Bermuda Cipher short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1970 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 06/1970 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy and the Thief. Jeffery Rand investigates the murder of Jimmy King, one of his department's employees, at a house filled with 24 clocks representing different time zones. King was working on deciphering the "Bermuda Cipher," a complex message. Rand discovers the house was used as a Russian message center.

16			The Spy Who Traveled With A Coffin short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1970 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 10/1970 - Reprinted in the collection Tales of Espionage and in the collection The Spy Who Read Latin. Jeffery Rand gets involved in a strange case involving an assassination attempt on a Japanese journalist, a book-seller's imprisonment for espionage in Moscow, a crocodile, and a coffin.

17			The Spy And The Diplomat'S Daughter short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1971 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 01/1971. Sir John Hemmings believes his daughter, Cecily, who has returned from school in Paris, is an impostor and is in fact a spy for the Iron Curtain. He asks Rand to investigate.

18			The Spy And The Nile Mermaid short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1971 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 05/1971 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club. Who in Cairo is JASOND and who was responsible for the murder of a British agent? That are two questions that Jeffery Rand is asked to answer in a trip to Egypt, one which will introduce him to the beautiful but enigmatic Leila.

19			The Spy Who Knew Too Much short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1971 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (US - Aug. 1971), then later in the magazine Adam (AUS - Mar. 1973). Major Gregory Subic. an old man now, had a bombshell story to tell about the closing days of World War II. Heads could roll, governments topple . . . Jeffery Rand was assigned to persuade the old man that he knew too much for the world's good, that it would be safer for all concerned to let sleeping dogs sleep.

20			The Spy Without A Country short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1972 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 02/1972. Jeffery Rand is asked by an old schoolmate to fly to Paris where the man's wife is being investigated for the death of a man named Leleu. She claims self-defense but Leleu was a former German spy and blackmail was somehow involved.

21			The Spy Who Didn't Remember short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1972 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1972. Also printed in the magazine Ellery Queen's Anthology #36 (Fall/Winter 1978) and in the book Ellery Queen Masters of Mystery (1987). Melbourne, a British agent, is to meet Saffron, a top Russian agent wanting to defect, in Piccadilly Circus. Before the meeting, Melbourne is hit by a bus and suffers amnesia. His colleagues, Rand and Hastings, try to decipher Melbourne's signal to Saffron using cryptic letters.

22			The Spy And The Reluctant Courier short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1972 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 06/1972. Trying to recruit Grant Saffern for his cryptography department, Jeffery Rand asks him for a simple favor: picking up a jai alai betting slip in Madrid. Saffern, a diplomatic courier, agrees but goes missing, leading Rand to investigate.

23			The Spy In The Pyramid short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1972 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, (US - Sep. 1972), then in Argosy (UK - Mar. 1973). Reprinted in the collection Tales of Espionage and in the collection The Old Spies Club. Rand is asked to investigate possible Russian activity at the Great Pyramid of Cheops, where an archaeological dig is underway. He reunites with Leila, an archaeologist he previously worked with.

24			The Spy Who Was Expected short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1972 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1972. Rand investigates an intercepted radio message mentioning his name and "Samos photos." The photos, stolen from Sir Charles, are of no military value themselves but reveal the effectiveness of American spy satellites.

25			The Spy With The Knockout Punch short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1973 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (US - Aug 1973), then in Ellery Queen's Anthology #40 (Fall/Winter 1980). Ham Barsay, a boxer, is arrested for trying to steal a diplomatic codebook. He claims he was doing a favor for a friend but refuses to elaborate. Jeffery Rand investigates and finds himself really needing his gun.

26			The Spy And The Intercepted Letters short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1974 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 01/1974. Jeffery Rand, curious about a series of coded messages using only 12 characters, investigates the murder of Shack Milby, a deputy minister from Nowanda, who was killed shortly after leaving a casino run by a known gunrunner.

27			The Spy At The End Of The Rainbow short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1974 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (US - Apr. 1974), then in Ellery Queen's Anthology #38 (Fall/Winter 1979). Reprinted in the collection Tales of Espionage and in the collection The Old Spies Club. Rand goes to a newly opened resort in Egypt called the End of the Rainbow to investigate an archeology professor suspected of being a former Russian agent. He is reunited with Leila Gaad but their time together is ruined when the former agent is murdered.

28			The Spy And The Talking House short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1974 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/1974. An informant for various British intelligence organizations is murdered by a car bomb, leaving behind some information about an eavesdropping racket as well as mention of a 'talking house'. Jeffery Rand is brought in to make sense of it all.

29			The Spy Who Took A Vacation short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1975 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1975 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club. Leila Gaad is in England visiting Rand, the two of them taking a leisurely boat ride down the Upper Thames. The matter of a man who deliberately gets himself arrested and then is murdered while in jail intrigues Rand.

