SMB Noir

September 1928 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

~ William Donald Bray, “The Red Mackinaw”, ‘mining yarn’, 2^nd of 12 stories in BM

~ Tom Curry, “Murder Chains”, part 1 of 2, ‘gangster yarn; John Furnel, alias The Grand Street Kid; see p. 128 for data on & photo of TC’, 16^th of 39 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “The Snarl of the Beast”, 21^st of 53 with Race Williams, last of 4 part  serial, published as a novel in 1927 as The Snarl of the Beast, reprinted in The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-boiled Stories of Race Williams, v.2 (Altus, 2016), 30th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Bob Du Soe, “The Kid on Number Twenty”, 1^st of 3 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Where the Buzzards Circle”, 4^th of 7 Black Barr, 26th of 99 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Yellow Smoke”, 7th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 9th of 39 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “A Grudge is a Grudge”, ‘among crooks, that is; police dick’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 8 of 67 stories in BM

~ Henry Wallace Phillips, “The Killing Nerve”, ‘Western’, 1^st of 8 with Red Saunders, 3rd of 12 stories in BM

~ Erika Zastrow, “The Crook Who Wanted To Be Straight”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

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