30			The Spy And The Mysterious Card short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1975 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 10/1975. The grown daughter of an old friend of Rand come to him with a mystery. She has a mysterious card she received in Paris, written in a French-like language she cannot read. People who see it react strangely, and one man who gave it to her dies at her feet.

31			The Spy Who Collected Lapel Pins short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1976 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 03/1976 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy Who Read Latin, Comrade Taz, a retired KGB cipher expert, who is brought back for a mission involving microdots and a Russian author defector. Taz is asked to use his old relationship with Jeffery Rand, a British intelligence officer, to discredit the British in writer's eyes.

32			The Spy At The Crime Writers' Congress short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1976 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/1976. Also printed in the magazine Ellery Queen's Anthology #41 (Spring/Summer 1981) and the book Ellery Queen Masters Of Mystery (1987) Recently retired, Rand agrees to give a talk on codes at a crime writer's conference. One of the attendees, writing a book exposing a WWII collaborator, is blown up in the hotel lobby and Rand is asked to help investigate.

33			The Spy Who Died Twice short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1977 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/1977. Jeffery Rand and his new bride, Leila, have come to Jerusalem on their honeymoon. She is less than thrilled when he is pulled into helping out British Intelligence investigate the death of a man at the Wailing Wall, a man who was murdered there again the very next week.

34			The Spy In The Toy Business short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1978 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 01/1978 - Reprinted in the collection Tales of Espionage. Jeffery Rand gets drawn into a case involving espionage disguised within a toy company, ABC Toys. The company's president, Amos Chessman, is involved in a network selling information to foreign entities.

35			The Spy And The Cats Of Rome short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1978 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 06/1978 - Reprinted in the collection Tales of Espionage and in the collection The Old Spies Club. Rand is asked by his former boss, Hastings, to look into the activities of a former operative in Rome, an old enemy of Rand. This simple little request will result in Rand being accused of murder!

36			The Spy In The Labyrinth short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1978 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1978 - Reprinted in the collection Tales of Espionage and in the collection The Old Spies Club. Jeffery Rand is reunited, in a way, with Richard and Atlanta Chessman when he and Leila are asked by Hastings to head to Cairo to see what that pair were up to. What the Rands find is a terrorist meeting and murder!

37			The Spy Who Had A List short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1979 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 05/1979. Jeffery Rand is sent on a critical mission to Amman, Jordan. The operation is fraught with danger—threats of assassination; foreign agents; Russian, Iranian, and CIA. involvement. The prize? A mere list of 260 names.

38			The Spy Who Was Alone short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1979 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 09/1979 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club. Jeffrey Rand returns home to find his wife Leila missing, along with her belongings. He discovers she has supposedly resigned from her teaching position and left a note. Rand suspects foul play, especially after he finds a puzzle inside her note.

39			The Spy Who Wasn't Needed short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1979 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1979 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club. It is not Jeffery Rand that his old boss, Hastings, wants to head to New York to investigate stolen Egyptian artifacts being sold to fund who-knows-what. It is Leila. When she agrees, she does not know it will result in being involved in an explosion.

40			The Spy Who Came Back From The Dead short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1980 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 06/1980 - Reprinted in the collection The Spy Who Read Latin. Jeffery Rand is again persuaded to return to action. This time both the British and the Russians desperately need Rand's help. One member after another of the old Tsar Network is being murdered by Taz, and only Rand is believed capable of outwitting his old enemy.

41			The Spy And The Snowman short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1980 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/1980 - Reprinted in the collection Tales of Espionage. The daughter of one of Rand's old enemies lures Rand out of retirement with a preposterous story about a peripatetic snowman. The former Double-C man has his doubts, but once a counterespionage agent always a careful, cautious operator.

42			The Spy And The Walrus Cipher short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1981 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 03/1981. Jeffery Rand is called back into action by Hastings because a defector from Russia will only speak to him. Arriving at the secluded estate the man was being debriefed at, Rand was only able to talk to him momentarily before the man dies of cyanide poisoning, leaving an encrypted message behind.

43			The Spy Who Didn't Defect short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1981 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 09/1981 - Reprinted in the collection Tales of Espionage. "Jeffery Rand meets a man out of the past, a man supposed to be in Russia. And when Rand "gets that look in his eyes," he reverses the usual procedure—this time it is Rand who calls on Hastings, his former superior, for help."

44			The Spy Who Stayed Up All Night short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1981 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/1981. "Jeffery Rand faces an unusual code problem in an unusual place—an all-night talk show on BBC being broadcast, American-style, from the heart of London..." What he did not think he'd deal with was murder.

45			The Spy At The Film Festival short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1982 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 06/1982. Jeffery Rand is sent to the Scandia Film Festival in Stockholm under the guise of a reporter to investigate the death of Herbert Goosneck, a retired intelligence contract employee. Film director Cecil Robbins has made a movie, Old World Haunts, featuring a ghostly sighting of Goosneck by Mrs. Norris after his death.

46			The Spy And The Village Murder short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1982 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 10/1982. Jeffery Rand is asked to looked deeper into the murder of Herbert Goosneck, the hit-and-run victim from the previous adventure, and to find the list that the Russians wanted so very much.

47			The Spy Who Sat In Judgment short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1983 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1983 - [plot unknown]

48			The Spy Who Stepped Back In Time short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1983 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/1983. Jeffery Rand investigates the disappearance of his old colleague, Hastings, who is suspected of defecting with classified WWII documents.

49			The Spy Who Went To The Opera short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1984 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1984 - [plot unknown]

50			The Spy At The Top Of The List short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1984 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/1984 - [plot unknown]

51			The Spy And The Suicide Club short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1985 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 01/1985 - [plot unknown]

52			The Spy Who Looked Back short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1985 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 08/1985 - [plot unknown]

53			The Spy At The Spa short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1985 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1985 - [plot unknown]

54			The Spy Who Knew The Future short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1986 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/1986 - [plot unknown]

55			The Spy's Story short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1986 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1986 - [plot unknown]

56			The Spy And The Short-Order Cipher short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1987 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 06/1987 - [plot unknown]

57			The Spy And The Embassy Murders short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1988 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 01/1988 - [plot unknown]

58			A Game For Spies short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1988 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 06/1988 - [plot unknown]

59			The Spy And The Guy Fawkes Bombing short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1988 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1988 - [plot unknown]

60			The Underground Spy short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1989 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1989 - [plot unknown]

61			The Spy And The Geomancers short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1989 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 10/1989 - [plot unknown]

62			The Spy Who Went To Camelot short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1990 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 03/1990 - [plot unknown]

63			The Spy And The Healing Waters short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1990 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 08/1990 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club - [plot unknown]

64			The Spy And The Christmas Cipher short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1990 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1990 - [plot unknown]

65			The Spy And The Gypsy short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1991 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 05/1991 - [plot unknown]

66			The Spy And The Psychics short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1991 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 10/1991 - [plot unknown]

67			The Spy And The Greek Enigma short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1992 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1992 - [plot unknown]

68			The Spy With The Icicle Eye short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1993 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 03/1993 - [plot unknown]

69			Spy At Sea short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1993 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 10/1993 - [plot unknown]

70			Egyptian Days short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1994 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 03/1994 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club - [plot unknown]

71			Waiting For Mrs. Ryder short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1994 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/1994 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club - [plot unknown]

72			The Nine-O'Clock Gun short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1995 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 08/1995 - [plot unknown]

73			Train To Luxor short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1996 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 04/1996 - [plot unknown]

74			The Old Spies Club short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1997 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 05/1997 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club - [plot unknown]

75			One Bag Of Coconuts short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1997 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/1997 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club - [plot unknown]

76			The Liverpool Kiss short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1998 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/1998 - [plot unknown]

77			The Man From Nile K short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1999 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/1999 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club - [plot unknown]

78			The War That Never Was short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 1999 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/1999 - Reprinted in the collection The Old Spies Club - [plot unknown]

79			Season Of The Camel short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 2000 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 10/2000. After some reluctance, Jeffrey and Leila Rand accept computer chip designer and rug trader Omar Goncah to head to Turkey to attend camel fights. On the drive from Istanbul, they encounter a police blockade due to a car bombing which killed a diplomat. Rand decides he has to investigate on his own.

80			Tower To Nowhere short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 2002 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 03/2002 - [plot unknown]

81			The Spy And The Minotaur short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 2002 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 07/2002 - [plot unknown]

82			The Face Of Ali Baba short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 2003 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/2003 - [plot unknown]

83			Paris Masque short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 2005 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 01/2005 - [plot unknown]

84			The Alexandrian Solution short story Written by Edward Hoch Copyright: 2008 Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 12/2008 - [plot unknown]

PARODIES, SATIRES, AND PASTICHES

Number of Entries:	1
First Appearance:	1972
Last Appearance:	1972


1			The Theft of the Spy Who Published by Dell Magazines Contributors: Josh Pachter Copyright: 1972 A parody/pastiche of Edward Hoch characters Jeffery Rand as Bland, Nick Velvet as Vic Nelvet and Captain Leopold as Leo Pold published in the September 1972 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. [Plot Unknown]

MY COMMENTS

Mr. Hoch's specialty was mysteries so that is the main emphasis for the Rand stories. He dealt more in breaking codes and later in solving murders than in espionage work but no list of spies would be complete without including the terrific tales that Mr. Hoch gave us over the years.

I once worked in the field of code breaking but I never was in the league with Jeffery Rand. Too bad, too, because I think I'd have fallen for his eventual wife, Leila.

What is interesting about Rand is the truth he shows about code breaking and how man-made codes can be broken by another man if enough of the puzzle is visible. It just takes time and patience and often a matter of understanding the man who wrote the cypher.

GRADE

My Grade: B

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